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10 Substitutes for Leadership
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- 1Assumptions of Substitutes for Leadership Theory- based on Path Goal Theory, focus on leadership as complementing what followers need
- there are situations where leadership is unnecessary
- Three Factors: Organizational characteristics, the nature of subordinates tasks, characteristics of subordinates - 2Substitutes, Neutralizers and Enhancers- Substitutes: Factors that are directly related to employees outcomes + that replace the need for leader behavior, positively related to the outcome, regardless of the leader's behavior
- Neutralizers: Factors that inhibit or even nullify the leader's behavioral influence on the outcome, uncorrelated with the outcome
- Enhancers: Factors that enhance the leader's behavioral influence on outcome, uncorrelated with outcome - 3Examples for Substitutes and NeutralizersRELATIONSHIP ORIENTED LSHIP:
Substitutes: Professionalism, Job is intrinsically satisfying, cohesive work groups
Neutralizes: Indifference to rewards
TASK-ORIENTED LSHIP:
Substitutes: Experience/training, Professionalism, structured task, job provides own feedback, formalized goals, ridig rules, cohesive work groups
Neutralizers: Indifference to rewards - 4Substituting Face to Face Leadership- Communication is predominatley based on electronig communication media
- todays managers+employees are linked by networks rather than geographic proximity
- Identification-based trust is difficult to achieve without face-to-face interaction
- writing skills are likely to become an extension of interpersonal skills (also oral) - 5Best Practice Tips for Leading Virtual Teams1. Provide more structure
2, Slwo down to speed up
3. Develop a role character
4. Relationships take extra time, effort and money to build
5. provide extra support to new team members
6. Unmute to allow for informality
7. video technology
8. preserve and curate digital information
9. limit boundary permeability and buffer your team
10. use different technologies for generating options, taking pulse, communicating decisions - 6Evaluation of Substitues for LeadershipStrengths:
-more inclusive list of contextual factors of leadership
- clearer conceptualization of contingency variables from a subordinates persepctive
Weaknesses:
- high complexity of overall theory
results of empirical tests are mixed
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