Leadership Lecture 2

Leadership is the capacity of an individual to influence people to accept and achieve a common goal

Leaders are born not made

Only one level of leadership in an organization occurs

Leadership is an emotionally charged relation

Leadership is science not art

Leadership is also embedded in historical context

Leadership is formally given

Leadership is about "to guide on a way"

Management is formally given

The legitmacy of Management is a personal relationship and for Leadership a hierarchy

Managers can be a leader

Organizations don't need both, a Leader and Manager

We need leaders to make people do things they would otherwise not do

We need Leaders for Stability not for certainty

Leadership is always relational

Leadership can exist without followership

Follower´s relation to leaders is highly emotionally charged

Followers Relation to leaders is also about resistance to subordinate oneself

Followership is about conscious, or unconscious, associations of familial authority figures

Being a leader is difficult but not complex role

Leadership in Weber: Authority is the right to obedience

There are two types of authority

There is no right to obedience

Leadership is about power

Power is bad

Power is an inevitable (unvermeidlich) part of organizations

There are 5 sources of power

Coercive: capacity to hurt people emotionally and physically, but not economically

Reward is the capacity to please people

Legitimate is the power that comes from holding a job

Referent is the capacity to please others, not to make others want to please you

Not everyone in an organization has some source of power

Power is an asymmetric relation

No one is powerless

because power is not possession there is no need for distributed leadership model

Leaders lead with communication as well with reward and punishment

Democratic Leadership Style is about Commitment, satisfaction and involvement

The Laissez-faire Leadership Style is about freedom and its role is passiv

Leadership Styl Consideration is about assigning group member to tasks

Consideration Leadership Style: Looks out for the personal welfare of group members, is friendly and approachable

Typical body of the leader: white, male, active

Leading is getting more difficult because of greater complexity and uncertainty of organizations

Nowadays is a push towards greater individual autonomy and emancipation