Situational Factors

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Situation is the environment or circumstances in

which an individual performs.


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Following are thefactors that can influence the situation;

Task Type: the nature of the work or assignment canalso effect the employees

Structure of organization: The organizationstructure always depend on the size of the

organization. If the structure will be more rigid, morecomplexities faced by the employees


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Following are the

factors that can influence the situation;

Stress: Stress in the environment and intensity

under which team, organization, or leaders are

working also play important role in leadershipprocess and also situation itself.


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Following are thefactors that can influence the situation;

Environment: The environment itself effect onthe situation prevails in the organization. The

micro (internal factors) and the macro (external

factors) always keep on changing, so that this isbig challenge for the leaders to keep the close

eyes on changing environment and makedecisions accordingly.


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Situational factors influence the leadership process:

_ Size of the organization

_ Organizational life cycle stage

_ Social and psychological climate_ Patterns of employment

_ Type, place, and purpose of work performed

_ Culture of the organization

_ Over all environment_ Leader-follower interaction

_ Leader-follower compatibility

_ Compatibilities within the followers


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Size of the organization:

Size of the organization varies organization toorganization and its operations and activities in

whichorganization involve.

An organizations size demands certain types ofleadership skills which help toprovide right direction.

Following two type of leadership, we can see in theorganization;


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Leaders of small organizations: can be in the form of

salespeople, marketing manager and productionmanagers.

These leaders organize the system, assign the task,coach the team and evaluate the system.

The small organizations have a flexible system andflatter structure.

The approach of the smallorganization is more entrepreneurs.


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Leaders of large organizations: In the large

organization, the main focus will be on to createpublic

image and future investment plans.

The system of the large organization will be moreprocedural and

structure of the large organization will also be morerigid and more complex because of its operations

and activities.


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Situational factors influence the leadership

process:

Organizational life cycle stage:

Every organization has its own life cycle.

Which always start from its birth and end with its

decline.To

save from decline, most of the organizationintroduces new products and new paths etc.


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Social and psychological climate:Every organization has its own climate of working and

environment in which the employees workstogether. Different factors that influence the organizations

climate;_ Confusion

_ Anxiety

_ Conflicts_ Mistrust_ Stress

_ PoliticsThese factors also play their role on the formulation of

situation and ultimately the leadership process.


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Patterns of employment:In todays organization the pattern of the employees also

varies from organization to organization. Wecan now see the permanent or temporary and Short-term

or Long-term employees. So it also effects thesituation of the organization. Todays people need more

job security and befits instead of their services.And organizations are facing more challenges in shape of

changing the external environment. So it isanother challenge for leadership to create a congenial

working environment for satisfaction ofemployees.


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Type, place, and purpose of work performed:The type of work is an important factor. The Work

duties should be clearcut. The routine or

monotonous work could create hostile working

environment. Many researcher claims that in todaysorganization work duties loosely defined which

always cause de-motivation and stress.


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process:

Culture of the organization:

The system of shared values and beliefs held byorganizational members or the system of the

sharedvalues norms and behavior that held by the topmanagement is called organizational culture. All

organizations have their own cultures;


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process:

Culture of the organization:Culture by default: means the culture already

exists from the birth of organization.

Culture by design: means the culture existsaccording to its operations and structure.


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Situational factors influence the leadership process:Culture of the organization:

The Observable Evidence of the organizational

culture is;_ Symbols_ Ceremonies

_ Stories_ Behaviors

_ Language_ Dress

The bottom line is Culture permeates org. behaviorBUT Very hard to observe or quantify


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process:

Culture of the organization:Types of Organizational Cultures

Control cultures

Collaboration cultures

Competence cultures

Cultivation cultures


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process:

Culture of the organization

Cultures Effects on Behavior

Culture effects on behaviors duringCommunication, Cooperation, Commitment,

Decision Making,Implementation, and Leadership style etc.


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Organizational Climate:

Organizational Climate is an important dimensionthat clearly determines organizational climate andenvironment.

An organization should have a reward system to

motivate its employee and linked withthe performance.

A transparent unbiased system in which employeesfeel satisfied.


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Organizational Climate:

The standard of theperformance should clearly define to the employee

and same for each category and related with jobdescription.

A congenial and supportive working environmentshould prevail in the organization for

the increasing the productivity of the organization.


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Over all environment: The organizational

environment is the set of forces surrounding anorganization

that have the potential to affect the way it operatesand its access to scarce resources.

Basicallyorganization environment has two dimensions

internal and external.


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process:

Over all environment:

This can also be known as Macro

and Micro factors or even General Environment

and Task Environment.

All these factors/forces do

affect the leadership process.


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Leader-follower interaction:

For running an organization successfully there isneed of leader-followers interaction.

There should beLeader-follower compatibility for working together in

the organization.

Proper communication andconfidence on each other is very essential for trust

and performance.


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process:

Leader-followercompatibility and Compatibilities within the

followers is also very

important for particular situation.

All above factor affecting directly or indirectly

the situation and

ultimately the leadership process.


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Referenceshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS_model_of_individual_behavior

http://www.zainbooks.com/books/management/leadership-and-

team-management_15_situational-factors.html

Human Behavior in Organizations: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach,

Jose V. Leveriza, 1993

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