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Assignment:
1. Could define what leadership is and explain its importance for organizations?
2. Could you describe how contemporary leadership is changing in today's organizations, including level 5 leadership, servant leadership, and authentic leadership?
3. Could you identify personal characteristics associated with effective leaders and could you also explain how women's style of leading is typically different from men's?
4. Could define task-oriented behavior and people-oriented behavior and explain how these categories are used to evaluate and adapt to the leadership styles?
5. Could describe and explain how the situational model of leadership, application to subordinate participation and explain how organizational characteristics can substitute for leadership behaviors?
6. Could you explain transformational leadership and when it should be used and give 4 examples?
7. Could you explain how followership is related to effective leadership?
8. Could explain and identify sources of leader power and the tactics that leaders use to influence others?
9. Could you explain why communication is essential for effective management?
10. Could explain and describe how the interpersonal aspects of communication including open communication climates, communication channels, persuasion, communicating with candor, asking questions, and listening affect a manager's ability to communicate?
11. Could explain how the workplace is viewed as a whole and explain the roles of social media, personal communication networks, and the importance of crisis communication?
12. Could explain why effective communication is essential for sustainable development?
13. Could you explain the following content theories of motivation based on employee needs:
a)The Hierarchy of Needs (Maslow)
b)ERG Theory (Existence needs, Relatedness needs, Growth needs)
c)Two-factor approach to motivation (Herzberg theory)
d)Acquired needs theory (McClelland)