Welcome to
Organizational
Leadership
•Ice Breaker
•Introduction & sharing a leadership
trait you have
•Syllabus
•Expectations, assignments, on-line
hours, classroom hours
•Select teams
•For on-line assignment and team
project
•Lecture Chapter 1, 2, 3
•Introduction, Trait Behavior, Skills
Approach
•Week 2
•Look ahead
•Wrap-up
•Questions
Week 1 Introduction to
Leadership
Chapter 1
Leadership Describes
•Leaders and followers are part of
the process –need to understand
each other
•Many studies have focused on
leadership as a trait –something
you are born with
•In contrast, many argue that
leadership is a process and can be
learned
•Two common forms of leadership
are assigned and emergent –formal
position/informal position
Leadership Concepts
•Power –understanding how
power is used (dark side –Hitler,
Alexander the Great)
•Coercion –use of force to affect
