This individual the fourth type the most difficult deal with
Business and Project
Last Lecture…
Last week, we considered Last week, we considered issues issues that could hinder the
This lecture is concerned with This lecture is concerned with leadership leadership; the role of
senior management
The Role of Leadership
Styles of Leadership
What is Leadership?
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Mahatma Gandhi |
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Leadership is Leadership is difficult to define
There are There are no common factors, traits, or processes
What is Leadership?
Peter Drucker Peter Drucker opines that effective leadership is based primarily
on being consistent consistent. .
technical, and administrative. .
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What is Leadership?
anything from task conditions task conditions to to subordinate
expectations. .
The Role of Leadership
The implementation of a strategy implementation of a strategy will mean there is going to
be some kind of change
control of those resources
There might be new practices new practices to implement
The Role of Leadership
Some people will win, others will (or could could) lose
The increased The increased chance of failure
The need for The need for faith faith or or belief
in order to:
Manage the political and power struggles political and power struggles that will ensue
Styles of Leadership
Styles of Leadership
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This kind of leadership is said to be beneficial:
For managing For managing strategic change
Instrumental (transactional) leaders are said to be:
Concerned with Concerned with designing systems
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shares the values of the company has onward-and-upward prospects.
A leader who A leader who does not meet commitments does not meet commitments but but shares the company
on commitments, makes all the numbers, but , makes all the numbers, but doesn’t share the values
This individual is typically the one who forces performance out of
Cleland and Ireland (2007: 384) presents two types of leadership
style:
directive, autocratic, and socially distant.
Task-oriented leadership style usually is associated with leadership style usually is associated with productivity productivity but may
task-centred as as instrumental (or transactional)
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The people being led: The people being led: the followers
The The situation or context situation or context (i.e. the project environment or problem)
relationship among these variables.”
Source: Adapted from McGregor (1960: 179-189) 20
