GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Situational Leadership Theory, Servant Leadership, Fred Fiedler

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

Document Summary

Leadership: is the process of inspiring others to work hard to accomplish important tasks. Leading: builds the commitments and enthusiasm for people to apply their talents to help accomplish plans and controlling makes sure things turn out right. Planning to set the direction and objectives. Organizing to create structures: brings together resources to turn plans into actions. Leading to inspire effort: communicate the vision, build enthusiasm, activate commitment, hard work. Controlling to ensure results and things turn out right. Power: is the ability to get someone else to do something you want done or to making things happen the way you want. Power vs. influence: power of the position based on things managers can offer to others, power of the person based on how managers are viewed by others. Source of position power: three bases of position power a, reward power: is the capacity to offer something of value as a means of influencing other people.