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Flight Management

Day 12. Flight Management. Managers (You!) as Leaders. Learning Outcomes Define leader and leadership Understand early theories of leadership Describe three major contingency theories of leadership Describe current view of leadership. Definition.

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Flight Management

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  1. Day 12 Flight Management

  2. Managers (You!) as Leaders Learning Outcomes • Define leader and leadership • Understand early theories of leadership • Describe three major contingency theories of leadership • Describe current view of leadership

  3. Definition • Someone who can influence others and has managerial authority. • Leadership is what leaders do. • Leadership is a process of leading a group and influencing that group to achieve its goals. Are you a leader? Or simply a manager?

  4. Early Theories • Looking at “trait theories” on leader. • Looking at “behaviour theories” on how a leader interact with his/her group.

  5. Leader Traits • Characteristics that differentiate leaders from nonleaders

  6. Behavioural Theories

  7. Contingency Theories of Leadership • The Fielder Model • Hersye and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Theory • Path-Goal Theory

  8. The Fiedler Model • Proposed that effect group performance depended on properly matching the leader’s style and the amount of control and influence the situation. • Different situation different style. • Come up with two styles • (1) relationship oriented • (2) task oriented • He assumed the person’s leadership style is fixed.

  9. Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Theory • Focuses on followers’ readiness. • Follower accept or reject the leader. • Readiness willingness to accomplish a specific task. • Using task and relationship dimensions, they created four specific leadership styles • Telling High Task Low Relationship • Selling High High • Participating Low High • Delegating Low Low

  10. Followers’ readiness stages • R1 – unable and unwilling to do something • R2 – unable but willing • R3 – able but unwilling • R4 – able and willing

  11. Path-Goal Theory • The leader’s job is to assist followers in attaining their goals and to provide direction or support needed to ensure that their goals are compatible with the goals of the group or organisation. • Four leadership behaviours • Directive leader • Supportive leader • Participative leader • Achievement Leader • Leader can change their style.

  12. Contemporary Views • Transformational – Transactional Leadership • Transactional – guide / motivate workers to work toward established goals • Transformational – stimulates and inspires followers to achieve extraordinary outcomes. • Charismatic Leader – vision, ability to articulate that vision, risk taker, sensitive to constraint and follower’s needs, behaviour that are out or ordinary.

  13. Visionary Leader – ability to create and articulate a realistic, credible and attractive vision of the future that improves on the present situation.

  14. Current Issues in Leadership • Where leader get their power? • Legitimate power • Coercive power • Reward power • Expert power • Referent power • Trust – Integrity, Competence, Consistency, Loyalty and Openness. • Leading across the globe / culture.

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