Organizational BehaviorChapter 12Leadership in organizational settings Leadership: influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members.Leaders motivate others through persuasion and other influence tacticsLeaders are enablersShared leadership Shared leadership: the view that leadership is a role, not a position assigned to one person. Consequently, people within the team and organization lead each other.Shared leadership typically supplements formal leadership. Employees lead along with the formal manager, rather than replace the manager.Shared leadership flourishes in organizations where the formal leaders are willing to delegate power and encourage employees to take initiative and risks without fear of failure. (a learning orientation culture).Also collaborative rather than competitive. The most popular leadership perspective is transformational leadership.Transformational leadership: a leadership that explains how leaders change teams or organizations by creating, communicating, and modeling a vision for the organization or work unit and inspiring employees to strive for that vision.Four elements:Develop and communicate a strategic visionModel the visionEncourage experimentationBuild commitment to...