Directing Part 2 Flashcards
What ability of an individual does leadership indicate?
It indicate s the ability of an individual to maintain good interpersonal relationships with followers and motivating them to achieve the organizational goal.
What are the features of leadership?
It indicates the ability of influencing others. It tries to bring changes to the behavior of others. It shows the relationship between leader and follower. It helps achieve common goals of an organization. It’s a continues process.
What are the two main things that play an important role in leadership?
Leader and Follower.
What makes you say that the leader and follower are the main Objects in leadership?
It is said that a good followers make a person a good leader, by accepting his leadership.
What makes you think that leaders are vital to an organization?
A leader not only commits his followers to the organizational goals but also pools in needed resources, guides and motivates subordinates to reach the goals.
What are the importance of leadership?
A leader makes employees contribute positively. He helps them fulfill their needs. He helps introduce changes smoothly. He handles conflicts among followers and he helps create a smooth succession.
How does the leader make the employees contribute positively?
A leader greatly influences the behavior of his employees and makes them positively contribute their energies to achieve the organizational goals.
How does a leader fulfill the needs of employees?
By maintaining a personal relationship with them and by providing needed confidence, support and encouragement.
How does leadership create a congenial environment?
By satisfying the needs of the employees by giving the confidence, support and encouragement.
How does leadership help in introducing changes smoothly?
He overcomes the problem of resistance by persuading, clarifying and inspiring people to accept change wholeheartedly.
How does a leader handle conflicts?
By allowing employees to ventilate their feelings and disagreements but persuading them by giving suitable clarification.
How does a leader create a smooth succession ?
He provides training to his subordinates and build up a proper successor.
Define Leadership?
It the process of of influencing the behavior of people by making them strive voluntarily towards achievement of organizational goals.
What are the qualities of a good leader?
Good physical features. Knowledge. Integrity. Initiative. Communication skills. Motivation skills. Self confidence. Decisiveness. Good social skiils
How is physical feature a quality of a good leader?
Physical features form the physical personality of a person and these good features attract people. Good health also means that he has more endurance and can work hard which can inspire others to work hard too.
Why should a good leader have knowledge?
A knowledgeable and competent leader is able to instruct and direct his subordinates in a proper and correct way.
Why should a good leader have integrity?
A leader should have integrity and be honest so that he will be role model to others regarding ethics and values.
What do you mean when you say a good leader should have initiative?
A good leader should not wait for opportunities to come his way but should grab opportunities and use to the firms advantages.
Why should a good leader have communication skills?
Because he should have the capacity to clearly explain his ideas and make people understand his ideas
Why should a good leader have motivation skills?
He should be an effective motivator because he should be able to understand the needs of people and motivate them to achieve their goals.
Why should a good leader be self confident?
A leader should be confident even in bad times so that he can provide confidence to his employees even in those bad times.
How should a leader be decisive?
Once a leader is convinced of a fact he should be firm about it and should not change his opinion frequently. He should be stern.
Why should a good leader have social skills?
He should be sociable and friendly to all his followers that way he maintain a good human relationship with them.
Is it possible for an individual to posses all the qualities of a good leader?
NO.
On what basis are the leadership styles classified?
They are classified on the basic of use of authority.
What are the classifications for the styles of authority?
Authoritarian or Autocratic leader.
Democratic or Participative leader.
Laissez faire or Free-reign leade.
What is autocratic type of leadership?
Such a leader gives orders and expects them to be followed obediently. Communication is only one way and subordinates only act according to the order. This kind of leader is dogmatic i.e does not wish to be contradicted.
What is a dogmatic leader effective in doing?
This type is effective in getting productivity in many situations like factory conditions and in making quick decisions.
What is a democratic or participative leadership style?
This is a leadership style where the leader makes decisions only after consulting his subordinates. He encourages them to participate in decision making. Now a days people use this as they realize that employees perform best when they set their own goals.
What is a Laissez faire or free reign leadership style?
In this style the leader does not use power unless he thinks it is absolutely necessary. The followers are given a high degree of independence to formulate their own objectives and ways to achieve them. The work on their own task resolving issues themselves. The leader only plays a supportive role and supplies them with necessary information to reach the goal.
Which leadership style out of the three should be adopted?
Leaders may choose to exercise different combinations of these styles. Whatever the situation demands.
Define communication.
It is the process of transferring information from the sender to the receiver with the information being understood by receiver.
What makes you say that communication is vital for effective directing?
The amount of knowledge doesn’t matter if the leader cannot communicate his ideas effectively. His directing abilities depend on his communication skills.
What are the elements of communication?
Sender. Message. Encoding. Media. Decoding. Receiver. Feedback. Noise.
Explain the process of communication?
It starts from the sender. The message is then encoded and sent across a media. Once the receiver gets the message he decodes it and sends the feedback
