Rather than focus on characteristics of the individual leader or features of the situation, distributed leadership foregrounds how actors engage in tasks that are "stretched" or distributed across the organization. With theoretical foundations in activity theory and distributed cognition, understanding leadership from a distributed perspective means seeing leadership activities as a situated and social process at the intersection of leaders, followers, and the situation
In distributed models, leadership is considered a group quality, ignoring binary ideas of leader-follower functionality, where all responsibility lies in the hands of the leader, and all followers are subservient. It can, therefore, facilitate the distribution of responsibility between individuals within an organization based on expertise, rather than on experience within a role. so this definition explicitly can be define as empowerment. however, the outcomes of this kind of leadership is equivocal since it relating to level of employees' expertise. if they are well-expertise the empowerment leads to excellent outcomes and the reverse is somehow leads to bad effect in organization.
Absolutely. With distributed leadership the total amount of decisions to be made is increasing dramatically, empowering employees is the only solution to that problem. Expertise of employees is not a problem --the most knowledgeable, courageous, motivated and thus authoritative employees will make the necessary decisions.
Distributive leadership equates with shared, collective and extended leadership practice that builds the capacity for change and improvement. It can also, facilitate the distribution of responsibility among employees and give employees a certain degree of autonomy for decision-making regarding their specific organizational tasks.
It might be interested to connect this type of leadership with team development phases and see how the leader needs to adapt depending on the development phase of his team.
I don't think this should be categorized as a true type of leadership.It is just an arrangement to run the business.
very true it cannot be categorized as a true type of leadership and nor it is included in the 12 categories of leadership styles (Kepner Tregoe).It is basically a recent trend,a strategy in this fast changing environment and technology know how to empower people in decision making.
Delegation is the key to empowerment. Shared leadership can become problematic for followers.
This advanced leadership style is not in traditional management. It needs an organization learning. Everyone works in the direction of one goal. And they have similar competencies. Here we do not lose the lines of power and responsibility. This pattern is difficult to apply to a traditional pattern of the organization. Do you agree with me?
Distributed leadership is a practice wherein leaders devolve and empower employees for decision-making. It a tenet of learning organisations; as these organisations are likely to evolve because of shared values and autonomy. a framework for identifying the factors that enhance employee engagement may differ for different organisations/verticals. It can be documented in healthcare sector as AI is making noticeable impact in medical care.
I appreciate the answer by Timira Shukla. Delegation is the main principle of distributive leadership. I am glad to note that Artificial Intelligence is making an impact in Medical care. Thanks
One way of empowering employees through distributed leadership is by encouraging people to voice their views more openly. Probably actions are the best way to deliver the message. People in the lower position are allowed to initiate the change with other following, dissenting, and altering in various ways.
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Distributed leadership is concerned with dividing the responsibilities among multiple leaders. In this connection, leaders are encouraged to mentor and grow new leaders to perpetuate the shared structure of the organization.
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