Leadership Studies (ECB206)

This is a summary of all relevant theory for the Leadership Studies course. It includes article summaries, book chapter summaries and additional notes made during PBL (Problem-based learning).

A very elaborate summary of all weeks' readings for the course leadership studies.

A 7-page summary of a lecture given by Wander van Baalen for the course Leadership Studies (ECB206) at Erasmus University College (EUC). Topics of this lecture include: discovering where the statistic that 70% of change initiatives fail comes from; Kurt Lewin's change management model (unfreezing, changing, refreezing); Lewin's force-field analysis; criticisms and relevancy of Lewin's model; and a guided reading of an article.

A 21-page summary of the readings of PBL #3: Followers and Leaders for the course Leadership Studies (ECB206) given at Erasmus University College (EUC). These readings include Chapter 9: Dyadic Theories and Followership from the textbook Leadership in Organizations (8th edition) by Gary Yukl; Zhang and Bednall's article named "Antecedents of Abusive Supervision: A Meta-Analytic Review"; Graen and Uhl-Bien's article named "Relationship-Based Approach to Leadership: Development of Leader Memb...

A 34-page summary of the readings for PBL #6: Narcissistic and Charismatic Leadership of the course Leadership Studies (ECB206) given at Erasmus University College (EUC). These readings include Chapter 6: Traits and Skills of Leaders and Chapter 12: Theories of Charismatic and Transformational Leadership from the textbook Leadership in Organizations (8th edition) by Gary Yukl; Rosenthal and Pittinsky's article named "Narcissistic Leadership"; and Chatterjee and Hambrick's article named "It’s A...

A 29-page summary of the readings for PBL #4: Ethical Leadership for the course Leadership Studies (ECB206) given at Erasmus University College (EUC). These readings include: Chapter 13 of the textbook Leadership in Organizations (8th edition) by Gary Yukl; Trevino, Hartman, and Brown's article "Moral Person and Moral Manager: How Executives Develop a Reputation for Ethical Leadership"; Heres and Lasthuizen's article "What’s the Difference? Ethical Leadership in Public, Hybrid, and Private Sec...

A 14-page summary of the readings for PBL #2: Managing Change of the course Leadership Studies given at Erasmus University College (EUC). These readings include: (1) Chapter 4: Change Leadership from the textbook Leadership in Organizations (8th edition) by Gary Yukl; (2) Kotter's article named "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail"; (3) Reichers, Wanous, and Austin's article named "Understanding and Managing Cynicism about Organizational Change"; and (4) Karp and Helg's article named...