Ch 14 Leadership Styles and Effectiveness

Leadership: Styles and Behaviors

• Leader Effectiveness: Evaluated by unit performance, employee commitment, and mutual trust.
• Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Theory: Focuses on the quality of relationships between leaders and followers, influencing effectiveness.

Leadership Styles

• Autocratic Style: Leader makes decisions unilaterally.
• Consultative Style: Leaders seek input but make decisions themselves.
• Facilitative Style: Encourages group consensus on decisions.
• Delegative Style: Assigns decision-making responsibilities to employees.

Decision-Making Styles

• Importance of context in decision-making varies (Time-Driven Model).
• Factors impacting effectiveness: decision significance, commitment, leader expertise, etc.

Day-to-Day Behaviors

• Leaders engage in behaviors across eight categories: initiation, organization, production, membership, integration, communication, recognition, representation.
• Initiating Structure: Defines roles for goal achievement.
• Consideration: Builds mutual trust and respect.

Leadership Theories

• Life Cycle Theory: Leadership style depends on employee readiness.
• Transformational Leadership: Inspires commitment and supports follower development through idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration.

Importance of Leadership

• Transformational leadership positively impacts job performance and organizational commitment.
• Leadership training enhances skills and effectiveness based on transformational principles.

Substitutes and Neutralizers for Leadership

• Substitutes: Factors that enhance team performance without requiring active leadership.
• Neutralizers: Factors that diminish a leader's influence without enhancing performance.