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LEADERSHIP CONCEPTS
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this topic, you have to understand:

The concept of Leader, Leadership, Community
Leadership and Leadership grooming.
Qualities of a Community Development Leader
Types and characteristics of Community Leaders
Roles of a community leader

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 Importance of community leadership
The concept of Power and Authority in Leadership
Leadership Styles
Leadership Vs Management

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1.1 Concept of Leadership

- A Leader is someone who can influence others towards

goal achievement.

- Leadership refers to ability to influence others towards

accomplishing common objectives.

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- Community Leadership is a specific form of leadership
where an individual is able to influence a community
having common interests.
- A community leader should always be able to facilitate
community to work towards meeting their goals.

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- Leadership Grooming refers to the act of preparing an
individual to take leadership responsibilities.
- It involves equipping an individual with skills needed for
leadership.

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1.2 Qualities of a Comm’ Leader

- For a community leader to have influential ability, he/she

should possess some skills/qualities. Some of them are;

i. Integrity/honesty/trust

ii. Good Communication (inter-personal communication)

iii. Vision (ideas of where he/she wants to be in future)

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iv. Teamwork (participate/involving others)

v. Coaching and Development (encouraging others to

develop their skills)

vi. Adaptability (coping with changes/ uncertainties)

vii. Decision-Making (even when no enough information)

viii. Planning (short and long-term plans)

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1.3 Types of Community Leaders

i. Managerial Leaders

- They have least influence

- They are not in position to serve others but to be served

by others because they are in the position.

- People only follow them because they have to.

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ii. Relational Leaders

- They build relationships in order to influence others

- They develop mutual respect with others and work well

with them.

- People want to follow them because of who they are not

what they know.

- They have no specialized knowledge.

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iii. Motivational Leaders

- They seek mutual benefits for themselves and others

- People want to follow them for who they are and what
they know.

- Are trusted and deliver results

- However, they don’t sacrifice to produce other

motivational leaders.
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iv. Inspirational Leaders

-They focus on growing themselves in order to inspire

others to grow.

- They are people focused

- They focus heavily on character development

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- Are followed because of how much they care and who
they are on the inside.
- They are inspired by the growth of their followers.

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v. Transformational Leaders

- Their passion and purpose is to transform others

- They are the most influential and are highly respected

- They are well known for developing leaders

- Their influence touches people across multiple

generations

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Characteristics of Comm. Leaders

i. Empathy

ii. Ability to inspire/encourage/influence others.

iii. Strong communication

iv. Problem solving

v. Have an ability to get things done

vi. Team work spirit

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vii. Honesty

viii. Self awareness

ix. Motivation

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1.4 Roles of a Comm’ Leader

i. Serves as a link between government and the

community

ii. Settling disputes

iii. Mobilize and guide others

iv. To facilitate community problems solving

v. To facilitate decision making

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1.5 Importance of Comm’ Leadership

READING ASSIGNMENT

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1.6 Power and Authority

- Power is the capacity of a person to influence others and

change their actions, beliefs and behaviours.

- It is the capacity of an individual to influence the

will/conduct of others.

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- Authority is the legitimate power that a person/group is

granted to practice over others within organization.

- It is the right possessed by a person to give command to

others.

- Leaders possess both (power & authority)

- A good leader should balance the two.

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1.7 Leadership Styles

- Leadership Style refers to the behavior pattern exhibited

by a leader while influencing followers.

- Basing upon the amount of authority, there are the

following leadership styles;

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Autocratic leadership style.

Free-rein or laissez-faire leadership style.

Democratic or participative leadership style.

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Autocratic Leadership Style

- A leading style where leader possess all the authority

and leave limited or no authority to his/her

subordinates.

- Leader centralizes power in him/her and takes all

decisions without consulting the subordinates.

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Advantages

- Fast decision making as there is no long consultation

process.

Disadvantages

- Discourages employees from thinking about process

improvements
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- Employee dissatisfaction

- Decline in worker performance

- Does not prepare employees for promotion or possible

advancement

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Situations

- During an emergency/short term /complex or urgent

project.

- Managing temporary employees/ new employees.

- Low skilled positions with repetition functions that

can lead into low motivation.

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Free-rein/Laissez-faire Leadership Style

- This type of leadership style involves complete

delegation of authority so that subordinates themselves

make decisions.

