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Leader

1: What is Leader?

- A leader has a managerial authority in an organization whereby they're are able to influence and change people's mindset,personality and behavior in an organization.

2: What is leadership?

- Leadership is what leaders do. It's a process whereby leader leading a group and influence them to achieve the organization's goals.

Leadership Trait Theories ( Six Theories )

1: Drive

- Leaders exhibit a high effort level. They're a relatively high desire for achievement, ambitious and they have a lot of enemy, tirelessly persistent in their activities and they show initiative.

2: Desire to lead

- Strong desire to influence and lead others. By demonstrating the willingness to take on responsibility.

3: Honesty and Integrity

- Build trusting relationships with followers by being truthful or non-deceitful and by showing high consistency between word and deed.

4: Self-Confidence

- To convince the followers of the rightness of their goals and decisions.

5: Intelligence.

- Leaders need to be intelligent enough to gather, synthesize and interpret large amount of information to be able to create visions, solve problems and make correct decisions.

6: Job-Relevant Knowledge

- In-depth knowledge allows leaders to make well-informed decisions and to understand the implications of those decisions.

University of IOWA Studies

1: Autocratic Styles

- A leader who dictate work methods , made unilateral decisions, and limited employee participation.

2: Democratic Styles

- A leader who involved employees in decision making, delegated authority and used feedback as an opportunity to coach employees.

3: The Laissez-Faire Styles

- Leader let the group make decisions and complete the work in whatever way it saw fit.