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LEADERSHIP
• Leadership is a complex phenomenon involving the leader, the followers, and the situation.
• Process of influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals.
Due to the complexity of leadership, the concept has been defined in many ways:
1) Process by which an agent induces a subordinate to behave in a desired manner
2) Directing and coordinating the work of group members
3) Interpersonal relation in which others comply because they want to, not because they
have to
MANAGERS LEADERS
• Administer • Innovate
• Maintain • Develop
• Control • Inspire
• Have a short-term view • Have a long-term view
• Ask how and when • Ask what and why
• Imitate • Originate
• Accept the status quo • Challenge the status quo
LEADERSHIP MYTHS
In general, these myths can be classified into three broad categories of beliefs that hinder the
development of leadership:
1) “Good leadership is all common sense.”
- One believes that good leadership only entails common sense.
- The problem is the term common sense is ambiguous.
- It implies that there is a body of practical knowledge about life that virtually any
reasonable person with moderate experience has acquired.
- If leadership were simply common sense, then there would be fewer workplace
problems.
3) “The only school you can learn leadership from is the school of hard knocks.”
- Formal study and experiential learning complement each other.
- Formal study of leadship provides students with a variety of ways of examining a
particular leadership situation.
- Studying the different ways researchers have defined and examined leadership helps
students use these definitions and theories to better understand what is going on in
any leadership situation.
Characteristics include:
• Unique personal history • Character traits
• Interests • Motivation
1) Effective leaders differ from their followers and from ineffective leaders on elements
such as personality traits, cognitive abilities, skills, and values.
2) Leaders are generally calm and are not prone to emotional outbursts.
3) Leaders appointed by superiors may have less credibility and may get less loyalty.
4) Leaders elected or emerging by consensus from ranks of followers are seen as more
effective.
5) Leader’s experience or history in a particular organization is usually important to her or
his effectiveness.
6) Leader’s legitimacy is affected by the extent of follower participation in a leader’s
selection.
THE FOLLOWERS
Both practitioners and scholars stress the relatedness of leadership and followership.
Following aspects of followers affect the leadership process:
• Expectations
• Personality traits
• Maturity levels
• Levels of competence
• Motivation
5 Basic Styles of Followership according to Robert Kelley:
1) Alienated Followers – they habitually point out the all the negative aspects of the
organization to others.
3) Pragmatist Followers – are rarely committed to their group’s work goals, but they have
learned not to make waves.
4) Passive Followers – they don’t have the characteristics of the exemplary followers. They
rely to their leader to do all the thinking.
Workers who share a leader’s goals and values, and who feel intrinsically rewarded for
performing a job well may be more motivated.
Following factors have significant implications:
• Number of followers reporting to a leader
• Followers’ trust and confidence in the leader
Importance of the leader and follower relationship has undergone dynamic change for the
following reasons:
1. Increased pressure to function with reduced resources.
2. Trend toward greater power sharing and decentralized authority in organizations.
3. Increase in complex problems and rapid changes in an organization.
Ways in which followers can take on new leadership roles and responsibilities in the future:
1. Being proactive in their stance toward organizational problems.
2. Contributing to the leadership process by becoming skilled at “influencing upward.”
3. Staying flexible and open to opportunities.
Findings from studies regarding problems that constrain women from gaining leadership roles:
• Mentors of women executives had less organizational influence and clout than did the
mentors of their male counterparts.
• Compared to men, women’s trust in each other decreases when work situations become
more professionally risky.
• Women’s commitment to the organizations they worked for was more guarded than that
of their male counterparts.
• Strong masculine stereotype of leadership continues to exist in the workplace.
• Women are seen as less well suited to the requirements of leadership than men.
• Practice interactive leadership
• Interactive leadership developed by women’s socialization experiences and career paths
Factors that explain the shift toward more women in leadership roles:
• Women themselves have changed • Organizational practices have
• Leadership roles have changed changed
• Culture has changed
GLASS CLIFF
- Female candidates for an executive position are more likely to be hired than
equally qualified male candidates when an organization’s performance is
declining.
