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    Name: Sharmindran

       Class: Grade 11 Green

       Unit Title: Human Resources

       AOI: Health & Social Education

       MYP Unit Question: To what extent can leaders play a role in shaping their subordinates?

       Teacher: Ms. Theresa

  

Leadership

Leadership Styles

A leader can take a number of different approaches to leading and managing an organization. 

According to Kurt Lewin (1939), there are three different styles of leadership, in particular around decision-making. 

• Autocratic
• Democratic
• Laissez-Faire

This early study has been very influential and established three major leadership styles. (Lewin, LIippit, White 1939, U.S. Army Handbook, 1973). Although good leaders use all three styles, with one of them normally dominant, bad leaders tend to stick with one style and its normally autocratic.

Are Leaders Born or Made?

Are Leader Born or Made?

Based on my opinion I think leaders are made because it is type of skill that can be developed. Leaders improve by getting feedback and using it. The best leaders seek feedback from their boss, their peers and their subordinates. Then they modify their behavior so that they get better results. Leaders learn by trying things out and then critiquing their performance because experience is the best teacher.

Style 1 - Autocratic

Autocratic

Autocratic style is where the leader takes decisions without consulting with others. The decision is made without any form of consultation. Only the LEADER’S decision counts!

The autocratic management has been successful as it provides strong motivation to the manager. This provides for quick decision making but is generally not successful in gaining employee engagement or maintaining worker satisfaction.

Autocratic Style is best for:

• Military
• Manufacturing
• Construction

Style 2 - Democratic

Democratic

Democratic Style is where leaders make the final decisions, but they include team members in the decision-making process. They encourage creativity, and team members are often highly engaged in projects and decisions.

 It is generally the most effective leadership style. Democratic style of leadership involves the leader sharing decision- making abilities with group members while also promoting the interests of the group members and practicing social equality. Employees will likely enjoy this style of leadership because it gives them a say in many decisions.

Democratic style works best at: 

• Creativity groups for advertising and design 
• Consulting
• Much of the service industry 
• Education 

Style 3 - Laissez-Faire

Laissez-Faire 

Laissez-faire style is where the leader's involvement in decision-making, and hence allowing people to make their own decisions, although they may still be responsible for the outcome.

A person may be in a leadership position without providing leadership, leaving the group to fend for itself. Subordinates are given a free hand in deciding their own policies and methods. This can sometimes be a positive leadership style if workers are responsible and self-starting and do not require a lot of supervision. In this situation employees may enjoy a laissez-faire style of a leader.

Note: Laissez Faire (or lais·ser faire) is the noninterference in the affairs of others. (French : laissez, second person pl. imperative of laisser, to let, allow + faire, to do.)

Organizational Structure

Organizational Structure

Every organisation made up of more than one person will need some form of organisational structure. An organisational chart shows the way in which the chain of command works within the organisation.  Organisation chart contains information on the structure of the organisation, flow of authority, spheres of responsibility, line and staff relations and name and status of personnel in different positions. 

• Communication is faster and more accurate. The message has to pass through less people.

• Managers are closer to all employees so that they can understand the business better.

• Spans of control will be wider, meaning that the manager would have to take care of more subordinates, this makes:

            •    The manager delegate more, and we already know the advantages of delegation.
            •         Workers gain more job satisfaction and feel trusted because of delegation.

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was a computer designer, executive and innovator, as well as an all-around role model for many people in both their businesses and their personal lives. As the cofounder of Apple Computers and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios.

Autocratic Style

When Jobs speaks, everybody stops and listens to him, be it a meeting or a Worldwide Developer Conference. Jobs just had the charisma to capture people’s attention. Jobs autocratic leadership style was accepted by his employees, some may not have liked it but they stood with him and the company and never regretted their decision. The study also found Jobs to be a meticulous perfectionist. Jobs never approves a product without fully testing them, him being a beta tester for all of Apple’s product had made sure Apple delivered what the market wanted.

Why
I admire Jobs because achieve his goal with the way he wants. Just 14 years ago, Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy. Today, it is the world's most admired technology company and also one of the most valuable company. Jobs is the only person that made it possible. He invented iPad, iPod, iPhone and many more. Many people were influenced by his product because even my classmates supported Apple products and that point of time, if you have any Apple products, you are considered high class. The only person that I could blame, is Jobs because he managed to influence many people that Apple does better than any products.

10 Leadership Tips from Steve Jobs

• Simplify
• Control the Experience
• Innovate
• Ignore Reality
• Have Confidence
• Rethink Designs
• Collaborate
• Vision + Details
• Rebel
• Team With Winners

If You Don't Know Who Is Steve Jobs. Please Watch The Video In The Given Link Below...

http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2011/08/24/t_steve_jobs_apple_fall_rise.fortune/