Linking Pin Model
The Linking Pin Model
is an idea developed by
Rensis Likert in which an organisation is represented as a number of
overlapping work units in which members of one unit are leaders of
another. In this scheme, the supervisor/manager has the dual task of
maintaining unity and creating a sense of belonging within the group he
or she supervises and of representing that group in meetings with
superior and parallel management staff. These individuals are the
linking pins within the organisation and so they become the focus of
leadership development activities.
Likert have given the
idea of linking pin model for connecting various parts of the
organisation.
The model is based on
two basic characteristics of the organisation. First, organisation can
be seen as system of interlocking groups; and second, the interlocking
groups are connected by individuals who occupy the key positions of dual
membership serving as linking pin between groups. Thus every individual
functions as a linking pin for the organisation units above and below
him. He is the group leader of the lower unit and a group member of the
upper unit. In the linking pin structure a group-to-group, as opposed to
traditional man-to-man, relationship exists.
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linking_pin_model
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