MGM101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Strategic Thinking

• 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. effective leadership. The ability of a leader to get high performance from his or her subordinates. One perspective, the power influence approach, attempts to explain leadership effectiveness in terms of the amount of power possessed by a leader, the type of power possessed, and how that power is used to influence others within the organization. Another perspective, called the trait or competency perspective, has tried to identify the traits and competencies of effective leaders. A third approach, the behaviour perspective, asserts that certain behaviours are related to leadership effectiveness. The contingency perspective argues that the appropriate behaviours for a leader to adopt depend on con- text, and that what works in some situations will not in others. Finally, the last two decades have seen the rise of work on what is called the transformational perspective on leadership.