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Vrintha.D.B
Leadership is a process by which an executive can direct,guide and influence the
behavior and work of others towards accomplishment of specific goals in a given
situation.
▪ Leadership is the ability of a manager to induce the subordinates to work with
confidence and zeal.
▪ Leadership is a vital management function that helps to direct on organization
resources for improved efficiency and the achievement of goals . Effective leaders
provide clarity of purpose, motivate and guide the organization to realize it’s
mission.
▪ Leadership is the ability of an individual or a group of individuals to influence and
guide followers or other members of an organization.
▪ Leadership involves making sound and sometimes difficult-decisions, creating and
articulating a clear vision, establishing achievable goals and providing followers
with the knowledge and tools necessary to achieve those goals.
▪ Leadership derives from the power and is similar to get distinct from
management.In fact, Leadership and Management are different. There can be
managers of completely unorganized groups ,but there can be managers only of
organized groups.Thus it can be said that a manager is necessarily a leader but a
leader may not be a manager.
▪ Leadership is essential for managing .The ability to lead effectively is one of the
keys to being an effective manager because she/he has to combine resources and
lead a group to achieve objectives.
▪ Leadership and motivation are closely interconnected.By understanding
motivation,one can appreciate better what people want and why they act as they
do.
▪ Leadership involves an unequal distribution of power between leaders and group
members.Group members are not powerless;they can shape group activities in
some ways.still, the leader will usually have more power than the group members.
▪ The leader must co- exist with the subordinates or followers and must have a clear
idea about their demands and ambition.
▪ Leaders need to make positive statements of ethics big they are not hypocritical.
▪ Leading is a very demanding job both physically and psychologically.
▪ Leadership style refers to a leaders behavior towards group members.The
behavioral pattern which the leader reflects in his role as a leader is often
described as the style of leadership.
▪ Leadership style is the result of the leaders philosophy, personality,value
system,and experience.
▪ In the exploitative – Authoritative leadership style,vthe manager has no confidence
or trust in subordinates.Subordinates feel no freedom to discuss things about the
job with their superior.
▪ In solving job problems , manager seldom gets ideas and opinions of subordinates.
▪ In Benevolent – Autocratic leadership style, the manager has condescending
confidence and trust in subordinates,motivates with rewards and some
punishments, permits some upward communication,solicits some ideas and
opinions from subordinates,and allows some delegation of decision making but
with close policy control.
▪ Consultative leadership style indicates that manager has substantial but not
complete confidence and trust in subordinates but still wishes to keep control of
decisions.Subordinates feel free to discuss things about the job with their
superior.The manager gets ideas and opinions and tries to make contructive use of
them.
▪ In the Democratic leadership style, the manager has complete confidence and trust
in subordinates and allows them direct equal participation in decision making,
subordinates also feel completely free to discuss things about the job with their
superior. The manager always asks subordinates for their ideas and opinions and
makes constructive use of them.
▪ In a startup culture that is obsessed with management by metrics, many founders
struggle to answer this critical question about themselves. It’s tempting to measure
leaders simply by the success of their business.But even the most successful
founders know how much timing and luck can be confounding factors in this
approach.Measuring leadership through bottom –line company performance also
fails to provide any clues as to how someone can improve as a leader.
1. Superiors effectiveness and performance ratings
2. Subordinates ratings on,
▪ Satisfaction
▪ Organizational climate, morale, motivation,and Leadership effectiveness.
▪ Unit performance indices.
▪ Ratings by superior and subordinates generally yield useful information about a
leaders effectiveness.
▪ Multiple measures often yield the best information about leadership success.
▪ Practitioners need to think critically about how their behavior affects the measures
used to judge leadership success.
▪ Practitioners need to be aware of leadership success measure being biased.
▪ When judging,the consequence of leader behaviors are examined,than the
behaviors perse.
▪ Leadership is an integral part of human life.Leaders are evident in families,in
school,in workplaces,in churches,in social groups,and in one’s life.Indeed,
everyone must be a leader of his own life as he matures into an adult and makes
decisions for himself.