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2.3 Flashcards

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Manager

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An individual who is responsible for setting objectives, organising resources and motivating staff so that the organisations’ aims are met.

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Henri Fayol Role of Management

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  • Setting objectives and planning
  • Organising resources
  • Directing and motivating staff
  • Coordinating activities
  • Controlling and measuring performance against targets
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Henri Mintzberg Role of Management

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Adding a “practical” approach.
Informational Roles
Interpersonal Roles
Decisional Roles

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Informational Roles (Henri Mintzberg)

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Connected to the handling of information.
- Monitor: information received from internal and external sources (checking weekly sales)
- Disseminator: interpreting and transmitting information to internal stakeholders (writing sales reports for management meetings)
- Spokesperson: transmitting information to external stakeholders (speaking to customers)

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Interpersonal Roles (Henri Mintzberg)

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Involves dealing with people.
- Figurehead: performing social and legal duties (presnting an award)
- Leader: all duties involving managing staff (appraisals)
- Liaison: maintaining a network of contacts who provide information, advice and help

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Decisional Roles (Henri Mintzberg)

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Making different types of decisions.
- Entrepreneur: finding opportunities and improving business performance
- Disturbance Handler: taking corrective action in order to resolve an issue
- Resource Allocator
- Negotiator: making agreements with external stakeholders

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Leadership

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Ability to influence the thoughts and behaviour of others to achieve organisational goals. Key element to a manager’s job.

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Leadership theory - Trait Theory

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Assumes people are born leaders. Suggests people can’t be trained to become leaders.

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Qualities of an effective leader

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  • Honesty and integrity
  • Risk taking
  • Administration and organisation
  • Fairness
  • Caring
  • Communication
  • Charisma
  • Confidence
  • Clear vission and innovation
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Leadership Styles

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Autocratic
Demoratic
Laissez-faire
Paternalistic
Situational

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Autocratic Leadership

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Keeps all decision making at the center of the organisation. Orders are given and obeyed without question.

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Democratic Leadership

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Allows consultation of all staff and delegation of authority, often associated with active participation from staff.

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Laissez-faire Leadership

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Leader’s role is peripheral and staff manages their own areas of the business. Reverse of autocratic style.

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Paternalistic Leadership

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Fatherly style typically used by dominant males where their power is used to control and protect subordinate employees who are expected to be loyal and obedient.

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Situational Leadership

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Effective leadership varies with the task in hand, situational leaders adapt their leadership style to each situation.

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Autocratic Style Benefits

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  • Decision making is quick
  • Tasks and relationships are cleary defined
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Autocratic Style Costs

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  • Employee expertise isn’t used
  • Creativity and initiative is suppressed
  • Can make employees feel like they are being controlled
  • Turnover may be high
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Situations where Autocratic style is appropiate

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  • Where work is repetitive
  • In situations of urgency
  • When employees don’t respond to any other leadership style
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Democratic Style Benefits

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  • Better quality decisions can be reached
  • Uses experience and knowledge of all the workforce
  • Job satisfaction and motivation is enhanced
  • Turnover may be reduced
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Democratic Style Costs

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  • Productivity my be reduced due to the amount of discussion taking place
  • Employees may not want the responsability
  • Relies heavily on good communication
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Situations where Democratic style is appropiate

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  • Where time can be taken to explore a variety of alterntives
  • Where flexibility is required
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Laissez-faire Advantages

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  • High degree of skill and motivation
  • Sense of team exists
  • Routine is familiar to workers
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Laissez-faire Disadvantages

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  • Low degree of knowledge in members
  • Groups expect to be told what to do
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Laissez-faire style is appropiate when:

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  • When leading a team of highly motivated and skilled people
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Paternalistic Style Benefits

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  • Workers feel valued
  • Sense of familiarity
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Paternalistic Style Costs

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  • Increased dependency of employees on the leader
  • Employee disatisfaction if bad decisions are made
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Situations in which is appropiate to use Paternalistic style

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  • New, inexperienced employees
  • Family run business
  • In traditional hierarchial structure where creativity is not encouraged

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