Shared Leadership

(noun)

Style of leading in which responsibilities are distributed within a team or organization, and people within that team or organization lead each other.

Examples of Shared Leadership in the following topics:

  • Shared Leadership

    • Shared leadership means that leadership responsibilities are distributed within a team and that members influence each other.
    • Unlike traditional notions of leadership that focus on the actions of an individual, shared leadership refers to responsibilities shared by members of a group.
    • Research reveals that for shared leadership to merge and succeed, two conditions must be met:
    • Three aspects of how a group interacts can facilitate shared leadership: shared purpose, social support, and voice.
    • Team members consult each other in a group that employs shared leadership.

  • Interactive Leadership

    • Interactive leadership involves leaders' engaging followers to increase their understanding of tasks and goals.
    • Effective leadership requires communicating and engaging with followers.
    • While interactive leaders may make use of technology to share information, they also seek the richer exchanges that face-to-face communication allows.
    • An interactive leader shares information and answers questions to clarify goals and tasks.
    • Explain the importance of interactive leadership in generating motivation and commitment to shared objectives

  • Transactional Versus Transformational Leaders

    • Leadership can be described as transactional or transformational.
    • Transformational leaders work to enhance the motivation and engagement of followers by directing their behavior toward a shared vision.
    • While transactional leadership operates within existing boundaries of processes, structures, and goals, transformational leadership challenges the current state and is change-oriented.
    • Transactional leadership reacts to problems as they arise, whereas transformational leadership is more likely to address issues before they become problematic.
    • Transactional leadership is more akin to the common notions of management, whereas transformational leadership adheres more closely to what is colloquially referred to as leadership.

  • A Blended Approach to Leadership

    • The full-range leadership theory blends the features of transactional and transformational leadership into one comprehensive approach.
    • The full-range theory of leadership seeks to blend the best aspects of transactional and transformational leadership into one comprehensive approach.
    • Transactional leadership focuses on exchanges between leaders and followers.
    • Transformational leadership deals with how leaders help followers go beyond individual interests to pursue a shared vision.
    • Assess the intrinsic value of blending transactional leadership behaviors with transformational leadership behaviors

  • Leadership Styles

    • This leadership style can help retain employees for the long term.
    • Under the autocratic leadership style, decision-making power is centralized in the leader.
    • A participative or democratic style of leadership involves the leader's sharing decision- making authority with group members.
    • Bass used Burns's ideas to develop his own theory of transformational leadership.
    • Different situations call for particular leadership styles.

  • Styles of Leadership

    • A leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people.
    • The democratic leadership style consists of the leader sharing the decision-making abilities with group members by promoting the interests of the group members and by practicing social equality.
    • This style of leadership encompasses discussion, debate and sharing of ideas, and encouragement of people to feel good about their involvement.
    • The laissez-faire leadership style was first described by Lewin, Lippitt, and White in 1938, along with the autocratic leadership and the democratic leadership styles.
    • Narcissistic leadership is a common form of leadership.

  • Management versus Leadership

    • Though they have traits in common, leadership and management both have unique responsibilities that do not necessarily overlap.
    • The terms "management" and "leadership" have been used interchangeably, yet there are clear similarities and differences between them.
    • In one definition, managers do so by focusing on the organization and performance of tasks and by aiming at efficiency, while leaders engage others by inspiring a shared vision and effectiveness.
    • They challenge the status quo, make change happen, and work to develop the capabilities of people to contribute to achieving their shared goals.
    • Distinguish between managerial roles and responsibilities and leadership roles and responsibilities

  • Choosing Leaders

    • Leadership is the ability to organize a group of people to achieve a common purpose.
    • Leadership is the ability to organize a group of people to achieve a common purpose.
    • Leadership style refers to a leader's behavior.
    • The democratic leadership style consists of the leader sharing the decision-making abilities with group members by promoting the interests of the group members and by practicing social equality.
    • In the laissez-faire leadership style, a person may be in a leadership position without providing leadership, leaving the group to fend for itself.

  • Moral Leadership

    • Ethical or moral leadership demonstrates responsibility for doing what is right.
    • Moral leadership is important for protecting an organization's reputation.
    • Moral leadership goes beyond doing what is legal.
    • In this way, moral leaders take responsibility for the moral climate in their organizations and help others understand, share, and act in accordance with those values.
    • Apply ethical standards to leadership perspectives, explaining the relevance of integrity and responsibility to leadership

  • The Trait-Theory Approach

    • According to trait leadership theory, effective leaders have in common a pattern of personal characteristics that support their ability to mobilize others toward a shared vision.
    • Following studies of trait leadership, most leader traits can be organized into four groups:
    • Trait leadership also takes into account the distinction between proximal and distal character traits.
    • The model rests on two basic premises about leadership traits.
    • The second premise maintains that the traits differ in how directly they influence leadership.