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Lecture Two Introduction To Leadership

This document provides an introduction to leadership, including definitions of leadership and management. It discusses that a leader's job is to create effective conditions for their team. Leadership is important for crisis situations, accomplishing complex tasks, organizational performance, employee satisfaction, successful management, and providing meaning. While management focuses on short-term goals and maintaining the status quo, leadership focuses on developing a vision for the future and initiating change. Effective leaders provide direction, achieve objectives, influence positive change, and enjoy working with people.

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Lecture Two Introduction To Leadership

This document provides an introduction to leadership, including definitions of leadership and management. It discusses that a leader's job is to create effective conditions for their team. Leadership is important for crisis situations, accomplishing complex tasks, organizational performance, employee satisfaction, successful management, and providing meaning. While management focuses on short-term goals and maintaining the status quo, leadership focuses on developing a vision for the future and initiating change. Effective leaders provide direction, achieve objectives, influence positive change, and enjoy working with people.

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Introduction to

Leadership
Lecture Two
Dr. Maha Dajani

Learning Objectives
1. Understand the different ways
leadership has been defined.
2. Understand the controversy about
differences between leadership and
management.
3. Understand the main roles of a
leader.
4. Pinpoint the satisfactions and
frustrations of Leaders.

1-2

What is Leadership?

The leaders job is to


create conditions for
the team to be
effective.

Why Leadership
is Important ?

Why Leadership is Important ?


For Crisis situations , to accomplish
complex tasks.
For organizational performance , to keep
focus on group goals
For employee job satisfaction
For successful management
For validation , to help make sense of the
world by providing a romantic ideal.

Leadership vs. Management

Leadership = To have a
Vision or a picture of an
ambitious, desirable future
for the organization or
team

Management is the attainment of


organizational goals in an effective
and
efficient
manner
through
planning, organizing, staffing, directing,
and
controlling
organizational
resources.

Are All Leaders Managers?


Manager = formal title and
authority
Leader = person (manager or non
manager) with influence
Follower = person influenced by a
leader

The overlap of leadership and


management

Leadership and Management


(Verbs)
Leaders

Managers

innovate

administer

develop

maintain

inspire

control

have a long-term view.

have short-term view

ask what and why.

ask how and when

originate.

imitate

challenge the status quo

accept the status quo

Management and Leadership


Managers( hard skills)

Leaders ( soft skills)

Focus on the present


Maintain the status quo
Implement policy
Maintain existing culture
and structure
Remain aloof and
objective
Use position power

Focus on the future


Create change
Initiate policy
Create new culture
and structure
Establish emotional
bonds with followers
Use personal power

Leadership Is a Process, Not a Position


Leader

Followers

Leadership

Situation

Leadership is the result of complex interactions among the


leader, the followers, and the situation
Ch. 1 Leadership Dr. Maha Dajani 2014

2/14/2015

The Interactional Framework for


Analyzing Leadership

Ch. 1 Leadership Dr. Maha Dajani 2014

2/14/2015

Who are the


effective
leaders?

Effective Leaders
Know when to lead, when
to follow.
Influence
followers
to
support
organizational
interests.
Provide direction.

Effective Leaders (cont.)


Set challenging objectives and
lead the charge to achieve
them
Influence change for continual
improvement
Enjoy working with people

What are indicators of


leadership effectiveness ?

High group performance


Follower satisfaction
Improved group
processes
Career success of leader

Satisfactions of Leaders

1. A feeling of power and prestige.


2. A chance to help others grow and develop.
3. High income.
4. Respect and status.
5. Good opportunities for advancement.
6. A feeling of being in on things.
7. An opportunity to control money and other
resources

Frustrations of Leaders
Despite the glory of being a leader, occupying
a leadership or management role has many
built-in potential frustrations:
1. Too much uncompensated overtime.
2. Too many headaches.
3. Facing a perform-or-perish mentality.
4. Not enough authority to carry out
responsibility.
5. Loneliness (being a leader limits the number
of people one can confide in).

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