What is Leadership?

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What is Leadership?

• Leadership is the process of influencing people
  and providing an environment for them to achieve
  team or organizational objectives.

Courtesy of Suncor Energy Inc.
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What is your leadership potential

• Leadership readiness score add 1-5
• Leadership style Task emphasis 79 relationship
  emphasis 6 8
• Strength of preference
• Leadership style adaptability Item 10

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Leaders and Managers Distinguishing Their Roles
Establish organizational mission
Leaders Job
Formulate Strategy for implementing mission
Implement organizational strategy
Managers Job
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Perspectives of Leadership
Competency Perspective
Leadership Perspectives
Behaviour Perspective
Romance Perspective
Contingency Perspective
Transformational Perspective
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Behavioural PerspectiveSeven Leadership
Competencies

• 1. Drive
• 2. Leadership motivation
• 3. Integrity
• 4. Self-confidence
• 5. Intelligence
• 6. Knowledge of the business
• 7. Emotional intelligence

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Leader Behaviour Perspective

• People-oriented behaviours
• Showing mutual trust and respect
• Concern for employee needs
• Desire to look out for employee welfare
• Task-oriented behaviours
• Assign specific tasks
• Ensure employees follow rules
• Push employees to reach peak performance

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Path-Goal Leadership Styles

• Directive
• Task-oriented behaviours
• Supportive
• People-oriented behaviours
• Participative
• Encouraging employee involvement
• Achievement-oriented
• Using goal setting and positive self-fulfilling
  prophecy

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Path-Goal Leadership Model
Employee Contingencies
Environmental Contingencies
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Path-Goal Contingencies

• Skill/Experience low low high high
• Locus of Control external external internal intern
  al

Task Structure nonroutine routine nonroutine ? Tea
m Dynamics ve norms low cohesion ve norms ?
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Leadership Substitutes

• Conditions that limit a leaders influence or
  make a particular leadership style unnecessary.
• Examples
• Training and experience replace directive
  leadership
• Cohesive team replaces supportive leadership
• Self-leadership replaces achievement-oriented
  leadership

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Transformational v. Transactional Leaders

• Transformational leaders
• Leading changing the organization to fit the
  environment
• Develop, communicate, enact a vision
• Transactional leaders
• Managing linking job performance to rewards
• Ensure employees have necessary resources
• Apply contingency leadership theories

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Transformational Leadership Elements
Creating a Vision
Building Commitment
Transformational Leadership
Communicating the Vision
Modelling the Vision
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Romance Perspective of Leadership
AttributingLeadership
Romance Perspectiveof Leadership
Stereotyping Leadership
Need for Situational Control
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Gender Issues in Leadership

• Male and female leaders have similar task- and
  people-oriented leadership.
• Participative leadership is used more often by
  female leaders.
• Women rated less favourably than equivalent male
  leaders due to stereotyping.