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Leadership vs Management
- Manager
o Being a manager: coping with complexity
o Determining what needs to be done – planning and budgeting
o Creating arrangements of people to accomplish an agenda – organising
and staffing
o Ensuring people do their jobs – controlling and problem solving
- Leaders
o Being a leader: coping with change
o Determining what needs to be done – setting a direction
o Creating arrangements of people to accomplish an agenda – aligning
people
o Ensuring people do their jobs – motivating and inspiring
- Managers rely more on the power of authority needed to hire and fire, reward
and punish
- Leaders rely more on the ability to influence others through inspiring and creating
vision
- What is power?
o “A has the power over B to the extent that he can get B to do something
that B would not otherwise do” (Dahl, 1957)
o “The capacity of an individual or group to modify the conduct of other
individuals or groups in a manner which they desire and without having to
modify their own conduct in a manner which they do not desire”
- Examples of power in action
Examples of power at different organisational levels
What are the implications of changing power dynamics in societies for today’s
organisations?
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The dark side of power of leadership
- Toxic
- Violent
- Bullying
- Narcissistic
- Unethical