INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS

UNIVERSITY
OF
ASSIGHMENT
GUJRAT
To
Mr. KAMRAN MAQBOOL

Presented By
HAMAD TARIQ
ROLL NO. 088
MBA 1ST
SCETION A
29 DEC 2008

REPORT OF
INEFFECTIVE LEADER
AND HOW CAN WE
AVOID HIM IN ANY
ORGANIZATION

LEADERSHIP:
Leadership can be defined as “motivating the employees an inspire them towards the job in other sense
encouraging them”

It is a process of management function and also considered as the main one.

Leader is the person who does leadership and other work activities of organization.

Ineffective leader is the person who can not perform his duties appropriately and he has no control and not co-
operative with his employees.

CHARACTERISTICS OF AN "INEFFECTIVE LEADER"

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First of all they exercise Bad Control. They come across as "Control Freaks" when actually they are not controlling
anything at all. Control itself is not a bad thing in fact it is necessary if you are going to be an effective leader. If you
cannot control a car, you are an accident waiting to happen. If you cannot control people, you cannot control an
organization. There are a lot of factors in running an organization and if you are not in control of them, yourself and
the people under you, then you are courting disaster. However an ineffective leader will try to control using threats
and punishment and these just do not work. "Bad control" is actually no control at all as one has to get the
agreement of his associates in order to control them. People rarely enjoy being controlled by force or manipulation.
Criticism by attacking the person himself is not the least bit constructive and only garners resentment. Getting
angry and "losing it" only begets anger from his subordinates. Ever tried to reason with someone who is angry?
Therefore trying to manage in an atmosphere of fear is not exercising control of one's area or the people under him
and is glaring sign of an ineffective leader.

Sometimes there is good reason to be angry, but an ineffective leader has long since been out of communication
with his associates and may feel he has no other recourse. Perhaps he has been trying to run a "one man show".
In other words, he does not know how to delegate. This may come from not trusting his associates to do the job
correctly, or maybe just from not wanting to let go. Perhaps he feels he is the only person on earth who can do it
right. This will make our hapless leader overworked and very cranky if he is trying to do everyone's job for them. If
a leader has people to lead, he must trust in his own ability to choose his people, communicate what must be done
and let them do it.

Sometimes the goal of the group, organization or department is not well enough defined to the people being
managed. Do you think everyone there who is digging a ditch really believes they are there to dig a ditch? Ask
them. You may get some very interesting views on what the workers really think they are doing there and it may
have nothing to do with digging a ditch. (Or selling cars, or whatever) An ineffective leader probably does not have
the goal of the group adequately defined and he definitely does not have agreement on it. He may not even agree
with the goals himself. The ineffective leader may assume his people are lazy or stupid but has rarely
communicated what is expected and made sure it is understood and agreed upon. The production level of the
group determines its morale and an ineffective leader has no idea of how to get production going with his people. If
he is managing by anything but production statistics he is going to get into trouble. There is only one way to reward
people and that is by who is doing the work. An ineffective leader will "play favorites" and reward who he likes
rather than who is actually producing. Sometimes a system of seniority is built into the organization where
promotions and raises depend on tenure rather than statistics. However, the ineffective leader will blame the
system for poor performance rather than look to his own leadership skills. Ultimately, rewarding non-production will
result in non-production, whatever the system is.

By and large, an ineffective leader can be recognized as being stressed, overworked, and angry. His health is
probably suffering too, as some 70% of all illnesses are stress related. This is the guy who needs some serious
help.

Stephen Covey wrote a book describing the seven habits of highly effective people. Well, if there are habits that
people can acquire to make them effective, then there are also habits that leaders will want to shed that cause
them to be ineffective. Here are some I have been thinking about and working on:

Leaders who want to be effective will be careful that they are not:

1. Spending too much time managing and not enough time leading.

There are major differences between managing and leading. Here are a few: *Generally speaking:
*Managers think short term, leaders long term *Managers control and minimize change,
leaders initiate change *Managers are reactive (responding to ideas) leaders are proactive (creating ideas)
*Managers solve problems, leaders create excitement generating more problems *Managers are process-oriented
(how it is done), leaders are result-oriented (why and if it is done)
*Managers motivate by rules and regulations, leaders by empowerment and vision

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2. Spending too much time in counseling the hurting and not enough time in developing the leaders

3. Spending too much time fighting fires and not enough time lighting fires.

4. Spending too much time doing and not enough time praying, dreaming and planning. We have all heard the
expression, "Just don't sit there, do something." Leaders need to practice, "Just don't do something, sit there."

5. Spending too much time teaching the many and not enough time training the few.

The war will not be won from behind the pulpit. Many leaders invest entirely too much time in public teaching in
spite of the fact that statistics

6. Spending too much time doing it themselves and not enough time doing it through others. Little people do it all
by themselves, big people get others to help them.

7. Making too many decisions based on organizational politics and too few decisions based on biblical principles.
Leaders who don’t hold their wet finger in the wind to see which way it is blowing but using that same finger to turn
the pages of Holy Writ to see which way the Spirit of God wants to move.

An effective leader will ensure that the organization survives and thrives. An ineffective leader could mean the
organization fails.

To be an effective leader or to avoid the ineffective leaders in the organization. We should adapt these parameters

*Lead, not merely manage

*Develop future leaders

*Light new fires

*Spend time praying, dreaming and planning

*Do ministry through others

*Make biblically correct decisions

*Be more Ethical

These practical, real-life ideas will help you grow personally as a leader and help you become better at developing
the leaders around you. If you have any comments send e-mails to hammad_rose143@hotmail.com

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