PSY 3101 Chapter 11: Chapter 11

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3101
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

Leadership: the ability to influence the actions of others. People displaying leadership can cause others to work toward common goals in social, institutional and organizational settings. Leaders can get people to do things they otherwise would not do. Management: the maintenance of orderly work systems, through such functions as planning, controlling, organizing, implementing, communicating, and evaluating. Combining knowledge of psychological type and leadership temperament. Sensitivity to issues of functioning as a leader. Ability to be more responsive to people. Awareness of others psychological temperament and impact of ability to modify leadership strategies. Born leader approach: the initial focus was to identify traits of leaders. The training approach: focus on behavioural aspects of leaders. Temperament approach: focus on the combination effect of leader"s temperament and the temperament of followers. Main assumption: leaders have stable temperaments that interact with those of followers. Also assumes that all people seek appreciation and giving appreciation is the primary job of the leader.