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LEADERSHIP CHAPTER OUTLINE  Leadership Definition of Leadership Need for Leadership Patterns of Organizational Leadership Traits In Search of Leadership Physical Traits Intelligence Personality Traits Leader Behaviors Authoritarian, Democratic, and Laissez-Faire Leadership Initiating Structure and Consideration Production-centered and Employee - centered Leader Behaviors Managerial Grids Situational Leadership Situational Leadership Model Contingency Theory of Leadership Path-Goal Model Normative Decision-Making Model of Leadership Determinants of Leadership Effectiveness Choosing a Leadership Style Strategies for Improving Leadership Reciprocal Influence of Leader and Follower  LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter you should be able to: 1. Explain the difference between management and leadership and identify some of the major personal traits associated with leadership. 2. Explain the limitations of using personal traits to understand leadership. 4. Identify some of the major situational factors influencing leadership and explain how they influence group performance. 5. List and describe the major variables that determine the appropriate leadership style. 6. Explain some of the strategies for improving leadership effectiveness.  Identify and describe the two major leadership behaviors that occur within a group.  LEE JACOCCA: AN AMERICAN LEGEND Lee Iacocca, the son of Italian immigrants, rose spectacularly through the ranks of Ford Motor Company to become its president, only to be toppled eight years later in a power struggle with Henry Ford II. After being fired from Ford, however, he immediately went to Chrysler Corporation and led that company back from the brink of financial disaster by convincing the United States government to provide Chrysler with a $1.2 billion loan guarantee. Iacocca has been heralded as the epitome of an effective modern leader by the authors of a book about leaders. He