Figure 1 presents the importance and relationship of
motivation to other dimensions of life in general and
organizational life as well. A motivated person in general is a good person because he/she has positive and pleasant affect on environment. A motivated employee or manager or superior
can lead and makes other feel good about themselves.
Motivation is required also to build team and make teams work.
Motivation also helps that environment are non complaining environment. All of this is manifestation of positive behaviour;
which is essential for a good manger.
Leadership
Leader and leadership are two different concepts. A leader is a person who leads a group of individuals. Leadership on the other hand defines the characteristics of the person who
leads. Thus Leadership is the software that makes a leader.
Managerial Leadership
Leader and leadership are often thought of in the larger
context like, political leader, reformers,prophets, thinkers, philosophers etc. But in the discussion of leadership that will
follow the emphasis is on Managerial leadership. Managerial
leadership is the leadership that managers exercise in
organizational situation to achieve its goals.
Defining Leadership
There are almost as many different definitions of leadership as there are persons who have attempted to define The
concept. We will define managerial leadership as the process of directing and influencing the task related activities of group
members. There are four important implications of our
definition of managerial leadership. This is discussed below:
1.First, leadership involves other people-employees or followers. By their willingness to accept directions from the
leader,group members help define the leader's status and make the leadership process possible; without people to lead, all the
leadership qualities of a manager would be irrelevant. Second,
leadership involves an Unequal distribution of power between leaders and group
2.members. Group members are not powerless; they can
and do shape group activities in a number of ways. Still the
leader will usually have more power.Where does a manager's
power come from? The five bases of a manager's power are:
a. Reward power;
b. Coercive power;
c. Legitimate power;
d. Referent power and
e. Expert power.
The Trait Approach
There is a believe that leaders are born and that people are
born with certain traits or characteristics that are peculiar to
leaders. Others who are not born with those traits cannot be
leaders
3.The third aspect of leadership is the ability to use the
different forms of power to influence followers' behaviours in
a number of ways.
4.The fourth aspect combines the first three and acknowledges that leadership is about values. Moral leadership concerns
values and requires that followers be given enough knowledge of alternatives to make intelligent choices.