MGMT9710 Chapter 11: Leadership
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The ability to inluence a group toward the achievement of a vision or set of goals. Managers promote stability, and have more funcional roles. Theories that consider personal qualiies and characterisics that difereniate leaders from non- leaders. Fiedler coningency model: proposes that efecive group performance depends on the proper match between the leader"s style and the degree to which the situaion gives the leader control. Hersey and blanchard"s situaional leadership: focuses on the readiness of followers. Leadership theory that states that followers make atribuions of heroic or extraordinary leadership abiliies when they observe certain behaviours. Leaders who guide or moivate their followers in the direcion of established goals by clarifying role and task requirements. Leaders who inspire followers to transcend their own self-interests and who are capable of having a profound and extraordinary efect on followers. Mentor: a senior employee who sponsors and supports a less-experienced employee.
