Perspective on Leadership in small groups

1. By Doug Crawshaw Perspective on Leadership in small groups

2. Leadership • Influence exerted through communication that helps a group achieve goals • Performance of a leadership function by an member

3. Power • The potential to influence behavior of others • Derived from such bases as the ability to reward and punish, expertise, legitimate title or position, and personal attraction

4. Leader • A person who uses communication to influence others to meet group goals and needs • Any person identified by members of a group as leader • Designated as leader by election or appointment

5. Designated Leader • A person appointed or elected to a position as leader of a small group

6. Leadership Emergence • The process by which someone emerges as the leader of an initially leaderless group in which all members start out as equals

7. Self-Monitoring • An individual’s ability to monitor people’s reactions to his/her behavior and adjust in response

8. Approaches • Traits-assumes tat leaders have certain traits that distinguish them from followers or members of a group • Contingency-assumes that the appropriate leadership style in a given situation depends on factors such as members’ skills and knowledge, time available, the type of task, and so forth.

9. Approaches continued… • Functions-leadership is defined by the function a group needs and can be supplied by any member • Styles-Studies interrelationship between leader style and member behaviors

10. Types of Leaders • Democratic-egalitarian leaders who coordinate and facilitate discussion in small groups, encouraging participation of all members • Laissez-Faire- do nothing designated leaders who provide minimal services to the group. • Autocratic- leaders who try to dominate and control a group

11. Hersey/Blanchard Model

12. Leader-Member Exchange Model (LMX)