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LEADERSHIP
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1. Introduction of leadership 3
9. Summary 45
10. Bibliography 45
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LEADERSHIP
INTRODUCTION:
From the traditional beurocratic organizational structures of the past, to the dramatically
reformed systems of health care of today, the resulting changes present many challenges to nursing
leadership. Our society is becoming more complex. Although change is not pervasive, the pace of
change is becoming more rapid. The challenges to leadership in nursing evolve from reforms in health
care and impact on the practice and work life of nurses. While many different aspects are relevant, the
issues are interrelated and influence leadership development. A consistent theme is the need for strong
nursing leadership, in order to address the challenges in health care and achievement of quality
outcomes.
Leadership does not mean dominating the subordinates. The leader’s job is t get work
done by other work done by other people,, and make people willingly want to accomplish something.
So effective leadership means effective and productive group performance. Leadership is the
inspiration for decided response and getting work done through others. Leader focus on purpose and
doing the right thing. They are future oriented changed by change and able to plan strategies and
facilitate human potential. A leader need good stress and time management to meet the challenges of
leadership they need to use good communication and decision making skills. Leaders needs to use their
knowledge of leadership theories help leaders to know how to adjust their leadership style to fits on
different situations Leaders focus on doing the right thing but may also be manage who help do the
thing right way.
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LEADER
A leader is an influential person has the ability to lead a group or department without having a
formal appointment.
A leader is the person who influences and guides direction, opinion and course of action.
Arieu, A. defines a leader as "a person capable of inspiring and associate others with a dream."
It is therefore important that organizations have a mission high transcendent, since it is a powerful way
to strengthen the leadership of its directors.
L – LEAD, LOVE, LEARN
E – ENTHUSIASTIC, ENERGETIC
A – ASSERTIVE, ACHIEVER
D – DEDICATED, DESIROUS
R – RESPONSIBLE, RESPECTFUL
LEADERSHIP
Origin of the word is from the word “lead” meaning “to go”
Leader ship is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals; that is, it is the ability to influence
the behaviour of others, towards the achievement of a mutually established goal.
Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
Leadership is management skills that focus on the development and employment of vision, mission and
strategy as well as the creation of a motivated work force.
Leadership is a style or a process whereby a person called a nurse leader will influence a group of
people known as the followers for the purpose of attaining a single goal or objective
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DEFINITION
2. Leadership is a special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the
horizon
John.F. Kennedy
3. The act of guiding or influencing people to achieve desired outcomes; occurs any time a person
attempts to influence the beliefs, openions or behaviors of an individual or group
Hersey and Blanchard.
4. Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over
the horizon. Jamse L Fisher.
5. Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are obligated.
Fred Smith.
6. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sight, the raising of a person’s performance to a
higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its limitations.
Peter F Druckes
8. Leadership is the process of influence the thoughts and action of the other people (a person or a
group) to attain the desired objectives.
LEADER:
Leaders typically are the ones who “go first”. They have a vision and they influence othersby their
actions and their comments. This ability is the essence of leadership like the word “Lead”. The verb
“to lead” is also defined in several ways to guide, to run in a special direction, to direct, to go at the
head of, to be first, to open play, to tend towards a definite result. As far as Nursing is concerned all
of these actions are expected by a Nurse Leader.the leader and follower roles are determined by
people’s interaction within groups.
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An effective leader is a catalyst who facilitates effective interaction among manpower, material and
time.
A skilful leader is a synergist, who co-ordinates the efforts of multiple workers with diverse skills
LEADERSHIP OVERVIEW:
TYPE OF LEADERS:
a) Natural leader:
Here the person becomes the leader inspite of himself. He does not seek the goal, it is trusted upon
him by the group and by the tide of events.
b) Charismatic leader:
Here the person is an authentic hero in the eyes of his followersfor he can do no wrong. He/she
inspires people to make any sacrifice even their lives for the cause.
c) Rational leader:
d) Consensus leader:
The leader is perceived as acceptable to all. He/she rises in the absence of the above three and this
leader is in a tenous position of walking a tight rope for existence.
e) Leader by force:
Here the leaders power speaks through the nozzle of gun. He/she dominates others through fear. He
is ruthless in suppressing opposition. He does not reign as long as this type of leadership contagions
with in itself the seeds of its own destruction.
ROLES OF A LEADER
Service provider
Team builder
Recourse manager
Decision maker and problem solver
Change agent
Clinical consultant
Mentor
FUNCTIONS OF A LEADER:
TYPES OF KNOWLEDGE NEEDED BY A LEADER:
Establish relationship between all type of workers and able to work with others harmoniously.
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Professionalism
Advocacy
Acts as an advocate for others specially for nursing profession and for nursing staff
Acts as an advocate with physician
Acts as patient advocate
Acts as an advocate for nursing education and students for the right and standards.
Diagnosing: Diagnosing involves being able to understand the situation and the problem to be
solved or resolved .this is a cognitive competency.
Adapting: Adapting involves being able to adapt behaviors and other resources to match the
situation. This is a behavioral competency.
Communicating; Communicating is employed to advance the process in a way that individuals
can understand and accept. This is a process competency.
Self-awareness: Ability to read one’s own emotional state and be aware of one’s own mood
and how this affects staff relationships.
Self-management: ability to take corrective action so as not to transfer negative moods to
staff relationship.
Social awareness: An intuitive skill of empathy and expressiveness in being sensitive and
aware of the emotions and mood of others.
