Section 1.4 Managing People: - Leadership
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- Leadership
- What is leadership?
- A relationship through which one person influences the behaviour or actions of other people
- Two different leadership perspectives
- Strategic Leadership
- - Strategic leaders are the people who influence or control the corporate strategy of a business
- - Often personally identified with the strategy
- Occurs both in small firms (e.g. the founder) and large corporates
- How strategic leadership is demonstrated
- Leadership as command
- Where leaders take direct control
- Leadership as vision
- Where leaders set the vision and core beliefs
- Leadership as decision-making
- Where the leader weighs up the options and decides
- Leadership as symbolic
- Where the leader is the embodiment of the strategy, but not involved day-to-day
- Leadership as command
- Strategic Leadership
- Leadership or Management?
- Leaders
- Inspire people, build relationships, take risks, have followers
- Managers
- Enact the plan, use their authority, manage risks, have subordinates
- Leaders
- Traditional classifications of leadership style
- Authoritatrian
- Focus of power is with the manager
- Communication is top-down and one way
- Formal systems of command and control
- Use of rewards and penalties
- Very little delagation
- Paternalitstic
- Leader decides what is best for employees
- Links with Mayo - addressing employee needs
- Akin to a parent/child relationship
- Still little delegation
- Democratic
- Focus of power is more with the group as a whole
- Leadership functions are shared within the group
- Employees have greater involvement in decision-making
- Emphasis on delegation and consultation
- A trade-off between speed of decision-making and better motivation and morale?
- Laissez-faire
- Leader has little input into day-to-day decision-making
- Conscious decision to delegate power
- Managers/employees have freedom to do what they think is best
- Effective when staff are ready and willing to take on responsibility
- Not the same as abdication
- Authoritatrian
- McGregor Theory X and Y
- Theory Y Managers
- Most people enjoy work
- Workers will take responsibility and organise themselves
- Decision making can be delegated
- Theory X Managers
- Average worker is lazy and dislikes work
- Workers need to be controlled and directed
- Centralised organisation and exercise of authority
- Theory Y Managers
- Why modern business leadership is moving away from autocratic styles
- Changes in society's values
- Better educated workforce
- Focus on need for soft HR skills
- Changing workplace organisation
- Greater workplace legislation
- Pressure for greater employee involvement
- Which leadership style is best?
- Many alternative forms and styles
- Right leader for the right situation
- Autocratic makes more sense when business is in trouble (e.g. Rapid turnaround)
- Autocratic would be inappropriate where performance is highly dependant on effective team-working and decentralisedoperation
- Stage of business: start-up, very established and complex
- Moving from entrepreneur to leader
- Successful entrepreneurshave distinctive characteristics not always suitable for leading a bigger business
- As a business grows and becomes more complex delegation is much more important
- Organisational design and leadership style needs to change as a business matures
- Many entrepreneursbecome ineffective "bosses" - it is often best if they stand aside to let their business develop into the next stage
- What is leadership?
- In reality, both are closely linked
- A leadership style is the way that the functions of leadership are carried out and the way that a leader behaves
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