Leadership MEANING ? DEFINITIONS Types or Styles of LeadershipAUTOCRATIC  Democratic Leadership Bureaucratic Leadership Transformational Leadership

1. SUBMITED TO:
DR. B.S. GHANGHAS
SUBMITED BY:
ASHISH (2015A14BVI)

2. MEANING ?
• The action of leading a group of people or an
organization, or the ability to do this.
• Leadership is the process of influencing behaviour
of others.
• It is a group activity. Leader influences his followers
and followers also exercise influence over his
leader.
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3. DEFINITIONS
• Wendell French has defined leadership as, “the
process of influencing the behaviour of others in
the direction of a goal or set of goals or, more
broadly, a vision of the future.”
• According to Keith Davis, “Leadership is the process
of encouraging and helping others to work
enthusiastically towards objectives.”
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4. Types or Styles of Leadership
AUTOCRATIC
• Leaders take decisions
without consulting others
• In this style, the leader
is the centre of attraction.
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5. • If anything goes wrong,
leaders take the blame
as they do not consult
others
• The employees feel suffocated
• task-oriented in nature and least
concerned about people.
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6. Types or Styles of Leadership
Democratic Leadership
• The leader makes decisions based on the input of
each team member.
• It gives great satisfaction to the members.
• It minimizes the risk for the leaders.
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7. • it helps in realizing the
hidden potential among
the participants.
• Best decisions are taken
as It believes in respecting
others’ views and opinions
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8. Types or Styles of Leadership
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Bureaucratic Leadership
• It is characterized by command, rules and
regulations, specialization of work, division of
labour, and impersonality of relationships.
• The leader trusts neither himself nor his
subordinates and mainly relies on the rules
and regulations.
• Everything must be done according to
procedure or policy.

9. Types or Styles of Leadership
Laissez-Faire Leadership
• The French phrase Laissez-Faire means “leave
it be” and is used to describe a leader who
leaves his or her colleagues to get on with
their work offering little or no guidance.
• laissez-faire leadership works for teams in
which the individuals are very qualified,
experienced, expert and skilled self-starters.
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10. Types or Styles of Leadership
Transformational Leadership
• This type of leadership motivates individuals to work
together to change organizations to create
sustainable productivity
• The transformational leader asks followers to
transcend their own self interests for the good of the
group, organization, or society; to consider their
long-term needs to develop themselves, as opposed
to their immediate needs
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11. Transactional Leadership
• Transactional leaders lead through specific
incentives and motivate through an
exchange of one thing for another (Bass,
1990).
• These leaders reward their subordinates
for precisely the work they do.
Types or Styles of Leadership

12. Types or Styles of Leadership
Some other types of leaderships
• Value-Based Leadership
• People-Oriented Leadership
• Task-Oriented Leadership
• Women leadership
• Global leadership
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13. Theories of leadership
• Trait Theory of Leadership
• Situational Theory of Leadership
• Behavioural Theories
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14. Theories of leadership
Trait Theory of Leadership
• oldest theory of leadership
• highlights the personality traits of a successful
leader
• The traits identified in successful leader
Good Physiques, Creativity and Intelligence,
Social Traits, Moral Traits
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15. Weaknesses of trait theory
• Personality traits of successful leaders are too
many. Some of the traits are also possessed by
those who are not leaders.
• There is no solid method to measure these
traits.
• Effectiveness of leadership cannot be solely
determined by traits alone. Situation is also
responsible for it.
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16. Situational Theory of Leadership
• leadership changes from group to group and
from situation to situation
• The leadership is exercised in a specific
situation, consisting of people and a given
environment
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Theories of leadership

17. Weakness of situational theory
• It focuses more on immediate needs than
long-term needs.
• It does not provide enough information for
some leaders
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18. Theories of leadership
Behavioural Theories
• emphasis was given on the behaviour of
leaders than their personality traits
• the actions of the leader in attaining goals are
important
• emphasis on studying behaviour of leaders
and their effects on followers’ performance
and their satisfaction.
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19. Importance of Leadership
• Provide Motivation
• Provide guidance
• Create confidence
• Initiating action
• Build work environment
• Create coordination
• Enhances Communication skills
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20. • Leads to progress and development
• Induces changes
• Help in achieving organizational goals
• Bring satisfaction
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21. SYMBOL OF TRUST