1. Fatima Abdulla Saleh Al katheeri
Summary study guide
Fatima Abdulla Saleh Al katheeri

2. What is Leadership?
Leadership is the ability to make strategic decisions and use communication effectively to mobilize group members toward achieving a common goal.

3. Successful leader can effect in many dialects:
The tensions
Individual goals
Group goals
Conflict - cohesion
Structure - spontaneity

4. Leadership and power Can associate with the position.
Legitimate power
Reward power
Coercive power
Informational power
Can associate with the personal characteristics of leader.
Expert power
Referent power
Persuasive power
Charismatic power

5. An effective leader
Several kinds of power depending on needs of the group and the situation.

6. Becoming a Leader Are selected by group members or outside authority.
Emergent leaders gradually achieve leadership by interacting with group members and contribute with group’s goals.
There are many strategies becoming leader.

7. Leadership Theories Trait leadership theory. Styles leadership theory.
Functional leadership.
Fiedler’s contingency.
The situational leadership theory.

8. The 5M model of leadership effectiveness:
Model leadership behavior
Motivated members
Manage group process
Make decisions
Mentor members

9. Diversity and leadership
Women less likely to be selected.
Negative stereotypes.
Diversity require in leadership an understanding of, respect for, and adaption to different cultural dimensions and behavior.