MHR 523 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Fred Fiedler, Team Dynamics, Job Performance

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 523
• Professor: Robin Church

Document Summary

Leadership: influencing, motivating, and enabling other to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members: first leaders motivate others through persuasion and other influence tactics. They use their communication skills, rewards, and other resources to energize the collective to achieve challenging objectives: second, leaders are enablers. They arrange the work environment such as allocating resources and altering communication patterns so employees can achieve organizational objectives more easily. Shared leadership: is the view that leadership is broadly distributed, rather than assigned to one person, such that people within the team and organization lead each other. Also calls for collaborative rather than internally competitive culture because employees take on shared leadership roles when co-workers support their initiative. Lacks formal authority, works best when employees influence each other through enthusiasm, logical analysis, and involvement of co-workers in idea or vision.