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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION TO LEADRSHIP
Outline
Introduction
Leadership Conceptions
The Significance of Leadership
Evolution of Leadership
The New Reality for Today’s Organizations
Leadership vs. Management
Challenges of Being a Leader
Contexts of Business Leadership
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1.1 Introduction
What does it mean to be a leader?
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others see it as the initiation of structure and the
instrument of goal achievement. 5
1.2 Leadership Conceptions
Leadership is the ability of a superior to
influence behavior of subordinates and persuade
them to follow a particular course of action
(Chester Barnard, 1938)
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Elements of Leadership
Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders
and followers who intend to bring about real changes
and outcomes that reflect their shared purposes.
Personal
Influence Intention responsibility
and integrity
Shared
Followers
purpose
Change
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Elements of Leadership,...
1. Leadership involves influence
Implies the relationship among people is not
passive;
Who influences? Superior or subordinate?
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Elements of Leadership,...
Leaders are sometimes followers.
6. Intentions
Each one takes personal responsibility to achieve the
desired future.
Leadership= f(L,F,S)
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1.3 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LEADERSHIP
Does leadership in organization matter?
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1.3.1 Leadership does make a difference
Leadership had a direct impact on organizational
climate.
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1.3.2 Formal leadership does not make a difference
Leadership has smaller impact on organizational
outcomes than do forces in the situation.
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Formal leadership does not make a difference,...
b) Leader irrelevance:
Leadership is irrelevant for most organizational
outcomes.
It is the situation that must be carefully analyzed.
Factors outside the leader’s control have a larger
impact on business outcomes than do leadership
actions
c) Complexity theory
Argues leaders and managers can do a little to alter the
course of the complex organizational systems.
Factors outside the leader’s control determine the
company’s fate. 18
Formal leadership does not make a difference,...
Further arguments:
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Effective Leadership,...
Who is a Leader?
A person who influences individuals and groups within
an organization, helps them in establishing goals, and
guides them toward achievement of those goals, thereby
allowing them to be effective.
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Effective Leadership,...
Some examples of effectiveness provided by different good leaders:
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Effective Leadership,...
The definition of leadership effectiveness, therefore, contains
three elements:
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Evolution of Leadership,...
Year Leadership \Definition
1950s Three themes dominated leadership definitions during this
decade:
1. Continuance of group theory, which framed leadership
as what leaders do in groups;
2. Leadership as a relationship that develops shared goals,
which defined leadership based on behavior of the leader;
3. Effectiveness, in which leadership is defined by the
ability to influence overall group effectiveness
1960s The prevailing definition of leadership as behavior that
influences people toward shared goals was underscored by
Seeman (1960:53) who described leadership as “acts by
persons which influence other persons in a shared direction”.
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Evolution of Leadership,...
Year Leadership \Definition
1970s The group focus gave way to the organizational behavior
approach, where leadership became viewed as “initiating
and maintaining groups or organizations to accomplish
group or organizational goals” (Rost, 1991:59).
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1.5 The New Reality For Today’s Organizations
Transformations as a result of:
globalization, deregulation, e-business, telecommuting,
virtual teams, and outsourcing.
Impact on employees
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The New Reality For Today’s Organizations,...
These shifts represent a transition from a traditional to a
new paradigm.
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The New Reality For Today’s Organizations,...
Old Paradigm New Paradigm
Stability Change and crisis
management
Control Empowerment
Competition Collaboration
Uniformity Diversity
Self centered Higher purpose
Hero Humble
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1.6 Leadership versus Management
Managers and leaders share a number of traits.
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Leadership versus Management,...
Good management brings a degree of order and consistency.
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Leadership vs. Management
Leadership and management are distinct,
yet complementary systems of action
Effective leadership
Effective management
produces useful change
controls complexity
Mental and
Rejection Loneliness Physical
Fatigue
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1.8 Context of Business Leadership
Context refers to the interrelated conditions in which
something exists or occurs.
Four distinct contexts of business leadership have
emerged around the globe over the last 100 years.
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Context of Business Leadership,...
Each context represents a fundamental change in
how we view the nature of business leadership.
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Context of Business Leadership,...
One way of understanding the core process of business is the
conversion of matter, energy, and knowledge into useful products
and services for customers through the power of mind and spirit .
The influence these three disciplines have had are assumed to help
shape a context for business leadership.
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The Rationalist Context for Business Leadership:
influence from science and psychology
This rationalist context for business leadership dominated
leadership thinking well into the 1960’s, and still continues to
dominate in some circles today.
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Self-Actualization needs - realizing
personal potential, self-fulfillment,
seeking personal growth and peak
experiences.
Credibility/trustworthiness
Respect
Fairness
Meaning of work
Sense of family/ community.
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The Humanistic Context for Business Leadership,...
Douglas MacGregor formulated his “Theory Y”
People are basically good, want to do a good job, could be
trusted to do right, people became a resource to be managed
sensitively,
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The Humanistic Context for Business Leadership,...
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The Humanistic Context for Business Leadership,...
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The Humanistic Context for Business Leadership,...
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The Holistic Context for Business
Leadership
This context is characterized as follows:
Self-focused achievement
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The Holistic Context for Business Leadership,...
Corporate social responsibility, sustainability, etc have
become new trends.
Driven by consumers voicing their preference for dealing with
companies that act as ethical stewards for the good of the larger
whole.
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The Wholistic Context for Business Leadership,...
Since those assets go home every evening, they need to be
treated in a new, stewardship way.
Stewardship is the art of taking care of what has been entrusted
for safe-keeping.
That is, the interests of customers, employees, suppliers, society, future
generations, and nature itself.
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The Spiritual-Based Context for Business Leadership,...
Tapping into a meaning in life that
transcends physical existence.
For example:
“When confronted with a situation, I am basically guided by the
question, ‘What would the Lord do?’ We are here to do good – to
make the world a better place, to be a better person, and to help
others to have a better life. This is what I keep trying to do everyday.
Wisdom:
Honoring the experience and wisdom of “those who
have paved the way before us.”
Using resources efficiently.
Limitations
Discounting the inherent capability and motivation of
man to do good and be good.
Believing that life could and should be used and
controlled for achieving one’s own (self-centered) goals.
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The Humanistic Context for Business Leadership,...
Wisdom:
Recognized the essential goodness and work ethic of
people,
Provided self-actualization as well as work abilities and
aspirations
Limitations
Focusing on needs, where motivation occurs when
something is perceived as missing;
Focusing on individualism, where the “win-win” solutions
are between individual interests.
Did not necessarily include the interest of the larger whole and
the interest of society and environment.
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The Wholistic Context for Business Leadership,...
Wisdom:
Recognizing the interconnectivity of people, nature, and
business.
Emphasizing the holistic nature of values and principles
from which to operate harmoniously and creatively.
Limitation:
Basing motivation primarily on self-focused
achievement, even as it might benefit the larger who.
Focusing personal and business goals only on having a
better “in-this-world” life, rather than considering
spiritual life as well.
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