Leadership Traits
Leadership is the process of influencing others to willingly direct their efforts towards the attainment of group or org goals.
Key elements: influence, intention, personal responsibility and integrity, change, shared purpose and followers.
Old paradigm: stability, control, competition, uniformity, self-centred, hero.
New paradigm: change and crisis mgmt, empowerment, collaboration, diversity, and higher ethical purpose, humble.
Difference in leadership and mgmt: 5 elements crucial to organisational performance – providing direction, aligning followers, building relationships, developing personal qualities, creating leader outcomes.
6 major approaches: great man theories, traits theories, behavioural theories, contingency theories, influence theories, relational theories.
Leadership evolution model (scope/ environment) Great person theory, rational mgmt, team/ lateral leadership, learning leadership.
Traits leadership
Impt traits: (1) optimism,self confidence, (2) honesty and integrity, (3) drive.
Behavioural Approaches:
Auto vs democratic leader autocratic leader has followers whose perforamnce less satisfactory, University of IOWA – leadership continuum on degree of employee participation based on time/ expertise of followers.
Ohio State initiating structure vs consideration.
University of Michigan (similar) employee centered vs job centered leadership (can only have one distinct style).
Leadership grid (university of texas) team mgmt (9,9), impoverished (1,1), country club mgmt (1,9), middle of the road (5,5), authority compliance mgmt (9,1)
Individualised leadership: look at each r/s btw leader and follower Step 1: Vertical dyad linkage model, Step2: Leader member exchange (LMX), Step 3: partnership building.
Entreprenuerial leadership – operational role, collaborative and advisory role.
Contingency approach;
Looks at situational variabes (tasks, strcuture, context, environment) and nature of followers (needs,
Key elements: influence, intention, personal responsibility and integrity, change, shared purpose and followers.
Old paradigm: stability, control, competition, uniformity, self-centred, hero.
New paradigm: change and crisis mgmt, empowerment, collaboration, diversity, and higher ethical purpose, humble.
Difference in leadership and mgmt: 5 elements crucial to organisational performance – providing direction, aligning followers, building relationships, developing personal qualities, creating leader outcomes.
6 major approaches: great man theories, traits theories, behavioural theories, contingency theories, influence theories, relational theories.
Leadership evolution model (scope/ environment) Great person theory, rational mgmt, team/ lateral leadership, learning leadership.
Traits leadership
Impt traits: (1) optimism,self confidence, (2) honesty and integrity, (3) drive.
Behavioural Approaches:
Auto vs democratic leader autocratic leader has followers whose perforamnce less satisfactory, University of IOWA – leadership continuum on degree of employee participation based on time/ expertise of followers.
Ohio State initiating structure vs consideration.
University of Michigan (similar) employee centered vs job centered leadership (can only have one distinct style).
Leadership grid (university of texas) team mgmt (9,9), impoverished (1,1), country club mgmt (1,9), middle of the road (5,5), authority compliance mgmt (9,1)
Individualised leadership: look at each r/s btw leader and follower Step 1: Vertical dyad linkage model, Step2: Leader member exchange (LMX), Step 3: partnership building.
Entreprenuerial leadership – operational role, collaborative and advisory role.
Contingency approach;
Looks at situational variabes (tasks, strcuture, context, environment) and nature of followers (needs,