The document discusses different perspectives on leadership from academics, business leaders, and researchers. It also covers characteristics of admired leaders, awareness, motivation, and what employees want in a job. Some key points:
- Academic definitions focus on influencing others with or without authority, while business leaders emphasize hiring the right people, communicating vision, and coaching others.
- Admired leaders are seen as honest, forward-looking, inspiring, competent, credible, fair-minded, and supportive.
- Motivation comes from personality, job attitudes, meeting needs at work, reward systems, expectations, goals, self-confidence, and fairness.
- Employees want interesting work, appreciation, involvement, security, pay, promotion