LEADERSHIP MODEL

Leadership Model

Leadership Model

Leadership is the ability to influence individuals or groups toward the achievement of goals. Leadership, as a process, shapes the goals of a group or organization, motivates behavior toward the achievement of those goals, and helps define group or organizational culture. It is primarily a process of influence.

Although some managers are able to influence followers to work toward the achievement of organizational goals, the conferring of formal authority on a manager does not necessarily make that individual a leader. Yes, that individual has authority, but whether or not they are able to influence their subordinates may depend on more that just that authority.

Behavioral Theories

The behavioral theorists identified determinants of leadership so that people could be trained to be leaders. They developed training programs to change managers' leadership behaviors and assumed that the best styles of leadership could be learned.

Situational Theory of Leadership Separates

The situational theory of leadership separates leadership behaviours into two general categories: task behaviour, which is the communication and management of the work tasks that the group must accomplish with the followers, and relationship behaviour, which is the creation and maintenance of personal or emotional connections between the leader and follower. Low maturity workers are seen as needing a high level of task-oriented supervision and a low level of relationship-oriented supervision(Yukl, 1989, pp.78-81). High maturity workers are viewed as requiring a low level of both task and relationship supervision. Intermediate-maturity workers are believed to require medium task-orientation and high relationship-oriented supervision (Blake, Mouton, 1964, pp. 40-41).

Example of Use

In design department of an interior architecture firms, they have different expertise of staff such as draft man, designers, senior designers, design manager. The design manager will be different roles in different situation job. When a newcomer joins the team, design manager will help them through first few days. The design manager will show newcomer around their working place and explain the company's on-going projects, as well as using different drawings for different styles, different templates. Newcomer' job is collecting all images such as bedroom, living room, or gardening in book or internet which has the style same as team project style required by the designers. At this stage, design manager is as telling leader that ask the follower does exactly what had been told. As the designers in the team, their job is drawing 2D plans such as floor's, ceiling's, elevation's and section's plans. The design manager needs to explain them the client's requirement, style and furniture allocation. After that he or she let them do the drawings. This stage design manager position is placed at selling styles of leadership that he willing to help and guide to designers. Senior designers are people who had the most creative ideas. Their job usually draws all 3D views of project. After meeting with client, they have to find out the style for the project. Even though by their experiences, senior designer can analyze the style for the project, they still come to discuss with the design ...