MGMT 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Transactional Leadership, Charismatic Authority
Managing Leading and Coaching
• Leaders are ambitious, knowledgeable, strict but fair
• Leadership styles
• Laissez-faire
• Hands-off
• Positive or negative
• Freedom
• Democratic/participatory
• Everyone decides
• Involvement
• Empowerment
• Authoritarian
• Do as I say
• Rule driven
• May create fear
• Managing: planning, organising, directing and controlling
• Leading: communicating, motivating, encouraging and involving people
• Coaching: developing, enhancing competencies and capabilities through constructive
suggestions and encouragement
• Skills of leaders of the future
• Trust of followers to leader
• Authentic character (genuinity)
• Clearly defined purpose and values
• Empathy (understanding) → human connection
• Desire to build capacity → be a teacher
• Devotion to interests of others
• Justifying actions and decisions→ reflects values
• Curiosity
• Mindfulness
Leading
Managing
• Interpersonal aspects
• Ability to change, adapt and sustain
• Big picture level – establishes direction
(provides a vision for what the
organisation has become; institutes
strategies, goals, and measures for
getting there)
• Aligns people (communicates the
direction and builds a sense of
community; elicits cooperation and
teamwork; keeps key people motivates
to support the initiative)
• Motivates and inspires (mobilises
people to carry out the new vision;
energises people to overcome barriers
to change; creates a sense of purpose
and meaning)
• Does the right things
• Administrative aspects
• Order, consistency and probability
• Planning and budgeting (establishes
detailed time tables and steps for
getting desired results; allocates
needed resources; carries out
administrative duties)
• Organising and staffing (creates a
structure for carrying out the plan,
staffing the plan, delegating
responsibility, and providing policies
and procedures)
• Controlling and problem solving
(monitors results; solves problems;
makes corrections for deviations
from the plan)
• Does things right
• Theories of leadership
• Great man/woman traits → “leaders are born, not made”
• Adaptable to situations
