COMM 3170: Introduction to Organizational Communication

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COMM 3170Introduction toOrganizational
Communication

• Summer 2005
• Dan Lair
• d.lair_at_utah.edu

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Exam Results and Review
Averages Grade Distribution
Section One 74 As 4
Section Two 85 Bs 14
Section Three 87 Cs 13
Overall 79 Below 4
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Questions from Chapter 7
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Historical Development of Perspectives on
Leadership

• 1800s-Early 1900s Great Man Theories
• Same period through 1930s Trait Theories
• 1940s-1960s Functional Theories
• 1940s-1970s Style Theories
• 1960s-1970s Situational/Contingency Theories
• 1980s-present Transformational Theory
• 1990s-present Teamwork and Facilitation

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Hersey and BlanchardsLife Cycle Model of
Leadership
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Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory (see Box
7.8, p. 193)

• Focuses on the relationship between leaders and
  members
• Considers the use of resources (including
  symbolic ones) in each of those relationships.
• Relates the strength of these relations with
  productivity, involvement, loyalty, and
  satisfaction.
• What are the differences between high and low
  LMXs?????