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CHAPTER 13: LEADING

CHAPTER 13: LEADING. Chapter 13 Study Questions. What is the nature of leadership? What are the important leadership traits and behaviors? What are current issues in leadership development? http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement.html. What is the nature of leadership?.

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CHAPTER 13: LEADING

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  1. CHAPTER 13: LEADING

  2. Chapter 13 Study Questions • What is the nature of leadership? • What are the important leadership traits and behaviors? • What are current issues in leadership development? • http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_how_to_start_a_movement.html Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  3. What is the nature of leadership? • Leadership. • The process of inspiring others to work hard to accomplish important tasks. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-KyQ90XByY • https://www.ted.com/talks/roselinde_torres_what_it_takes_to_be_a_great_leader • IDENTIFY A LEADER FROM EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: • business, military, politics, religion, sports, and education • make a list of descriptive traits. • http://youtu.be/iZG9NXmuCaE Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  4. Study Question 1: What is the nature of leadership? • Visionary leadership. • Vision • A future that one hopes to create or achieve in order to improve upon the present state of affairs. • Visionary leadership • A leader who brings to the situation a clear and compelling sense of the future as well as an understanding of the actions needed to get there successfully. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  5. Study Question 1: What is the nature of leadership? • Meeting the challenges of visionary leadership: • Challenge the process. • Show enthusiasm. • Help others to act. • Set the example. • Celebrate achievements. ( I love Rewards) Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  6. Figure 13.1 Leading viewed in relationship to the other management functions. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  7. Study Question 1: What is the nature of leadership? • Power. • Ability to get someone else to do something you want done or make things happen the way you want. • Power should be used to influence and control others for the common good rather seeking to exercise control for personal satisfaction. • Two sources of managerial power: • Position power. • Personal power. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  8. Study Question 1: What is the nature of leadership? • Position power. • Based on a manager’s official status in the organization’s hierarchy of authority. • Sources of position power: • Reward power. • Capability to offer something of value. • Coercive power. • Capability to punish or withhold positive outcomes. • Legitimate power. • Organizational position or status confers the right to control those in subordinate positions. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  9. Study Question 1: What is the nature of leadership? • Personal power. • Based on the unique personal qualities that a person brings to the leadership situation. • Sources of personal power: • Expert power. • Capacity to influence others because of one’s knowledge and skills. • Referent power. • Capacity to influence others because they admire you and want to identify positively with you. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  10. Figure 13.2Sources of position power and personal power used by managers. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  11. Study Question 1: What is the nature of leadership? • Leadership and empowerment. • Empowerment. • The process through which managers enable and help others to gain power and achieve influence. • Effective leaders empower others by providing them with: • Information. • Responsibility. • Authority. • Trust. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  12. Study Question 1: What is the nature of leadership? • How leaders can empower others: • Involve others is selecting their work assignments and task methods. • Create an environment of cooperation, information sharing, discussion, and shared ownership of goals. • Encourage others to take initiative, make decisions, and use their knowledge. • Find out what others think and let them help design solutions. • Give others the freedom to put their ideas and solutions into practice. • Recognize successes and encourage high performance. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  13. Study Question 2: What are the important leadership traits and behaviors? • Traits that are important for leadership success: • Drive • Self-confidence • Creativity • Cognitive ability • Business knowledge • Motivation • Flexibility • Honesty and integrity Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  14. Study Question 2: What are the important leadership traits and behaviors? • Classic leadership styles: • Autocratic style. • Emphasizes task over people, keeps authority and information within the leader’s tight control, and acts in a unilateral command-and-control fashion. • Laissez-faire style. • Shows little concern for task, lets the group make decisions, and acts with a “do the best you can and don’t bother me” attitude. • Democratic style. • Committed to task and people, getting things done while sharing information, encouraging participation in decision making, and helping people develop skills and competencies. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  15. WHO IS THE BOSS??? • You have just been appointed the “person in charge” • Working in pairs, identify the type of leadership style that would work best in each situation, and briefly outline what they would do while using that style of leadership. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  16. Study Question 4: What is transformational leadership? • Benefits of participative decision methods: • Help improve decision quality. • Help improve decision acceptance. • Helps develop leadership potential. • Potential disadvantages of participative decision methods: • Lost efficiency. • Not particularly useful when problems must be solved immediately. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  17. Study Question 4: What is transformational leadership? • Superleaders. • Persons whose vision and strength of personality have an extraordinary impact on others. • Charismatic leaders. • Develop special leader-follower relationships and inspire others in extraordinary ways. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  18. Study Question 5: What are current issues in leadership development? • Gender and leadership. • Both women and men can be effective leaders. • Women tend to use interactive leadership. • Interactive leadership provides a good fit with the demands of a diverse workforce and the new workplace. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

  19. Study Question 5: What are current issues in leadership development? • Gender and leadership (cont.). • Future leadership success will depend on a person’s capacity to lead through : • Openness. • Positive relationships. • Support. • Empowerment. Management Fundamentals - Chapter 13

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