Organizational Behavior Seminar
Presentation

Instructor : Prof. Norihiko Takeuchi
Speaker : William (LIU, Shih -Wei)
Who you want to work for?
Leader A

Leader F

Cares about achievement

Cares about fame

Humble background

Highborn

No sexual indulgence

Numerous affairs

Vegetarian/ No liquor

Alcoholic
Leaders
Managers
Leadership vs. Management
Leadership

Management

• About coping with
change

• About coping with
complexity

• Establish direction,
align resources and
inspire

• Brings about order
and consistency
Leadership vs. Management
Leadership

Activity

Management

Establishing direction
and vision for the
organization

Creating an agenda

Planning and budgeting,
allocating resources

Aligning people through
communications and
actions that provide
direction

Developing a human
network for achieving the
agenda

Organizing and staffing,
structuring and
monitoring
implementation

Motivating and inspiring
by satisfying needs

Executing plans

Controlling and problem
solving

Produces useful change
and new approaches to
challenges

Outcomes

Produces predictability
and order and attains
results
Leadership vs. Management
“Leadership is the process of
influencing a group toward the
achievement of goals.”
Leadership vs. Management
People with both leaderships and
managerial skills are suitable for
becoming CEOs.
Leaders
Trait Theories
Differentiate leaders from nonleaders by focusing on personal
qualities and characteristics.
Trait Theories
Judge, T. A., et al. 87(4): 765-780.
Trait Theories

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Trait Theories
Judge, T. A., et al. 87(4): 765-780.
Trait Theories
• Extraversion related strongest to
leadership

• Conscientiousness and openness to
experience also strongly related to
leadership
• Traits are better at predicting leader
emergence than leader effectiveness
Leaders
Ohio State Studies
• Initiating structure - attempts to
organize work, work relationships,
and goals
• Consideration - concern for
followers’ comfort, well-being,
status, and satisfaction
University of Michigan
Studies
• Production-oriented - emphasize the
technical or task aspects of the job
• Employee-oriented - emphasize
interpersonal relations
Blake and Mouton’s
Managerial Grid®
Country Club

Team
Manager

Middle of the
road

Impoverished

Authority
Compliance
Behavior Theory
• Concern for Production - better
performance, but low satisfaction
and high absences
• Concern for People - low
performance, but high satisfaction
and low absences
Situational
Fiedler Leadership Model
Leadership style

Contingence
Leader-member relations
Task structure
Position Power
Fiedler Leadership Model
Fiedler Leadership Model
Task

Relationship

Task

Low
Control

Moderate
Control

High
Control
Leader-Member Exchange
Theory
“With 1,000 data points, it would be
near impossible not to find in it a
certain number of “significant”
correlations of sorts.”
-Nassim Taleb
How Could They?
How to Get Charisma?
Charismatic Leadership
Vision

Risk

Charisma

Need

Behavior
Charismatic Leadership
• Articulates an appealing vision
• Communicates high performance
expectations and expresses confidence
• Conveys, through words and actions
• Engages in emotion-inducing behaviors
$ 6,000
Problematic CEOs

Jeffrey Skilling
Problematic CEOs

Tsuyoshi Kikukawa
Transformation and
transaction
Transformational Leadership
• Transactional leaders - motivate their
followers in the direction of established
goals
• Transformational leaders - inspire
followers to transcend their own selfinterests
Transformational Leadership
Authentic and Ethics
Leaderships
Challenges
Attribution theory of
leadership
• Company performance DID lead to
perceptions of charisma

Stan O’ Neal
Substitutes for leadership

Trained/ Experienced

Need Leaders?
A case at P&G: A new face
for CEO

Durk Jager

A.G. Lafley
Who you want to work for?

Adolf Hitler

Franklin D.
Roosevelt
Thanks for Your Attention!

OB: leadership