Psychology 2060 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Contingency Theory
20 Apr 2013
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What is leadership: emergence of leaders, effectiveness of leadership. Behavioural outcomes organizational citizenship behaviours (ocbs) likely when formal supervisor is good leader health psychology related to organizational leadership leadership associated with motivation, creativity virtually every outcome variable in field of occupational. Great man theories: earliest , leaders born not made and emerge to suit needs of the day, gender issues were not well recognized. Trait theories: physical/psychological characteristic differenetiated leaders from non-leaders or good leaders from poor leaders. Little evidence for universal traits that could predict leadership. Big five: agreeableness, conscientiousness, extraversion, neuroticism, and openness to experience: there are individual characteristics personality, intelligence, that predict both leadership emergence and leadership effectiveness, organizations had some control over leadership emergence and effectiveness. Behavioural theories: one could identify universal characteristics of leaders that predicted effective leadership. Identify specific behaviours that characterized effective leaders. Initiating structure: behaviours resulted in creation of clear guidelines and procedures. Setting clear goals, scheduling, defining standards of performance.
