Paper Topic:

MBA Implementing Strategies - Leadership

leadership

2004

What is leadership ? Leadership is the ability to influence people . It is the ability to inspire them , to make them reaching some definite aims There are several types of leadership and we 'll examine some of them such as control , co-operation and autonomy in order to discuss the circumstances in which each would be more appropriate

One of the forms of leadership is control . There is a hypothesis according to which men are more oriented on such type of leadership than women . It means , that women have tendency to

more democratic style of leadership , which includes own ability for participation in work process as well as showing less autocracy , whereas men have tendency for more directive style , which includes control . In accordance with one of theories , people don 't like to work and try to avoid work if they have such possibility . Also people don 't have ambitions and try to avoid responsibility , preferring to be under somebody 's management . Most of all they want to feel protected . In order to force people to work , you need to use force , control and threat of punishment

Basing on such suppositions , a leader tries to centralize his power structures work of his subordinates and almost doesn 't give them freedom in taking decisions (Juran 1991 ,

.81 . Such kind of leader also manages the whole work within limits of his competence and , in order to provide with fulfillment of work , can make psychological pressure and threat

Such type of leader tries to control everything , forcing his subordinates to obey rules , which strictly stipulate and determine behavior of his workers . This style of leadership is more often unsuccessful . It can ruin the mental climate in the company . First of all , the flexibility of taking decisions suffers . In case such authoritative manager takes controlling decisions , he doesn 't takes into account opinions of his workers . In such a way , any new idea cannot appear . People see that the manager doesn 't take care of their opinion and stop to offer new ideas , because they know that they will not be heard . Workers also don 't have feeling of responsibility for quality of their labor . As soon as they don 't have possibility to be initiative they don 't understand work as motivation

Another type of leadership is co-operation . This is style of leadership when a manager tries to join people for fulfillment of the aim without strict control (Kondo 2000 ,

.113 . This is a form of dialogue , not monologue . The leader acts as a connecting-link . He works in a team , making sure that aims of a definite group corresponds to the aims of organization in organizational group receives all necessary resources . The leader creates atmosphere of confidence and openness , and in such a way people can always ask him for help if necessary . Such double-sided communication plays determining role in co-operation process

Such style of leadership is good in any case . Especially it is good when it is important to support...

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