GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fiedler Contingency Model, Situational Leadership Theory, Proxemics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Horatio Morgan

Document Summary

Leadership: the process of inspiring others to work hard to accomplish important tasks. Power: the ability to get someone else to do something you want done or to make things happen the way you want. Reward power: the capacity to offer something of value as a means of in uencing other people. Coercive power: the capacity to punish or withhold positive outcomes as a means of in uencing other people. Legitimate power: the capacity to in uence other people to virtue of formal authority, or the rights of the of ce. Expert power: the capacity to in uence other people because of specialized knowledge. Referent power: the capacity to in uence other people because of their desire to identify personality with you. Servant leadership: leadership based on a commitment to serving others- to helping people use their talents to full potential while working together for organizations that bene t society. Empowerment: enables others to gain and use decision making.