Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: European Debt Crisis, Transactional Leadership, Yrc Worldwide

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: James O' Brien

Document Summary

Not a traditional hrm topic, but typically considered under organizational behaviour (ob) Leadership as an opportunity for growth and development: clubs and societies, service learning. High levels of interest in political leadership. Chapters/indigo search: 34,011 results, horses never lie: the heart of passive leadership, a first-rate madness: uncovering the links between leadership and mental illness, high altitude leadership: what the world"s most forbidding peaks teach us about. Myth that the leader is a heroic singular figure for organizational performance: e. g. Leadership definitions: the ability to inspire confidence and support among the people who are needed to achieve organizational goals , alternative definitions: Montana and giuliani: taking blame, doing the right thing: considering definitions critically: Influence - the mediated effect that our behaviour can have on others. Leadership as partnership: power between parties in the relationship is balanced, elements: Example of non-leadership: parent and child (no negotiation)