1. Organisational Behaviour
Leadership

2. Leadership: Concepts and Issues
What is Leadership?
Does it make difference?
What is managing against leading?
What is Formal Vs Informal Leadership?
Are Leaders born or made?

3. Leadership & Organisational Effectiveness
Leaders (leadership) make a difference -45% increase in profits (Dubrin, A. J. 03)
Determine fate of the organisations

4. Leadership Roles Figurehead Spokesperson Negotiator
Coach and Motivator
Team Builder
Team Player
Problem Solver
Entrepreneur
Strategic Planner
Source: Dubrin AJ ;Leadership

5. Leadership Traits Courageous Cooperative Imaginative Caring Determined
Mature
Ambitious
Loyal
Self-controlled
Independent
Honest
Forward-looking
Inspiring
Competent
Fair-minded
Supportive
Broad-minded
Intelligent
Straightforward
Dependable
Source: Kouzes & Posner

6. Skill Approach What leaders can accomplish Technical skills
Human Skills
Conceptual skills
Skills needed at various levels of Organisation
Technical
Human
Conceptual

7. Style approach How leaders behave
Task behaviour (production Orientation)
Relationship behaviour(relation orientation)
Leadership Grid (Blake and Souten)
Impoverished Mgt
Authoritty compliance Mgt
Middleof the road Management
Country Club Management
Team Management

8. Situational Approach Leadership in Situations
Hersey & Blancard four leadership styles
Delegating
Directing
Supporting
Coaching

9. Contingency approach
Effective leadership contingent upon matching leaders style to setting.
Leaders style
Task oriention
Relation orientation
Situation
Leader-member relations
Task structure
Position power

10. Path Goal Theory How leaders motivate Directive Supportive
Particiaptive
Achievement Oriented

11. transformational leadership
Influence that moves followers to accomplish more than what is expected of them

12. What is Leadership? 65 different classifications Viewed as
Focus of Group process
Possession of special traits, characteristics which enables others to be induced to accomplish tasks
Act or behaviour to bring change in group
Power Relationship between leaders and followers
Instrument of goal achievement
Set of skills(competencies) that make it effective
(Northhouse P G (03))

13. Themes of leadership Is a process Involves influence
Occurs within group context
Involves goal attainment

14. Defining Leadership
“Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal”
Northouse P J

15. Defining Leadership
Process to inspire and stimulate others to achieve worthwhile goals
Interpersonal influence, directed through communication toward goal attachment
The influential increment over and above mechanical compliance with directions and orders
An act that causes others to act or respond in a shared direction
The art of influencing people by persuasion or example to follow a line of action
The principal dynamic force that motivates and coordinates the organization in the accomplishment of its objectives
A willingness to take the blame
Source: Leadership. Andrew J. Dubrin

16. Leading Vs Managing Leading Produces Change and Movement
Establish Direction
Creating Vision
Clarify big picture
Set strategies
Aligning People
Communicate goals
Seek Commitment
Build teams and coalitions
Motivating and Inspiring
Inspire and energise
Empower subordinates
Satisfy unmet needs
Managing
Produces Order and Consistency
Planning/Budgeting
Establish agendas
Set time tables
Allocate resources
Organising/Staffing
Provide structure
Make job placements
Establish rules/procedures
Controlling/Problem Solving
Develop incentives
Generate creative solutions
Take corrective actions
Kotter, J P (1990)

17. Formal Vs Informal Leadership
Assigned Leadership
Formal position leadership; Team leaders, Plant managers, Department Heads, Directors etc
Emergent Leadership
Perception of individual by group members as most influential member irrespective of position or title
Through being verbally involved, being informed, seeking others opinion, initiating new ideas, being firm not rigid.
Personality traits: dominant, intelligent, confident about own performance.

18. Are Leaders Born? Leadership as Trait Leadership as a process
Leadership resides in select people having special inborn talents and skills
Leadership as a process
Leadership phenomenon resides in the context and makes available to everyone. As a process it can be observed in leader behaviour and it can be learned.