- Challenge for women in addition to the glass ceiling.
- Reflects a greater willingness to put women in precarious positions.
CHAPTER 1 SUMMARY:
Leadership is the process of influencing an organized group toward achieving its goals.
Considerable overlap exists between leadership and management.
Study of leadership must also include two other areas: the followers and the situation.
Good leadership makes a difference, and it can be enhanced through greater awareness
of the important factors influencing the leadership process.
INTRODUCTION
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT VS. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
1) Leader Development – is more appropriate to use when referring to methods intended
to facilitate growth in individual’s perspective or skills.
2) Leadership Development – focus on developing shared properties of whole groups or
social systems such as the degree of trust among all members of a team or
department, or on enhancing the reward systems in an organization to better
encourage collaborative behavior.
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
- John F. Kennedy
Leadership is a Process, Not a Position
THE ACTION-OBSERVATION-REFLECTION MODEL (A-O-R Model)
This shows that leadership development is enhanced when the experience involves the
following processes:
• Action • Observation • Reflection
Leadership development through experience may be better understood as the growth resulting
from repeated movements through all three phases rather than merely in terms of some objective
dimension.
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Learning theorists suggest that people can learn the most from experiences when
they spend time thinking about and reflecting on those experiences.
This notion provides the basis for the action-observation-reflection (A-O-R) model
and the spiral of experience.
It is not enough just to have experiences, but one needs to think about what they
did, what the outcomes were, and how they can leverage what they did to learn
the skills required to continue to perform effectively or how they can change to be
more effective.
Developing the skills necessary to observe the consequences of one’s actions and
reflecting on the importance and meaning will improve leadership development and
leadership performance.
Apart from perception and attribution, reflection also involves higher functions like evaluation
and judgment.
PERCEPTION AND ACTION
• Research shows that perceptions and biases affect supervisors’ actions toward poorly
performing subordinates.
• Research shows that perceptions and biases affect supervisors’ actions toward poorly
performing subordinates.
• Self-fulfilling prophecy – Occurs when one's expectations or predictions play a causal role
in bringing about the events he or she predicts.
• Having expectations about others can subtly influence our actions, and these actions can,
in turn, affect the way others behave.
MAKING THE MOST OF ONE'S LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES: LEARNING TO LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE
1. Research shows a meaningful link between stress and learning.
2. The learning events and developmental experiences that punctuate one’s life are usually—
perhaps always—stressful.
3. In stressful situations, there is a tendency to do what’s always been done.
4. What results is one of the great challenges of adult development: the times when people
most need to break out of the mold created by past learning patterns are the times when
they are most unwilling to do so.
5. Being able to go against the grain of one’s personal historical success requires an
unwavering commitment to learning and a relentless willingness to let go of the fear of
failure and the unknown.
6. To be successful, learning must continue throughout life, beyond the completion of one’s
formal education.
Development Planning
To make enduring behavioral changes, leaders must provide positive answers to the
following five questions:
1. Do leaders know which of their behaviors need to change?
2. Is the leader motivated to change these behaviors?
3. Do leaders have plans in place for changing targeted behaviors?
4. Do leaders have opportunities to practice new skills?
5. Are leaders held accountable for changing targeted behaviors?
Good development plans are constantly being revised as new skills are learned
or new opportunities to develop skills become available.
Provides a methodology for leaders to improve their behavior even as they go
about their daily work activities.
Coaching
Key leadership skill that can help leaders improve the bench strength of the
group and retain high-quality followers.
Process of equipping people with the tools, knowledge, and opportunities that
they need to develop and become more successful.
Types of Coaching:
1) Formal coaching programs: Designed for the specific needs and goals of individual
executives and managers in leadership positions.
Features of Formal Coaching:
• One-on-one relationship between manager and coach lasts from six months to
more than a year.
• The process begins with an assessment of the manager to clarify development
needs.
• Coach and manager meet regularly to build skills.
• Role plays and videotape are used extensively, and coaches provide immediate
feedback.
