COMM 151 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Contingency Theory, Unbridled, Positive Form

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 151
• Professor: Christopher Miners

Document Summary

Leadership: the influence that particular individuals exert on the goal achievement of others in an organizational context. Strategic leadership: leadership that involves the ability to anticipate, envision, maintain flexibility, think strategically, and work with others to initiate changes that will create a viable future for the organization. Traits: individual characteristics such as physical attributes, intellectual ability, and personality. Three of the big five dimensions of personality (agreeableness, extraversion, and openness to experience) are related to a leadership behaviours. Prominent firms use personality tests and assessment centres to measure leadership traits when making hiring and promotion decisions. Difficult to determine whether traits make the leader or whether the opportunity for leadership produces the traits. Traits alone are note sufficient for successful leadership. Only preconditions for certain actions that a leader must take to be successful. Trait approach is concerned with what leaders bring to a group setting.