Definition and Significance of Leadership docx

NGHỆ THUẬT LÃNH ĐẠO MSMH: NS301DV01 Purpose After studying this chapter, you will be able to: • Define leadership and leadership effectiveness • Explain why people need leadership • Discuss the major obstacles to effective leadership • Compare and contrast leadership and management • List the roles and functions of leaders and managers • Summarize the debate over the role and impact of leadership in organizations. Content  Effective leadership  Obstacles to effective leadership  Leadership and management  Roles and functions of a leader  Changes in organizations and expectations of leaders Chapter 1: Definition and Significance of Leadership Chapter 1 1.1- Effective Leadership What is leadership? • Leadership is a group of phenomenon. There can be no leaders without followers. As such, leadership always involves interpersonal influence or persuasion. • Leadership is goal directed and plays an active role in groups and organizations. Leaders use influence to guide others through a certain course of action or toward the achievement of certain goals. What is leadership? • The presence of leaders assume some forms of hierarchy within a group. – Formal hierarchy, with leader at the top – Informal and flexible hierarchy. Who is a leader? • A leader is a person who influences individuals and groups within an organization, helps them in establishing goals, and guide them toward achievement of those goals, thereby allowing them to be effective. What is effectiveness? • Fred Friedler’s Contingency Model: Leadership effectiveness = Performance. – Leaders are effective when their group perform well. • Robert House’s Path-Goals Theory: Leadership effectiveness = Followers satisfaction. – Leaders are effective when their followers are satisfied. • Transformational and Visional Leadership Models: Effectiveness is the successful implementation of large scale change in an organization. [...]... planning and the development of their own mission Functions of the leader • One of the major functions of leaders is the creation and development of a culture and climate for their groups or organizations (Nahavandi and Malekzadeh, 1993a; Schein, 2004) Functions of the leader • Leaders are models for other organizational members – They establish and grant the status symbols that are the main artifacts of. .. leader's power and discretion, the key is to identify situations where the leader's power and discretion over the group and organization are limited • The potential lack of impact of leaders in some situations further emphasizes the importance of followers in the success of leadership and the need to understand organizations as broad systems • The 2 views (against and for the impact of leadership) complement... The definitions of leadership effectiveness are as diverse as the definitions of organizational effectiveness The choice of a certain definition depends mostly – on the point of view of the person trying to determine effectiveness, and – on the constituents who are being considered What is effectiveness? 2 Fred Luthans (1989): defines leadership effectiveness by distinguishing between effective and. .. established culture • The difficulty involved in understanding and applying the findings of academic research Chapter 1 1.3- Leadership and Management Leadership and Management Leadership and Management Managers  Focus on the present  Maintain status quo and stability  Implement policies and procedures  Maintain existing structure  Remain aloof to maintain objectivity  Use position power Leaders... structure and strategy determine the course an organization takes  Leadership accounts for only 7 to 15% of financial performance  Leaders have little discretion to really make an impact  Leadership is a romantic myth rather a real organizational factor  Leadership is one of the many important factors  Leadership is key in providing vision and direction  Leadership can account for up to 44% of a firm’s... symbolize our own and our culture’s ideals and accomplishments Chapter 1 1.2- Obstacles to Effective Leadership Obstacles To Effective Leadership • Organizations face considerable uncertainty that creates pressure for quick responses and solutions – Implementing new methods of leadership would make dealing with complexity and uncertainty easier in the long run – The lack of learning and experimentation... organization about structure and strategy, by determining the hierarchy, span of control, reporting relationship, and degree of formularization and specialization – A highly decentralized and organic structure  open and participative culture – A highly centralized structure  mechanistic/ bureaucratic culture – The structure of an organization limits or encourage interaction, and by doing so, affects... organizations with a sense of vision and mission – Department managers need to plan and organize their department’s activities and assign various people to perform tasks, monitor their employees’ performance and correct employee's actions when needed • Strategic and external functions – Managers negotiate with their boss and other department managers for resources and coordinate decisions and activities with... of a firm’s profitability  Leadership is critical in orchestrating change  Leadership s impact is moderated by situational factors Reconciling the Differences • Leadership is one of many factors that influence the performance of a group or an organization • The leader's contribution, although not always tangible, is often significant in providing a vision and direction for followers and in integrating... goals and directions, and coordinate activities • To make sense of the world Groups and their leaders provide individuals with a perceptual check Leaders help us make sense of the world, establish social reality, and assign meaning to events and situations that may be ambiguous • To be romantic ideals Leadership is needed to fulfill our desire for mythical or romantic figures who represent us and symbolize . expectations of leaders Chapter 1: Definition and Significance of Leadership Chapter 1 1.1- Effective Leadership What is leadership? • Leadership. contrast leadership and management • List the roles and functions of leaders and managers • Summarize the debate over the role and impact of leadership