Leadership%20I:%20Theories%20of%20leadership

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Leadership ITheories of leadership

• (coffee hour today after class)

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Road Map for Course

• Personality

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• Relationships

• Group

• Context

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Leadership

• Mastering relational dynamics
• Influence
• Communicate
• Motivate
• Exercise power
• Levesque and Iacocca
• 3 questions
• What do they do?
• What are they like as people?
• What makes them good leaders?

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5 Approaches

• Descriptive
• Trait
• Contingency
• Normative
• Functional

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Descriptive Models What do leaders do all day?

• Mintzberg followed CEOs
• Decisions rely on heuristics and intuition
• Unplanned firefighting
• Variety of very short tasks
• gt50 tasks are less than 9 min
• lt10 tasks is more than 1 hr
• Debunks myth of rational leader

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Trait ModelsWhat are leaders personal
characteristics?

• Leaders vs. non-leaders
• Right mix of demographics
• Effective vs. ineffective leaders
• Right mix of skills, personality
• Correlation between traits and leadership
  effectiveness r.11

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Contingency Theories

• Different skills are needed at different times
• Trait x Situation
• Fiedlers Least Preferred Coworker (LPC) Scale
• Leadership effectiveness Fit between Leader
  Trait and Situation

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Fiedlers LPC Model
Leader Effectiveness
Low
High
Medium
Situational Control
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Normative Models

• Camp Counselors
• Authoritarian
• Democratic
• Laissez-faire
• Vrooms Decision Tree
• 3 styles
• Autocratic
• Consultative
• Consensus
• 8 situational contingents

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Problems with Contingency/Normative Models

• 1. Over-attribute outcomes to leadership
• Leaders-followers causality?
• Manipulate followers behavior
• Good followers democratic leaders
• Bad followers autocratic leaders
• Followers behavior gt leaders style
• Improve leaders by changing followers?

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Problems (cont)

• 2. Complexity
• LPC Situational Control
• Vroom decision tree
• But real leaders never consult decision tree!

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Problems (cont)

• 3. Assumes we change styles
• Ability to change limited
• When the going gets tough, default to natural
  styles
• Military do not train leaders to change styles,
  manipulate situations

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Midterm

• WHEN AND WHERE
• 10/26, EH1324, 9am-10am
• WHAT
• 30-40 multiple choice, 4-5 short answers
• Samples
• Lectures, text, coursepack, section exercises
• BRING
• 2 pencil, pen

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Review sessions

• Free-form Q A
• M 9-11 271 Denn
• M 5-7 B247 EH
• Structured reviews in sections this week (Section
  8, 9 go to anyone below)
• Th 10-12 224 Denn
• Th 12-2 B239 EH
• Th 4-6 B261 EH
• F 9-11 222 WH
• F 11-1 B261 EH
• F 1-3 271 Denn