CHAPTER 3 Flashcards
Leadership, Supervision, and Command Presence (135 cards)
Leadership
the art of influencing, directing, guiding, and controlling others in such a way as to obtain their willing obedience, confidence, respect, and loyal cooperation in the accomplishment of an objective.
Distinction between being authority and being a leader
When men obey another because of fear, they are yielding . Their obedience is given grudgingly. There is little loyalty or teamwork, and no desire to give their all for a common cause.
When men follow, they do so willingly—because they want to do what a leader wishes
Development of Leadership Ability
In their book Extreme Ownership, How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win Jocko Willink and Leif Babin describe a leader as:
- The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails
- For all the definitions, descriptions, and characterizations of leaders, there are only two that matter: effective and ineffective
Development of Leadership Ability
Effective
Ineffective
- Effective leaders lead successful teams that accomplish their mission and win
- Ineffective leaders do not
Leadership ability is not inherited. There are no born leaders.
The true leader
—the ideal for the organization—is the leader recognized as such formally and granted leadership authority not only by the organization but also by the subordinates.
The grant of authority by the latter is the only real source of authority.
Leadership status must be earned.
- qualities may be developed by training and self-discipline
- habits can be changed and emotions controlled
- Mannerisms, speech, manual and mental skills, and attitudes can be altered by training
- requires diligent effort
The best leaders make their jobs appear easy because ________. They learn to ________ that problems are developing and have the fortitude to ________ before the problems become unmanageable.
- they have the fewest problems
- recognize symptoms
- take timely preventive action
Types of Leaders
- Autocratic
- Democratic
- Free Rein or Laissez-Faire
- Autocratic
- make decisions without allowing subordinates to participate
- go by the book
- direct, command, and control subordinates no one ever forgets who is the boss.
- rule through fear, intimidation, and threat
- the tyrant among supervisors
- leader centered, little concern for others and considerable interest in their own supervisory status
- Democratic or Participative Leader
seeking ideas and suggestions from their subordinates allowing them to participate in decisionmaking that affects them, by and large secure the best results as leaders.
use little authority to encourage the employees to participate in getting the job done.
They treat the employees as associates in a joint venture and increase feelings of responsibility and sense of achievement, recognition, and personal growth
this approach increases the employees’ commitment to the goals of the organization.
- Free Rein or Laissez-Faire Leader
- play down their role and exercise minimum control
- seldom giving subordinates the attention or help they need
- They do not interfere with employees
- often as harmful as an excessive amount of supervision
- concerned about being liked by subordinates than respected
- morale, discipline, efficiency, and production begin to deteriorate, and the leader loses control.
Situational Leadership
The ability to adjust leadership style to fit the developmental level of the followers and needs of a situation
developed by Kenneth Blanchard and Paul Hersey
Hersey and Blanchard developed situational leadership to:
help supervisors understand how to diagnose situations and apply the correct management style for maximum results.
a combination of task behavior (giving specific instructions) and relationship behavior
Readiness Style 1
(telling)
* Workers are both unable to do the job and unwilling to try
* high in task behavior but low in relationship behavior
officer has limited training in first aid and is insecure about attempting CPR
Readiness Style 2
(selling)
* Workers are unable to do the job but are willing or confident
* high in task behavior and high in relationship behavior
officers eager to write traffic tickets, but sergeant wants to teach how to be more effective in traffic enforcement by adding new behaviors to limited skill sets
Readiness Style 3
(participating)
* Workers are very capable but are unwilling or insecure
* low in task behavior and high in relationship behavior
experienced officers very capable but strongly disagrees with a new directive
Readiness Style 4
(delegating)
* workers are very capable and very willing
* low in task behavior and low in relationship behavior
a detective squad is closer to Style 4, comprised of experienced officers who want to be there
“Situational leadership is based on an interplay among: (three things)
(1) the amount of guidance and direction (task behavior) a leader gives
(2) the amount of socio-emotional support (relationship behavior) a leader provides;
(3) the readiness (‘maturity’) level that followers exhibit in performing a specific task, function, or objective.
It was developed to help leaders be more effective in their dealings with subordinates.
Transformational Leadership and Empowerment
- Successful and effective supervisors adapt
They motivate their workers to utilize creative problem solving. They reinforce the department’s vision and desired culture.
James MacGregor characterized leaders as:
Transactional leadership
or
Transformational leadership
- Transactional leadership
- Transformational leadership
- when one person takes the initiative, making contact with others for the purpose of the exchange of valued things
- when one or more persons engage with others in a way in which the leader and the non-leader raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality
According to the Center for Leadership Studies (CLS) Transformational leaders:
- set high standards of conduct, become role models, gaining trust, respect and confidence from others
- articulate the future desired state and a plan to achieve it;
- question the status quo and [are] continuously innovative, even at the peak of success
- energize people to achieve their full potential and performance.
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Transformational leaders:
- motivate followers to produce more than expected
- encourage followers to transcend self-interest for the group/organization
- motivate followers to address higher needs
- empower employees to make decisions and handle situations
Empowerment of employees
- pushing decisionmaking down to the lowest possible allowing employees to manage themselves and make decisions
- giving employees the authority to create new approaches -a new way improves the old.
- providing employees with the principles and values of the organization, along with the desired outcomes