This document discusses the importance of leadership and defines key concepts. It describes leadership as the process of influencing others to work enthusiastically toward achieving objectives. Leadership involves establishing a clear vision, sharing that vision with others, providing knowledge to realize it, and coordinating interests. The document outlines different leadership styles such as autocratic, bureaucratic, charismatic, democratic, and laissez-faire. It also lists characteristics, functions, and importance of effective leadership, and distinguishes the differences between managers and leaders.

1. Importance of Leadership
Deepa Makhija
Manisha Kunwar
Juanita Kasbe
Rahul Chaudhary

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E – Efficiently in
A – All
D – Departments wit
E – Effective
R – Representation
“To an extent, leadership is like beauty:
it’s hard to define, but you know it when
you see it.” Warren Bennis

3. What is Leadership?
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John Newstrom and Keith Davis have described
leadership as “the process of influencing and
supporting others to work enthusiastically toward
achieving objectives.” It is a process whereby one
individual influences other group members toward the
attainment of defined group or organizational goals.”
• Leadership is not the same as management. Although
leaders need management skills, they possess many
other important qualities and have many other
functions to perform.

4. Concept of Leadership
• Leadership is defined as the relationship in which
one person influences others to work together to
reach a desired level of achievement. If there is no
follower, there is no leader.
• “Leadership is the process by which an executive
or a manager imaginatively directs, guides and
influences the work of others in choosing and
attaining specified goals by mediation between the
individual and organization in such a manner that
both will obtain the maximum satisfaction.”
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5. Leadership involves:
• Establishing a clear vision,
• Sharing that vision with others so that they
will follow willingly,
• Providing the information, knowledge and
methods to realize that vision, and
• Coordinating and balancing the conflicting
interests of all members and stakeholders.

6. Types of Leadership

7. Autocratic Leaders:
Autocratic leaders are an excessive form
of transactional leadership, where a
leader makes use of high levels of power
over his team members. People within
the team are given few opportunities for
making suggestions, even if these would
be in the team's or organizations
interest.

8. Bureaucratic Leaders:
Bureaucratic leaders work by the book,
ensuring that their staffs follow
procedures accurately. This is a very
right approach for work involving
serious safety risks (such as working
with machinery, with toxic substances
or at heights) or where large sums of
money are involved (such as cashprocess).

9. Charismatic Leaders:
A charismatic leaders style can appear
similar to a transformational leadership
style, in that the leader bring in huge
doses of enthusiasm into his team, and is
very energetic in driving others
forward. Charismatic leadership carries
great responsibility, and needs longterm commitment from the leader.

10. Democratic Leaders:
A democratic leader makes the final
decision but he invites other members to
contribute to the decision-making
process, which increases job satisfaction
by involving team members and also
helps to develop people’s skills. Team
members feel in control of their own
destiny, and are motivated to work
smart.

11. Laissez-Faire Leaders:
They known as “Delegate leader” offer
little or no guidance to group members
and leave decision-making up to group
members. While this style can be
effective in situations where group
members are highly qualified in an area
of expertise, it often leads to poorly
defined roles and a lack of motivation.

12. As the perfect leader had the most known
3 styles as he play the role of each type in
situation he face as below

13. Characteristics of Leadership
 Drive
 Intelligence
 Energy levels and stress tolerance
 Optimistic: Most leaders are highly optimistic
 Emotional maturity
 Honesty and integrity
 Leadership motivation
 Self-confidence
 Cognitive ability
 Knowledge of the business

14. Functions of a Leader
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Policy Maker
Planner
Executive
External Group Representative
Controller of Internal Group Relationship
Controller of Reward and Punishment
Arbitrator and Mediator
Exemplar
Father Figure
Spacegoat

15. Importance of Leadership
A clear vision
Effective Planning
Inspiration and Motivation
New Ideas
Employee Relation
Crisis Management

16. Warren Bennis (1989) has given twelve differences
between leaders and managers. They are:
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Managers administer, leaders innovate.
Managers ask how and when, leaders ask what and why.
Managers focus on systems, leaders focus on people.
Managers do things right, leaders do the right things.
Managers maintain, leaders develop.
Managers depend on control, leaders inspire trust.
Managers have a short-term perspective, leaders have a
long-term perspective.

17. 8. Managers accept the situation as it is (status quo),
leaders challenge the status quo.
9. Managers have an eye on the bottom line, leaders
have an eye on the horizon.
10. Managers imitate (copy), leaders originate (have
original ideas)
11. Managers follow the classic good soldier
(examples set or methods used by other people),
leaders are their own person.
12. Managers copy, leaders show originality.