Group Dynamics GE347 Mr. O

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Group Dynamics GE347Mr. OLeary
DO_Leary_at_itt-tech.eduwww.mrolearysclassroom.com

• Week 3 - Leadership

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Week 2 Review Joining Groups and Teams

• Maslow Schutz People join teams for
  interpersonal needs
• Individual Goals Personal agendas/interests
• Group Goals Commitment to larger agendas
• Interpersonal Attraction Ways we are pulled
  towards individuals
• Group Attraction Ways we are pulled towards
  groups

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Week 2 Review Joining Groups and Teams

• Tuckmans Life Cycle for Groups/Teams
• Forming Anxiety, Cautious behavior
• Storming Competition, Conflict
• Norming Conflict resolution
• Performing Cooperation productity
• Adjourning Group disbands when goals achieved

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Week 3 Objectives

• Define Leadership
• Describe 3 approaches to the study of leadership
• Describe 3 broad styles of leadership
• Define transformational leadership
• Identify your own leadership styles and traits

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Week 3 - Leadership

• Q What is Leadership?
• A Communication or behavior that guides,
  influences, directs, or controls a group or team

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Week 3 - Leadership

• Lets conduct an informal assessment regarding
  your beliefs on leadership. Listen to statements
  and then
• - Hold up Red Paper for I disagree
• - Hold up Yellow Paper for Im neutral,
• Im not sure, or It depends
• - Hold up Green Paper for I agree

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Studying Leadership

• 3 historical approaches to studying leadership
• - Trait Perspective (1950s 1960s)
• - Functional Perspective (1970s -1980s)
• - Situational Perspective (1990s Today)

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Trait Perspective

• Oldest theory of leadership can be traced back
  to Plato
• Asserts that leaders have common attributes or
  traits identify the traits - identify leaders
• Traits include Social, extrovert, large in size,
  dominance, confident, loves red meat desserts
• Assumes leaders are born, not made

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Functional Perspective

• Leadership is a set of behaviors, not traits
• Leaders show two types of behaviors
• -Task Leadership Accomplish goals/milestones
• -Process Leadership Create and maintain a
  healthy climate and morale to work in

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Situational Perspective

• No one style of leadership is better than
  another
• Context/Situation is everything
• Effective leaders adapt their method of
  leadership according to situation
• - Authoritarian (Leader has all power/control)
• - Democratic (Leader involves team in decision
  making)
• - Laissez Faire (Leader gives control to team
  members)

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Hersey and Blanchards Model
Telling High Task Focus Low Relationship
Focus Selling High Task Focus High
Relationship Focus Participating Low Task
Focus High Relationship Focus Delegating Low
Task Focus Low Relationship Focus
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Transformational Leadership

• New Theory of Leadership
• What broken organizations or teams often
  require
• Changes and realigns the entire culture of the
  workplace

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Transformational Leadership

• Based on The Four Is
• 1)Idealized Leadership 2)Inspirational
  Motivation
• 3)Intellectual Stimulation 4)Individual
  Consideration
• Not so much a set of behaviors more an overall
  philosophy or approach to managing organizations

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Emergent Leadership

• Minnesota Studies - Dr. Ernest Bormann
• In a leaderless group, leaders emerge
  even when not chosen as leader
• Theyre perceived by teammates as the most
  valuable to the group
• They optimally blend task and relationship focus

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Emergent Leadership

• Quietest group members are voted out first
• Talkative but bossy or rude members voted out
  next
• Talkative but considerate/polite members are left
• Andrognyous behaviors most suited for leadership
  (blend of classical masculine and feminine
  behaviors)

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Leadership and Gender

• Traditionally women not perceived as effective
  leaders (due to lack of females in workforce
  especially management)
• By 1970s, more and more women are leaders
  proven track record comparable to men
• By 2010, more women are CEOs of Fortune 500
  companies than men!

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Leadership and Gender

• As generalizations in the broadest sense
• - Women show greater aptitude in Process
  Leadership and maintaining positive work
  climates
• - Men show greater aptitude in Task
  Leadership and meeting deadlines
• - Any specific leader, male or female,
  would sit somewhere on a spectrum for both types
  of leadership

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Leadership Training

• Involves instruction to develop skills
• Provides feedback on performance
• Includes simulation exercises
• Incorporates individual competencies, task
  requirements features of work environment

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Last Thoughts Eastern Philosophy

• The wicked leader is he who the people despise
• The good leader is he who the people revere
• The great leader is he who the people say
• We did it ourselves.
• - Lao Tzu