Relationship management: effective communication with others that disarms conflict and the
ability to develop the emotional maturity of team members.
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Firm personality, insistent, self assured, highly directive, dominating, with or with out intention.
Has high concern for work than fir the people who perform the task.
Uses the efforts of the workers to the best possible shows no regard to the interests of the
employees.
Sets rigid standards and methods of performance and expects the subordinates to obey the rules
and follow the same.
Makes all decisions by him or her related to the work and pass orders to the workers and expect
them carry out the orders.
There is minimal group participation or none from the workers.
Thinks that what he or she plans does is the best. May listen to them by not influenced by their
suggestions.
Has no trust or confidence in the subordinates in turn they fear and feel they have nothing much
in common.
Exercise power, manipulate the subordinates to act according to his goals, plans and keeps at the
center of attention.
LEADERSHIP:
Identity
Independence
Authenticity
Responsibility
Courage
Integrity
INTEGRATIVE LEADERSHIP MODEL:
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From a review of leadership theories, there is no best leadership style. Leaders are rarely totally people
oriented or task oriented. Intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, cultural, physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual perspectives are all important. The leader, the follower, the situation – al
influence the leadership effectiveness. Consequently an integration of leadership theories seems
appropriate. Leaders need to be aware of their own behaviour and influence on others, individual
differences of followers, group characteristics, motivation, task structure, environmental factors and
situational variables and situational variables adjust their leadership styles accordingly. Integrative
leadership is a holistic approach to oneself and others that requires adaptive behaviour.
LEADERSHIP SKILLS:
2. Skills of communication
Listen attentively
Make sure everyone understands what is needed and the reason why?
Establishes positive communication with the group as a routine part of that job
Recognizes that everyone’s contributions are important
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4. Skills of self-examination
Is aware of personal motivations
Is aware of the group members;
Helps the group to be aware of their attitudes and values
S = Self Reliant
E = Enthusiastic
L = loyal
F = Factual
Leadership is influential that is it motivates others to change their behaviors and achieve a goal.
(shinitzky& kub ,2001). Leaders are creative problem – solvers, who use their imagination to
visualize new connections between ordinary events; they continually analyze the efficiency of
the status quo and ask “What if” question.
LEADERSHIP FUNCTIONS
There are 5 essential functions are required for effective leadership at any level
Creative function
Leader must be creative and must envision and better ways to solve problems. This first
step involves creative thinking about problems, which includes developing methods and activities
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for carrying out their solutions. This function requires knowledge to stimulate sensory perception,
curiosity, openness, sensitivity to problem, and flexibility.
The creative leadership function includes generating ideas and developing design for action. It
also involves risk taking and inventive problem solving when buffering resisting forces. Finally it
includes empowering others to use their own creativity to accomplish goals.
Initiating function
A leader introduces changes and sets its process in motion. For a nurse, the initiating
function includes convincing clients or followers of the need for change, starting the problem
solving process, and launching the activities needed to carry out the plan. Like all of the other
leadership function it requires decision –making skills. The initiating function begins the process
toward goal accomplishment. It is the stimulus that starts clients or followers on their way to meet
personal or agency goals.
Every leader is faced with uncertainty, and to proceed under uncertain condition is to be a risk-
taker, leaders cannot guarantee outcomes. The leadership process requires careful planning based
on all available data and the creation of scenarios to predict all possible obstacles and outcomes. It
requires preparation of alternative course of action, should earlier plans fail. Nevertheless, some
variables cannot be predicted beyond a certain point, and leaders must be willing to take risk and
expose themselves to possible failure and embarrassment. Taking risks also means that they may
expose clients or followers to potential negative outcomes. Effective leaders, however take
calculated risks, they weigh the potential consequences, pro and con of each action before
proceeding. Their concern is to minimize perceived barriers and harmful consequences and
maximize positive outcome for followers.
The integrative aspect of the leadership role focuses on strengthening collective ties and
uniting clients or followers through a strong sense of purpose. The leader remains the followers of
their goals. Encourages pride in their group identity. Stabilizers intra group relations, and meditates
interpersonal conflict (kouzer&posner 2003)
Individuals in any group setting tend to have their own agendas and separate needs. One job of
the nurse leader is to keep the client group on target by clarifying and reinforcing the goals that they
mutually identified. The integrative function requires good inter personal skills for establishing
positive relationship with as well as between followers. The function supports the aim of promoting
member commitment and cooperation.
Instrumental
Leaders also must keep followers moving in the right directions; this is the purpose of the
instrumental or facilitative function inspired by vision and goals, the leader serves as an enabler to
move followers to act (Kouzs & Posner,2003 Sullivan Decker & Jamerson 2001) For nurse leaders,
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this function involves good communication. They must keep in constant touch with clients or
followers to make certain that goals and activities are understood and agreed on and to encourage
both positive and negative feedback. Leaders further stimulate followers to progress toward
achievement of goals by reinforcing desired behavior and by setting the pace themselves. The letter
is particularly important for gaining follower’s respect and sustained commitment to set pace means
that nurse leaders must demonstrate competence, practice what they preach, and demonstrate their
belief in the followers and in what the followers are being asked to accomplish.
The values, skills, and style of leaders are important. The leader must have an honest
understanding of who you are, what you know, and what you can do. Also note that it is the followers,
not the leader or someone else who determines if the leader is successful. you have to convince your
followers, not yourself or yours superiors, that you are worthy of being followed.
Followership is the flip side of relationship. followers are vital because they accept or reject the
leader and determine the leader’s power.