- Leader gives followers total authority to decide what to

do and how to do it.

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Advantage

- Easy style to administer

- Complete empowerment of employees

- Prepare employee for promotion

- It may lead into employees satisfactions and improve

performance.
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Disadvantage

- Poor decision making.

- Some employees do not perform well without direction

and supervision

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Situations

- When employees are highly skilled and educated.

- When employees have pride in their work and the drive

to do it successfully on their own.

- When employees are trustworthy and experienced.

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Democratic/Participative Leadership Style

- A democratic leader takes decision while involving

subordinates.

- There is decentralization of authority and subordinates

share leader’s power.

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This type of leadership style can be divided into;

Consultative Leadership Style;

- This leadership style take place when a leader involves

subordinates before making decisions.

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Democratic/Participative Leadership Style;

-Is the leadership style which decisions are reached

through voting.

-The majority decide for the interest of the group.

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Advantage

- Employees actively involved in decision making

- Higher employee morale

- Stronger employee commitment to established goals

Disadvantage

- Time consuming

- Not everyone likes to participate

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Situations

- When leader wants to keep followers informed about

matters that affect them.

- When leader wants followers to share decision making

and problem-solving duties.

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- When leader wants to provide opportunities for

followers to develop a high sense of personal growth

and job satisfaction.

- There is a large or complex problem that requires lots of

input to solve.

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- When leader wants to encourage team building and

participation.

- There are other types of leadership style which do not

depend on authority.

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Bureaucratic Leadership Style

- Bureaucratic leadership is where the manager manages

“by the book”.

- Everything is done according to procedure or policy .

- Also, leader makes sure followers/employees strictly

follow rules and procedures.

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Advantage

- Helps to promote consistent output and quality

- Can cut cost

- Improve production in some environment

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Disadvantage

- Can dehumanize and discourage workforce

- Usually develop overtime

- Discourages creativity and does not make employees

self-contented.

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Situations

- This leadership style is more suitable when safe work

conditions and quality are required.

- When employees are knowledgeable on the rules and

regulations

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Charismatic Leadership Style

- Is the leadership style for leaders who have high ability of

inspiring and influencing others.

- It takes a great deal of energy to be a charismatic leader

because it requires high ability to sell vision and

mission to the team.

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- Some members of the team may be easily inspired,

others slowly or not at all.

Advantages

- Influences team spirit

- Excellent for encouraging creativity and forward

thinking decisions.
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Disadvantages

- Time consuming (to influence all members)

- Stressful

Situations

- When team function depends much on team commitment

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- To rejuvenate organisation when team members have
lost confidence.

- When companies seek to recreate their image to the

public (they will choose a charismatic leader as their
representative)

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1.8 Leadership Vs Management

Qn. Explain the differences between leadership and

management.

READING ASSIGNMENT

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 Leadership Vs Management
• Nature. Management exercises power to control people
to perform while leadership use vision to inspire,
influence and align people (followers) with work.
• Management focus on system and structure while
leadership focuses on people.
• Management use formal authority to handle challenges
where as leadership use informal authority to handle
problems/challenges.

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 Leadership Vs Management
• Scope: leadership goes beyond routine tasks to cope with
changes where as management is a regular formal
responsibility to cope with change or routine complexity in an
organization.
• Leadership promote change, approaches and works to
understand people’s beliefs to gain commitment but
management promotes stability, exercise authority to get things
accomplished
• Management focuses on planning in advance but the
administration is concerned with framing policies and setting
objectives
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 Leadership Vs Management
 Skills required: Management requires hardly technical and
human skills while Administration require just conceptual and
human skills to perform their roles effectively.

 Use: Management is used largely in Business oriented

organization (both public and private) while Administration is
used mostly in government or public organizations. (eg.
TANESCO, NSSF, MUNICIPAL, MINISTRY, UDSM, ITV etc.

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 Leadership Vs Management
 Functions: Leadership is concerned with developing and
implementing policies and procedures where as Conversely,
functions of management are executive and governing
(implementation of policies)

 Decision making: Management makes decisions under the

boundaries set by the administration while leadership takes all
the important decisions of the organization beyond
managerial decisions.(overall decisions about the entire
organization)

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