Chapter 8: Leadership

Question 1

What’s the difference between leadership and management?

Answer 1

Leadership focuses on change, vision and inspiration while management focuses on planning, controlling and maintaining stability.

Question 2

What is the Fiedler’s model?

Answer 2

According to Fiedler, the less task-oriented a leader is, the more employee-oriented is the leader and vice versa.
The following situational moderator variables in Fiedler’s theory that determine which leadership style is more successful:

• relationship between leader and followers:
  positive or negative
• task structure:
  very structured or very unstructured (i.e., complex and novel)
• positional power of the leader:
  very consolidated or very fragile

It also describes that in extreme situations leader should be task oriented whereas in regular environment person oriented.

Question 3

Explain transformational, transactional and servant leadership styles.

Answer 3

Transformational leadership can be understood as an extension of the charismatic leadership - stimulating, motivating and convincing.

Transactional leadership is a purpose driven give and take leadership.

Servant leaders have to display empathy, healing, awareness, stewardship, …