NURS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Servant Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Transformational Leadership

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Nursing
• Course: NURS 300
• Professor: Manal Klieb

Document Summary

Leadership: involves influencing the thinking and actions of others with respect to achieving a goal. Formal leader: person in a position of authority or someone with a sanctioned, assigned role. Informal leader: individual who demonstrates leadership outside the scope of a formal leadership role. Followership: skilled, self-directed employees who participate actively in setting the group"s directions and invest energy, critical thinking and ideas for the group. Fundamental leadership qualities: vision, passion: inspire and align. Leadership theories: behavioural approach task/job centered people/employee centered. Laissez-faire: contingency approach: acknowledges other factors in the environment influence outcome as much as leadership style and behaviours. Fiedler"s contingency theory: leader behaviour as dependent upon the interaction of the leader"s personality and the needs of the situation: leader-member relationships, the degree of task structure: specific procedures, explicit directions and goals, leader"s position power. Hersey and blachard"s situational theory: follower readiness, called maturity, is assessed (tellinh, selling, participating, delegating)