SMO301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Glass Ceiling

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Strategic Management and Organization
• Course: SMO301
• Professor: Richard Field

Document Summary

Influence that someone has on other people to achieve organizational goals: leadership is influence and management is motivation, ying-yang example: shady side is leadership, light side is management, there is a little bit of one in the other. Initiating structure: the degree to which a leader concentrates on group goal attainment, everyone"s roles should be identified along with standard procedures, schedule, and task assignment. Participative leadership: one behaviour in path-goal theory. Involves employee in decision making: could encounter problems such as loss of time and energy, loss of power, leads to motivation, quality, and acceptance lack of receptivity or knowledge. Leader-member exchange (lmx: focuses on the social relationship between leader and employee, high lmx means high mutual influence, obligation, trust, loyalty, respect. Transactional and transformational leadership: transactional, contingent reward behaviour, leader takes corrective action depending on what the employee does, transformational, leader provides employee with a vision and change their belief in order to motivate them, key dimensions.