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a process whereby an individual influences a group
Leadership
of individuals to achieve a common goal
What ethical They have the responsibility to attend to the needs
responsibility do leaders and concerns of their followers
have ?
1900-1930
- leaders have innate qualities that made them
Exceptional man theory
divinely destined to lead
- Leaders are born to lead
-1930s
- domination out, influence in
- certain gifted people are born with the right traits
Trait theory
that make others want to follow them. Those people
become leaders while everyone else remains
subservient
1940s-1960s
- leadership is an act or behavior undertaken by a
leader that influences the group "in a shared
Behavioral theories direction"
- focus on what leaders do and how they do it, not
the quality or traits they posses
- Leaders are made not born
, -1970s
- "the reciprocal process of mobilizing by persons
with certain motives and values, various economic,
political, and other resources, in context of
Situational theories
competition and conflict, in order to realize goals
independently or mutually held by both leaders and
followers
- not every person is a leader in every situation
-1980s
- rewards and punishments (transactional)
Transactional and
- leaders build shareds goals (transformational)
transformational theories
-leadership is about encouraging greater change
(transformational)
Assigned leadership defacto leadership that comes with the job title
A leadership role that emerges organically based
Emergent leadership
on how others see you
- as groups develop overtime, this also develops
- Being similar to this ideal makes a person attractive
Prototype identity
to the group, builds trust, and provides that person
with the opportunity to influence the group
Influence capacity a leader derives from being seen
as likable and knowledgeable by followers
Personal power
- referent power
- expert power
- based on how much a follower identifies with the
referent power
leader
based on a follower's perception of the leader's
expert power
competence
the power a person derives from holding a
particular office of formal rank
- legitimate power
Positional power
- reward power
- coercive power
- information power