Leadership Theories

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The PPT explains about leadership concepts like traits, situational leadership, behavior, types of leadership, strategic leadership, communication.

Leadership Theories

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The context of Leadership
Old Paradigm Paradigm
Industrial Age Stability Control Competition Collaboration Things Uniformity

New
Information Age Change Empowerment

People & Relationships Diversity

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Leadership Evolution
Trait Theories Behavioural/ Contingency Situational Leadership Leadership Grid Transformational Leadership
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The Trait Approach

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Quality of Leader determines Quality of Organisation ; a Leader who lacks intelligence Virtue and Experience cannot hope to Succeed In any Conflict situation the circumstances affect the outcome; Good Leaders can succeed in adverse conditions while bad Leaders can lose out in favourable conditions When all other factors are equal, it is the Character of the Leader that determines the Outcome
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The Behaviour Approaches

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Autocratic Vs Democratic Leadership continuum

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Leadership Continuum
Boss-Centred Leadership Subordinate-Centred Leadership

Use of authority by manager Area of Freedom for subordinates

Mgr makes dec and announces

Mgr presnts ideas and invites questions

Mgr presents prb gets suggestions and makes decisions

Mgr permits subordinates to fn within limits defi ned Mgr defines limits asks group to make decisions
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Mgr sells decisions

Mgr presents tentative decision subject to change

Situational Leadership

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Follower Readiness

ABLE

R4

R3

UNABLE

R2

R1

WILLING

UNWILLING

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Leadership Behaviour High Shares ideas & facilitates decision making Participating Relationship Behaviour Delegating Turnover resp for decisions&imple S4 mentation Low Low R4 Able & Willing S3 S2 Explain decisions & provide opp for clarifi cations Selling

Telling Provide sp instructions and close supn S1 perf for High R1

Task Behaviour R3 R2 Able but Unwilling

Unable but Unable & Willing Unwilling
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High Moderate Low ( Follower Readiness ) Follower Directed Leader Directed

Leadership Grid
Country Club Middle-ofthe- Road AuthorityCompliance TASK
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Team

P E O P L E

Impoverished

Leadership for Change
? Transactional

Leadership - incentives for achievement Leadership- bring about significant change; no incentives but enthuse the followers to achieve

? Transformational

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Transformational Leadership
? Develops

followers into leaders ? Elevates the low level physical needs into higher order psychological needs ? Inspires followers to stretch and go beyond their self interests ? Communicates the Vision so passionately that makes the pain of change worth the effort.
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Transformational Leader
Visionary Strategic Thinker Communicator Change Agent Team Builder Social Architect/ Culture Builder

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Visionary
? Create

a compelling Vision Vision is a challenging future that the organisation wants to achieve ? Share the Vision and get the Buy in of all the employees ? Propel the organisation activities with zeal to accomplish the Vision
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Strategic Leadership

Strategic Leadership - evolve a set of decisions and actions that will achieve a competitively superior fit between the organisation and its environment so as to achieve the organisational goals

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Strategic Vision & Strategic Thinking/ Action

High Dreamer Effective Leader Doer High

Vision
Uninvolved Low Low

Thinking/Action
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Strategic Intent
?

Strategic Intent is the obsessive ambition for leadership positions seemingly disproportionate to the current resources and capabilities Captures the essence of winning Stable over time Sets targets that require personal effort and commitment Implies a sizeable stretch
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? ? ? ?

Leadership Communication
? Communicates

Vision ? Communication Champion ? Open communication climate ? Listening ? Dialogue ? Discernment

the big picture-

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Culture change

? Stability

Vs change ? Control Vs empowerment ? Competition Vs supporting collaboration ? Machines and objects Vs people, ideas and relationships
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