Team

Leader/Follower
Relationship
Presented By:
Group-20(Section K)
Surbhi Bharti
Neha Kumari Chanana
Shrey Goyal
 Leadership – The Definition
• Leadership is the process of influencing
others to achieve the organizational goals.
• Leadership is an interaction between the
leader, the followers, and the situation.
Boss says “Go!”, LEADERSHIP
leader says “Let’s V A
C
go!” I
H
S
COMMUNICATE I
I E
Leader knows the O V
N E
way, shows the way,
& CREDIBILITY
goes the way.
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 Quality of a Perfect Team
Leader
• Creative and Reliable and risk-
disciplined taking
• Visionary and detailed Intuitive and logical
• Motivational and Intellectual and ethical
commanding Coaching and
• Directing and controlling
empowering Inspiring and
• Ambitious and humble mentoring

Be not a perfect leader, only an effective one!

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 Team Leadership Goals
• Increase group development and
performance
• Build trust, autonomy and authority
of team members
• Construct an environment that
fosters collaborative learning
 Followership
• The act or condition of following a leader
• Followers, rather than representing the antithesis of
leaders, are best viewed as collaborators with leaders.

• Followers fall into two groups:

– Independent, critical thinking
– Dependent, uncritical thinking

• Best followers think for themselves and offer constructive

advice or even creative solution.
• Worst followers need to be told what to do, or even dodge
the responsibility.

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Situational Leadership
 Leader-Follower Relationship
Personality,
Position,
Expertise,
…

Leadership

Values, Task,
Stress,
Norms, Environment
,
Cohesivenes …
s,
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…
 Leader-Follower (LMX)
Leadership Theory

LMX Theory Focuses on:

Relationship Between Team Leaders
and Followers
• helps to shape the success or failure
of an organization.
• Without a successful relationship between
these groups, effective leadership will not
occur, nor will outstanding workplace
success.
In-Group Versus Out-Group Members

• Members of an in-group tend to receive

more information, are shown more
concern, and may be more dependable
and more communicative.

• Whereas Members of out-group does not

show concern towards the organisation,
meets minimum goals and never attempt
to achieve more.
Extraversion and Introversion
Similar to the ideas behind the in-groups
and out-groups, extraversion and
introversion can also play a role in the
success of the LMX model.

• an extravert would be considered an

in-group member
• an introvert would be an out-group
member
 The LMX process
• These relationships, if they are
going to happen, start very soon
after a person joins the group and
follow three stages.
1. Role taking
2. Role making
3. Routinization
 Benefit of the LMX model
• Helps in analyzing the behavior of both
team leaders and followers
• Helps in building better interaction b/w the
team leader and the followers.
• leaders can recognize which types of
followers are present within the
organization
• modifications can be made to include all
followers as much as possible
 How to improve Leader-Follower
Relationship?
• Respecting Members.
• Showing awareness and recognition of their contributions.
• Attention to listening and Fairness.
• Having group discussions about the goals, and what performance
is needed to achieve those goal.
• Giving feedback on performance.
• Stressing a forward-looking approach, rather than just reviewing
the past.
• By being open to the members with honest communication that
encourage trust and loyalty.