Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Leadership
- concept
- Leader
- person who influences others
- achieve objectives
- effective leader
- ineffective leader
- leadership
- is the process by which a person exerts influence
over other people
- Inspire
- motivates
- directs
- difference
- manager
- formulates and implements procedures and processes to ensure goals
- leader
- retain, motivate, inspire and develop relationships with employees
- styles
- culture
- USA
- individualists
- Japan
- collectivist
- Europe
- humanists
- temporary horizontal differences
- Power: The Key to Leadership
- A key component of effective leadership is found in the power the leader has to affect other people’s
behavior and get them to act in certain ways.
- There are several types of power.
- Effective leaders take steps to ensure
- Legitimate Power
- Legitimate power is the authority
- Personal leadership style often influences how managers exercise
legitimate power.
- Reward Power
- Reward power
- variety of rewards.
- Effective managers use their reward power
- Coercive Power
- Coercive power is the ability of a manager to punish others.
- Excessive use of coercive power seldom produces high performance and is questionable ethically.
- Expert Power
- Expert power is based in the special knowledge, skills, and expertise that
a leader possesses.
- Effective leaders take steps to ensure that they do have an adequate amount of expert power to
perform their leadership roles.
- Effective leadership
- The need to obtain a competitive advantage.
- The need to foster ethical behavior
- The need to manage a diverse workforce fairly and equitably
- Empowerment
- Empowerment is the process of giving employees at all levels in the organization the
authority to:
- Make decisions
- Improve quality
- Cut costs.