• Outcomes of coaching programs
• Clarification of managers’ values
• Identification of discrepancies between managers’ espoused values and their
actual behaviors
• Development of strategies to better align managers’ behaviors with their values
(Formal coaching programs can be expensive. It cost more than 100,000 dollars.)
(Coaching may be more effective at changing behavior than more traditional learning and
training approaches.)
2) Informal coaching: Takes place whenever a leader helps followers to change their
behaviors.
• The process can be used to diagnose why behavioral change is not occurring and
what can be done about it.
• It can and does occur anywhere in the organization and is effective for both
high-performing and low-performing followers.
• Increases in difficulty when it occurs either remotely or across cultures.
Mentoring
Personal relationship in which a more experienced mentor acts as a guide, role model, and
sponsor of a less experienced protégé.
Mentoring is not the same as coaching because:
1. It may not target specific development needs
2. Guidance is provided by someone several leadership levels higher in the
organization and not the immediate supervisor
3. Mentor may not even be part of the organization
4. There are formal and informal mentoring programs
5. Informal mentoring occurs when a protégé and mentor build a long-term
relationship based on friendship, similar interests, and mutual respect
Mentor
- experienced person willing to take an individual under his or her wing
- usually someone 2 to 4 levels higher in an organization
- provides protégés with knowledge, advice, challenge, counsel, & support about
career opportunities, organizational strategy and policy, and office politics.
• In a formal mentoring program, the organization assigns a relatively inexperienced but
high-potential leader to a top executive in the company.
• Often used to accelerate the development of female or minority protégés.
• Informal mentoring may be more effective than formal mentoring as it creates a
stronger emotional bond and can last a lifetime.
BUILDING ONE'S OWN LEADERSHIP SELF-IMAGE
1. Not everyone wants to be a leader or believes he or she can be.
2. Many people are selling themselves short.
3. People who want to avoid the responsibilities of leadership should keep an open mind
about the importance and pervasiveness of leadership.
CHAPTER 2 SUMMARY:
One way to add value to one's leadership courses and experiences is by applying the
action, observation, and reflection model.
To become a better leader, one must seek challenges and try to make the best of any
leadership opportunity.
Behavior change efforts are most successful if some formal system or process of
behavioral change is put into place.
Systems include action learning, development planning, informal and formal coaching
programs, and mentorships.
Leaders can help their followers with behavioral change through coaching or mentoring
programs.
CHAPTER 3: SKILLS FOR DEVELOPING YOURSELF AS A LEADER
BEFORE YOU THE FIRST DAY THE FIRST TWO THE FIRST TWO THE THIRD
START WEEKS MONTHS MONTH
Prehire data Meet your boss Meet team Obtain Establish
gathering members external culture
Meet your perspectives, Team off-site:
Posthire entire team Meet peers strategy, - Values
activities structure, and - Strategy
Meet stars staffing - Operating
Rhythm
Other meetings Socialize
decisions Improvement
areas
Get feedback
Sub team
analyses
(This is a road map to help people make successful transitions into new leadership
positions.)
• The candidates should gather as much information about their potential company as
they can.
• Can also use Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo, and other social networking sites to set up
informational interviews with people inside the organization.
• These informational interviews will help the candidates to learn more about the
organization’s history and culture and provide important insight about the vacant
position.
THE FIRST DAY: MAKING A FIRST IMPRESSION
The first meeting with the boss happens in the boss’s office and lasts an hour.
The new leaders should meet people both inside and outside the team.
One-on-one meetings with key team members should provide the leader with answers to
critical questions:
a. New leaders should minimize their personal interactions with direct reports during
their first two months on the job.
b. They should discuss the following during meetings:
c. Their peers’ objectives, challenges, team structure, etcetera
d. Their perspectives on what the new leader’s team does well and could do better
e. Their perspectives on the new leader’s team members
f. How to best communicate with the boss
g. How issues get raised and decisions made on their boss’s team
During the first two weeks, new leaders should also try to meet with individuals who were
once part of the team but have taken positions in other parts of the organization.
These individuals can offer unique insights into the history of the team and its team
members, and this source of information should not be overlooked.
