LEADERSHIP

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 What is leadership?
Leadership is the ability of a company's management to set and achieve challenging
goals, take swift and decisive action, outperform the competition, and inspire others
to perform well.
Leadership is also about setting a positive example for staff to follow, by being
excited about the work, being motivated to learn new things, and helping out as
needed in both individual and team activities.
 Characteristics Of Leadership
Here are some of the most common traits in the characteristic of leadership:
Empathy: Creating a legitimate rapport with your staff makes it less likely that
personal issues and resentment can creep in and derail the group.
Consistency: Being a consistent leader will gain you respect and credibility, which is
essential to getting buy-in from the group.
Honesty: Those who are honest, especially about concerns, make it far more likely
that obstacles will be addressed rather than avoided.
 Direction: Having the vision to break out of the norm and aim for great things.
By seeing what can be and managing the goals on how to get there, a good leader
can create impressive change.
Communication: Effective communication helps keep he team working on the right
projects with the right attitude.
Flexibility: Not every problem demands the same solution. By being flexible to new
ideas and open-minded enough to consider them, you increase the likelihood that
you will find the best possible answer.
Conviction: The leader who believes in the mission and works toward it will be an
inspiration and a resource to their followers.
 Types Of Leadership Style

Autocratic:
Leader makes decisions without reference to anyone else
High degree of dependency on the leader
Can create de-motivation and alienation of staff
May be valuable in some types of business where decisions need to be made
quickly and decisively
Democratic:
Encourages decision making from different perspectives leadership may be
emphasised throughout the organisation.
Consultative: process of consultation before decisions are taken

Persuasive: Leader takes decision and seeks to persuade others that the decision
is correct
 Laissez-Faire:
Let it be the leadership responsibilities are shared by all
Can be very useful in businesses where creative ideas are important
Can be highly motivational, as people have control over their working life
Can make coordination and decision making time-consuming and lacking in
overall direction
Relies on good team work
Relies on good interpersonal relations
Paternalistic:
Leader acts as a father figure
Paternalistic leader makes decision but may consult
Believes in the need to support staff
 Theories Of Leadership

Trait Theory
The trait leadership theory believes that people are either born or are made with
certain qualities that will make them excel in leadership roles. That is, certain
qualities such as intelligence, sense of responsibility, creativity and other values puts
anyone in the shoes of a good leader.
Behavioural Theories
Imply that leaders can be trained focus on the way of doing things
- Structure based behavioural theories focus on the leader instituting structures
task orientated
- Relationship based behavioural theories focus on the development and
maintenance of relationships process orientated
Contingency Theories:
Leadership as being more flexible different leadership styles used at different
times depending on the circumstance.
Suggests leadership is not a fixed series of characteristics that can be transposed into
different contexts
Transformational Theories
The Transformational Leadership theory states that this process is by which a person
interacts with others and is able to create a solid relationship that results in a high
percentage of trust, that will later result in an increase of motivation, both intrinsic
and extrinsic, in both leaders and followers.
Transactional Theories:
For the transactional theories to be effective and as a result have motivational value,
the leader must find a means to align to adequately reward (or punish) his follower,
for performing leader-assigned task. In other words, transactional leaders are most
efficient when they develop a mutual reinforcing environment, for which the
individual and the organizational goals are in sync.