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2.Task Importance
3.Task Responsibility
4.Feedback
LEADERSHIP
Is an art of process of influencing people so that they
will strive willingly and enthusiastically toward the
achievement of group goals.
Leadership is a very important aspect of
management which has various meanings to different
authors.
Leadership is the influential increment over and
above mechanical compliance with the routine
directives of the organization.
Leadership and Motivation are closely interrelated.
Nature of Leadership
• Richard M. Steers identified three views on
the approach to the definitions of
Leadership:
- An attribute of position
- A characteristic of a person and a
category of Behavior
• Steers argued that from the stand point of
view of understanding the nature of people
at work is consider leadership as a category
of Behavior.
Leadership Roles
• In interacting with employees in the work environment , a
manager must pay four basic leadership roles:
Educator – all managers must perform the leadership role of
educator. Managers fulfill this role by teaching employee’s
job skills as well as acceptable behavior and
Organizational values.
Counselor – a second leadership role of manager is counselor
. This role involves listening, giving advice, preventing ,
and solving employee’s problems.
Expectation of employees:
Awareness of and concern for the individual employee
Assistance in solving a problem.
Judge – playing the leadership role of judge
involves appraising subordinates
performance; enforcing policies,
procedures, and regulations; settling
disputes; and dispending justice.
Spoke person – managers act as spoke
person for subordinates when they relay
their suggestion, concerns and points of
view to higher authorities. “doing
something” about subordinates problems
may mean to bat for them on higher
management level.
Leadership studies focus either on:
1. Identifying the Traits of a person who
were leaders versus those of non leaders.
2. Comparing the Traits of successful leaders
with the traits of unsuccessful leaders.
The Led
The
The Leader Organizational
environment
Leadership theories
The essence of leadership is followership. It is the
willingness of people to follow that makes a person a
leader .Leaders must exercise all the functions of their role
to combine human and material resources to achieve
objectives.
The Trait Theory
- in this theory the leader is conceived to be a “great man”
whose superior endowments induce others to follow him.
Environment Theory
- this theory explains leadership on the basis of situations
and crises that provide opportunities for people to propose
solutions or exhibit heroic actions that place them in the
position of leadership.
Personal-environment Theory
- this theory maintains that characteristics of a leader,
the followers and the situations that interact determine
who will be the leader.
Exchange Theory
- this theory suggest that group interactions represents an
exchange process in which leadership is conferred upon
the members whose effort appears more likely to reward
other members for their effort on behalf of the group.
Humanistic Theory
- this theory is based on the hypothesis that groups will be
more effective and members will be better satisfied when
the leader allows freedom to satisfy their needs for
achievement and self-actualization.
Exceptional Theory
- this theory maintains that leadership is most likely to
be achieved by the member who succeeds in initiating
and re-enforcing the expectations that he will maintain
the role structure and goal direction of the group.
Contingency Theory
- this theory proposes that a given pattern of leadership
behavior will lead to effective group performance in some
circumstances and ineffective, in some cases.
Path-Goal Theory
- this theory suggest that certain patterns of leader
behavior facilitate the clarification of the group goals
while other patterns of behavior stimulate effective
instruments an d responses on the follower group.
A complete theory of leadership should explain:
1. The emergence of leadership in initially
unstructured groups.
2. The maintenance of leadership once a role
structure has been developed and stabilized.
3. The relation of leader personality and
behavior to follower and group response.
4. The conditions under which specific
patterns of leader personality and behavior
are effective.
Leadership Style
The two major styles of leadership are:
1. Task-oriented Leadership
- The leader gains satisfaction from seeing the
task performed.
2.People-oriented Leadership
- The leader Looks toward achieving good
interpersonal relations by way of attaining a
position of personal prominence in the
organization.
Leadership styles based on the use of
Authority
Autocratic Leader
• the autocratic leaders commands and
expects compliance, is dogmatic and
positive; and leads by the ability to with hold
or give rewards and punishment.
• This is the “one rule” type.
• The leader is authority , he is the one who
tells the people what to do .
Autocratic Style of Leadership
Democratic or Participative Leader
• This type of leader consults with
subordinates on proposed actions and
decisions and encourages participation from
them.
• This leader is the person who does not take
action without subordinates concurrence; he
consults with subordinates before doing so
• The leader involve his subordinates in
decision making.
• One weakness of this style is that when the
impasse is reached, there is no authority.
Democratic Style of
Leadership
Benevolent-Autocrat Leader
• The leader is a “father figure” who wants
every one to feel good.
• The decision is his own.
• The leader bears and considers followers
ideas and concerns , however, when a
decision is to be made, he may be more
autocratic than benevolent.
• This style of leadership makes dependent
and weak.
Benevolent-Autocrat
Style of Leadership
Liberal leader or Free-in Leader
• This style of leader uses his power very rarely, if
at all, giving subordinates a high degree of
independence in their operations.
• These leader depend largely on subordinates to
set their own goals and the means of achieving
them.
• They see their roles as one of aiding the
operations of followers by furnishing them with
the necessary information and acting primarily
as contact with the group’s external
environment.
Liberal Style of Leadership
Other types of Leadership
Laissez-Faire Leader
• First described by Lewin , Lippitt , and White in 1938, along with
the autocratic leadership and the democratic leadership styles.
• This type of leadership is sometimes described as a “hand off”
leadership style because the leader provides little or no direction
to the followers.