The two other pieces of organization new leaders should gather during the first two
weeks are what the organization sees as the critical roles on the team and if they were
any internal candidates for the team leader position.
New leaders should need this information to ensure they have the best talent filing key
roles and to see if anyone on the team may be hoping to fail.
• It is essential for the Leader to gather more information, determine the direction, and
finalize the appropriate structure and staffing for the team for the next six weeks.
• The first 90 days on the job provide a unique window for driving change and leaders
should know how to “socialize” their strategy, structure, and staffing ideas with their
bosses and peers before making any personnel decisions.
• Once the proposed changes have been agreed to, new leaders need to have one-on-
one meetings with all team members affected by any strategy, structure, and staffing
decisions.
• The new leaders should seek feedback from peers and recruiters.
THIRD MONTH: COMMUNICATE AND DRIVE CHANGE
Things to do include:
a. Articulating how the team will win
b. Identifying the what, why, and how of any needed changes
c. Defining a clear set of expectations for team members
The purpose of the first meeting is to enable the leader to share the information he
gathered during the process, vision for the future, staffing model, team structure, his/her
expectations about the team members and any rationale regarding changes in the team.
1) Get agreement on the critical attributes and values of team members. - New leaders
should set-off time to finalize and clearly define the positive and negative behaviors
for all attributes and values they want to see in their members.
2) Create a team scorecard. – New leaders will create the vision and overall objectives for
the future, direct report teams need to formulate concrete, specific goals with timelines
and benchmarks to measure success.
4) Establish task forces to work on key change initiatives. – Issues need to be addressed
by the team can be done on off-site meetings, whereas task forces may be a better
venue for resolving other issues.
• Creating opportunities to get feedback – The most helpful information for developing
leadership comes from feedback regarding perceptions in one’s behavior, and impact on
the group’s overall effectiveness.
• Taking a 10 percent stretch - It conveys the idea of voluntary but determined efforts
to improve leadership skills.
• Learning from others - Leaders can learn a lot by observing how others react to and
handle different challenges and situations.
• Keeping a journal of daily leadership events – Good journal entries give leaders a wealth
of examples they can use.
• Having a developmental plan – Leaders should have a systematic plan outlining self-
improvement goal and help them take advantage of opportunities that they may
otherwise overlook.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCE
It concerns the knowledge and repertoire of behaviors one can utilize to complete a task
successfully.
Followers with technical competence earn better performance appraisal ratings, exert
influence in their groups, and are more likely to be a member of a leader’s in-group.
This is related to improved managerial promotion rates, better training skills, lower rates of
group conflict, reduced levels of role ambiguity, and higher motivation levels among followers
for leaders.
• Realize that superiors do not have all the answers and have both strengths and
weaknesses.
• Keep the superior informed about various activities in the work group or new
developments or opportunities in the field.
a. Superiors and followers sharing the same values, approaches, and attitudes will:
- Experience less conflict
- Provide higher levels of mutual support
- Be more satisfied with superior and follower relationships
Clarifying expectations about their role on the team, committee, or work group
Listing major responsibilities and using the list to guide discussions with superiors about
different ways to accomplish tasks and relative priorities of the tasks
Peterson and Hicks believe that there are five interrelated phases to developmental
planning:
G – goals
A – abilities
P- perceptions
S- standards.
• The first phase in the planning stage.
• This helps the leader to gather and categorize all pertinent development planning
information.
SUMMARY
• The first three months give leaders unique opportunities to make smooth
transitions, paint compelling pictures of the future, and drive organizational
change.
• It refers to the function of the leader, the followers, and the situation. It does not
need to be exercised in order to have its effect.
• Attributed to others on the basis and frequency of influence tactics they use and
on their outcomes.
3) Influence tactics - One person’s actual behaviors designed to change another person’s
attitudes, beliefs, values, or behaviors.
• Apart from leaders, followers can also wield power and influence over leaders as
well as over each other.
• Leaders and followers make use of variety of tactics to influence each other’s behavior
or attitudes.
• The amount of power followers has in work situations can also vary dramatically.
