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on the other. The latter were the preserves of managers and
supervisors. Do you agree?
There is a useful way of looking at the planning function as a
cake that can be sliced in different proportions, as illustrated in
Figure 4.1.
Use of authority by the leader
Area of freedom for team leaders
Leader Leader Leader Leader Leader Leader
makes ‘sells’ presents presents presents defines
plan and own plan ideas and tentative problem, limits;
announces invites plan gets asks team
it questions subject to suggestions, to make
change makes plan
plan
Figure 4.1 The planning continuum
From the leadership angle the advantages of moving towards
the right-hand side of the continuum in Figure 4.1 are consid-
erable. The more that people share decisions affecting their
working life, the more they are motivated to carry them out.
That is one facet of what has been called ‘empowerment’.
