CMN2901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Transactional Leadership, Master Boot Record, Trait Theory
1 Apr 2016
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If you want to be a good leader you just have to be more sensitive. Management is a style of getting things done through others. Typically managers will guide, plan, budget, organize, and solve problems. The trait era: late 1800s to mid 1940s. Significantly organizations believed in trait theory meaning that people are born with certain traits. You can track it in the 1980"s to. Meaning that we can kind of trace the type of behavior we want in a leader. They believed that you can make people into better leaders. The contingency era (situational era): early 1960"s to present. Rational planning models (e. g. , mbo (management by objectives), mbr (management by results), swot, ppbs (program, planning, and budgeting style) More of a man thing whereby there"s one leader. Can be described as the democratic style in a way that the leader listens to other people"s opinion. Employees are in an environment where there"s a positive energy.
