Leadership is the capacity of an individual to influence people to accept and achieve a common goal
Leaders are born not made
Leaders are made by
followers
Situation
culture
performance
lies
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
What is Leadership about?
Change
Vision and inspiration
Person
Leadership is formally given
Leadership is about "to guide on a way"
Management is formally given
Management is about
Implantation
Command and control
Appointed
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
Being a leader is about
Challenge
Responsbility
Structure
Importance
Leadership in Weber: Authority is the right to obedience
There are two types of authority
There is no right to obedience
Charismatic
Right to obedience based on personality of leader
Right to obedience based on custom or habit
Right to obedience based on a system of rules
Traditional
Rational - Legal
Leadership is about power
Power is bad
Power is an inevitable (unvermeidlich) part of organizations
There are 5 sources of power
Coercive (Zwangsmaßnahmen)
capacity to hurt people
capacity to please people
Coercive: capacity to hurt people emotionally and physically, but not economically
Reward is the capacity to please people
Expert
the power that comes from possession of knowledge
the power that comes from holding a job
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
Leadership Style Authoritarian
order, consistency, resolution of conflict
commitment, loyalty, involvement
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