Leadership

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Leadership
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Leadership

• Leadership is the ability to influence others
• Leadership is not a position that one fills
• Does a bugle guarantee respect?
• Are leaders born or can they be taught
• No clear trait has been uncovered

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Bureaucratic Leadership

• Strong social atmosphere
• Little stress-producing job related competition
• Low concern for people
• Low concern for production
• Group pressure discourages over-achievement

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Single-Issue Leadership

• Concern for either production or worker needs
• Production issues Theory X
• Worker issues Theory Y
• Workers needs are not met

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Middle of the Road Leadership

• Moderate concern for production and workers
• Provides little direction
• Way for supervisor to get by
• Leads to mediocrity
• Workers can show initiative, but is not motivated
  to do so

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Dual Issue Leadership

• High concern for people and work
• Workers can satisfy both needs
• Workers share in decision making
• Highly motivated workplace

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Leadership, Making Sense

• 4 basic styles place different degrees of
  emphasis on production and worker needs
• Leadership styles will vary from individual to
  individual, even in same situation
• Know the leadership style that suits your
  personnel and that they all are different

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Power Structures

• Power is the ability to influence another
• Does this definition sound familiar?
• Power is typically perceived from the employees
  perspective
• Power itself is not bad
• Use of it is judged both effectively and
  ineffectively
• 5 types of power used at different times

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Reward Power

• Leaders ability to grant rewards
• promotions
• raises
• expanding budgets
• time off
• incentives

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Coercive Power

• Leaders ability to punish or reprimand
• Deny raises
• Take away privileges

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Identification Power

• Impression of similarity between himself and the
  leader
• Desire to be like the leader

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Expert Power

• Leaders expertise or knowledge can help the ff
  adapt to a complex situation
• education
• time on job
• previous success

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Legitimate Power

• Authority given to the leader by the organization
• Rank
• Position
• Assignment