Leadership

Leadership
 Definition of Leadership
 Traits of Effective Leaders
 Leadership Behavior Vs Traits
 Leadership Skills
 Leadership Theories
 Leadership Styles
 Roles and Activities of Manager
 Determinants of Leadership
 Task of a Supervisor
 Effective Supervisory Practics
BY Praveen Kumar praveenk314@gmail.com
Why do you study Leadership?
 Leadership involves exercise of influence by
one person over others
 Organizational success largely depends upon
the quality of the leadership exercised by the
Supervisor/Manager
 You all as future Managers need to study
leadership and understand how to influence
the actions of employees towards achieving
organization
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 Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru,
Lokmanya Tilak –Great Political Leaders
 Business leaders
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Leadership
A leader sets direction, gives guidance,
and motivates people to accomplish.
we may find leaders in volunteer
organizations, businesses, government or
in charitable enterprises.
The leader assumes responsibility for the
people in his group.
The leader is the champion for the cause
his group.
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What a leader does ?
 A leader recognizes and praises good work,
 gives credit to others,
 delegates well,
 takes the blame,
 communicates well to everyone,
 knows people by name,
 supports the ideas of others,
 expects the best,
 makes everyone feel important !
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More importantly ….
 Leaders have drive—the force of will and
the passion to achieve success.
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Definition of Leadership
 “The only definition of a leader is someone who
has followers." – Peter Drucker
 John Maxwell sums up his definition of
leadership as "leadership is influence - nothing
more, nothing less."
 "Leadership is a function of knowing yourself,
having a vision that is well communicated,
building trust among colleagues, and taking
effective action to realize your own leadership
potential." – Warren Bennis
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Managing Vs Leading
 PETER DRUCKER, had said that most

organizations are being managed too much
and not led enough –
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Leaders vs. Managers
LEADERS: MANAGERS:
 innovate  administrate
 focus on people  focus on systems
and structures
 inspire trust  rely on control
 have a long-range view  have a short-range
 have eyes on horizon view
 have eyes on bottom
 challenge status quo line
 do the right thing  accept status quo
 do things right
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Leadership versus Management
 A leader can be a manager, but a
manager is not necessarily a leader.
 The leader of a work group may emerge
informally as the choice of the group.
 If a manager is able to influence people to
achieve the goals of the organization,
without using his or her formal authority to
do so, then the manager is demonstrating
leadership.
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Leadership Behavior Vs Traits
 Earliest theories assumed that the primary
source of leadership effectiveness lay in the
personal traits of the leaders themselves.
 Since traits alone cannot explain leadership
effectiveness ,later research focused on what
the leader actually did when dealing with
employees.
 Behavioural theories of leadership explain the
relationship between what the leader did and
how employees reacted, both emotionally and
behaviourally.
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Job related Skills of a Leader
 Robert Katz, a Behavioral expert identified
three primary job related skills used by
leaders
 Technical skills
 Human skills
 Conceptual skills
 Skill approach to leadership
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Technical skills.
An ability to perform specialized tasks.

Derives from knowledge of expertise
gained from education or experience.
Proficiency at using select methods,
processes, and procedures to accomplish
tasks.
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Human skills.
An ability to work well with other

people.
Shows trust, enthusiasm, and
genuine involvement in interpersonal
relationships.
Capacity for understanding and
empathizing.
Engages in persuasive
communication.
Deals successfully with conflicts.
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Conceptual skills.
An ability to see and understand how

the system works, and how the parts
are interrelated.
Used to:
Identify problems and opportunities.
Gather and interpret relevant
information.
Make good problem-solving decisions.
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Skill Approach to Leadership
Technical skills are relatively more
important at entry levels.
Human skills are important across
all managerial levels.
Conceptual skills are relatively
more important at top management
levels.
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Skill distribution at three levels
of Organizations
Human skills Conceptual skills
TOP
Technical skills
Technical skills Human skills Conceptual skills

MIDDLE
SUPER- Technical skills Human skills

VISORY Conceptual skills
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Trait theories of Leadership
 Are leaders made or born? Evidence
suggests that leadership emerges when
individuals seize an opportunity to develop
themselves as leaders.
 They become leaders when they are given
the chance to practice the craft of
leadership in a challenging situation.
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Trait theories of Leadership
 Theorists of the early twentieth-century were
convinced that leadership was the consequence
of an individual’s traits, qualities or intrinsic
attributes.
 In other words, traits produce the leader
 Extensive research, however, has failed to
uncover any statistically significant correlation
between a leader’s effectiveness and his
personal characteristics.
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 PETER DRUCKER, had said that most

An ability to perform specialized tasks.

An ability to work well with other

An ability to see and understand how

Technical skills Human skills Conceptual skills

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