This week’s lecture is about leadership. Leader is a person who influence follower to achieve a goal and leadership is the process of influencing follower to achieve an objective. A roleplay to illustrate leadership is acted. In the roleplay, Selva is to influence Salman to a dinner even though Salman is busy on assignment. Selva agree to help Salman on assignment and manage to invite Salman out for meal. It is understood that the 3 main point to influence is to communicating ideas, gaining acceptance and motivate the follower. Some leader will use bribe to influence other but once the power of leader is lost, he will lose the respect and influencing. An effective leader has a few characteristics like sharing leadership responsibility, teach follower the leadership skill, influence follower and for continual improvement, set a clear objective and able to work with each other. There is also a difference between managers and a leader. There are 4 different leadership theory which are trait, behavioral, integrative and contingency. Trait theory focus on physical characteristic like height and strength. Behavioral theory is a leadership style that applied depend on the follower behavior. Contingency theory is a leadership style that applied depend on follower and situation. Integrative theory combines all theory mentioned and create a new leadership style.

In this week, I learn about what is meant by leader. A leader is a person who is able to influence other to achieve a goal and there a lot of different leadership style.