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The fourth universal function of management

Directing

Refers to the prpcess of motivation, communication, and leadership

Directing

It deals with the relationship between managers and non-managers

Directing

Ability to persuade others to seek defined objectives enthusiastically.

Leadership

The human factor which binds a group together and motivates them towards meaningful goals

Leadership

Describes that when we serve and sacrifice for others, we extablish authority or influence. When we have already built authority or influence on other people, then we have earned the right to be called a leader.

The law of harvest

The servant leadership model

1. Leadership


2. Authority/Influence


3. Service and Sacrifice


4. Love


5. Will

Skills used in rol behavior

1. Technical skills


2. Human skills


3. conceptual skills

Refer to a person's knoledge of, and proficiency in, any type of process or technique.

Technical skills

Ability to interact effectively with people and to build teamwork

Human skills

Important in higher managerial jobs

Conceptual skills

Four traits of a successful organizational leadership

1. Intelligence


2. Social maturity and breadth


3. Inner motivation and drives


4. Human relations attitutdes

2 types of intelligence

Communication ability


Analytical ability

Ability to convey ideas or to accept other's ideas

Communication ability

Ability to think or to reason out

Analytical ability

Bread relations, emotional stregnth, psychological maturity

Social maturity and breadth

Strong motivation to keep accomplishing something

Inner motivation and drives

Leaders realize that they got their job done through people and therefore try to develop social understanding and appreciate skills

Human relationd attitudes

23 indisputable qualities of effective leader

1. Visionary


2. Character


3. Integrity


4. Courage


5. Self-discipline


6. Initiative


7. Competent


8. Responsible


9. Passionate


10. Committed


11. Determined


12. Focus


13. Decisiveness


14. Action oriented


15. Positive attitude


16. Possibility thinker


17. Discernment


18. Teachable


19. Listener


20. Charisma


21. Relational


22. Generous


23. Servant

Only those who can see the invisible can do the impossible

Visionary

Be like a piece of rock - unyielding

Character

The anchor of honor

Integrity

One person with a brave heart is majority

Courage

The first person to lead is you

Self discipline

With or without a follower, carry on

Initiative

If you create it, they will patronize it

Competent

If you cannotcarry the ball, you cannot lead them

Responsible

Live this life and love it

Passionate

It separates a doer from a dreamer

Committed

It is the courage of going an extra mile without being weary

Determined

If you chase two rabbits at the same time, both will excape

Focus

This is where your identity is shaped

Decisiveness

A word without action is like a gun wothout a bullet

Action oriented

If you believe you can, you will

Positive attitude

Three and three is equal to: 6, 33, and 9

Possibility thinker

Finite mind cannot solve

Discernment

To keep leading, keep learning, today a reader tomorrow a leader

Teachable

To connect with their hearts, use your ears

Listener

The personal magnet attracting others to follow you

Charisma

If you get along, they will go along

Relational

Your candle loses nothing when it lights another

Generous

The best way to find your own self is to serve others

Servant

Means adjustable; it depends on the situation or variation in terms of approach in handling people because eaders use different approaches of motivating people

Leadership is Situational

Motivation styles:

Positive leadership


Negative leadership

The leaders emphasizes rewards.

Positive leadership

Leaders emphasizes penalties. The stronger the penalty is, the more negative it is

Negative leadership

Power styles of leadership

1. Authocratic / Authoritarian


2. Participative


3. Free - rein / Liberal (laisses faire)

Management Filipino Style

1. Manager by Kayod


2. Manager by Lusot


3. Manager by Libro


4. Manager by Oldo


5. Manager by Ugnayan

Leaders centralize power and decision making in themselves. They take full responsibikity and full authority. Demands obedience from the people he supervises.

