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3 Essential Roles of Leaders: Leadership Theory

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LEADERSHIP

- Process of influencing people Humanistic


- Operates to meet organizational requirements  Ability to manage “people” more than
- Improves the organization through change organization resources
 Social environment
3 Essential Roles of Leaders Theory X & Y – D. Mcgregor
 Define Task  X – Directed, controlled, coerced & threatened
 Achieve the Task  Y – Self directed, self controlled
 Maintain effective relationship Theory Z – W.G. Ouchi
 Lifetime employment
LEADER MANAGER  Slow promotion
- Facilitator - Director Self Actualization – Abraham Maslow
- Coordinator - Controller Contigency Approach – F.E. Fieldler
- Peers/follower - subordinates  Task structured
- Inspiring/integrating - Blaming  Leader-Member
- Coaching/challenging - Telling
 Position power
&selling
- Macro management - Micro Path Goal – R.J. House
management  Minimize obstruction
- Problem solving & - Problem Situational – Hershey & Blachard
quality management identifying  Follower becomes a leader at some point
Servant Leadership
Leadership Theory  Normal feeling
Great Man – Thomas Carlyle Charismatic – Max Weber
 Born with the necessary characteristic to be  Inspired by obtaining emotional commitment
great  Strong beliefs, high self confidence
Trait – C. Bird Transformational – Heinrich von Dierer
 Inherited, could be obtained through learning &  Valuing
experience  Empowering
Behavioral – Kurt Lewin  Promoting Quality
Authoritarian Leader Visionary – P. Serge
 Strong control is maintained  To follow vision through self confidence
 Motivated by coercion  Empathy
 Downward communication Ethical – R. Heifers
 “I” Qualities of a Leader
Democratic Leader -Character -Responsible
 Less control -Charisma -Generosity
 Directed through suggestion and guidance -Commitment -Initiative
 Communication flows up & down -Communication -Listening
 Decision making involves others -Competency -Passion
 “We” -Courage -Security
Laissez-fairre -Discernment -Servant hood
 No control -Focus -Self-discipline
 No direction -Positive Attitude -Teachability
-Problem Solving -Vision
-Relationship

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Principles
 Leaders are made not born Formal Leaders
 It can be learned  Those who are officially assigned leadership
 It requires certain traits responsibilities within the organization
 No best style of leadership Informal Leaders
 See below
Process of Leadership Informal Formal
Vision General Nature Unofficial Official
Power & Authority &
Major Concepts
Mission politics responsibility
Primary Focus Person Position
Source of Given by Delegated by
Critical Success
Factors power group management
Guideline for
Norms Rules
behavior
Goal Action Steps
Sources of
Sanctions Rewards/penalties
Control
Results
Factors of Leadership
 Follower
ABC of Leadership  Leader
 Positive Attitude (self-knowledge)  Situation
 Effective Behavior (communication skills)  Communication
 Personal Confidence (transformative practice) How to Become a Good Leader
- Know yourself and seek self-improvement
Phases of Leadership Growth (Maxwell Johnson) - Be technically proficient
Phase 1 - Know your people and look out for their well-
- “I don’t know what I don’t know” being
Phase 2 - Keep your workers informed
- “I know what I don’t know” - Seek responsibility and take responsibility for
Phase 3 your actions
- “I grow and know and it starts to show” - Ensure that the tasks are understood,
Phase 4 supervised and accomplished
- “I simply go because of what I know” - Develop a sense of responsibility of your
workers
INEFFECTIV - Train as a team
EFFECTIVE
E - Use full capabilities of your organization
I III UNAWARE
II IV AWARE Moral Aspect of Leadership
- Release of human potential
Functions of a Leader
- Mutual interdependence of individual and
 Motivators
group
 Mentors
- Maintain and renew values
 Confessors
- Foster individual initiative and responsibility
 Cheerleaders
 Coaches
Values
 Role models
 Sounding boards
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 Deeply held values and principles provide the
road map for the way we lead, and the way
other people respond to it

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