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Leadership In Action. Business Management. Leadership Qualities. In management, leadership means providing direction and vision for a company. Being a manager is not the same thing as being a leader. Managing is a job. Leading is a skill.
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Leadership In Action Business Management
Leadership Qualities • In management, leadership means providing direction and vision for a company. • Being a manager is not the same thing as being a leader. • Managing is a job. Leading is a skill. • Leaders have a vision and a plan to achieve the vision.
Styles of Leadership There are four basic styles of leadership: • Autocratic • Democratic • Free Rein or Hands Off • Self Managed Teams
Autocratic Leadership • Autocratic means “self ruling”; when you like to run everything yourself and answer to no one. • Assume people don’t like to work, they avoid responsibility, and have to be watched all the time. • Control workers through fear and intimidation. • Most people don’t like to work for autocratic leaders.
Democratic Leadership • Democratic leadership means that managers and employees work together to make decisions. • Assumes that people want to work by showing workers that the leadership has confidence in them.
Free-Rein (Hands-Off) Leadership Free-Rein Leadership requires that leader to set goals for managers and employees and then leave them to get it completed.
Free-Rein (Hands-Off) Leadership Giving managers and employees the power to run things and make decision is called delegating. Reasons for a leader to delegate are: • Don’t have time to do everything yourself. • Can focus on more important work. • Involves employees. • Gives employees a chance to develop their own potential. When you choose to delegate power, it is a true test of you leadership skill.
Self-Managed Teams • Many businesses put workers on self-managed teams, or work groups that supervise themselves. • Allowing teams to manage themselves, businesses are able to absolve managing jobs and replace them with team leaders. • Leader is a team player rather than a boss and doesn’t have to answer to upper management. • Team is more goal-oriented than task-oriented.
Organization of Self-Managed Teams Organized in two ways: • Each team member has a special skill, or • The team selects one team leader.
Organization of Self-Managed Teams Team Leader: • Makes decisions for the team. • Provides motivation and values the contributions of all members of the team. Advantages: • Goal-oriented • Faster and more efficient. • Team members have a chance to learn other jobs and obtain new skills. • Simplifies the decision-making process. • Team members learn to participate and cooperate with each other. • Learn to solve own problems.
Organization of Self-Managed Teams • Self-Managed teams is the most difficult type of leadership style. • It should only be implemented after employees have been trained and management has evidence that the employees can work effectively and efficiently in this leadership style.