BSNS105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Transactional Leadership, David Koresh, Robert K. Greenleaf
2 Mar 2014
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Lecture 3: the role of management chapter 15. Leadership theories: the role of management and leadership. * organizations are connections of people who achieve things together. * management (p10) is the attainment of organization goals in an effective and efficient manner through planning, organizing, leading and controlling organization resources. Understanding the relationships that make up the group, and understanding individuals, and connecting them together. * always those who make things happen the movers and shakers. * every society has its own leadership traditions and practices. For instance leadership in the maori society is different to leadership in a chinese society. * maori leadership has ideas in common with western concepts of authority, motivation and incentives. There is only one word in maori to mean leadership and management. * primacy of management is common in mechanistic organisations. * leadership that reflects the needs of the people in the organisation, as mechanistic leadership does not work.
