BUAD 200 Lecture 9: Chapter 9 Notes

• School: Mary Baldwin University
• Department: Business
• Course: BUAD 200
• Professor: Cavin Chung

Document Summary

Learning objectives: define leadership and identify traits of effective leaders, describe behaviors that effective leaders demonstrate, explain the concepts of transformational, transactional, charismatic, servant, and authentic. Specify the contexts in which various leadership styles are effective leadership: develop your own leadership skills. Learn the history of trait approaches in the study of leadership: explain the traits that are associated with leadership, discuss the limitations of trait approaches to leadership. Learning objectives: explain behaviors associated with effective leadership. Identify the three alternative decision making styles leaders use and the conditions under which they are more effective: discuss the limitations of behavioral approaches to leadership. Leader decision making: autocratic decision making, leaders make the decision alone without necessarily involving employees in the decision making process, democratic decision making, employees participate in the making of the decision. Laissez faire decision making: leaders leave employees alone to make the decision; the leader provides minimum guidance and involvement in the dividion.