Managerial Leadership: Pronouncements vs' Practices Learning through Experiences

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Managerial Leadership Pronouncements vs.
Practices(Learning through Experiences)

• - By Janak R. Shah

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Pronouncements

• Leader is one who
• Investigates
• Organizes
• Welcomes Changes
• Is Self Confident
• Is Ethical
• Has Vision
• Listens

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Contd

• Communicates
• Resolves Conflicts
• Encourages Creativity
• Develops Teams
• Energizes
• Shares Knowledge
• Motivates

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Leadership Components

• Personal Attributes (Personality, Intelligence,
  Expertise, etc. )
• Attributes of the Leadership Situation (Task,
  Org, Resources, Environment, etc.)
• Ethical Dimension (Abuse of Power, Fraudulent
  Practices, Money Laundering, accountable to
  general public environment)

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Leadership Behavior

• Task Oriented
• The extent to which a leader provides direction
  for people.

• Relationship Oriented
• The extent to which a leader engages in two-way
  communication.

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Task Oriented Authoritarian Leader Behavior

• The managers tells employees
• What to do?
• When to do it?
• Where to do it?
• How to do it?
• With whom they Work and Communicate?

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Relationship Oriented Democratic Leader Behavior

• The Manager
• Provides Support and Recognition
• Displays Helping Behavior
• Provides Rewards
• Exchanges Ideas
• Checks for Understandings
• Participates and Encourages Involvement

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Leadership Skills of Effective Managers (Warren
Bennis)

• Ability to Accept People as they are
• Capacity to Approach Relationships and Problems
  in the Present rather than the Past
• Ability not to take those who are Working close
  to you for Granted
• Ability to Trust Others
• Ability to do without Constant Approval and
  Recognition from Others.

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Practices

• Controlled from Remote Power and Behaving like
  Puppet
• Myopic Vision
• Biased and divided Approaches
• Part of Bad Practices and Corrupted System
• Management by odds, arbitration, etc
• Fragmented Team Members

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Contd

• Speaking Thousands of Good Words to make audience
  happy for the moment
• Hesitates same thing in Action
• Irrational decision making
• Haphazard Direction
• Undue Power Exercise

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Power Exercise The means by which the leader
try to gain the compliance of the follower (s)

• Bases / Types of Power
• Coercive
• Connection
• Reward
• Legitimate
• Referent
• Information
• Expert

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Impact

• Creates Reactions from various Dynamics
  Prevailing within the Organization
• Disturbs Organizational Ecosystem
• Ultimately, adversely affects the organization.

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An Employees Moment of Truth

• Mr Thapa (name changed) concluded that his
  organizational leader pronounce one thing and
  practice something else
• They are of double standards, Irrational decision
  makers, system corrupter
• They speaks in words only
• They are beggar in Actions
• They are not true (successful leader)
• They try to be goooooooooo-d for someone's
  willing or eyes.

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Lastly

• Mr. Thapa proudly proclaimed that he learnt,
  even as a victim, these lessons through his
  experiences and which were missing in his
  learning in top most university.