LEADERSHIP STYLES

KALEESWARAN SSONA SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

SALEM, INDIA

“Leadership position can be inherited but leadership capacity can only be built”……

-Dr. APJ.ABDUL KALAM

LEADERSHIP

Leadership is the “art of leading others to deliberately create a result that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.”

The Characteristics of a Good Leader• Self-Awareness• Self-Direction• Vision• Ability to Motivate• Social Awareness.

LEADERSHIP STYLES

• Authentic leadership• Cognitive leadership• Cross-cultural leadership• Shared leadership

AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP

A pattern of transparent and ethical leader behaviour that encourages openness in sharing information needed to make decisions while accepting followers inputs.

SO, HOW DOES AUTHENTICITY SUPPORT A BUSINESS

• When people feel free to be who and what they are both privately and publicly they have more energy to create and innovate.

• Authentic workers are more likely to bring their whole selves to the job, engage with the company’s goals and participate fully in the mission of the enterprise.

• These same employees also recognize and are attracted to authentic leaders, and follow them with greater dedication leading to stronger teams and enhanced business performance.

COGNITIVE LEADERSHIP

A broad range of approaches to leadership emphasizing how leaders and followers think and process information.

COGNITIVE LEADERSHIP IMPACT ON BUSINESS

The theory of cognitive leadership conceives a number of personal characteristics to be important for an cognitive leader in an attempt to exert cognitive leadership which includes,

• Eloquence• Persuasiveness• Patience• Persistence• Capacity for gaining sympathy• Confidence• Communicativeness and• Appreciativeness.

CROSS CULTURAL LEADERSHIP

• Cross-cultural Leadership attempts to understand how individuals of different cultures interact with each other.

• Along these lines, cross-cultural leadership has developed as a way to understand leaders who work in the newly globalized market.

• Today’s international organizations require leaders who can adjust to different environments quickly and work with partners and employees of other cultures.

CROSS CULTURAL LEADERSHIP IMPACT ON BUSINESS

• Cultural differences among project team members may create an additional misunderstanding throughout the project life cycle.

• The impact of cultural factors such as language barriers, religious diversity time differences, socio-economic, political, and may result in a normative pattern prescribing a range of permissible actions so as to encourage self-interest.

• Motivating project team members may encounter significant barriers in multi-cultural project communications.

• To achieve project goals and avoid potential risks, project managers should be culturally sensitive and promote creativity and motivation through flexible leadership.

SHARED LEADERSHIP

• Shared leadership is leadership that is broadly distributed, such that people within a team and organization lead each other.

• In other words  "leadership that emanates from members of teams, and not simply from the appointed leader.

SHARED LEADERSHIP IMPACT ON BUSINESS

• Shared leadership between two leaders, one task-oriented and the other behaviour-oriented, would result in greater success than leadership by one person alone.

• Reduced stress levels for key leaders also make this model attractive, as a more robust, shared leadership system does not unduly burden any single leader .

• Further more, shared leadership as it exploits the wealth of talent present in an organization, capturing “energy and enthusiasm” thereby creating a distinct competitive advantage.

• Flow and creativity seem to flourish in a shared leadership environment Moreover, teams often work better when leadership is shared.

CONCLUSION

• A leader may be of various types but a true and competent leader is one that encompass all the aforesaid qualities.

• It is essential for a great leader to be dynamic and constantly evolving so that he/she may lead the team in the most apt and beneficial manner.

• Having a wide knowledge and diverse background will not only help make well informed decisions but also increase the level of compassion.

• The perfect leader is one who has a blend of all the characteristics and can call upon his attributes to meet the necessary situation at hand.

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QUERIES…?

REFERENCES

• Bruce J. Avolio, Fred O.Walumbwa,and Todd J.Weber “ Leadership: Current Theories, Research, and Future Directions”.

• Clever Gumbo “New-Genre leadership styles for international joint ventures sustainability” (p.p. 01 – 13).

• Somehagen. J and Johansson. V “Shared Leadership and its Future Potential”.

• Robert E.Lefton and Victor R. Buzzotta , book “Leadership through people skills”.