Leading, influencing & motivating

In this lecture we learned deep into the various roles of a leader and their qualities that make a leader that others will want to follow, to understand what inspires current leadership behaviors in an organization. We even examined he different leadership type and styles.

Leadership in practice: management is the process of decision making to make the most of all resources “good managers make things happen ”. it is at the core of all managerial and supervisory activities by giving vision and direction to their followers, they energies to set and enforce absolute standards of behavior, presentation, attitude and performance. Leaders mainly promote positive, harmonious and productive working relations with their employers within the business.
Leadership types:

Ø  Traditional

Ø  Known leaders

Ø  Appointed leaders

Ø  Bureaucratic leader

Ø  Functional/expert leader

Ø Informal leader

There are some approaches to people management:

Ø Classic approach-

·        Lower-level management(efficiency leads to productivity ).

·        Comprehensive analysis of management (developed by Henri Fayol).

·        Criticisms : neglects to consider critical interpersonal skills.

Ø Behavioral approach-

·        Hawthorne studies(1924-1932)

·        Examined the working environment to improve productivity.

Ø Management science approach 

The main reasons productivity improved:

1.     The subjects found working in the room enjoyable

2.     The new supervisory relationship during the experiment allowed the subjects to work freely, without fear

3.     The subjects realized that they were taking place in an important an interesting study

4.     The subjects seemed to become friendly as a group

The human variable

Understanding the human variables is key to motivation and influencing. Employees affect an organization productivity and harmony plus support within social groups was evident in both Hawthrown Studies. Inspired the Human relations movement –a people oriented approach + understanding employee’s needs. They even inspire Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

Considered the role of a leader and how to inspire employees to work in tangent was the main topic in this lecture of mine.