Module 9:

Leadership and Followership

MGT 332
Dr. Karen Landay
No Class Next Week: Exam # 2 Online
• When: • Duration:
• Available 8am Monday 4/3 until 11:59pm • 60 minutes
Friday 4/7
• Questions:
• Where: • 60 multiple choice
• Online
• Points:
• What: • 2 points per question
• Modules 6-9 (Chapters 7, 9, 11, 12) • 120 points total
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 Module 2: Module 3: Module 5:
Module 1: Individual Module 4: Module 6:
Personality, Attitudes, Learning &
OB & Motivation at Stress & Well-
Perception & Emotions, & Performance
Opportunity Work Being at Work
Attribution Ethics Management

Module 8:
Module 10: Module 9: Module 7: Interpersonal
Power &
Conflict & Leadership & Work Teams &
Political
Negotiation Followership Groups
Behavior

Organizational Module 11: Module 12: Module 13:

Organizational Career Managing
Culture Management Change
Panopto Recap
Leaders & Managers Behavioral Theories & Followership
• What is leadership? • Two approaches to behavioral theories
• Are leaders and • Ohio State
managers the same? • University of Michigan
• Leaders vs managers • The Leadership Grid
• Followership
• Types of followers
Do Leaders Matter?
Leaders: Born or Made?
• Leadership is:
• An art – not all leadership skills
and qualities can be learned from
a book
• A science – extensive research has
documented the leadership
process
Leadership & You
• Do you want to be a leader?
• Not all leaders are:
• CEOs
• Politicians
• Famous
• Leaders can be:
• Informal
• Local
• YOU!
Leadership:
So Little
Time, So
Many
Theories?!
Timeline of Leadership Research
• Trait theories (1920-1945):
• What traits do leaders have that
non-leaders do not?
• Behavioral theories (1948-1961):
• How do leaders behave compared
to non-leaders?
• Contingency theories (1969-1989):
• How do leaders adapt to situations
and followers?
• Relational theories (1999-present):
• How do leaders relate to followers?
Leadership & Traits
• Trait theory:
• The breaking down of behavior patterns into a
series of observable traits in order to understand
human behavior

• The “Great Man” approach:

• A leadership perspective that sought to identify
the inherited traits leaders possessed that
distinguished them from people who were not
leaders
Research on Leader Traits
• Personality characteristics:
• Narcissism
• Psychopathy
• Extraversion
• Abilities:
• Intelligence
• Emotional intelligence
• Physical attributes:
• Height
• Gender
Behavioral: Two Orientations
• Task-oriented:
• Focused on getting the work done

• Relationship-oriented:
• Focused on getting along
Behavioral: Autocratic Leadership
• A style of leadership in which the leader uses strong, directive actions
to control the rules, regulations, activities, and relationship in the
work environment
 Behavioral:
Democratic Leadership
• A style of leadership in which
the leader uses interaction and
collaboration with followers to
direct the work and work
environment
Behavioral: Laissez-faire Leadership
• A style of leadership in
which the leader has a
hands-off approach
Contingency
:
Situational
Leadership
Model
Relational Theories: Leader-Member Exchange (LMX)
• Leaders form different • In-group:
relationships with followers, • Receive greater responsibilities
creating two types of follower and more rewards and attention
groups • Managed more informally
• Out-group:
• Receive fewer responsibilities,
rewards, and attention
• Managed more formally
When Leaders Don’t Matter
Leadership Substitutes
• Situational variable that makes
leadership unnecessary or
redundant
Leadership Neutralizers
• Situational characteristic that
counteracts the leadership style
and prevents the leader from
displaying certain behaviors
Substitutes for and Neutralizers of
Leadership
Activity: Leaders We Have Known
• Think about the best and worst leader you have ever personally
experienced:
• What leadership traits did they have?
• What leader behaviors did they exhibit?
• Did they change their actions based on their followers?
• What was your leader-member exchange relationship with them?
• Were any leadership substitutes or neutralizers present?
Exam Review (1/2)
• The process of guiding and • Which of the following is NOT a
directing the behavior of people type of follower?
in the work environment is A. Sheep
________: B. Yes people
A. Delegation C. Happy
B. Teamwork D. Alienated
C. Management
D. Leadership
Exam Review (2/2)
• The ________ era of leadership • As a leader, Michael focuses on
research sought to answer the nurturing friendly, warm working
question “How do leaders relationships. What leadership
behave compared to non- behavior is Michael
leaders?”: demonstrating?
A. Behavioral theories A. Consideration
B. Contingency theories B. Production-oriented
C. Relational theories C. Autocratic
D. Trait theories D. Initiating structure
Reminders
• Group C discussion
• 5 replies due Sunday, 3/26
• NO CLASS NEXT WEEK!
• Exam #2 taken ONLINE
• Available 8am Monday 4/3 until
11:59pm Friday 4/7
• Reflection #2 due Sunday, 4/9
• Ch. 13 quiz due Wednesday, 4/12
• Ch. 13 self-assessment due
Wednesday, 4/12
• Group A discussion
• Initial post due Wednesday, 4/12
• 5 replies due Sunday, 4/16
• Questions:
• Canvas message
• Email kmlanday@umkc.edu