GMS 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Fiedler Contingency Model, Servant Leadership

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Deborah De Lange

Document Summary

Leadership, is the process of inspiring others to work hard to accomplish important. Power, is the ability to get someone else to do something you want done or to make things happen the way you want. Leader gain power both from the positions they hold and from there personal qualities. The three bases of position power are reward power, coercive power and legitimate power. the two base of personal power are expertise and reference. Reward position, is the capacity to offer something of value as a means of in uencing other people. Coercive power, is the capacity to punish or withhold positive outcomes as a means of in uencing other people. Legitimate power, is he capacity to in uence other people by virtue of formal authority, or the rights of of ce. Expert power, is the capacity to in uence other people because of specialized knowledge.