Leadership in Organizations, Eight Edition

Chapter 16 Overview and Integration

Learning Objectives

After studying this chapter, you should be able to:

• Summarize major findings about leadership traits, skills, behavior, and influence processes.

• Understand key points of convergence in findings from the different perspectives.

• Understand similar explanatory processes in dyadic, group, and organizational theories.

• Understand what progress has been made in several decades of research on effective leadership.

• Understand how the methods used to study leadership affect what is learned about it.

• Understand what type of research is most useful for learning about effective leadership.

This final chapter summarizes the major findings from earlier chapters and examines convergence ...