The specific circumstances surrounding any given leadership situation will vary. Elements such
as work demands ,control systems, amount of task structure, degree of interaction , amount of time
available for decision making, and external environment shapes the differences among situations .the
personality styles of both superiors and subordinates have an influence on the situation. What you do in
one situation will not always work in another. You must use your judgment to decide the best course of
action, and the leadership style needed for each situation.
Communication process varies among groups as to the patterns and channels used and in regard to how
open or closed the communication flow is. Communicating is basic to the process of influencing.
Through communication the leader’s vision and messages are received by the followers.
Communication is transmitted through both verbal and non verbal modes.
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Organizations have goals, and individuals working in organization is also have goal. These goals may
or may not be congruent.
Traits are characteristics that an individual possess. Traits may or may not lead to the actions that are
required for successful leadership. It is also possible to lack leadership traits yet be able to carry out
successful leadership behaviors.
Critical thinking:
The ability to think critically is a multistep process similar to the nursing process. Critical thinkers
must be able to analyse data, organise and plan, and use creativity in the resolution of problems.
Leaders must often make important decisions on the basis of incomplete data.
Problem solving:
Being able to use problem solving process effectively is essential to effective l eadership. Leaders
in the health care settings, face problems that arise from many sources, including staffing and
personnel, scheduling, and administrative budget and client demands.
Personality is the sum total of people’s experiences. Because no two people have identical
experiences. Because no two people have identical experiences, each one has different needs,
feelings and orientations. The effective leader recognises these differences and is able tto direct the
people to their highest level of achievement given their highest level of achievement given their
varying orientations.
Active listening:
To be effective, leaders must be able to not only hear the words that the person is saying but also
observe the body language and its underlying emotions and meaning. The experts tells that 7% of
communication, 93% is all the other non verbal content. Leaders often fail in their leadership roles
when they do not listen to the full message of the individuals they are attempting to lead.
Skillful communication:
Communication is a complex process that involves and exchange of information and feed back.
Mistakes happen on both sides when the information being shared is incomplete or confusing.
Providing frequent and positive feed back is one of the best methods for leaders to determine how
well they are communicating and how open the communication channels remain.
Groups who lack clear goals often feel frustrated and lost. Initially, leaders must clearly identify the
goals shared by the group and use them to motivate the group. Successful outcome is often a
thoughtful melding of the vision of the leader and the group.
One of the most valuable lessons that nursing students can learn while in nursing school is that
education does not end when they graduate-it begins. One of the primary goal of nursing education
process should be to teach the students how to learn. Life long learning is a goal that effective
leaders seek not only for themselves but also for those whom they are leading.
ELEMENTS OF LEADERSHIP:
VISION
INFLUENCE
POWER
AUTHORITY
RESPONSIBILITY
ACCOUNTABILITY
VISION:
Provides direction to the influence process.
For leadership to occur, leaders must communicate the vision the their followers in such a way
that the followers adopt the vision as their own
It is essential for organizational effectiveness and success
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INFLUENCE:
Ability to obtain followers, compliance or request
It is a skill that can be developed , and is one of a major components of the power triangle
KINDS OF INFLUENCE:
Assertiveness
Ingratiation
Rationality
Blocking
Coalition
Sanction
Exchange
Upward appeal
POWER:
Ability to efficiently and effectively exercise authority and control through personal,
organizational and social strength
Ability to impose the will of one person or group to bring about certain behaviors in other
groups or persons
Power is the ability to obtain retain and motivate people and to organize
resources to accomplish a task.
REWARD POWER: - The positive part on the leader to compensate or remunerates staff
members by reward, incentives, promotion, commendation etc.
COERCIVE POWER: - The negative power of a leader to implement sanction suspension and
or termination as a form of disciplinary power.
LEGITIMATE POWER: - Power is based on an official poison in the organization. Through
legitimate power; the manager has the right to influence staff members, and staff members have
an obligation to accept that influence.
REFERENT POWER : - Admiration and respect, the staff feels towards a leader. Personal
qualities influence charisma.
EXPERT POWER: - Power is based on knowledge skills and information nurses who have
expertise in areas such as physical assessment of technical skills gain respect and complain from
others.
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INFORMAL POWER: - Is based on personal characteristics. Informal power may result from
personal relationship being in the right place at right time or unique personal characteristics
such as attractiveness, education experience.
AUTHORITY:
FORMS OF AUTHORITY:
o Chain of Command
o Unity of Command
o Span of Control
Staff Authority
Team Authority
RESPONSIBILITY:
ACCOUNTABILITY:
It is a form of reckoning, where one accepts the consequences of their decisions, good or bad
LEADERSHIP STYLES:
a) Style:
Style is a particular form of a behavior directly associated wioth an individual.
Or
The way in which a leader uses interpersonal influences to acheivet he objective of an
organization.
One should ask why the style of functioning of a leader need to be understood?
The reasons are;
The style of leadership affect the health care delivery system.
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A style allows the nurse to interact more productively and more harmoniously to achieve
personal and organizational goals.
b) Leadership style:
Leadership style is how a leader uses interpersonal influence to accomplish goals of an
organization.
Leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and
motivating people. Kurt Lewin (1939) led a group of researchers to identify different styles of
leadership. This early study has been very influential and established three major leadership styles. The
three major styles of leadership are;
o Authoritarian or autocratic
o Participative or democratic
o Delegative or Free Reign or Laissez-Faire style of leadership
o Bureaucratic style of leadership
o Paternalistic style of leadership
AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP:
Authoritarian leadership
Directive leadership
The leader is referred to as “dictator”
This style of leadership is always present in nursing, where nurse manager manages by giving
orders and expecting staff members to accept them. It is also called as directive leadership, where
leader has to take immediate action or giving direction without consulting subordinates
However autocratic style of leadership is task oriented. Leader uses positional and personal power
in as authoritarian manner, retaining authority for all goal setting and, decision making and motivation
subordinated through praise blame and reward. Leaders of this kind makes decision without the
participation of the people concerned.
Following on from the merits and drawbacks listed above, the autocratic leadership style is useful in the
following work situations:
1. Short term projects with a highly technical, complex or risky element.
2. Work environments where spans of control are wide and hence the manager has little time to devote
to each employee.
3. Industries where employees need to perform low-skilled, monotonous and repetitive tasks and
generally have low levels of motivation.
4. Projects where the work performed needs to be completed to exact specifications and/or with a tight
deadline.
5. Companies that suffer from a high employee turnover, i.e. where time and resources devoted to
leadership development would be largely wasted. Although one could argue that a lack of leadership
development in the first place caused the high turnover.
ADVANTAGES:
Efficient in times of crisis, easy to make decision by one person than by group and less time
consuming.
It is useful when there is only one leader who is experienced, having new and essential
information while the subordinates are in-experienced and new.
It is useful when the workers are unsure of taking decision and expect the leader to tell them
what to do.
A more productive group ‘while the leader is watching’.
Improved logistics of operations.
DISADVANTAGES:
Does not encourage the individuals growth and does not recognize the potentials, initiativeness
and creates less co-operation among members.
The leader lacks supportive owet that results in decisions made with consultation although he
may be correct.
Inhibits group participation which results in lack of growth, less job satisfaction can lead to less
commitment to the goals of organization.
Short-termistic approach to management.
Manager perceived as having poor leadership skills.
Increased workload for the manager.
People dislike being ordered around.
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DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP:
The leader is people oriented, which focus on the human aspect and builds effective work group.
Togetherness is emphasized.
CHARACTERISTICS:
5. Performance standards exist to provide guidelines and permit appraisal of workers thus result in
high productivity
ADVANTAGES:
DISADVANTAGES:
It takes more time for making the decisions by the group than the leader alone. However the
advantages overweigh the negative outcomes.
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This style is also referred to as the “freedom style” or permissive leadership. This type of
leader denies responsibilities and abdicates authority to the group, ie; the leader leaves all decision
making and decision making to the group. Here he leader chooses not to adopt a leadership roles and
actually abdicates the leadership positions. It may be due to lack of self confidence and fear of failure.
The leader may think that subordinates will perform better if a great deal of freedom is given. This style
is effective where the subordinates are highly motivated and experienced.
Characteristics features
The group where there is no appointed leader will fall in this category
ADVANTAGES:
In limited situations creativity may be encouraged for specific purposes. Eg. Highly qualified
people plan a new approach to a problem that need freedom of action.
To try new method of actions.
DISADVANTAGES:
making
In this kind of leadership the leader functions only on lines with rules and regulations. The
leader cannot be flexible and does not like to take any risks out of the rules. The bureaucratic leadership
style is concerned with ensuring workers, follow rules and procedures accurately and consistently.
Bureaucratic leadership normally has the following characteristics.
1. Leaders expect an employee to display a formal, business like attitude in the workplace and
between each other.
2. Managers gain instant authority with their position because rules demands that employees pay
them certain privileges, such as being able to sign off on all major decisions. As a result, leader
suffer from ‘position power’. Leadership development becomes pointless, because only titles
and roles provide any real control or power.
3. Employees are rewarded for their ability to adhere to the rules and follow procedures perfectly.
4. Bureaucratic systems usually, gradually develop over a long period of time and hence more
commonly found in large and old buiseness.
ADVANTAGES:
Increased safety
In dangerous work places where procedures saves lives, a bureaucratic management
styles can help enforce health and safety rules.
Quality work
Some tasks such as, completing professional works or medical examinations, need to be
done in a meticulous fashion. Laziness can result in poor work, and hence one solution is to
enforce the rules via bureaucratic leadership style.
Ultimate control
DISADVANTAGES:
Bureaucratic companies tend to remove as much potential for human error, out of the picture
as possible. Unfortunately this also has the effect of removing all the enjoyment and reward that
comes from deciding how to do a task and accomplishing it.
Lack of self fulfillment:
The bureaucratic way of working hampers employees efforts to become successful and
independent, because the system becomes too constraining.
It is found in extremely large corporations such as General Electric, Daimler and General Motors.
1. Government bodies often have bureaucratic systems, and while these are often despised by the
public, they ensure accountability to the tax payer and fair treatment for all. Excessive form
filling also serves the purpose oof passing effort from the government authority (with a tight
budget) onto the individual, helping to save costs.
2. Dangerous workplaces such as, mines, oil riges, construction sites and film sets, all benefits
from the tight control over health and safety that rules over.
Paternalism has at times been equated with leadership styles. Yet most definitions of leadership
normally state or imply that one of the actions within leadership is that of influencing. Leadership is
influencing people — by providing purpose, direction, and motivation — while operating to
accomplish the mission and improving the organization.
“a system under which an authority undertakes to supply needs or regulate conduct of those under its
control in matters affecting them as individuals as well as in their relationships to authority and to each
other”.
