MGMT100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Georgia State Route 2
MGMT100 – Managing: people, systems and culture
Week 5 Workshop
Objectives:
1. Demonstrate how effective management processes contribute to ethical human
relations dynamics and culture formation in an organisation. (GA 2)
2. Analyse management functions in the local and international context (GA 8)
Definitions:
• Leadership: the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a
group. It is the ability to influence, motivate and enable others to contribute toward
the effectiveness of the organisation in which they are members.
Perspectives on leadership:
• Competency perspective
- Personal characteristics that lead to superior performance in leadership role
- Personality
- Self-concept
- Drive
- Integrity
- Leadership motivation
- Knowledge of the business
- Cognitive/practical intelligence
- Emotional intelligence
• Leader behaviour perspective:
- People oriented leaders (show mutual respect, concern for employee needs
and wellbeing)
- Task oriented behaviours (assign specific tasks, more goal oriented)
• Path goal leadership:
- Directive (provide psychological structure and task-oriented)
- Supporting (motivation and enabling)
- Participative (encourage/facilitate employee involvement)
- Achievement-oriented (encourage peak performance through goal setting
and positive self-fulfilling prophecy)
• Situation leadership model
- Effective leaders vary in readiness
- Leader styles
- Popular model
Transactional vs transformational leaders:
• Transactional:
- Leaders who guide or motivate their followers in the direction of established
goals by clarifying role and task requirements
• Transformational:
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