Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Transactional Leadership, Extraversion And Introversion, Agreeableness

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Sarah Ross

Document Summary

Leadership: the use of power and influence to direct the activities of followers toward goal achievement. That direction can affect followers" interpretation of events, the organization, of their work activities, their commitment to key goals, their relationship with other followers or their access to cooperation and support form other work units. Can be complemented by employee surveys that asses the perceived performance of the leader, the respect and legitimacy of the leader and employee commitment, satisfaction, and psychological well-being. Leader member exchange theory: how leader-member relationships develop over time on a dyadic basis can explain why those differences exist. Argues that new leader-member relationships are typically marked by a role taking phase, during which a manager describes role expectations to an employee and the employee attempts to fulfill those expectations with his or her job behaviours. In this period the leader tries to get a feel for the talent and motivation levels of the employee.