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A transactional leader is defined as a leader or manager who functions in a care taker role and
is focused on day to day operations. Such leaders survey their followers needs and set goals for them
based on what can be done expected from the followers.
A transactional leader is focused on the maintenance and management or ongoing and routine work.
The transactional leader is more common. This type of leader approaches follower in an
exchange posture, with the purpose of exchanging one thing for another. Such as politician who
promises jobs for votes. Burns said that transactional leadership occurs when the leader taken the
initiative in contacting others for the exchange of valuable things.
Transformational leadership
Our Self,
Others,
Groups, and
Organizations
The transformational style requires a number of different skills and is closely associated with two other
leadership styles: charismatic and visionary leadership. Transformational leadership encompasses the
intuitive and emotional nature of people and inspire followers to high levels of commitment and effort
to achieve group goals which emphasizing interpersonal relationship trans formational leaders gain the
respect and trust of their followers; instill in them a sense of pride and ,mission, communicate high
expectations promote intelligent, rational problem solving; and give followers individualized
consideration it is leadership that creates purposes for institutions.
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The Emergent Leadership Style
Contrary to the belief of many, groups do not automatically accept a new "boss" as leader. We see a
number of ineffective managers who didn't know the behaviors to use when one taking over a new
group.
Visionary Leadership, The leadership style focuses on how the leader defines the future for
followers and moves them toward it.
Strategic Leadership: This is practiced by the military services such as the US Army, US Air
Force, and many large corporations. It stresses the competitive nature of running an
organization and being able to out fox and out witH the competition.
Team Leadership
A few years ago, a large corporation decided that supervisors were no longer needed and those in
charge were suddenly made "team leaders." Today, companies have gotten smarter about how to
exert effective team leadership, but it still takes leadership to transition a group into a team.
Facilitative Leadership
This is a special style that anyone who runs a meeting can employ. Rather than being directive, one
uses a number of indirect communication patterns to help the group reach consensus.
Cross-Cultural Leadership
Not all individuals can adapt to the leadership styles expected in a different culture whether that culture
is organizational or national. In fact, there is some evidence that American and Asian Leadership
Styles are very different, primarily due to cultural factors.
Leadership Grid
It is the graphical tool for evaluating leader behaviour along two basic attributes concern for results and
concern for people. Effective leadership styles exhibit high levels of both attributes.
The Grid itself is a framework for understanding various approaches to leadership, and how those
different approaches can harness or impede potential. It has two components: Concern for Production
and Concern for People, which are measured on a scale from 1 to 9.
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How it works.
Concern for Production refers to commitment to expected outcome, such as number of units produced,
time expended, sales volume, quality level - whatever a team is responsible for producing.
Concern for People refers to attitude towards superiors, peers or subordinates, and include concerns
about job satisfaction, quality of work life, training/development, working conditions, salary structure,
fringe benefits, job security etc.
LEADERSHIP THEORIES
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERSHIP THEORY
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Because strong management skills are historically valued more than strong leadership skills, the
scientific study of leadership did not begin until the 20 th century. Early works focused on the broad
conceptualization of leadership, such as the traits or behaviours of the leader. Contemporary research
focuses more on leadership as a process oof influencing others within an organizational culture and the
interactive relationship of the leader nad the follower. To better understand the newer views about
leadership, it is necessary to look at how leadership theory has evolved over the last century.
THE SITUATION.
a. Contingency theory Examines factors in the situation, particularly the skills
of the leader and that individual’s position of power in
the organization, as determinants of leader
effectiveness.
b. Path-Goal thoery Relataes effective leadership to the leader’s ability to
minimize obstruction to goals, identifies outcomes that
workers want to achieve, and reward the followers for
high performance and achievement, thereby increasing
worker satisfaction and productivity.
c. Transactional leadership Examines leadership in terms of striking a bargain in
(sometimes referred to as which there is a mutual exchange between leaders and
Exchange leadership) followers of benefits for work. Leader diagnoses
problems int the organization, work group or situation
and is a caretaker who facilitates workers motivation,
ssatisfaction, and performance.
4 CONTEMPORARY INDUCES THEORIES MOST COMMONLY IN USE
. THEORIES AT THE PRESENT TIME.
a. Transformational Places emphasis on the collective purpose and mutual
leadership growth of both the leader and the follower and de-
emphasises differences in the roles of a leader and
followers. Leader activities include creating a vision,
building relationships, developing trust, and building
self-esteem. Leader makes sub-ordinates aware of how
important their jobs are, helps them build skills, and
motivates them to work for the good of the organization.
This theory attempts to classify what personality characteristics sucha s physical, personality and
mental are assosciated with leadership success. Trait theory has a belief that leadrs are born with certain
wualities that determine leadership ability and success and relies on research that relates various traits
to the success of a leader. A broad classification of six categories of traits are as follows.
According to this theory, the leader is gifted with or develops certain physical, intellectual, or
personality characteristics.
The Great Man Theory and trait theories were the basis for most of the leadership research until the mid
1940s. Focuses on certain characteristics of the leader until mid 1940s, the trait theory was the basis for
leadership research. Early work in this area maintained that traits are inherited, but later theories
suggest that traits could be obtained through learning and experiences. The Great Man theory, from
Aristotelian philosophy, asserts what some people are born to lead whereas others are born to be led. It
also suggests that great leaders will arise when the situation demands it.
