CT 310: Organizational Communication Leadership Theory Review I
Leadership = process of exerting influence toward the attainment of organizational goals
Frederick Winslow Taylor mechanical engineer uneducated immigrant labor
Influences on Taylor Evolution Psychoanalysis Compartmentalization
Approach to leadership is the classic authoritarian manager who holds all the power, gives order, acts superior, demands obedience. W. R. Hearst
Mayo and the Hawthorne studies at Western Electric
Kurt Lewin = human relations, WWII National Training Laboratories 1948 Abraham Maslow, 1954
Douglas McGregor The Human Side of Enterprise, 1961 (d. 1964) internal rewards self-actualization holism
Likert - 4 managerial systems based upon level of trust in workers to make decisions level 1 = no trust level 2 = master slave level 3 = substantial trust level 4 = complete trust
Tannenbaum - seven point continuum of leadership based upon amount of subordinate participation in decision- making. 1= no participation; 7=democracy.
Recap work people Taylor Theory X Theory Y System Tannenbaum
Managerial Grid task people 1,1 impoverished 9,1 task master 9,1 country club 5,5 compromise 9,9 team
Situational Theories Fiedler - change situation to fit personality Morse and Lorsch - change leadership style to fit situation