Leaders and Leadership What is leadership? Leadership is a special form of power‚ one that involves the ability‚ based on the personal qualities of the leader‚ to elicit the followers’ voluntary compliance in a broad range of matters. Leadership is distinguished from the concept of power in that it entails influence‚ that is‚ change of preferences‚ while power implies only that subjects’ preferences are held in abeyance (Etzioni‚ 1965). There are two approaches that we are going to discuss in this
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MODELS OF OB. 1) Autocratic model: this model depends on power . Those who are in command must have the power to demand. Employees are to follow the orders of their boss who has an authority to get the work done through people. If they fail to follow the orders they are to be penalized. Employees are fully dependent on their boss because he has power to hire fire and perspire them. Employees are always offered minimum wages to provide livelihood because workers give minimum performance. Some employees
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Though Ananda Krishnan hates public exposure‚ his entrepreneurial ventures have brought him into limelight‚ and he has got global recognition. KEYWORDS: Management Skills‚ business strategy‚ competitive edge‚ collaboration ‚ entrepreneur‚ leadership qualities 16 www.jbmcr.org JBMCR Vol-I‚No.-1‚June-2012 An
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Kwawu Anthony Kafui Leadership February 14 2013 Men may be created equal‚ free‚ rich‚ poor‚ intelligent or otherwise. From these many traits that we share‚ we draw strength‚ hope or ambition. But in all these desirable traits‚ there are always elements of weakness. Weaknesses which may cost us a great deal or spare us from life’s many machinations and snares. Being in a liberal arts college like ashesi‚ I spend most of my time coming to terms with my strengths and weakneses: usually unknowingly and
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Abstract Situational Leadership‚ one of the most widely used leadership approaches in the business world today was developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard in 1969. It is a leadership approach that focuses on leadership in different situations and is based on the premise that different situations demand different kinds of leadership. This approach stresses that a leader has to adapt his style of leadership according to the situation of his group. There are four different leadership styles based on
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Fiedler’s Contingency Model: Fred E. Fiedler was one of the first leadership researchers to acknowledge that effective leadership is dependent on the characteristics of the leader and the situation. The contingency model helps to explain why a manager may be an effective leader in one situation and ineffective in another. The contingency model also shows which managers are likely to be most effective in what situations. It is said by Fiedler‚ that personal characteristics can influence leader effectiveness
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Introduction Leadership is hard to specifically define‚ roles and attributes change to adapt to the environment and context needed. George and Jones define leadership as ‘ the exercise of influence by one member of a group or organization over other members to help the group or organization’ (2002‚pg. 375). This definition can be broken down with two definitions; Firstly exerting influence over other members and second aiding in a group or organization achieve its goals. ‘Leadership is something
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use different leadership styles based on the situation. Blanchard and Hersey created a model for Situational Leadership in that allows you to analyze the needs of the situation you’re dealing with‚ and then adopt the most appropriate leadership style. Many of us do this anyway in our dealings with other people: we try not to get angry with a nervous colleague on their first day; we chase up tasks with some people more than others because we know they’ll forget otherwise. The model doesn’t just apply
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Fred Fiedler developed the first comprehensive contingency model for leadership Fiedler’s contingency model proposes that effective group performance depends on the proper match between the leader’s style and the degree to which the situation gives control to the leader. The model consists of three steps. The first step is identifying the leadership style. To find out the leadership style Fiedler created the least preferred co-worker questionnaire. The questionnaire measures whether a person is
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Leadership is something essential to any group or organization. What a leader does is usually very difficult to describe in words. The definition of leadership seems so vague because of the many responsibilities one holds. As difficult as it may seem‚ there are 3 quite famous ways in giving a definition of leadership‚ coming from different perspectives. Leadership is accomplishing tasks through others There are a lot of leaders that have been able to lead their groups towards great accomplishments
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