Trait theories assumes that some people have certain characteristics or personality traits make them
better leaders than others. To determine the traits that distinguish great leaders, researchers studied the
lives of prominent people throughout history. The effect of followers and the impact of the situation
were ignored. Contemporary opponents of these theories argue, however that leadership skills can be
developed, not just inherited.
In the trait approach, theorists have sought to understand leadership by examining the characteristics of
leaders. The trait list has generated multiple lists of traits proposed to be essential for leadership.
Researchers identified the leadership traits as; energy, drive, enthusiasm, ambition, aggressiveness,
decisiveness, self- assurance, friendliness, affection, honesty, fairness, loyalty, dependability, technical
mastery teaching skills. Later researches arrived at some common leadership traits.
They are;
Initiative: leaders must be initiative and have the ability to perceive and start courses of acting which
are not considered by others.
Creative: creativity is an asset, having originality; the ability to think of new solutions to problems and
ideas of new ways to be productive is helpful for a leader.
Emotional maturity with integrity: Emotional maturity is very much essential trait of a leader. Other
trait is persistence dependability and objectivity. Mature leaders do what they say and are consistent in
their action which is referred to integrity.
Communication: Communication skills are important. The leader needs to understand others speak
and write clearly.
Persuasion: Communication is used by leaders to gain the consent of followers’ .The leader makes
suggestions, supply supportive data, ask penetrating or exploring questions, make compromise and
request action to persuade others.
CHARISMATIC THEORY:
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People may be leaders because they are charismatic, but relatively little is known about this intangible
characteristics. What constitutes charisma? It is an inspirational quality possessed by some people that
makes others feel better in their presence. The charismatic leader inspires others by obtaining emotional
commitment from followers and by arousing stron feelings of loyality and enthusiasm. Under
charismatic leadership, one may overcome obstacles not thought possible. Howver, because charisma is
so elusive, some ,ay sense it while others do not.
Charismatic leaders have a strong conviction in their own beliefs, high self confidence, and a need for
power. They are likely to set an example, by their behaviour, commun icate high expectationsto
followers and express confidence in them, and arouse motives for the group’s miossion.
Charisma is more likely attributed to a leader aho advocates a vision discrepent from the status quo,
emerges during a crisis, accurately assess the situation, communicate self-confidence, uses personal
power, makes self sacrifices, and uses unconventional strategies. Followers may idolize and worship
charismatic leaders as spiritual figures or super-humans. This blind obedience can lead to good or bad
outcomes, such as group suicide. Both Mahatma Gandhi and Adolf Hitler can be classified as
charismatic leaders. Transformational leaders use charisma for good things only.
ATTITUDINAL THEORY:
• Initiating Structure
– The extent to which a leader is likely to define and structure his or her role and those of
subordinates in the search for goal attainment
• Consideration
– The extent to which a leader is likely to have job relationships characterized by mutual
trust, respect for subordinates’ ideas, and regard for their feelings
• Employee Oriented
• A leader who emphasizes interpersonal relations, takes a personal interest in the needs of
employees, and accepts individual differences among members.
• Production Oriented
MANAGERIAL GRID:
The Managerial Grid focuses on task (production) and employee (people) orientations of managers, as
well as combinations of concerns between the two extremes. A grid with concern for production on the
horizontal axis and concern for people on the vertical axis and plots five basic leadership styles. The
first number refers to a leader's production or task orientation; the second, to people or employee
orientation. The Blake Mouton Managerial Grid (Blake & Mouton, 1964)
Blake and Mouton propose that “Team Management” - a high concern for both employees and
production - is the most effective type of leadership behaviour.
• Leaders may be concerned for their people and they also must also have some concern for the
work to be done. The question is, how much attention to they pay to one or the other?
• The managerial grid model (1957) is a behavioral leadership model developed by Robert Blake
and Jane Mouton. This model originally identified five different leadership styles based on the
concern for people and the concern for production.
• The Managerial Grid was the original name. It later changed to the Leadership Grid.
Behavioural Elements
SITUATIONAL THEORY:
Situational theories become popular during 1950s. The idea that leadership style should vary according
to the situation or the individuals involved was first suggested almost 100 years ago by Mary Parker
Follett, on eof the earliest management consultants and among the first to view an organization as a
social system of contingencies.
Situational theories focuses on the frequency of the observed behaviours to make predictions. The
leader observes abilities and motives in the followers. One choice of a leader has is to alter his or her
own behaviour and the leadership style used. A leader would choose to alter his or her behaviour and
style.
Among the variables that determine the effectiveness of leadership such as;
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A person may be a leader in one situation and a follower in other situations, because the types of
leadership required depends on the situation. A leader would choose hios or her behaviour and style if
the needs and motives of the followers varied. Personal flexibility and leadership skills are needed to
vary one’s style when the followers needs and motives are different. The ability to diagnose, choose
and alter behaviour to implement a leadership style best matched to the situation is a critical skill
needed for effective leadership. Thus no, one leadership is optimal in all situations. The nature of the
situation need to be considered. Styles can be chosen to match the situation.
• An ideal leader (according to this theory) studies the overall situation, draws conclusions and
adopts the leadership style which is most appropriate to the prevailing situation. This is the
essence of situational leadership theory.
• An ideal leader is one who can adjust his style of functioning as per the situation within which
he has to operate. This means the internal and external environment to the enterprise.
• A leader may act as a dictator at one time and also as a democratic leader on some other
occasion. A good leader is one who studies the situation around him and adopts the most
suitable leadership style.
• A situational leader knows different leadership styles but selects one particular style, which is
most, appropriate to a given situation/environment.
