GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Servant Leadership, Fiedler Contingency Model, Proxemics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Shavin Malhotra

Document Summary

Leadership; is the process of inspiring others to work hard to accomplish important tasks. Leading in relationship to other management functions: leading to inspire effort. Build enthusiasm: planning to set the direction, organizing to create structures, controlling to ensure results. Power; is the ability to get someone else to do something you want done or to make things happen the way you want. Power of the position based on things managers can offer to others: rewards, coercion, legitimacy. Power of the person based on how managers are viewed by others: expertise, referent. Reward power; is the capacity to offer something of value as a means of influencing other people. Coercive power; is the capacity to punish or withhold positive outcomes as a mean of influencing other people. Legitimate power; is the capacity to influence other people by virtue of formal authority, or the rights of office. Expert power; is the capacity to influence other people because of specialized knowledge.