LEADERSHIP

Z.A. PATEL

WHAT IS DIFFERENT IN A LEADER ?

MAHATMA
RATAN

GANDHI

TATA

MARTIN

LUTHER KING

NAPOLEAN
ABRAHAM
NELSON
ADOLF
M.

LINCOLN

MANDELA

HITLER

S. DHONI

BILL

GATES

STEVE

JOBS

Sports Leader

Business leader

Political leader

Social leader

Religious leader

Contents to study.
What

is Leadership?

Characteristics
Leader

of Leadership

vs Manager

Leadership
Leadership

Styles

Skills (Technical Skills, Human

Skills, Conceptual Skills, Personal Skills)

Definitions
Louis

Allen,

leader is one who guides and directs other

people. He gives the efforts to his followers a
direction and purpose by influencing their
behaviour.

Terrry,

A leader shows the way by his own example.

He is not a pusher, he pulls rather than push.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

Fearless from failure Edison, Lincoln

Desire to be achieve goals - Socrates

Decisiveness

Initiative Yusuf Hamied

Maturity - Understand

Self confidence

Fairness and objectivity free of bias

Intellectual ability

Desire to accept responsibility 2 covers

Flexibility

Considerate Kalam

Attitude towards work

LEADERSHIP SKILLS
HUMAN

SKILLS

Empathy,

communication, teaching, objectivity

CONCEPTUAL

SKILLS

Organisation

TECHNICAL

as a whole, Behavioural psychology

SKILLS

Knowledge

of procedures, operations, analytical

skills
PERSONAL

SKILLS

Difference between Leaders & Managers

Charismatic
Making

others follow versus making others want to

follow

Transformational
Ready

People focus
Credit

to others, blame on self

Risk takers
Not

to Change themselves in order to follow

risk averse

Followers
Not

Subordinates

LEADERSHIP STYLES

AUTOCRATIC
Dictate

orders and obeyed by followers - less scope of

discussion and dialogue

Leader

decides without consulting others

Centralise

authority and no delegation keeps power

Dictatorial

orders

Close

supervision

ASSUMPTIONS

Advantages
New

subordinates do not know work

properly

Prompt

decision is important

Subordinates
Secrecy

do not take responsibility

need to be maintained

Disadvantages
Misunderstanding
Dangerous
No

due to one way communication

misuse power

freedom to employees

Employees

will not be motivated

Overburdened

autocratic manager

High

turnover

New

ideas do not emerge

DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
Consults
Sharing
Group

in decision making process

of views allowed

decision

ASSUMPTIONS

Advantages
Productivity
Job

rises

satisfaction increases

Sense

of status suggestions accepted

Employees
Morale

are more involved

and discipline improved

Disadvantages
New

employees

Assumption

that employees are really interested

in organisation

Assumption

of full trust between management and

workers
Ignored
Time

suggestions hurt feelings

consuming

Managers

fear losing control

FREE-REIN LEADERSHIP
Completely
Divides

different from the earlier two types

group into hierarchy

Leaders

at each level

Leaders

are free to handle groups with own ideas and

views
Concept
Direct

is of distribution of work

blame is avoided

PATERNALISTIC LEADERSHIP
Fatherly

treatment

Treats

like a family

Helps,

guides, protect and keeps followers happy like a

family
Provides

good working condition, and fringe benefits