GMS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fiedler Contingency Model, Transformational Leadership, Charismatic Authority

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 200
• Professor: Bamidele Adekunle

Document Summary

Nature of leadership: leadership, contemporary leadership challenges, visionary leadership, meeting the challenges of visionary leadership, leading (inspire effort, communicate the vision, build enthusiasm, activate commitment, hardwork, power, sources of managerial power, position power. If you do what i ask then i will reward you . If you don"t do what i ask then i will punish you . Legitimate power: you must do what your authoritative figure wants, personal power. Expert power: person of special knowledge and information. Referent power: people like to identify themselves with this person of power, relationship between power and influence, without power you can"t have an influence on people. Focuses on peoples needs and builds relationships: team manager. Focuses on building participation and support for a shared purpose: classic leadership styles, autocratic style. Emphasizes task over people, keeps authority and information within the leader"s tight control, and acts in a unilateral command-and-control fashion: laissez-faire style.