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Leadership Management Subject
Leadership Management Subject
Leadership Management Subject
Leadership
What is leadership?
Leading people
Influencing people
Commanding people
Guiding people
Managers vs. Leaders
Managers Leaders
Focus on things Focus on people
Do things right Do the right things
Plan Inspire
Organize Influence
Direct Motivate
Control Build
Follows the rules Shape entities
Common Activities
Planning
Organizing
Directing
Controlling
Leadership Styles
Delegating Selling
Low relationship/ High task/high
low task relationship
Responsibility Explain decisions
Participating Telling
High relationship/ High Task/Low
low task relationship
Facilitate decisions Provide instruction
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Key Elements of Leadership
Influence
Change People
9
Functions Performed by Managers
All managers perform four major functions:
Planning
Organizing
Leading
Thus, leadership is a part of every manager’s
job
Controlling
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Are All Leaders Managers?
Manager = formal title and authority
Leader = person (manager or
nonmanager) with influence
Follower = person influenced by a leader
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Effective Leaders
Know when to lead and when to follow
Influence followers to support organizational
interests
Provide direction
Set challenging objectives and lead the
charge to achieve them
Influence change for continual improvement
Enjoy working with people
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Effective Leaders
Know when to lead and when to follow
Influence followers to support organizational
interests
Provide direction
Set challenging objectives and lead the
charge to achieve them
Influence change for continual improvement
Enjoy working with people
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Analysis of leadership
effectiveness
1. Define and measure some criteria of
organizational effectiveness
2. Assess leadership style of organization’s
leaders
3. Attempt to correlate organizational
performance with leadership styles
How important is a leader?
In most cases, people will perform at
about 60% of their potential with no
leadership at all
Thus, an additional 40% can be realized if
effective leadership is available
capability
utilization
X X
Consideration X
X X
Initiating structure
Styles of leadership
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Benevolent Team
Leader Leader
(Y) (Z)
concern for
people
Laissez-faire Autocratic
Leader Leader
(L) (X)
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concern for production 9
Which style of leadership works best?
Team Leader (Z) has proven to be the
most effective in general (9,9)
Requires a “balancing act” of getting
things done and having a genuine
concern for people
Certain special situations may require
other styles (i.e. making the atom bomb)
Theory “L”: Laissez-faire leader
Lacks flexibility
Controlling and demanding
“carrot and stick” approach
Focused solely on productivity
Theory “Y”: Benevolent leader