Management Theory: Shared Leadership In The Workplace

The first management theory I am going to focus on is leadership. Leadership is the influencing, motivating, and enabling others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members. Leadership is important in all organizations, whether it may be a single leadership or shared leadership. Shared leadership is more of a role, not a position and people within the team and organization lead each other. In order to be an effective leader, you need to have to good communication skills, be able to motivate others through persuasion, and help the employees achieve organizational objectives more easily. I believe having shared leadership would be beneficial to all employees in the organization. One person who has all the power can be intimidating and cause conflict but with shared leadership, the decision- making is shared amongst others. The one thing about shared leadership is that it lacks formal authority so …show more content…

Span of control is the number of people directly reporting to the next level in the hierarchy. There are two different spans of control, a narrow span and a wide span. A narrow span of control is when very few people report directly to a manager and is present when employees perform novel or complex tasks. A wide span happens when a manager has many direct reports, for an example, employees perform routine jobs because they require less direction or advice from supervisors. Span of control is interconnected with organizational size (number of employees) and the number of layers in the organizational hierarchy. I agree having a taller hierarchy can create problems. The quality is at lower levels when the executives receive the information and the information is in more simplified terms. It’s not fair for the individuals at the bottom to feel so empowered because the hierarchy keeps getting taller; they can’t control that so they become less engaged in their