Chapter 8 – Leadership Authority

This chapter tells about the philosophy and practice of participative leadership, Communicate effectively for leadership power and understand leadership as a calling to serve. two type of leadership authorities are :

Top-down •Leadership authority is based on position in a social hierarchy •Power flows from the highest level to the lowest

Bottom-up •In an organizational pyramid, workers support managers and supervisors who in turn support executives •Pyramid serves as the basis of most classical organizational structures



The triangle has three levels. From the bottom, the labels are frontline workers, managers and supervisors, and top executives.


It has a circle on top labeled leader. From this circle, four arrows point to four smaller circles below. All the arrows are labeled one-way communication. All four circles are labeled direct report.

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