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Leadership involves influencing a group towards achieving goals. Managers are appointed positions with formal authority, while leaders emerge from within a group and influence others through other means beyond formal authority. Early leadership theories focused on traits, behaviors, and situational factors. Trait theory looked at distinguishing traits between leaders and non-leaders, while behavioral theories examined leadership styles. Contingency theories proposed that leadership effectiveness depends on matching the right leadership style to the situation.

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Leadership involves influencing a group towards achieving goals. Managers are appointed positions with formal authority, while leaders emerge from within a group and influence others through other means beyond formal authority. Early leadership theories focused on traits, behaviors, and situational factors. Trait theory looked at distinguishing traits between leaders and non-leaders, while behavioral theories examined leadership styles. Contingency theories proposed that leadership effectiveness depends on matching the right leadership style to the situation.

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Leadership

Ability to influence a group towards the


achievement of goal.
May be - formal
informal
Managers vs. Leaders
Managers - appointed to positions
- ability to influence employees is based
on the formal authority inherent in
that position
Leaders - emerge from within a work group
- able to influence others for reasons
beyond formal authority
All managers are leaders- all leaders not managers.
Leaders→ come influence others
Leadership → process of influencing a
group towards the goal
achievement
Early Leadership Theories
Easy twentieth century
Focus on - leader- trait- interaction-behavioral
Trait Theory – characteristics that might be used to
differentiate leaders form non leaders.
– isolate traits that leaders possess &
non leaders do not.
→ cannot always differentiate with traits
– cannot applicable to all effective leaders
– trait alone is not sufficient
– ignore interact among team
– situational factors
Seven Important Traits
⚫ Drive: Leader exhibit a high effort level. They have
a relatively high desire for achievement; they are
ambitious; they have a lot of energy; they are
tirelessly persistent in their activities; and they
show initiative.
⚫ Desire to Lead: Leaders have a strong desire to
influence and lead others. They demonstrate the
willingness to take responsibility.
⚫ Honesty and Integrity: Leaders build trusting
relationship between themselves and followers by
being trustful and by showing high consistency
between word and deed.
Seven Important Traits
…Cont..

⚫ Self-confidence: Followers look to leaders for a


absence of self-doubt. Leaders, therefore, need
to show self-confidence in order to convince
followers of the rightness of their goals and
decisions.
⚫ Intelligence: Leader need to be intelligent
enough to gather, synthesis, and interpret large
amount of information, and they need to be
able to create visions solve problems and make
correct decisions.
Seven Important Traits
…Cont..

⚫ Job-relevant knowledge: Effective leaders have a


high degree of knowledge about the company,
industry, and technical maters. In-depth
knowledge allows leaders to make
well-informed decisions and to understand the
implications of those decisions.
⚫ Extraversion: Leaders are energetic, lively
people. They are sociable, assertive and rarely
silent or withdrawn.
Behavioral theories
University of Iowa -
Democratic – Involve subordinates, delegate
authority encourage participation
Autocratic – Dictate work centralize making
limited participation
Ohio State -
Consideration – Being considerate of followers
ideas & feelings
Initiating Structure – Structuring work & work
relationship to meet job goals.
University of Michigan
Employee oriented – emphasize inter personal
relationship, take care employee
needs.
Production oriented – emphasize technical or task
respects of job.
Managerial grid
1,9 9,9

Concern for people

5,5

1,1 9,1

Concern for production


1,1 – minimum level- ineffective
9,1- task management - autocrat
5,5 – middle of the road -balanced - compromise
1,9 – more people concern - country club-ineffective
9,9 – commitment through mutual trust, respect
- Team management

Contingency Theories
If then contingencies – if this is the situation, then this is the
situation, then this is the best leadership style to use.
-Fiedler
-Herey-Blourchard
-Leader Participation
-Path goal
Fiedler – Proper match between the leaders style of
interacting with his or her followers & the degree to
which the situation allows the leader to control &
influence.
- certain leadership style would be most effective in
different types of situations.
- define those leadership styles & different types of
situations
-identify the match.
Path goal
-one of the most respected approach
-it’s the leaders job to assist his or her followers in
attaining their goals
-to provide direction or support needed to ensure that
their goals are compatible with overall objectives.
→clarifying the goals
→paths to these goals
→make journey easier by reducing road block & pit
falls.
Contrast to Fiedler
– Fiedler – leaders are fixed
– Path goal – leaders are flexible

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