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Chapter 9
* Leadership Theories
* Trait theory: Distinctive characteristics that account for leadership effectiveness.
* Behavioral theory: Distinctive styles used and the oneleadership style best in all situations.
* Situational theory: Appropriate style for various situations. Best style varies from situation to situation.
* Manage vs. Leader
* Management isbroader in scope.
* Leadership is process of influencing employees to work toward achievement of organizational objectives.
* Poor leader can be a manager. Non-manager can be a goodleader.
* Leadership Trait Theory:
* Ghiselli's 6 traits: Supervisory ability, need for occupational achievement, intelligence, decisiveness, self-assurance, and initiative.
* 2-DLeadership Style vs. Leadership Grid:
* Major difference: 2D has 4 leadership styles (high structure/low consideration, high struc/high consid, low struc/high consid, low/low). Leadership Grid has has5 styles (impoverished, authority-compliance, country club, middle-of-the-road, team).
* When to use leadership style
* Charismatic & transformational: top level management
*Transactional: Middle and first-line management.
* Symbolic: Starts with top management and should flow down to middle and first-line management.
* Servant: Any level.
* Contingencyleadership vs. Situation approach
* Contingency model recommends changing the situation, not leadership style.
* situation approach recommends changing the leadership style, not situation.* Leadership continuum model and path-goal model are subjective.
* Normative leadership model provides one clear leadership style to use in a given situation.
* Behavioral leadershiptheorists: attempt to determine a list of distinctive characteristics that account for leadership effectiveness.
* Charismatic Leadership complaint: is a leadership styles that inspires loyalty,...