MGM101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Contingency Theory, Self-Awareness, Benevolent Dictatorship

• School: UTM
• Department: Management
• Course: MGM101H5
• Professor: Dave Swanston

Document Summary

Leadership- the process of motivating, influencing, and directing others in the organization to work productively in pursuit of organization goals. Leaders = doing the right things and managers = doing things right. Leaders = focus on vision/mission/goals and managers = focuses on preserving the status quo. All managers are also leaders and must perform the leadership function effectively to excel at the other management functions- strategizing, planning, organizing, controlling. Management and leadership are not two different tasks that require different skills; same thing. Effective leadership- the ability of a leader to get high performance from his/her subordinates. What makes leaders great: self awareness, personal conviction, courage, creativity, curiosity, ability to inspire, ability to listen, ability to innovate, eagerness to experience, willingness to reflect. 5 perspectives on leadership explaining the nature of effective leadership (5 perspectives together give complete portrait of what it takes to be an effective leader): the power influence perspectives.