MHR 405 Chapter 12: MHR405 Chapter 12
8 Dec 2015
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It is about influencing, motivating and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members. Two key components: leaders motivate others through persuasion and other influence tactics. Use of communication skills , rewards and other resources to energize the collective towards the achievement of challenging objectives: leaders are enablers. Arrange the work environment (allocating resources), altering work relationships, and buffering from outside interferences (employees can than achieve organizational objectives) Four elements that are common throughout most of them and represent the core concepts of this leadership perspective are: develop and communicate a strategic vision: a positive representation of a future state that energizes and unifies employees. An effective strategy has several identifiable features: idealized future with a higher purpose referring/associated with personal values that directly/indirectly fulfill the needs of multiple stakeholders. Communicating the vison can be through 3 ways.
