Chapter 1 ASU OGL 200
Chapter 1
Introduction: The Nature of Leadership
OGL 200
Learning Objectives
After Studying this Chapter you should be able to:
Understand the different ways leadership has been defined.
Understand the controversy about differences between leadership and management. Understand why it is so difficult to assess leadership effectiveness.
Learning Objectives
Understand the indicators used to assess leadership effectiveness
Understand what aspects of leadership have been studied the most during the past 50 years.
Understand the organization of this book. Definition of Leadership
“Always, it seems, the concept of leadership eludes us or turns up in another form to taunt us again with its slipperiness and complexity. So we have invented an endless proliferation of terms to deal with it…and still the concept is not sufficiently defined.” Bennis (1959)
Controversies
Over Leadership Definitions
Specialized role or shared influence process Type of influence process
Purpose of influence attempts
Influence based on reason or emotions
Direct versus indirect leadership
Leadership versus management
Leadership
A Working Definition
“Leadership is the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives.”
Controversies
About Differences Between
Leadership and Management
Leaders and managers as qualitatively different and mutually exclusive types of people Leading and managing as different roles or processes Leading as an influence relationship and managing as an authority relationship
Integrative approach
Difficulties
With Assessing Leadership Effectiveness
Many different indicators
Immediate and delayed outcomes
Stakeholders with different preferences Different conceptions of leadership
Development of a composite measure
Effective Leadership
Indicators
High group
Introduction: The Nature of Leadership
OGL 200
Learning Objectives
After Studying this Chapter you should be able to:
Understand the different ways leadership has been defined.
Understand the controversy about differences between leadership and management. Understand why it is so difficult to assess leadership effectiveness.
Learning Objectives
Understand the indicators used to assess leadership effectiveness
Understand what aspects of leadership have been studied the most during the past 50 years.
Understand the organization of this book. Definition of Leadership
“Always, it seems, the concept of leadership eludes us or turns up in another form to taunt us again with its slipperiness and complexity. So we have invented an endless proliferation of terms to deal with it…and still the concept is not sufficiently defined.” Bennis (1959)
Controversies
Over Leadership Definitions
Specialized role or shared influence process Type of influence process
Purpose of influence attempts
Influence based on reason or emotions
Direct versus indirect leadership
Leadership versus management
Leadership
A Working Definition
“Leadership is the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives.”
Controversies
About Differences Between
Leadership and Management
Leaders and managers as qualitatively different and mutually exclusive types of people Leading and managing as different roles or processes Leading as an influence relationship and managing as an authority relationship
Integrative approach
Difficulties
With Assessing Leadership Effectiveness
Many different indicators
Immediate and delayed outcomes
Stakeholders with different preferences Different conceptions of leadership
Development of a composite measure
Effective Leadership
Indicators
High group