Authocratic / Authoritarian

Leaders Decentralize authority. The decisions are not unilateral, because they arise from consultation with followers and participation by them

Participative

Leaders depend largely upon the group to establish its own goals and work out its own problems

Free - rein / Liberal (laisses faire)

Two Kinds of Participative Style of Leadership

1. Democratic


2. Consultative

Everybody participates in decision making but the leader has authority and followrrs should follow first. Encourages strong team work

Democratic

The leader consults the employess or subordinates in making decisions by getting ideas from them

Consultative

Defined as the process of passing information and understanding from one person to another. It is essentially a bridge of meaning between two people

Communication

Two purposes of communication:

1. To provide the information and understading necessary for the group


2. To provide the attitude necessary for motivation, cooperation and job satisfaction

Fundamental elements of communication

1. People


2. Message


3. Channel


4. Feedback

The communication process

Ideation


Encoding


Transmission


Receiving


Decoding


Action

Creation of idea or choosing a fact to communicate

Ideation

The sender organizes his idea into a series of symbole; selecting appropriate media

Encoding

Confirms the media selected in the preceding step

Transmission

Transferring the message to the receiver

Reveiving

By which the receiver takes meaning from the symbols by the sender

Decoding

The receiver acts or responds in some way

Action

Types of communucation

1. Formal communication


2. Informal communication


3. Communication between groups


4. Interpersonal communication


5. Upward communication


6. Downward communication


7. Lateral communication

Common methods of communication in many organizations

Formal and downward communication

The downward communication is classified into:

1. Specific task directives: job instructions


2. Informationregarding understanding of the task and its position in the organization


3. Information on procedures and practices


4. Subordinates' performance feedback


5. Infromation on mission-indoctrination of goals

Channels:

Posters and bulletin boards, company and newspapers, letters and pay inserts, employee handbooks and pamphlets, information racks, loudspeaker or intercom systems, annual reports, and so on.

Downward flow of communication

1. Plant manager


2. Foreman


3. Workers

This is encouraged by some innovative organizations. Future growth and efficiency through innovations and the corrections of problems are enhanced by upward communications systems

Upward communication

This enables members of a particular level in the organization to share information thus improve their decisions and decision making skills.

Lateral Communication or peer level communication

Some ways of fostering lateral communication are:

Committes


Conferences


Group discussion

Thisbis the informal path of communication

Grapevine

Ways to communicate

1. Informal talk or grapevine communication


2. Memoranda


3. Telephone calls


4. Inter office calls


5. Letters


6. Reports


7. Conferences / conventions


8. Meetings


9. Bulletin board notices


10. Exhibits and displays


11. Visual aids

Some approaches for improvising communication

1. Attitude of reasonable access and an open mind and ear


2. Suggestion system that are objective


3. Availability of counseling and grievance system


4. Encouragement of employee letters


5. Participation in social activities which provide an opportunity for information conversation


6. Communicating with employees family


7. Utilizing employee attitude surveys and exit interviews data


8. Providing opportunities for subordinates to make presentation

Types of learners

1. Visual


2. Auditory


3. Haptic

Barriers to communications

1. Distance


2. Distortions


3. Semantics


4. Lack of leveling


5. Lack of trust


6. Inaccessibility


7. Lack of clear responsibilities


8. Personal compatibility


9. Refusal to listen


10. Failure to use proper media


11. Communication gap


12. Lack of direction

The physical distance between the supervisor and subordinates results to face to face communication

Distance

Tendency to make judgement on the statements of others

Distortions

Language aspects of communivation. Certain words have multiple meaning

Semantics

Difference in levels of knowledge and expertise of a supervisor and subordinate

Lack of leveling

Witholding information from the supervisor. Not reporting good or bad news to the supervisor

Lack of trust

Supervisor is not available to the subordinates for consultation

Inaccessiblity

Results in status and role ambiguities

Lack of clear responsibilities

Often the personality of the supervisor and the subordinates clash and thus create communication blocks

Personal compatibility

Due to careless attitude or arrogant attitude of supervisor; superiority complex of "i know everything" or inferiority complex "i am no good"

Refusal to listen

Sending written memos loaded with jargon to their subordinates who lack reading and comprehension skills.

