Leadership styles, power styles and behaviours
Developing Teams in Business
Aim :To describe leadership approaches, power styles and leadership behaviors
Learning objectives When you have completed this session you will be able to
• To recap important points of last session
• To describe leadership styles
• To discover each learner preferred leadership style
• To identify leadership power style
• To explain leadership behaviors
• To propose the best leadership style for any situation
SERVANT LEADERSHIP
• The leader has responsibility for the followers.
• Leaders have a responsibility towards society and those who are disadvantaged.
• People who want to help others best do this by leading them.
AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
PARTICIPATIVE LEADERSHIP
• This approach is also known as consultation, empowerment, joint decision-making, Management By Objective and power-sharing. Team proposes decision, leader has final decision or Leader proposes decision, listens to feedback, then decides
DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP
BUREAUCRATIC LEADERSHIP
LAISSE-FAIRE LEADERSHIP
SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP
• The best action of the leader depends on a range of situational factors
VIDEOSAutocratic leadership
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wRsGIvhU3iA
Democratic leadership
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YrIocMJzrXQ
Laisse-faire leadership
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Y7byKOEBMYM
Video = Situational leadership
When to use which leadership style, leadership behaviors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_YL8Q_6gRPM
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• Tannenbaum, A.S. and Schmitt, W.H. (1958) How to choose a leadership pattern. Harvard Business Review, 36, March-April, 95-101
• French, J.R.P. Israel, J. and As, D. (1960). An experiment on participation in a Norwegian factory. Human Relations, 13, 3-19
• Lewin, K., LIippit, R. and White, R.K. (1939). Patterns of aggressive behavior in experimentally created social climates. Journal of Social Psychology, 10, 271-301
• Bass, B. M. (1990). From transactional to transformational leadership: Learning to share the vision. Organizational Dynamics, (Winter): 19-31.