Main themes and concepts on Leadership

Leadership

Taking an organisation into the future

Successfully finding and exploiting opportunities

Creates change

Inspires staff through creative vision and focus

Empowers staff through trust and devlopment

Uses influence

Five forms of leadership

Leadership as person

Leadership as result

Leadership as position

Leadership as purpose

Leadership as process

Four key factors - Leader, context, follower & outcomes

Focuses on personality and qualities

Focuses on collective results against the actions of a leader

Position of the leader within the organisation

Followership

Develops a vision

Management

Planning and budgeting

Organising and staffing

Can be throughout the hierarchy

Controlling and problem solving

Uses authority

Does the right things

Does things right

Manages change

Directs and coordinates

Looks outwards

Focuses on people

Looks inwards

Focuses on things

Effective leadership & management is required for organisational success

Strategic leadership

Leadership training

Informal

Formal

Practical insights

Learning as you go

Learning through courses

Can be expensive for organisations

Need a good understanding of the organisation and employees

Charismatic leadership

Leads through personability

Focuses on main idea + leadership + personnel

Motivational theories

Herzberg's two-factor theory

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Self actualisation

Esteem

Love/belonging

Safety and security

Physiological

Presence of motivation factors

Absence of hygiene factors

Leading in a multicultural world

Gender and leadership

Gender inequalities

Stereotyping

Leadership is distributed throughout an organisation

Not of top down approach

Feeling valued

Career progression

Role has a purpose

Clear company policies

Company benefits

Good relationships with managers & colleagues

Purpose is more important than results

Co-constructed