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LEADERSHIP
LEADERSHIP
LEADERSHIPDEFINITIONS
DEFINITIONS Leadership is the ability to motivate people to strive to achieve common goals.
Leadership is the ability to influence people to achieve
worthwhile goals.
LEADERSHIPTHE
CHARACTERISTICS OF A LEADER
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A LEADER
1.Leaders have character or integrity.
2. Leaders are learners.3. Leaders have visions.4. Leaders have positive
attitude.
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A LEADER
5. Leaders value people.6. Leaders initiate change.
7. Leaders empower others.8. Leaders Know and Focus
on What is Important.
LEADERSHIPTYPES OFLEADERS
Types of Leaders
1. Thought leaders2. Courageous leaders3. Inspirational leaders
4. Servant leaders
LEADERSHIPLEADERSHIP
STYLES
LEADERSHIP STYLES
1. Autocratic leadership
LEADERSHIP STYLES
Advantages
Quick decision making. Good for employees that
need close supervision to perform.
Maintains order and discipline.
LEADERSHIP STYLES
Disadvantages
It leads to high stress or health problems for the leader because he takes full responsibility for team decisions and assessment review.
It dampens the morale of employees and reduces their capacity and productivity.
The leader’s presence is needed to guarantee that employees will keep working.
LEADERSHIP STYLES
2. Democratic Leadership
LEADERSHIP STYLES
Advantages Individual abilities can be developed
through participation.
The knowledge and experience of group members can be used in decision making.
Participation can result in high motivation of team members.
LEADERSHIP STYLES
Disadvantages Individuals may dominate the
participation or make disruptive contribution.
This approach can be very time consuming for the leader because of the use of two-way communication.
Compromise can result in actions that are not the most effective.
LEADERSHIP STYLES
3. Laissez-faire Leadership
LEADERSHIP STYLES
Advantages
Less direction is required.Disadvantages
Employees lose their sense of direction and focus.
Employees become less interested in their job and their dissatisfaction
increases.
LEADERSHIPDIFFERENCES
BETWEEN HEADSHIP AND
LEADERSHIP
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HEADSHIP AND LEADERSHIP
HEADSHIP LEADERSHIP
1. Headship derives power from
position.
1. Leadership
derives power from
influence.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HEADSHIP AND LEADERSHIP
2. Headship does not get full
loyalty from followers.
2. Leadership enjoys full
loyalty from followers.
3. Headship chooses goals in line with their own needs and
interests.
3. Leadership chooses goals in
line with the needs and
interests of their group or team.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HEADSHIP AND LEADERSHIP
4. In headship, there is little or no joint action in the pursuit of goals.
4. Leadership engages the input of their group or team members in
the pursuit of goals.
5. In terms of relationship, there is a wide gap between the head and the group in headship .
5. In leadership, there is close interaction between the leader and the group.
LEADERSHIP
