• Groups and leadership

Groups and leadership

The Nature of Groups

  1. Objectives
  2. The meaning and importance of Groups
  3. Influences on Behaviour at work
  4. Work pasterns of organisations
  5. Formal Groups
  6. Informal groups
  7. Reasons for the formations of groups
  8. Group cohesiveness
  9. Groups development and maturity
  10. Potential disadvantages of strong cohesive groups
  11. Characteristics of an effective work group
  12. The effects of Technology on a work group
  13. Role relationships
  14. Role Conflict
  15. Role Stress
  16. Synopsis
  17. Review and questions
  18. Bibliography

Group processes and behaviour

  1. Objectives
  2. Interactions amongst members
  3. Membership of successful teams
  4. Patterns of communication
  5. Analysis of behaviour in groups
  6. Sociometry
  7. Interaction analysis
  8. Frameworks of behavioural analysis
  9. Group performance and effectiveness
  10. Brainstorming
  11. Variety of interrelated factors
  12. Group dynamics
  13. ‘T’ groups
  14. Synopsis
  15. Review and questions
  16. Bibliography

The nature of leadership

  1. Objectives
  2. The meaning of leadership
  3. Leadership and management
  4. Managerial Leadership
  5. The leadership relationship
  6. Approaches to leadership
  7. The qualities or Traits approach
  8. The functional or group approach
  9. Action centred leadership
  10. Leadership as a behavioural category
  11. Consideration and structure
  12. Employee centred and production centred supervisors
  13. Styles of Leadership
  14. Continuum of leadership behaviour
  15. The situational approach
  16. Contingency Theories of leadership
  17. Fielders contingency model
  18. Vroom and Yetton contingency model
  19. Path – Goal Theory
  20. Readiness of the followers or group
  21. Revised model of Leadership
  22. No one best style of leadership
  23. National cultural dimensions of leadership
  24. Variables affecting leadership effectiveness
  25. Synopsis
  26. Review and discussion
  27. Notes and references