MGHB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Contingency Theory, Job Satisfaction, Ingroups And Outgroups
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Leadership: the influence that particular individuals exert on the goal achievement of others in an organizational context. Strategic leadership: ability to anticipate, envision, maintain flexibility, think strategically, and work with others to initiate changes that will create a viable future for the organization. Any organizational member can exert influence on other members, thus engaging in leadership. Managers, executive, supervisor, department head expected to influence others, and they are given specific authority to direct employees. Traits: individual characteristics such as physical attributes, intellectual ability, and personality. Traits associated with leadership effectiveness: intelligence, energy, self-confident, dominance, motivation to lead, emotional stability, honesty and integrity, need for achievement. Little information about how to train and develop leaders and no way to diagnose failures of leadership. Failure to take into account the situation in which leadership occurs. Possessing the appropriate traits for leadership makes it possible and certain actions will be taken and will be successful.
