Describe directive leadership and supportive leadership

Describe directive leadership and supportive leadership

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Course Learning Outcomes-Covered

1

Develop the problem-solving skills for teamwork especially if the problem relates to the task (Lo 3.2).

2

Ability to communicate and share information within the team and organization in professional manner (Lo 4.4).

Assignment 2

Reference Source: Book-Ch:-13 & 14 (10 Marks)

Critical Thinking:-Leadership

Use at least 3 scientific references to support your answers. Follow APA-style when referencing.

Assignment Question(s):

1. Define leadership and explain the difference between being a manager and being a leader. Which boss would you rather have? Why? (02 Marks)
2. The leadership style theories, which you have learned in the chapter 13 & 14 based on that determine which leadership styles are suitable for managers who are managing workers ( both Blue collar & White collar) in the organizations.(03 Marks)
3. Describe directive leadership and supportive leadership, Explain their importance. (02 Marks)
4. How organizations are benefitted from supportive leadership? Give an example of such organization which you might have come across. (03 Marks)

Answer:

1. Leadership is the process of influencing others and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives.

A key way of differentiating between managers and leaders is to argue that the role of management is to promote stability or to enable the organization to run smoothly, whereas the role of leadership is to promote adaptive or useful changes.2 Persons in managerial positions could be involved with both manage- ment and leadership activities, or they could emphasize one activity at the expense of the other. Both management and leadership are needed, however, and if managers do not assume responsibility for both, then they should ensure that someone else handles the neglected activity. The point is that when we dis- cuss leadership, we do not assume it is identical to management.

For our purposes, we treat leadership as the process of inl uencing others process of inl uencing

to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the others and the process of process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objec- facilitating individual and

tives.3 Leadership appears in two forms: (1) formal leadership, which is exerted collective efforts to by persons appointed or elected to positions of formal authority in organizations, accomplish shared

and (2) informal leadership, which is exerted by persons who become inl uential objectives.

because they have special skills that meet the needs of others. Although both types are important in organizations, this chapter will emphasize formal leader- ship; informal leadership will be addressed in the next chapter.4

The leadership literature is vast—thousands of studies at last count—and consists of numerous approaches.5 We have grouped these approaches into two chapters: Leadership Essentials, Chapter 13, and Leadership Challenges and Orga- nizational Change, Chapter 14. The present chapter focuses on trait and behavioral