OL140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Relationship Marketing, Trait Theory, Carbon Monoxide Detector
Document Summary
Working definition of leadership: leadership involves identifying a vision or goal and inspiring, aligning, and motivating others to work with the leader to realize the goal. Leadership should involve a relationship of mutual influence and respect between those in a leadership role and followers. Must have followers to be a leader. The best leadership approach is one that fits the situation that the leader and the followers find themselves in. Was thought that a select group of individuals were born with leadership traits that made them great leaders . Much of the research was conducted when most leaders (political, industry, religious, etc) were male. In the late 1940s, stogdill suggested that the key traits of leaders include: intelligence, alertness, insight, responsibility, initiative, persistence, self-confidence, and sociability. * very early trait theory considered height to be a necessary trait * By the early 1990s, researchers identified: drive, motivation, integrity, confidence, cognitive ability and task knowledge to the list of traits.