• A situational leader adopts flexible approach in his style of functioning. This makes his
leadership effective and result-oriented. A situational leader knows when to use autocratic style
and when to use democratic style. He makes corresponding adjustment in his style. This makes
him effective/successful as a leader.
• The situational leadership theory is a practical one and is based on real facts of life. The best
leadership style is situational.
• It focuses attention not on the personality of the leader, but on the personality of the
Organisation as a whole.
• The situational leadership theory is flexible and adaptable. It can operate in any style
(autocratic, democratic, etc.) as per the need of the situation.
• In situational leadership, more importance is given to the situation and less to personal traits.
Leadership should involve both traits and situations. However, the theory gives importance to
situation only.
Fred Fielder introduced the contingency model of leadership in 1960s. He argued that a leadership style
will be effective or ineffective, dependent on the situation. He identified three aspects of a situation that
structures the leaders role.
Leader member relations involve the amount the amount of confidence and loyality the followers have
in their leader.
Task structure is high if it is easy to define and measure a task. The structure is low if it is difficult to
define the task and to measure progress towards its completion. Fielder used four criteria to determine
the degree of task structure.
Directors of nursing, managers, and sometimes patient care coordinators have high position, or
be subjected to removal by peer group or subordinators.
Elected committee, chair persons, team leaders and staff nurses usually have low position
power.
These theories suggest that the traits required of a leader differ according to varying situations. Among
the variables that determine the effectiveness of leadership such as;
The expectancy theory argues that the people act as they do because they expect their behavior
to produce satisfactory results.
In the path-goal relationship, the leader facilitates task accomplishment by minimizing
obstructions to the goals and by rewarding followers for completing their tasks.
The leader helps the staff to assess the needs, explore alternatives.
Helps them to make the most beneficial decisions
Rewards personal for task achievements.
Provides additional opportunities for satisfying goal accomplishments.
The path-goal theory intrinsically rests on the expectancy theory which states that an individual
cognitively determines his motivation based on amount of effort required, the rewards or returns of the
effort and the importance the individual gives to the rewards.
Leaders who practiced structured activities have more productive work groups and got higher
performance evaluations from the superiors. Structure includes planning, organizing, directing and
controlling through activities such as clarifying expectations, scheduling work, making assignments,
determining procedures and setting standards.
Path-Goal theory defines the role of a leader as one who defines the goal and lays down the path for the
subordinate that facilitates completion of goal.
• Clarifies the criteria on which both the task success and subordinates accomplishments will
be judged.
• Leadership Style
• Subordinate Preference
• Task Structure
Here are 4 types of leadership behaviors as per the path-goal theory of leadership which effective
project leaders use time to time knowingly or unknowingly.
• Directive Leadership – Such project leaders let followers know what is expected and tells
them how to perform their tasks.
Strengths of Path-Goal:
• It is the first attempt to provide an expanded framework which combines the previous works of
situational, contingent leadership and expectancy theory.
• It is also the first theory to emphasize the importance of motivational factors from the
subordinate perspective.
Criticism of Path-Goal:
• It is very complex theory since it considers more parameters and requires analysis of those
parameters to effectively choose leadership style.
• It is challenging to evaluate and analyze various components of the theory in real organizational
situations.
• It is also criticized for placing a great deal of responsibilities on the leader and less on the
subordinates, thus it might make the subordinates more dependent on leadership and inhibit
their independent growth.
TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP:
Transactional leadership focuses on management tasks and trade-offs to meet tha goals. It is an
exchange posture that identifies the needs of followers and provides rewards to meet these needs in
exchange for expected performance. It is a contract for mutual benefits that has contingent rewards. The
leader or manager is a care taker who sets goals for employees, focuses on day-to-day operations, and
uses management by exception. It is a competitive, task focused approach that takes place in the
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hierarchy. It tends to maintain the status quo through policies, procedures routinized performances, self
interest and interpersonal dependence.
Burns (1978) said that transactional leadership occurs when the leader takes the initiative in contacting
others for the exchange of valued things. Therefore transactional leadership is comparable to a bargain
or contract for mutual benefits that aids the individual differences of both the leader and the follower.
Key characteristics are contingent rewards and management by exception. Expected effort and expected
performance are the outcomes. The transactional leader works within the existing organizational culture
and is an essential component of effective leadership.
Eg. In Nursing, exchange of salary for the services of a nurse to provide care.
CONTEMPORARY THEORY:
TRANSFORMATONAL LEADER:
A transformational leader is defined as a leader who motivates followers to perform their full potential
over time by influencing a change in perceptions and by providing a sense of direction. They use
charisma, individualized consideration and individual stimulation to produce greater effort,
effectiveness and satisfaction in followers.
Transformational leadership occurs when person engages with others to higher levels f motivation and
ethical decision making. Instead of emphasising difference between the leader and followers,
transformational leadership focuses on collective purpose and mutual growth and development. This
type of leadership is used for higher order change and to change the organizations culture.
Eg. In Nursing, “magnet Hospitals” where the nursing organizations facilitates the best efforts in their
staff.
Individual consideration
Charisma
Intellectual stimulation
During the human relations era, many behavioural and social scientists studying management also
studied leadership. As leadership theory developed, researchers moved away from studying ehat traits
the leader had and placed emphasis on what he or she did – the leader’s style of leadership. A major
breakthrough occurred when Lewin (1951) and White and zLippitt (1960) isolate common leadership
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According to the theory, a leader bhaves according to the role expectations of the group. This theorists
believe that leadership style, like other behaviours can be learned., regulated and developed. The
effectiveness of each leadership style depends upon the situation. As the situation changes, the effective
manager adapts by changing leadership behaviour.
