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Functions of leadershipIn leadership, there are always three elements or variables:1 The leaderQualities of personality and character.2 The situationPartly constant, partly varying.3 The groupThe followers: their needs and values.This section of the book looks at leadership functions in relationto the needs of work groups. These needs can be seen asthree overlapping needs:1 Task needTo achieve the common task.2 Team maintenance needsTo be held together or to maintain themselves as a team.3 Individual needsThe needs which individuals bring with them into the group.PART 1 LEADERSHIP AND TEAMBUILDING 11
These three needs (the task, team and individual) are the watchwordsof leadership and people expect their leaders to:• help them achieve the common task• build the synergy of teamwork and• respond to individuals and meet their needs.The task needs work groups or organisations to come into beingbecause the task needs doing and cannot be done by one personalone. The task has needs because pressure is built up to accomplishit to avoid frustration in the people involved if they areprevented from completing it.The team maintenance needs are present because the creation,promotion and retention of group/organisational cohesivenessis essential on the ‘united we stand, divided we fall’ principle.The individual needs are the physical ones (salary) and thepsychological ones of:• recognition• a sense of doing something worthwhile• status• the deeper need to give and to receive from other peoplein a working situation.12 THE CONCISE ADAIR ON LEADERSHIP
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