Leadership and Followership

Communication Styles
Week 5
 Table of contents
• Group presentation
• Authoritarian, Democratic, and Laissez-Faire Leadership
• The Michigan Leadership Studies
• The Ohio State Leadership Studies
• McGregor’s TheoryX and TheoryY
• Blake and McCanse’s Leadership Grid®
• Engaged Followers
• Exemplary Followership
• The 4-D Followership Model
• Transcendent Followership
• Communication Styles, Information Processing, and Identity
Authoritarian,
Democratic,
and
Laissez-Faire
Leadership
Class exercise

https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/leadership-style-quiz.htm
Authoritarian
REWARDS AND PUNISHES

MEDIATES CONFLICT

FRECUENT FEEDBACK

SETS GOALS WITH FOLLOWERS

FACILITATES DISCUSSION

FOCUSES INTERACTION

TWO-WAY OPEN COMMUNICATION

EFECTIVE LISTENING SKILLS

 IOWA AND Michigan Leadership Studies

1930´s - UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Autocratic Democratic
leadership leadership
style style.

1940´s - UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Job Employee
Centered Centered
style.. style..
 Ohio Leadership Studies

High
Low Structure
Structure
&
&
High
High
Consideration
Consideration
Initiating
structure
behavior
High
Low Structure
Structure
&
&
Low
Low
Consideration
Consideration

Consideration
1950´s – OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY behavior
Blake and McCanse’s Leadership Grid

1960´s –UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

High
1,9 9,9

Concern for People

5,5

1,1 9,1
Low Concern for Production High
Blake and McCanse’s Leadership Grid
COUNTRY CLUB STYLE (1,9)
• Needs and feeling of the team
• Security and Confort
• Incapable of punitive, coercive and
legitimate powers.
• Rewards discipline
Authority Compliance (9,1)
• Production as the only goal
• Authoritarian or compliance
• Employee needs unimportant
• No cooperation or collaboration
• Rules and punishments
Blake and McCanse’s Leadership Grid
THE IMPOVERISHED LEADER (1,1)
• Delegate-and-disappear management
style
• Avoids trouble and Responsibility
• Preserve Job
• Ineffective
• Disorganization, dissatisfaction, and
disharmony.
MIDDLE OF THE ROAD (5,5)
• Realistic medium without ambition
• Some concern to both people and
production
• Needs are never fully met
• Practical management technique
Blake and McCanse’s Leadership Grid

TEAM LEADER (9,9)

• Concern to both people and production
• Motivation is high
• Teamwork and commitment
• Feel part of the company-family
• Understanding organizational goals
• Trust and respect
• Satisfaction and motivated
• Imaginative opinions and decision making
• Innovative
Follower
communication
styles
Engaged follower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtbnTNld-LM
Exemplary Followership

Self-Assesment
 The 4d Followership Model
LOW Productivity HIGH
LOW LOW
III IV
Disengaged Disgruntled
Job Satisfaction

(Not interest in the job, (Angry and ready

Productivity
no desire to improve) to jump ship)

I II
Disciple Doer
(Believes they are in the
(Good work ethics but the
right place, at the right
grass is always greener..)
time)
HIGH HIGH
 Conclusions
• Different leadership styles have different results and effect on followers

• Leadership style is characterized by their focus on the task or interpersonal relations

• Leaders don´t only need followers, they need good followers

 HOMEWORK

Homework Wednesday Saturday

READING ASSINGMENT: Chapter 2 - , Johnson, Craig E.;
Hackman, Michael Z., Leadership: A communication Due on: Abril 26, 2022 at Due on: April 29, 2022 at
perspective (7th Ed.). Illinois: Waveland Press Inc. 11:59pm 11:59pm

Due on: Abril 26, 2022 at Due on: April 29, 2022 at
Application 7 11:59pm 11:59pm

On April 27 On April 30
STUDY FOR TEST 1 during 3rd during 3rd
Period Period
 bibliography
• Johnson, Craig E.; Hackman, Michael Z., Leadership: A
communication perspective (7th Ed.). Illinois: Waveland
Press Inc.