This theory was developed dby Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger after conducting series of studies
from 1924 to 1932 at Howthrone Western electric plan, Chicago to test several assumption of scientific
management. They believe that real power centres within the organization are the interpersonal
relationship established within the wok organization these studies aimed at finding out if changes in
illumination, rest period and lunch breaks can affect the productivity of the workers. It was found that
less light, shorter and fewer rest periods and shorter lunch breaks resulted in increased productivity.
Increased in productivity was attributed to the attitude of the workers towards each other and their
feeling of togetherness. In addition attention paid to the workers by researcher made them feel
important which resulted in improvement in their work performance. It suggest that organization should
be developed around human relationship including those between leaders, managers and employees.
These finding of the study concluded that a leader not only should plan, decide, organise and lead and
control but also consider the human element.
Mc GREGOR THEORY:
Dougla sMc Gregor (1960) categorised leadership style into two categories in his theory, ie. Theory X
and theory Y., having two different beliefs and assumptions about subordinates.
Manager, who believes in theory X and assumes that people inherently dislike work and will avoid it
when possible and the average individual prefers to be directed, wants to avoid responsibility and is
more interested in financial incentives than personal achievement. Therefore the style of leadership
exercises strong controls and directions and wherever necessary punish people if they do not do the
work of people do the work as desired, they may even get monetary or other rewards.
In contrast to the theory X, the theory Y provides a more accurate assessment of human nature, one
that encourages workers to develop their full potential. This theory Y assumes that employees can
enjoy physical and mental work just as they enjoy play and rest. employees are capable of self
motivation and job satisfaction, if they are happy in the organization and committed to its goals. Under
proper condition the average person learns both to seek and accept responsibility. The capacity to apply
creativity in solving organizational problems is widely, not narrowly distribute d among the workers.
Theory Y leader assumes that people will work hard and assume responsibility if they can satisfy their
personal needs and the objectives or goals of their organizations.
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It is suggested that theory Y organization will satisfy higher human needs, resulting in greater
employee responsibility and in turn , higher productivity. An effective leader need to examine carefully
his own ideas about the motivation and behaviour of the subordinates and others, as well as situation,
before adapting any particular leadership.
LEADERSHIP Vs MANAGEMENT
"Leaders manage and managers lead, but the two activities are not synonymous…. Management
functions can potentially provide leadership; leadership activities can contribute to managing.
Nevertheless, some managers do not lead, and some leaders do not manage".
Leadership is setting a new direction or vision for a group that they follow, ie: a leader is the
spearhead for that new direction
By definition, managers have subordinates - unless their title is honorary and given as a mark of
seniority, in which case the title is a misnomer and their power over others is other than formal
authority.
Managers have a position of authority vested in them by the company, and their subordinates work for
them and largely do as they are told. Management style is transactional, in that the manager tells the
subordinate what to do, and the subordinate does this not because they are a blind robot, but because
they have been promised a reward (at minimum their salary) for doing so.
Work focus
Managers are paid to get things done (they are subordinates too), often within tight constraints of time
and money. They thus naturally pass on this work focus to their subordinates.
Seek comfort
An interesting research finding about managers is that they tend to come from stable home backgrounds
and led relatively normal and comfortable lives. This leads them to be relatively risk-averse and they
will seek to avoid conflict where possible. In terms of people, they generally like to run a 'happy ship'.
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Leaders do not have subordinates - at least not when they are leading. Many organizational leaders do
have subordinates, but only because they are also managers. But when they want to lead, they have to
give up formal authoritarian control, because to lead is to have followers, and following is always a
voluntary activity.
Telling people what to do does not inspire them to follow you. You have to appeal to them, showing
how following them will lead to their hearts' desire. They must want to follow you enough to stop what
they are doing and perhaps walk into danger and situations that they would not normally consider
risking.
Leaders with a stronger charisma find it easier to attract people to their cause. As a part of their
persuasion they typically promise transformational benefits, such that their followers will not just
receive extrinsic rewards but will somehow become better people.
People focus
Although many leaders have a charismatic style to some extent, this does not require a loud personality.
They are always good with people, and quiet styles that give credit to others (and takes blame on
themselves) are very effective at creating the loyalty that great leaders engender. Although leaders are
good with people, this does not mean they are friendly with them. In order to keep the mystique of
leadership, they often retain a degree of separation and aloofness.
This does not mean that leaders do not pay attention to tasks - in fact they are often very achievement-
focused. What they do realize, however, is the importance of enthusing others to work towards their
vision.
Seek risk
In the same study that showed managers as risk-averse, leaders appeared as risk-seeking, although they
are not blind thrill-seekers. When pursuing their vision, they consider it natural to encounter problems
and hurdles that must be overcome along the way. They are thus comfortable with risk and will see
routes that others avoid as potential opportunities for advantage and will happily break rules in order to
get things done.
A surprising number of these leaders had some form of handicap in their lives which they had to
overcome. Some had traumatic childhoods, some had problems such as dyslexia, others were shorter
than average. This perhaps taught them the independence of mind that is needed to go out on a limb and
not worry about what others are thinking about you.
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Managers Leaders
Seek and then follow direction Provide a vision to believe in and strategic
alignment
Control people by pushing them in the right Motivate people by satisfying basic human
direction needs
Conclusion:
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