MGCR 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Organizational Behavior, Idiosyncrasy, Distributed Leadership
5 Feb 2020
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Leadership: generated when acts of leading are combined with acts of following. Influence relationship between two or more people who depend on one another for attainment of mutual goals. There is a difference between a manager and a leader. Formal leadership: exerted by persons appointed or elected to positions of formal authority in organizations. Informal leaders : exerted by persons who become influential due to special skills or their ability to meet the needs of others. Upward leadership: occurs when leaders at lower levels influence those at higher levels to create change. Leadership is co-created in relational interactions among people acting in context: leadership as identity construction. This model shows how individuals negotiate identities as leaders and followers. Individuals claiming an identity and others affirming or granting that identity by going along with the claim. Claiming: actions people take to assert their identity as a leader or follower.
