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The Nature of Leadership
Leadership and power
Leadership and vision
Leadership as service
Leadership Traits and Behaviors
Leadership traits
Leadership behaviors
Classic leadership styles
Leadership:The process of inspiring others to work hard to accomplish important tasks. challenges: Shorter time frames for accomplishing things
High performance expectations
Complex, ambiguous, and multidimensional problems
Scarce resources
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:
1)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
2)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
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
Servant leadership:
Commitment to serving others
Followers more important than leader
“Other centered” not “self-centered”
Power not a “zero-sum” quantity
Focuses on empowerment, not power
Empowerment :The process through which managers enable and help others to gain power and achieve influence
Effective leaders empower others by providing them with:
Info, responsibility, authority, trust
Important traits for leadership success
Drive
Leadership and power
Leadership and vision
Leadership as service
Leadership Traits and Behaviors
Leadership traits
Leadership behaviors
Classic leadership styles
Leadership:The process of inspiring others to work hard to accomplish important tasks. challenges: Shorter time frames for accomplishing things
High performance expectations
Complex, ambiguous, and multidimensional problems
Scarce resources
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:
1)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
2)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
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
Servant leadership:
Commitment to serving others
Followers more important than leader
“Other centered” not “self-centered”
Power not a “zero-sum” quantity
Focuses on empowerment, not power
Empowerment :The process through which managers enable and help others to gain power and achieve influence
Effective leaders empower others by providing them with:
Info, responsibility, authority, trust
Important traits for leadership success
Drive