All language subtitles for 18 - Leadership styles and teamwork English

In this session, we're going to dive into how leadership styles affect teamwork and examine a few different

working theories about this.

In today's organization, teams are involved in every function for teams to achieve maximum effectiveness.

It's important that appropriate leadership is exhibited to provide direction, motivation and cohesion

to the team.

Over the years, many studies have been conducted about leadership of teams.

And one of the great thought leaders in this area is social psychologist Douglas McGregor of MIT.

In the nineteen sixties, he studied and dissected, if you will, volumes of information from his research

and narrowed it all down to two general theories theory X and Theory Y.

Great names, right?

These theories, X and Y are based on two sets of assumptions regarding how people are motivated to

work.

So let's take a look at them.

Theory X looks at work, motivation like this.

An average person has a built in natural dislike of work and will avoid it whenever possible.

Most people need to be coerced, controlled, directed or even threatened to put in any decent level

of effort.

And the average person is lazy and prefers to be directed, wants to avoid all responsibility, has

little ambition, and wants security.

Above all, X type organizations tend to be top heavy with managers, and supervisors are required at

every step to control workers.

There's very little delegation of authority and control remains firmly centralized.

McGregor recognized that X type workers are in fact usually the minority.

And yet in mass organizations such as a large scale production environment, X three management may

be required and can be unavoidable, at least in the US culture.

Do you agree?

Now for theory, why this theory describes a participative style of management that is decentralized,

it assumes that employees are happy to work, are self-motivated and creative and enjoy working with

greater responsibility.

So theory y looks at work motivation as this people regard work as being as natural as play.

OK, that might be a little bit out there, but you understand the concept.

People will exercise self direction and self control to reach work goals that they are committed to.

The average person likes to get extra responsibility and people are willing to use their imagination

and creativity to solve work problems.

This more participative style of management tends to be more widely applicable in today's organizations

and Y type organizations.

People at lower levels of the organization are involved in decision making and have more responsibility.

Do you agree?

The theories can be summed up as theory X telling and task centered style, which may work best in high

volume production environments with rigid processes and theory.

Why a people centered style that allows people to contribute can work best in environments that have

some flexibility and will benefit from team collaboration.