Leadership

 is the process of leading a group of people or an organization.

How to be a good leader?

-Be a good role model

-Be clear about your rules

-Admit your mistakes

-Learn from mistakes

-Ask for feedback and opinion from others

-Keep promise

-Show your commitment

Autocratic Leadership Style

Autocratic Leadership Style

-Authoritarian leadership

-An extreme form of transactional leadership

 Characteristics of Autocratic leadership

-Leader make the decisions

-Leader decide all the works method and processes 

-Leader have a lot of power to their people

-When decisions must be made quickly and without dissent


How to be effective with this position:
- Respect your Subordinates
-Explain the rules
-Be consistent
-Educate before you enforce
-Listen, even if you don’t change


Good fits for Autocratic Leadership:
  -Military
  -Manufacturing
  -Construction


Example of Autocratic Leader:

Name: Pol Pot
Born: 1925
Died: 15 April 1998
Birthplace: Kompong Thong Province, Cambodia
Ruthless Cambodian communist leader of the 1970s



Source From:
"Leadership Styles." - Leadership Skills from MindTools.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Sept. 2013. <http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_84.htm>.

"Leadership Styles: Autocratic Leadership." Leadership Styles: Autocratic Leadership. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Sept. 2013. <http://www.leadership-toolbox.com/autocratic-leadership.html>.

"Pol Pot." Infoplease. Infoplease, n.d. Web. 08 Sept. 2013. <http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/polpot.html>.

Democratic Leadership Style

Democratic Leadership Style

-Decision making in group 

-Discuss openly
-Collegial style of running a team 
-Synthesizing all the available information into the best possible decision
-Share ideas in group

How to be effective with this position:
-Keep communication open
-Focus the discussion
-Be ready to commit
-Respect the ideas
-Explain, but don’t apologize


Example of Democratic leader:

 Name: John F. Kennedy
-Youngest man elected President
-Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917
-Democratic Congressman from the Boston area, advancing in 1953 to the Senate.



Source From:
"Leadership Styles: Democratic Leadership Style." The Democratic Leadership Style. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Sept. 2013. <http://www.leadership-toolbox.com/democratic-leadership-style.html>. 

"John F. Kennedy." The White House. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Sept. 2013. <http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/johnfkennedy>.

Laissez-faire Leadership Style

Laissez-faire Leadership Style

-"Hands-off¨ style
-Gives employees as much freedom as possible
-Power is given to the employees and they must determine goals, make decisions, and resolve problems on their own.

This is an effective style to use when:
-Employees are highly skilled, experienced, and educated.
-Employees have pride in their work and the drive to do it successfully on their own.
-Outside experts, such as staff specialists or consultants are being used
-Employees are trustworthy and experienced.
 

 Example of Laissez-faire leader

Thomas Jefforson
-Born in 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia
-Third president of the fledgling United States of America
-The author of the Declaration of Independence, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and the father of the University of Virginia

Source From:
"Laissez-Faire Leadership." GoodTherapyorg Therapy Blog LaissezFaire Leadership Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Sept. 2013. <http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/laissez-faire-leadership>.
"Styles Of Leadership." Essortment. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Sept. 2013. <http://www.essortment.com/styles-leadership-36149.html>. 
"Thomas Jefferson." The White House. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Sept. 2013. <http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/thomasjefferson>.
"President Thomas Jefferson." Biography of Thomas Jefferson. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Sept. 2013. <http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/biddle/biographies_html/jefferson.html>.

Organizational Structure

Organizational Structure 

-an arrangement of jobs and groups of jobs within an organization 

-structure describes how members are accepted, how leadership is chosen, and how decisions are made.

Span of control

-The number of subordinates a manager is expected to supervise

Wide span of control is to reduces expenses, but requires more management skill and may reduce effective feedback. 

Narrow span of control is where a manager directly line manages a small number of subordinates.

Chain of Command  

- is the order in which authority in an organization is delegated from top management.

Organizations are structured in different ways:
1. function
2. regional area
3. product
4. into work teams

 

Why should you develop a structure for your organization? 

1.Structure gives members clear guidelines for how to proceed

2.Structure binds members together

3.Structure in any organization is inevitable

Sources from

"Span of Control - Definition of Span of Control." Span of Control - Definition of Span of Control. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Sept. 2013. <http://www.yourdictionary.com/span-of-control>.
"Strategy Theory." Organisational Structure Business Organisation Business Studies and Business English. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Sept. 2013. <http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/business-theory/strategy/organisational-structure.html>.

"The Community Tool Box." Organizational Structure: An Overview. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Sept. 2013. <http://ctb.ku.edu/en/tablecontents/sub_section_main_1092.aspx>.

 

Leona Helmsley

Leona Helmsley

-She was born in 1920 in Marbletown, made the Helmsley hotel chain popular.

-She is an excellent example of an autocratic leader in the corporate world.




-Her tyrannical behavior earned her the nickname “Queen of Mean” as she demanded perfection from everyone on her payroll, from regular employees up to the top managers and executives.
-She treated her employees and people in general like garbage.
-A lawyer that once had a breakfast with her became witness of her tyrannical behavior when a waiter served a cup of tea with a tiny bit of water spilled on the saucer.
-Leona Helmsley requested the waiter to get down on his hands and knees to beg that he would not get fired right away.
-On the one hand her autocratic type of leadership allowed her to become a billionaire hotel operator, but she also had to spend almost two years in prison for tax evasion on the other hand, which was brought under suspicion by some of her disgruntled employees that raised several charges of tax evasion, extortion and many more against her.

Sources from:

"Personal Development." Personal Development RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Sept. 2013. <http://www.planetofsuccess.com/blog/2010/how-to-deal-with-autocratic-leadership/>.

"A Review of Companies with Autocratic Leadership: Part 1 of 2." Brighthub Project Management. N.p., n.d. Web. 09 Sept. 2013. <http://www.brighthubpm.com/resource-management/77233-examples-of-companies-with-autocratic-leadership/>.