• Individuals with a relatively large amount of power may successfully employ a wider
variety of influence tactics.
• Some followers may exert relatively more influence than the leader does in certain
situations.
• Followers often can use a wider variety of influence tactics than the leader.
- This is because the formal leader is not always the person who possesses the most
power in a leadership situation.
EXPERT POWER
1) POWER OF KNOWLEDGE
• Some people are able to influence others with their relative expertise in particular
areas.
• Followers may have more expert power than leaders at times.
• If different followers have considerably greater amounts of expert power, the
leader may be unable to influence them using expert power alone.
2) REFERENT POWER
• It refers to the potential influence one has because of the strength of the
relationship between the leader and the followers.
• Takes time to develop but can be lost quickly.
• Desire to maintain referent power may limit a leader’s actions in certain situations.
• The stronger the relationship, the more influence leaders and followers exert over
each other.
• A relative degree of responsiveness is primarily a function of the strength of the
relationship.
• Followers with relatively more referent power than their peers are often
spokespersons for their units and have more latitude to deviate from work-unit
norms.
3) LEGITIMATE POWER
• Depends upon on a person’s organizational role or his or her formal or official
authority.
• Allows exertion of influence through requests or demands deemed appropriate by
virtue of one’s role and position.
• Holding a position and being a leader are not synonymous.
• Effective leaders often intuitively realize they need more than legitimate power to
be successful.
• Followers can use their legitimate power, job descriptions, bureaucratic rules, or
union policies to influence leaders.
4) REWARD POWER
• Involves the potential to influence others through control over desired resources.
• Potential to influence others through reward power is a joint function of the
leader, the followers, and the situation.
Leaders can enhance their ability to influence others based on reward power by:
a. Determining what rewards are available and most valued by subordinates.
5) COERSIVE POWER
• It is the potential to influence others through the administration of negative
sanctions or the removal of positive events.
• Reliance on this power has inherent limitations.
• Informal coercion can change the attitudes and behaviors of others.
LEADER MOTIVES
• One way of looking at the relationship between power and leadership involves
focusing on the individual leader’s personality.
• People vary in their motivation to influence or control others.
• Need for power is expressed in the following ways:
a. Personalized power – is exercised for personal needs by selfish, impulsive,
uninhibited individuals who lack self-control.
b. Socialized power - is used for the benefit of others or the organization and
involves self-sacrifice.
c. Thematic Apperception Test, a projective personality test, can assess the need
for power.
d. Need for power is found to be positively related to various leadership
effectiveness criteria.
Individuals vary in their motivation to manage.
4) Ingratiation: When an agent attempts to get a target in a good mood before making
a request.
Pressure Legitimizing
Personal Exchange Coalition Tactics Tactics
Appeals Tactics
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favor out of through the of others to reminders are based on their
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targets.
• If power is the capacity to influence others, influence tactics pertain to the actual
behaviors used by an agent to change the attitudes, opinions, or behaviors of a
target person.
• Various instruments have been developed to study influence tactics, but the Influence
Behavior Questionnaire (IBQ) was the most promising.
• A strong relationship exists between the relative power of agents and targets and
the types of influence tactics used.
• Leaders with high referent power generally do not use legitimizing or pressure tactics.
• Leaders with only coercive or legitimate power tend to use coalition, legitimizing, or
pressure tactics.
Hard Tactics are Used When: Soft Tactics are Used When:
• People select influence tactics as a function of their power relationship with another
person.
An important lesson for leaders is the value of being conscious of what influence
tactics one uses and what effects are typically associated with those tactics.
Knowledge of such effects can help a leader to make better decisions about her or his
manner of influencing decision.
Leaders should pay attention to the actual influence tactics they use and why they
believe particular methods are effective.
SUMMARY:
• Leaders can improve their effectiveness by finding ways to enhance the value of
their personal contribution to their team.
• Leaders should discourage in-group and out-group rivalries from forming in the
work unit
• Exercise of power occurs primarily through the influence tactics leaders and
followers use.
• Leadership practitioners should always consider why they are using a particular
influence attempt before they actually use it.