Failure to use proper media

Formal communication networks are built along the authority - responsibility lines of the organization defects or loopholes in the com. Network

Communication gap

Meaning and real meaning are not lost

Lack of directiona

Comes from the latin word "movere"

Motivation

Means to move.

Movere

Means aim, desire, end, impulse, intention, objective, and purpose.

Motivation

3 characteristics of motivation:

1. Motivation is concerned with what activates human behavior


2. What directs this human behavior toward a particular goal.


3. How this behavior is sustained.

Motivation can be analyzed using the ff causative sequence:

1. Needs or Goals


2. Drives or motives


3. Achievement

Two factors in motivating individual:

1. Internal factor


2. Internal factor

Come from inner self. Self confidence, self esteem

Internal factots

Something a person perceives in his environment as helpful toward accomplishing his goal. Ex: incentives, reward, recognition

External Factors

Theories of motivation:

1. Hierarchy of Needs


2. Traditional Theory


3. Motivation Maintenance theory / Dual-factor theory / motivation-hygiene theory


4. Theory X and Y


5. Achievement - Power Affiliation theory


6. Preference - Expectancy theory


7. Theory of equilibrium


8. Reinforcement theory


9. Maturity theory


10. Theory Z

Heirarchy of needs:

1. Physiological


2. Safety and security


3. Love and belongingness


4. Self esteem and status


5. Self actualization

Basically the needs of the human body that must be satisfied in order to sustain life.

Physiological needs

Concerned with the protection against danger

Safety needs

Needs for love, affection, belonging

Social needs

Needs that influence the development of various kinds of relationships based on the adequacy, independency, etc

Esteem needs

The need of people to reach their full potential in applying their abilities and interests

Needs for sel-actualization or self fulfillment.

It evolved from the work of Frederick Taylot and the management movement.

Traditional Theory

Based on assumption that money is the primary motivator.

Traditional Theory

He concluded that some conditions operate primarily to dissatisfy employees when the conditions are absent, but their presence does not motivate employees when the conditions are present in a strong way.

Herzberg

The pptent dissatisfiers are called _________ because they are necessary to maintain a reasonable level of satisfaction in employees.

Maintenance Factors

Closely related to the need theory, primarily developed by David McClelland. This theory holds that all people have three needs

Achievement-power affiliation theory

Achievement - power - affiliation theory's three needs:

1. The need to achieve


2. The need for power


3. The need for affiliation

The desire to do something or more efficiently than it has been done before.

The need to achieve

Basically a concern for influencing people - ti be strong and influencial

A need for power

A need to be liked - to establish or maintain a friendly relations with others

A need for affiliation

This theory states that the inducements provided by the organization must be kept in equilibrium with the contributions made by the employees.

Barnard - Simon's Theory of Equilibrium

Provided by the management

Inducements

Provided by the employees

Contributions

Contends that the individual evaluates not only his personal position but he of others as well.

Equity Theory

This theory is based on the premise that an individual assigns values to the outcome of wach alternative course of action.

Vroom's preference - expectancy theory

Is a result of the actual or perceived rewards available to an individual for accomplishing some goals

Motivation

The probability that a specific action will be followed by a particular first level outcome

Expectancy

Measured by asking employees to rank important individual goals and instrumentality by using a rating scale that determines the strength of perceived relationship between the first and the second level outcomes

Valence

B.F. Skinner's known as the ___________.

Reinforcement theory

Reinforcement Theory's components of motivated behavior:

1. Stimulus


2. Response


3. Reinforcement

The environmental setting in which behavior occurs

Stimulus

The behavior itself

Response

The reward given for good performance only

Reinforcement

Chris Argyrie contends that as people grow and mature, they strive toward the highest level of need in Maslow's need hierarchy.

Marurity Theory

Are passive,dependent on others, has short term perspective and lack self-initiative

Immature

Are active, independent, has long term perspective

Mature people