Every group of people that performs job has same person as its head who is skilled in
art of leadership. This skill seems to be a compound at least four major ingredients.
1. Power
2. Fundamental understanding of people.
3. Ability to inspire fowler
4. The ability to act in a manner
That will develop a conducive climate to responding and rousing motivations.
1. POWER
The first ingredient of leadership is power. Power may be define as a strong influence
on the direction of an individual’s behavior. There are five kind of power.
1. LEGITMATE POWER
The official position of a person is organization is known as legitimate power.
2. COERCIVE POWER
A person’s ability to create fear in other individuals is known as coercive power.
3. REWARD POWER
This power arises from ability of some to grant reward is known as reward power.
4. EXPERT POWER
This power comes from the expertness of a person or a group.
5. REFERENT POWER
This is the power of admiring high esteemed leader by individuals.
6. DECISION MAKING POWER
This power arises from the power of positions.
2- FUNDAMENTAL UNDERSTANDING F PEOPLE
The second ingredient of leadership is fundamental understanding of people. A
manager or any other leader who knows the present state of motivation theory and
understands the elements of motivation is more aware of the nature and strength to
define and design ways satisfaction.
3- ABILITY TO INSPIRE FOLLOWERS
The third ingredient of leadership is an ability to inspire followers to apply their full
capabilities to a project. Inspirations also come from group heads. They may have
qualities of charm and appeal that increase loyalty, deviation and strong desire in
followers that the leaders want. This is not a matter of need satisfaction; it is a matter
of people giving unselfish support to a chosen objective.
THE ABILITY TO ACT IN A MANNER:
The forth ingredient of leadership is related to style of leader and the climate he or
she develops. The strength of motivation greatly depends on expectations, perceived
rewards, the task to be done and other factors that are part of an environment as well
as an organizational climate.
PRINCIPLE OF LEADERSHIP:
The fundamental is since people tend to follow those who in their view offer them a
means of satisfying their own personal goals. The more managers understand what
motivates their subordinates and how these motivation operate, and the more they
reflect their understanding in caring out their managerial actions, the more effective
they are likely to be as leaders.
