Leading

In order to maximize efficiency and realize the organizational goals, effective leadership plays a key role in engineering management. Leading subordinates and providing them real time support helps the employee to grow and ensure the best performance in their workplaces. When the ill-effects of any sort of shortcomings occur, it is the engineer manager's job to neutralize such difficulties for it will affect the overall performance of the employees and the organization itself. Regardless of management level engineer managers were positioned with, they are not exempted from the problem of effective leadership.

what is leading?

Leading is the management function which "involves influencing others to engage in their work behaviors necessary to reach organizational goals".
Leading refer to the function of management while leadership pertains to the process

bases of power

Power refers to the ability of a leader to exert force to another
The power possessed by leaders can be classified into various bases which are as follows:

Legitimate power
Reward power
Coercive power
Referent power
Expert power

traits of effective leaders

For an engineer manager to minimize deficiencies in an organization, he/she should possess leadership traits. Shown in the left figure are certain leadership traits which are crucial in developing effective leaders.

leadership skills

Leaders should also develop various skills to be effective, which is classified into three types:

Technical Skills
Human Skills
Conceptual Skills

behavioral approaches to leadership styles

Engineer managers usually exhibit some leadership behaviors that is unique and different from other behavioral patterns, which is called leadership styles
Leadership style is classified into three approaches, which are:

According to the ways leaders approach people to motivate them
According to the way the leader uses power
According to the leader's orientation towards task and people

contingency approaches to leadership style

Contingency approach pertains to "an effort to determine through research which managerial practices and techniques are appropriate in specific situations". It is classified into four approaches as follows:

Fiedler's Contingency Model
Hersey and Blanchard's Situational Leadership Model
Path-Goal Model of Leadership
Vroom's Decision Making Model

ASSESSMENT TASKS:

QUIZ # 11

Class Work # 11.pdf

VIDEO PRESENTATION LINK: https://youtu.be/Gep-wIKUl2Y

REFLECTION:

Leading is one of the core functions of management. It is evident that engineer managers must prompt the employees to work together in the interest of the organization. This will be helpful in effectively and efficiently realizing the objectives through directing the subordinates and achieving harmony between them to easily accomplish group tasks. After watching the presentation, I have learned that being a leader has always been a significant concern in many engineering firms, especially when most engineering managers should carry out good decisions that could solve problems and issues within the organization. I believe that leading is indeed an important function in management for it drives the success or failure of engineering ventures. Thus, engineer managers should uphold a sense of responsibility and accountability whenever shortcomings are met.

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