GHMNGT 320:
Rethinking Leadership
Lent Term 2018
Lecture 1: Introduction
GHMNGT 320
Contact:
Dr. Livingstone Caesar
[email protected]Lancaster University Ghana
Office hours Mondays 1-3 pm (please make an appointment by email).
GHMNGT 320
Lectures: Mondays 10:00am – 11:00am (Tutorial Room 3)
Seminars: Mondays 11:00am – 12:30pm (Tutorial Room 3)
GHMNGT 320:
Some Rules
• No mobile phone use in seminars and lectures.
• Off-topic conversations should be avoided.
• Students who come later than 5 minutes to lectures or
seminars may not be allowed to take part in the class.
Course Textbook
Humphrey,
Ronald H. (2013).
Effective
Leadership:
Theories, Cases,
andApplications.
SAGE,Los
Angeles.
Makesure you get a personal copy!
The book can be boughtfrom our library
team.
Learning Objectives
for Lecture 1
• Compare and contrast different conceptions of leadership as well as
the different implications on leadershipdynamics
• Explain and apply the different levels at which leadership canbe
studied
• Be able to critically discuss the role and relative importance of
leadership in business organisations, in particular withregards to
concepts such as transformational, transactional, and distributed
leadership.
• Understand the framework of this course and startdeveloping a
personal perspective on leadership studies
Two Perspectives on Leadership
(Humphrey 2014)
• Influence is the “Sine Qua Non” of Leadership:
• Power perspective definition of leadership:
“Leaders command, control, direct, and influence followers to
achieve group, organizational, or societal goals.”
• Degree to which right strategy or vision is picked
• Ability to influence and motivate group to execute
•‘Leaders as representative’ perspective of leadership:
“Leaders are those who (1) best represent the values of their
followers and (2) are better at solving their followers’ problems
and achieving their goals.”
Aspects of Studying Leadership
Leadership as
• Character Trait
• Destiny
• Personalities and Differences between Personalities
• How leaders are perceived
• Processes and Behaviours
• Group Work and Team Empowerment
• One-on-one relationships
• Co-dependency with Followership
• Dependent on Environmental Factors (e.g. Culture)
• Etc.
Humphrey 2014, 11f
Leadership Differences Around
The Globe (Hofstede)
Geert-Hofstede.com (23.11.2015)
What do you want fromleaders?
What do you want from leaders?
• Being Decisive?
• Acting with Integrity?
• Networking andAchieving?
• Enabling / Empowering?
• Being Accessible?
• Valuing Individuals?
Alimo-Metcalfe & Alban-Metcalfe 2005, quoted in Humphrey 2014,16
Leadership in Organisations:
Leader development vs. leadership
development
• Leader Development: development of individual
leadership skills
• Leadership Development: development of organisational
structures that facilitate leadership throughout the
organisation
How should we do it?
Humphrey 2014, 14
What we do in thiscourse
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Leader-centred Perspectives
Week 3: Follower-centred Perspectives
Week 4: Culture-centred Perspectives
Week 5: Leadership and Emotions
Week 6: Leadership Dysfunctions
Week 7: Leadership and Gender
Week 8: Leadership and Identity
Week 9: Leadership and Simplicity
Week 10: Authentic Leadership
Assessment
Assessment Components:
• Final Exam (50%)
• Seminar Group Presentation (10%)
Builds upon critical discussion of leadershipliterature
Clarity of presentation, understanding of articles, critique of central arguments,
quality of subsequent classroomdiscussion
• Individual Essay(40%)
2000 words +/- 10% (excl. bibliography)
Two possible essay topics: (a) Re-thinking personal leadership experiences,
(b) Re-thinking documented leadership cases.
Tobe submitted by the end ofthe term (exact due date t.b.a.)
Which team is presenting when?
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Leader-centred Perspectives
Week 3: Follower-centred Perspectives
Week 4: Culture-centred Perspectives
Week 5: Leadership and Emotions
Week 6: Leadership Dysfunctions
Week 7: Leadership and Gender
Week 8: Leadership and Identity
Week 9: Leadership and Simplicity
Week 10: Authentic Leadership
Reading List Week 1
Textbook (Lecture Preparation):
Chapter 1 from: Humphrey, Ronald H. (2013). Effective Leadership:
Theories, Cases, and Applications. SAGE Publications. Los Angeles.
ISBN: 978-1-4129-6355-8.
Article (Seminar Preparation):
Spector, B(2014). ‘Flawed from the “Get-Go”: Lee Iacocca and the
Origins of Transformational Leadership.’ Leadership 10(3): 361-379.
Reading List Week 2
Textbook (Lecture Preparation):
Chapter 14 (pp. 373-382) and Chapter 15 (pp. 402-418, 422-425) from:
Humphrey, Ronald H. (2013). Effective Leadership: Theories, Cases, and
Applications. SAGEPublications. LosAngeles. ISBN: 978-1-4129-6355-8.
Article (Seminar Preparation):
Sharma and Grant (2011). ‘Narrative, Drama and Charismatic
Leadership: the Case of Apple’s Steve Jobs.’ Leadership 7(1):3-26.
Thank you for your attention!
