Human resources

Table of Contents

1. Topic pack - introduction
2. 2.1 Human Resource Planning - Notes
3. 2.1 Human resource planning - questions
4. 2.2 Organisational structure - notes
5. 2.2 Organisational structure - questions
6. 2.3 Communication - notes
7. 2.3 Communication - questions
8. 2.4 Leadership and management - notes
   1. Leadership and management
   2. Leadership styles
   3. Trait and situation theory
   4. Tannenbaum and Schmidt's leadership model
   5. R. Blake and J. Mouton: The Managerial Grid
   6. Rensis Likert's four management styles (1967)
   7. Difference between leadership and management
   8. Key functions of management
   9. Henri Fayol - Functions of management
   10. Peter Drucker: Management by objectives (MbO)
   11. Charles Handy
   12. Exam tips
9. 2.4 Leadership and management - questions
10. 2.5 Motivation - notes
11. 2.5 Motivation - questions
12. 2.5 Motivation - simulations and activities
13. 2.6 Organisational and corporate cultures - notes (HL only)
14. 2.6 Organisational and corporate cultures - questions
15. 2.7 Employer and employee relations - notes (HL only)
16. 2.7 Employer and employee relations - questions
17. 2.8 Crisis management and contingency planning - notes
18. 2.8 Crisis management and contingency planning - questions
19. Printable version

2.4 Leadership and management - notes

In the previous sections we looked at human resource planning, examined organisational structures and identified and analysed various types and channels of communication. We now move on to look at leadership and motivation, considering the nature of leadership and management.

By the end of this section you should be able to:

• Evaluate the effectiveness of various styles of leadership and their implications for organisations

• Discuss whether successful leadership in identified situations is the result of natural skills and abilities, or the consequence of the circumstances faced
• Apply to given situations the theories of writers such as Likert, Fiedler, Blake and Mouton and Tannenbaum and Schmidt
• Explain the key functions of management, applying the theories of writers such as Fayol, Handy and Drucker