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LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC RELATIONS
the interrelationship between leadership and management, including interactions with
followers.
LEADERSHIP DEFINITION AND APPROACHES
When we think of leadership, we think of what it takes to ensure that people work well
together on something in which they all have a stake. Leaders without followers are alone,
and followers without leaders are lost. Leadership, then, necessarily involves followers and is
an enabler of group success or failure, balancing task and relationship matters along the
way. More specically dened, “leadership is human (symbolic) communication which
modies the attitudes and behaviors of others in order to meet shared group goals and
needs” (Johnson & Hackman, 2018, p. 12). ...