Groups and leadership
The Nature of Groups
- Objectives
- The meaning and importance of Groups
- Influences on Behaviour at work
- Work pasterns of organisations
- Formal Groups
- Informal groups
- Reasons for the formations of groups
- Group cohesiveness
- Groups development and maturity
- Potential disadvantages of strong cohesive groups
- Characteristics of an effective work group
- The effects of Technology on a work group
- Role relationships
- Role Conflict
- Role Stress
- Synopsis
- Review and questions
- Bibliography
Group processes and behaviour
- Objectives
- Interactions amongst members
- Membership of successful teams
- Patterns of communication
- Analysis of behaviour in groups
- Sociometry
- Interaction analysis
- Frameworks of behavioural analysis
- Group performance and effectiveness
- Brainstorming
- Variety of interrelated factors
- Group dynamics
- âTâ groups
- Synopsis
- Review and questions
- Bibliography
The nature of leadership
- Objectives
- The meaning of leadership
- Leadership and management
- Managerial Leadership
- The leadership relationship
- Approaches to leadership
- The qualities or Traits approach
- The functional or group approach
- Action centred leadership
- Leadership as a behavioural category
- Consideration and structure
- Employee centred and production centred supervisors
- Styles of Leadership
- Continuum of leadership behaviour
- The situational approach
- Contingency Theories of leadership
- Fielders contingency model
- Vroom and Yetton contingency model
- Path â Goal Theory
- Readiness of the followers or group
- Revised model of Leadership
- No one best style of leadership
- National cultural dimensions of leadership
- Variables affecting leadership effectiveness
- Synopsis
- Review and discussion
- Notes and references