Leadership - a discussion agenda

The following discussion agenda is on Leadership in the subject of Organizational Behavior:

1. Leadership and Power
• Power and Authority
• Types of Power
2. The need for Power in Managerial Performance
3. Theories of Leadership
• Trait Theory
• Behavioral and Functional Theories
• Managerial Grid of Blake and Mouton
• Immaturity-Manturity Theory
• Linking Pin Theory
• Managerial Applications, e.g. Leadership Styles
• Contingency Theories
• Fiedler's Contingency Theory
• Cogntive Resource Utilization
• Path-Goal Theory
• Life-Cycle Theory of Leadeship
• Leader-Participation Style Model
• Attribution Theory
• Leader-Member Relations
• Leadership and Management
• Mintzberg's Manageral Role Set
• The role of the General Manager
• Implications for Management and Leadership, e.g. executive coaching, substiutes for leadership as supervision, empowerment and self-directed work teams
• Transformational Leadership and Organizational Change
• The dark side of transformational leadership
4. Narcissism and Ethics in Leadership
5. Gender, Power, and Leadership
6. Leadership: a synthesis of ideas

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Reference
Bowditch, J.L., Buono, A.F. and Stewart, M.M. (2008) "Chapter 7: Leadership, Power, and the Manager" A Primer on Organizational Behavior, Wiley.