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Organisational Leadership

Contemporary Management
CORP2165D

Dr Raymond Lihe Lecture 04: Week 04


Plan for the session
Review

Understanding people

Leadership styles

Leadership principles
What next?
Review – Organisation Structure
Formal structure Structures

Informal structure
Structure for performance
People In Organisation
Organisation and people
People in networks
Clients
Supporters
Employees
Manager
Leader
Leadership
Leadership is the process by which a
person exerts influence over other
people and inspires, motivates and
directs their activities to help achieve
group or organisational goals.
- Yukl (1989) Process

The person who exerts such influence is a leader.

Schools of thought Leadership is the accomplishment of


1. Leaders are born goals through the direction of human
2. Characters make leader assistants.
3. Leaders emerge Result - Prentice (2004)
Virtuous Circle
Leaders listen to
followers

Followers benefit Followers empower


from their leaders their leaders

Leaders act for their


followers
Taken from: O’Connor (2016)
Influence
Supervisors

Leader /
Externals Colleagues
Manager

Subordinates
Influence is the process of
modifying the behaviour of others
by mobilising power.
Legitimate
Sources of power
power

Expertise Reward
power power

Power

Referent Coercive Power is the ability to produce


power power intended effects.
Prioritising tasks
Unurgent

Important but Unimportant and


unurgent unurgent
Urgency

Unimportant but
Urgent

Important and Urgent


Urgent
Start working on the tasks
that are important but
Important Unimportant not urgent.
Importance
Leadership Style
Changing landscape
2000
Charismatic, transformative, servant, authentic, relational
1980
Contingency: Exchange, situational, transactional
1960
Behaviour: Democratic, autocratic, laissez-fair

1940
Trait: Individual attributes
1920
High
Accommodating
Sound style
style

Concern of people
Status-quo style

Indifferent style Control style

Leadership in grid Low Concern of result high


Transactional style
Transactional

Leaders who motivate employees by


rewarding them for high
performance and punishing for low
performance.

Four characters
- Focussed on short-term goals
- Oppose for changes
- Tend to be less flexible
- Rules and regulations.
Transformational style
Transformational

Leaders who encourage, inspire and


motivate people to become
innovative, creative and achieve
organisational goals.

Four characters
- Charisma
- Inspiration motivation
- Intellectual stimulation
- Individualised consideration.
Leadership Principles
Principles defined
Principles are understood as the
foundation for a system of beliefs,
behaviour and reasoning.

George Washington

Leadership principles are the set of beliefs, behaviours


and reasoning that a leader can implement to make
the organisation move forward.
Leadership principles: Change

Change is apparent
Leadership principles: Open & honest

Open and honest


Leadership principles: Listening

Listening adds value


Leadership principles: Teamwork

Teamwork for secured future


Source: India Today
What Next?
Bass, BM (1990), From Transactional to Transformational Leadership:
Learning to Share Vision, Organizational Dynamics, 18(3): 19-31.
Bratton, J (ed) (2020), Organizational Leadership, London: Sage.

Choose one organisation and find out who is the leader and what type of
leadership behaviours does he or she demonstrate.

Seminar 5: Read the seminar task and follow the instructions


Lecture 5: Read Chapter Six of the Core Textbook for planning and
goalsetting
Any Questions?
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