3.2 Managers, Leadership And Decision Making Flashcards
Define leadership
Leadership means taking the initiative to set clear objectives and the motivate or guide staff towards their achievement
Define management
Management means organising and galvanising staff to implement the strategy is needed to achieve the objectives
The role of managers should include:
– Setting objectives – analysing – leading – making decisions – reviewing
Give examples of leadership qualities
– Brave – passionate – willing to take risks – driven – organised – confident
What is an autocratic leadership style?
Autocratic managers are authoritarian; they make decisions without reference to anyone else. They tend to use one way, top-down communication. They give orders to employees and do not want feedback.
What is a democratic leadership style?
Democratic managers encourage decision-making from different perspectives. They tend to listen to the employees ideas and ensure people contribute to the discussion; communication is the way. Bosses put the idea forward and listen to feedback. This helps motivation of employees.
What is a laissez-faire leadership style?
This occurs when leaders are too busy or just lazy, that they let everyone take responsibility for decisions. This can make decision-making time-consuming and can lack direction of what the business needs to do. However, it is useful for when creative ideas are needed and can be very motivational for employees.
What is a paternalistic leadership style?
Paternalistic leader thinks and acts like a father. They try to do what is best for their staff. Employees are consulted when decisions are made. They are closely supervised to supply direction. Paternalists are interested in the security and social needs of staff
What is the Blake Mouton grid?
The Blake Mouton grid assess managers based on how much they care about their employees and how much they care about production, which assess their leadership style.
What are the five styles of leadership represented on the Blake Mouton grid?
- Impoverished style
- Produce or perish style
- Country club style
- Middle of the road
- Team style
What does an impoverished style entail?
Low concern for people and low concern for production. This is poor management for both human and production resources. This results in low levels of motivation in the workforce and low levels of productivity or failing quality
What does a produce or perish leadership style entail?
An authoritarian focus on the work with strict rules that leads to a neglect of workers needs and a demotivated workforce. This may result in high levels of absenteeism and staff turnover
What does a country club style of leadership entail?
High concern for people, low concern for task. An over concern with work and welfare and harmony leads to a happy but not very productive workplace. This leadership style doesn’t motivate the workers to increase their output
What does a middle of the road leadership style entail?
Average concern for workers needs and average focus on production leads to mediocre results. Although productive output is higher than in the impoverished or countries club style, it could be better
What does a team style of leadership entail?
This is seen as the ideal leadership style. High concern for people in production creates a happy, motivated and productive workforce. It often uses non-financial methods of motivation. And there is a high concern for the production as well
