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Chapter 8: Leadership in Management

Leadership Qualities

Managing and Leading Others

  • Leadership means taking a company and its employees in a direction based upon a vision.

  • Leaders also make sure that the basic operations of an organization are running smoothly.

  • Being a good leader takes several qualities.

    • Motivation, confidence, communication skills, and integrity are among them.

  • Motivation has three different components.

    • One involves inspiring others.

    • Another component is initiative.

      • Initiative is the ability to act and make decisions without the help or advice of others.

    • A true leader is motivated by a vision and uses it to inspire others

  • Leaders also need self-confidence.

    • Being self-confident means knowing what to do and taking action

  • A leader must be good at human relations.

    • Human relations is the study of how people interact in the workplace and how communication can be improved.

  • Good communication also involves mentoring.

  • A mentor is a trusted counselor or guide.

  • Integrity is an adherence to a code of ethical values such as honesty, loyalty, and fairness.

    • Integrity is the most highly valued quality in a leader.

Developing Leadership Skills

  • To manage activities successfully, you must draw on a specific set of skills.

    • These include human relations, communication, networking, problem solving, and decision-making skills.

  • Leadership qualities are learned through knowledge and experience.

  • Skills can be developed in a number of ways, such as

    • through reading books, watching videos, and taking courses on leadership.

    • by working with someone who has leadership ability and studying what he or she does.

    • by joining a club, a team, a drama group, or a community organization.

    • by taking initiative at school, at work, or in club activities.

Leadership Styles

Types of Leadership

  • An autocratic leadership style is one in which one person runs everything and makes all decisions without consulting others.

    • Autocratic leadership is useful in situations in which it is important to obey orders without question.

  • Democratic leadership is a style in which managers work with employees to make decisions.

    • A democratic leader assumes that people have ideas and are inclined to contribute.

  • Free-rein leadership requires the leader to set goals for managers and employees and then leave them alone to get the job done.

    • Another name for this type of leadership style is hands-off leadership

  • Giving managers and employees the power to run things and make decisions is called delegating.

    There are several reasons for a leader to delegate:

    • The managers do not have time to do everything.

    • The managers can focus on more important work.

    • Employees have more ownership of the production process.

    • Employees have a chance to develop their own potential.

Leadership in Teams

  • Many companies have been putting workers in self-managed teams.

    • Self-managed teams are work groups that supervise themselves.

  • With these teams, the manager’s role is replaced by the team leader’s role.

  • In a self-managed team, the leader is a team player rather than a boss.

  • Self-managed teams are organized in two ways:

    • (1) the team selects one team leader, or

    • (2) each team member employs specialized skills, but there is no team leader.

  • Self-managed teams have many advantages:

    • They are more goal-oriented than task-oriented.

    • Team members have a chance to learn each other’s job and
      obtain new skills.

    • Team members learn to participate and cooperate.

    • Self-managed teams learn to solve their own problems.

  • The disadvantage of self-managed teams is that some people do not have the skills and initiative to work together productively.

Chapter 8: Leadership in Management

Leadership Qualities

Managing and Leading Others

  • Leadership means taking a company and its employees in a direction based upon a vision.

  • Leaders also make sure that the basic operations of an organization are running smoothly.

  • Being a good leader takes several qualities.

    • Motivation, confidence, communication skills, and integrity are among them.

  • Motivation has three different components.

    • One involves inspiring others.

    • Another component is initiative.

      • Initiative is the ability to act and make decisions without the help or advice of others.

    • A true leader is motivated by a vision and uses it to inspire others

  • Leaders also need self-confidence.

    • Being self-confident means knowing what to do and taking action

  • A leader must be good at human relations.

    • Human relations is the study of how people interact in the workplace and how communication can be improved.

  • Good communication also involves mentoring.

  • A mentor is a trusted counselor or guide.

  • Integrity is an adherence to a code of ethical values such as honesty, loyalty, and fairness.

    • Integrity is the most highly valued quality in a leader.

Developing Leadership Skills

  • To manage activities successfully, you must draw on a specific set of skills.

    • These include human relations, communication, networking, problem solving, and decision-making skills.

  • Leadership qualities are learned through knowledge and experience.

  • Skills can be developed in a number of ways, such as

    • through reading books, watching videos, and taking courses on leadership.

    • by working with someone who has leadership ability and studying what he or she does.

    • by joining a club, a team, a drama group, or a community organization.

    • by taking initiative at school, at work, or in club activities.

Leadership Styles

Types of Leadership

  • An autocratic leadership style is one in which one person runs everything and makes all decisions without consulting others.

    • Autocratic leadership is useful in situations in which it is important to obey orders without question.

  • Democratic leadership is a style in which managers work with employees to make decisions.

    • A democratic leader assumes that people have ideas and are inclined to contribute.

  • Free-rein leadership requires the leader to set goals for managers and employees and then leave them alone to get the job done.

    • Another name for this type of leadership style is hands-off leadership

  • Giving managers and employees the power to run things and make decisions is called delegating.

    There are several reasons for a leader to delegate:

    • The managers do not have time to do everything.

    • The managers can focus on more important work.

    • Employees have more ownership of the production process.

    • Employees have a chance to develop their own potential.

Leadership in Teams

  • Many companies have been putting workers in self-managed teams.

    • Self-managed teams are work groups that supervise themselves.

  • With these teams, the manager’s role is replaced by the team leader’s role.

  • In a self-managed team, the leader is a team player rather than a boss.

  • Self-managed teams are organized in two ways:

    • (1) the team selects one team leader, or

    • (2) each team member employs specialized skills, but there is no team leader.

  • Self-managed teams have many advantages:

    • They are more goal-oriented than task-oriented.

    • Team members have a chance to learn each other’s job and
      obtain new skills.

    • Team members learn to participate and cooperate.

    • Self-managed teams learn to solve their own problems.

  • The disadvantage of self-managed teams is that some people do not have the skills and initiative to work together productively.

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