Leadership

Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act toward achieving a common goal. Learn common characteristics and how they compare to managers.

Leadership

• Chapter 3
  • Skill Approachs
    • Three-skills Approach
      • Technology skills
      • Human skills
      • Conceptual Skills
      • Basic Administrative Skills
    • Skill-based Model
      • The capability of leaders not what leaders do
      • Examines the relationship between a leader's knowledge & skills & the leader's performance
      • Three competencies are central determinants
  • Strengths of Skill Approach
    • Describing leadership in terms of skills makes leadership available to everyone
    • Expansive view of leadership that incorporates wide variety of components
  • Criticisms of Skill Approach
    • Breadth of the skills approach appears to extend beyond the boundaries of leadership
    • Weak in predictive value
    • Skills model includes individual attributes that are trait-like
  • Applications of Skill Approach
    • Provide insights into the individual’s leadership competencies
    • Applicable to leaders at all levels within the organisation
    • Provides a way to delineate the skills of a leader
• Chapter 4
  • Behavioural Approach Description
    • Task behaviours
    • Relationship behaviours
    • Primarily a framework for assessing leadership as behaviour with a task and relationship dimension
  • Behavioural Approach
    • Ohio State Studies
      • Participant settings (military, industrial, educational)
      • Leadership Behaviour Description Questionnaire (LBDQ)
      • Initiating structure – Leaders provide structure for subordinates (Task behaviours)
      • Consideration - Leaders nurture subordinates (Relationship behaviours)
    • University of Michigan Studies
    • Blake & Mouton's Leadership Grid
      • Concern for production
      • Concern for people
  • Strengths of Behavioural Approach
    • Leaders can learn a lot about themselves and how they come across to others
    • Major shift in leadership research from exclusively trait and skills focused to include behaviours and actions of leaders
  • Criticisms of Behavioural Approach
    • No universal behaviour of leadership
• Chapter 2
  • great person theory
  • historical shifts (1948-2004)
  • major traits(ISDIS)
  • BIG 5 factor: NEOAC
  • emotional intelligence & leadership→measure EQ
  • work approach
    • focus of trait approach: leader VS. cridibility
    • strengths: intuitively appealing VS. cridibility
    • criticism
    • appilication (direction)
• Chapter 1
  • defined
    • evolution (1990s-1980s-21 century)
    • conceptualizing leadership
    • definition
    • central concepts of leadership and leaders
  • described
    • trait VS. process leadership ( inborn VS. interaction)
    • assigned VS. process leadership (position VS. others)
    • power
      • definition
      • six bases
      • position power & personal power
      • shift
    • conercion (use force)
    • management & leadership
      • management activities (consistency)
      • leadership activities (change)