Leadership

leadership

definition

the action of leading organization, team or country and also known as a process of influencing a group to achieve goals

Leader

a person who lead a group, country or organization that someone who can influence other and who has managerial authority

all manager will consider as a leader

there also have informal leaders who emerge those are not the leaders we're studying

Early leadership theories

Trait Theories (1920s-30s)

this is a research of focusing on identifying personal characteristic that identify or differentiated leader from not leaders was unsuccessful

later the research will identify seven trait associate with successful leadership

drive

desire to lead

honesty and integrity

self-confident

intelligence

job-relevant

extraversion

Behavioral theories

University of lowa studies(Kurt Lewin)

identified three leader styles

research finding: mixed result

Democratic style

laissez faire style

Autocratic style

no specific style was consistently better for producing a better performance

employees were more satisfy with democratic leader than autocratic leader

Ohio state studies

identified two dimensions of leader behavior

initiating structure

consideration

research finding: mixed result

high leaders generally but not always achieve high group task performance and leader

University of Michigan studies

identify two dimension of leader behavior

employee oriented

production oriented

research finding

leader who are employee oriented strongly associate with high group productivity and high job satisfaction.

the managerial grid

managerial grid

leadership style using two dimension

concern for people

concern for production

place managerial style in five categories

task management

impoverished management

middle of the road management

country club management

team management

The fielder model

the effective group performance depend on the proper match between the learder style if interacting with followers and the degree the situation allow the learder to control and influence

assumption

a certain leadership style should be most effective in different type situation

leaders do not readily change leadership style

The Fiedler model

Least preferred co-worker (LPC) questionnaire

(low score): relationship-oriented leadership style

(high score): task-orientated leadership style

situation factors in matching leader to the situation

Leader-member relations

task structure

position power

Hersey and blanchard situational leadership theory(SLT)

Argues that successful leadership is achieve by selecting right leadership style which is contingent on level of the follower readiness

acceptance

readiness

create four specific leadership style incorporating fielder two leadership dimension

telling

participating

selling

delegating

posits four stage follower readiness

R1= follower are unable unwilling

R2=followers are unable but willing

R3= follower are able but unwilling

R4 followers are able and willing

Leader participation model contingencies

importance of commitment

leader expertise

decision significance

likelihood of commitment

group support

group expertise

team competence

Path goal model

leader job is assist the follower in attaining their goal and provide direction

depending on situation leader assume the different leadership style

Directly leader

supportive leader

participative leader

achievement oriented leader

transactional leadership

leader will guide or motivated their folloer in the direction of established goals by clarifying the role and task requires

transformation leadership

leader that followers pursue by inspiration

Charismatic leadership

an enthusiastic, self-confident leader whose personality and action nfluence people to behave in certain ways.

characteristic

have a vision

able to articulate the vision

willing to take risk to achive the vision

sensitive enviroment and follower need

exhibit behavior that are out of ordinary

Visionary leadership

leader who create and articulates a realistic credible and attractive vision for future improves upon present situation

Team leadership Characteristics

have patience to share information

able to trust others and give up authority

team leader job

managing team external boundary

team leader role

coach

liaison with external constituencies

troubleshooter

conflict manager