MHR 405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Charismatic Authority, Transformational Leadership, Situational Leadership Theory
3 Feb 2016
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Leadership: is about influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members: motivate others through persuasion and other influence tactics, leaders and enablers. 4 perspectives of leadership: transformational, managerial, personal attributes. Leaders change teams or organizations by creating communicating and modelling a vision for the organization or work unit and inspiring employees to strive for that vision. Elements of transformational leadership: develop and communicate a strategic vision: idealized future with a higher. Transformational leadership vs. charisma: tl: motivates followers through behaviours that persuade and earn trust, charismatic leadership: motivates followers directly through the leader"s, builds follower empowerment inherent referent power, produces depend followers. Problems with transformational leadership: engage in circular logic, some tl theories combine leader behaviours with the leader"s personal characteristics of leaders, usually described as a universal concept that is it is good in all situations.
