EDUC 18 – The Teacher and the Community, School Culture & Organizational

Leadership

Meaning of Organizational Leadership & Leadership Styles

Leadership (Leading & Influencing Others)
• Leadership is a process of influencing others to achieve certain objectives.
• It involves influencing the activities of an individual or group in efforts toward
reaching a goal in a given situation.
• Leadership is one component of management, working with and through individuals
and groups to accomplish organizational goals.
• Leadership is a regarded as a force that inspires and energizes people and brings
about change.
• Effective leadership has been evaluated as the most important factor in moving
organizations forward in a complex and competitive world.
• It is needed at all levels from supervisors to top executives.

Management includes the major activities of planning, organizing, controlling, and leading.
• Administrative Work refers to the non-leadership aspects of a manager’s job.
Supervision is the first-level management or overseeing of workers.

How Leaders Use Power to Achieve Goals?

• Leaders influence others to achieve goals through the use of power – the ability to
control resources, to influence important decisions, and to get other people to do things.
1. Position Power - When power stems from the formal position that you occupy is
referred to as position power.
2. Personal Power - When it stems from your personal characteristics and skills is
referred to as personal power.
3 Subtypes of Position Power
1. Legitimate Power is the ability to influence others that directly stems from the leader’
position. It is the easiest type of power to understand and accept.
2. Reward Power refers to the leader’s control over rewards valued by the subordinates.
Effective leaders do not use rewards as bribes for getting employees to do what they
want.
3. Coercive Power refers to the leader’s control over punishments. It is based on fear thus
may create anxiety and defensiveness.

Leadership Styles
1. Autocratic Leadership
Attempts to retain most of the authority granted to the group. It makes all the major decisions
and assume subordinates will comply without question.
2. Participative Leadership
Shares decision-making authority with the group. It is usually associated with a strong people’s
orientation; one observes that the participative leader can be tough-minded.
3 Subtypes of Participative Leadership
1. Consultative Leaders – solicits opinion from the group before making a decision
yet it does not feel obliged to accept the group thinking.
2. Consensual Leaders – encourages group discussion about an issue then makes a
decision that reflects the consensus of group members.
3. Democratic Leaders – confers final authority on the group and functions as a
collector of opinion and takes a vote before making a decision.
3. Free-rein Leadership
A free-rein leader is the one who turns over virtually all authority to the group. It is also referred
to as guidelines to the group and then do not get involved again unless requested.

Prepared by: Ella Mae L. Maglunob