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Leadership in
Organizational Settings

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
1. Define leadership and shared leadership.
2. List the main competencies of effective leaders and discuss the limitations of the competency perspective of leadership.
3. Describe the people-oriented and taskoriented leadership styles.
4. Outline the path-goal theory of leadership.
5. Summarize leadership substitutes theory.

6. Distinguish transformational leadership from transactional and charismatic leadership.
7. Describe the four elements of transformational leadership.
8. Describe the implicit leadership perspective. 9. Discuss similarities and differences in the leadership styles of women and men.

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Part Three Team Processes

Learning
Objectives

After reading the next two sections, you should be able to:
1. Define leadership and shared leadership.
2. List the main competencies of effective leaders and discuss the limitations of the competency perspective of leadership.

What Is Leadership?

leadership
Influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members.

What makes someone an effective leader? This question has challenged great thinkers for most of written history, and it is the focus of this chapter. The opening vignette, which described the leadership of Anne Sweeney, cochair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney-ABC Television Group, offers a few clues. Sweeney’s leadership is viewed from several perspectives, all of which are important. The opening vignette also reveals that

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