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Chapter 1
The Nature and Importance of Leadership
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LEADERSHIP: Research Findings, Practice, and Skills
Andrew J. DuBrin, 8th Edition
Learning Objectives
1. Explain the meaning of leadership and how it differs from management.
2. Describe how leadership influences organizational performance.
3. Pinpoint several important leadership roles.
4. Identify the major satisfactions and frustrations associated with the
leadership role.
5. Describe a framework for understanding leadership.
6. Recognize how leadership skills are developed.
7. Pinpoint several traits, behaviors, and attitudes of a successful follower.
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Chapter Outline
The Meaning of Leadership
•Leadership as Shared
Responsibility and Collaboration
•Leadership as a Relationship
•Leadership Versus Management
•The Impact of Leadership on
Organizational
•Performance
•Research and Opinion: Leadership
Does Make a
•Difference
•Research and Opinion: Formal
Leadership Does Not
•Make a Difference
•Leadership Roles
•The Satisfactions and Frustrations
of Being a Leader
•Satisfactions of Leaders
•Dissatisfactions and Frustrations
of Leaders
•A Framework for Understanding
Leadership
Skill Development in Leadership
•Followership: Being an Effective
Group Member
•Types of Followers
•Essential Qualities of Effective
Followers
•Collaboration Between Leaders and
Followers
•Summary
•Key Terms
•Guidelines for Action and Skill
Development
•Leadership Case Problem A
•Leadership Case Problem B
•Notes
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The Meaning of Leadership
•The ability to inspire confidence and support among the people who are needed
to achieve organizational goals.
•Leadership Effectiveness refers to attaining desirable outcomes such as
productivity, quality, and satisfaction in a given situation.
•Leadership Process elements include:
•Leader
•Group Members
•Context of the Situation 5
The Meaning of Leadership
1. A process in which an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a
common goal.
2. An act that causes others to act or respond in a shared direction.
3. The art of influencing people by persuasion or example to follow a line of action.
4. An effort to maintain control and power over others.
5. The principal dynamic force that motivates and coordinates the organization in the
accomplishment of its objectives.
6. The exercise of social influence between and among many sources of leadership
working toward a common goal by using various mechanisms.
7. First figuring out what’s right, and then explaining it to people, as opposed to first
having people explain to you what’s right, and then just saying what they want to
hear (as defined by former New York mayor and presidential candidate Rudy
Giuliani).
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Leadership as Shared Responsibility and Collaboration
•Many leadership theorists and managers agree that the leadership role
within a team is seldom the responsibility of one person.
•Rather, several individuals within the team may serve as leaders, both by
formal assignment and informally.
•Leadership may shift, depending on whose expertise is the most relevant at
the moment, such as one member of a marketing team having advanced
