Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Leadership styles - Coggle Diagram
Leadership styles
Transactional leadership
Based on legitimate authority within the bureaucratic structure of the organisation. The emphasis is on the clarification of goals and objectives, work tasks and outcomes and organisational rewards and punishment
-
-
The leader articulates goals and promotes compliance by the subordinate who completes the task in return for an explicit reward
Leaders using the transactional approach are not looking the change the future; they are simply looking to keep things the same, to maintain the status quo
-
They intervene when subordinates do not meet acceptable performance levels and initiate corrective action to improve performance
Transactional leaders focus on increasing the efficiency of established routines and procedures and are more concerned with following current rules than with making change; they are concerned with processes rather than forward thinking ideas
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Charasmatic leadership
-
Argued by some to be an extension of the transformational leadership although it goes back much further to Max Weber (1947)
Max Weber (1947) wrote about a special quality he called charisma and was only presenting a few people but made them stand out from the ordinary
Weber argued that this charisma gave these individuals a special authority which attracted followers
Robert House (1971) proposed that the basis for this charismatic appeal is the emotional interaction between followers and the leader
Thus the charismatic leader gains influence not from formal authority or position within the hierarchy but from the strength of their personality which is a trait and ability to persuade all around them to be willing followers
Besides supporting positive transformational outcomes, charisma may also be used inappropriately where charismatic leaders persuade followers to act detrimentally to their interests
-
In a business environment, charismatic leaders may persuade followers to actions which lead to organisational harm such as unsustainable growtth
Generally charismatic leadership is now considered as an important facet within transformational leadership theory and is more often associated with those effecting change rather than maintaining the status quo
-
A leadership style is a leader's way of providing direction, implementing plans and motivating people
There are many different leadership styles that can be exhibited by leaders in the field of business which include the total pattern of explicit and implicit actions performed by a manager when satisfying their leadership role
-
For example, leaders like managers may be described as authoritarian or autocratic, participative or democratic
-