Leadership Reviewer
Leadership Reviewer
a science.
Profiles in Leadership
- Some managers may be effective leaders
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan without ever having taken a course or
Bill Gates training program in leadership.
Alexander Hamilton - Some scholars in the field of leadership
Lin-Manuel Miranda may be relatively poor leaders themselves.
Howard Schultz Leadership involves both the rational and
Paul Revere emotional sides of human experience.
Leadership Some scholars suggest the very idea of
leadership may be rooted in our emotional
- it is a complex phenomenon involving the
needs.
leader, followers, and situation.
- it is a process of influencing an organized Belief in the potency of leadership (the
group toward accomplishing its goals. romance of leadership) may be a cultural myth
that has utility primarily insofar as it affects how
Due to the complexity of leadership, the
people create meaning about causal events in
concept has been defined in many ways:
complex social systems.
1. Process by which an agent induces a
subordinate to behave in a desired manner Good leadership is more than just
2. Directing and coordinating the work of calculation and planning, though a rational
group members analysis can enhance good leadership.
3. Interpersonal relation in which others Remember Martin Luther’s King Jr’s “I have
comply because they want to, not because a dream” speech. He inspired people to action
they have to and at the same touched their hearts and
Leaderships as a process of influencing an minds.
organized group toward accomplishing its Aroused feelings can be used positively or
goals. negatively. There were leaders who were able
- Pertains to actions that focus resources to to inspire people to greed deeds of actions and
create desirable opportunities courage and there were others who made
- Creating conditions for a team to be people act mindlessly.
effective Mere presence of a group causes people to
- The ability to engage employees, the ability act differently than when they are alone
to build teams, and the ability to achieve
results LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
- The first two represent the how and the Management - deals with efficiency, planning,
latter the what of leadership. regulations, control, and consistency.
- A complex form of social problem solving.
Leadership - is consistent with risk taking,
Difference between Successful Managers dynamic, creativity, change and vision. It is
and Effective Managers value choosing and value laden.
1. Successful Managers Managers Leaders
- Those promoted through the ranks
1. Administer 1. Innovate
- Spend more time in organizational
2. Maintain 2. Develop
socializing and politicking
3. Control 3. Inspire
- Spend less time on traditional management
4. Short-term view 4. Long-term view
responsibilities such as planning and
5. How and when 5. What and why
decision making
6. Imitate 6. Originate
2. Effective Managers
7. Accept the status 7. Challenges the
- Make real contributions to their
quo status quo
organization’s performance
Leadership Is Both a Science and an Art
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.
Following aspects of followers affect the 1. Being proactive in their stance toward
leadership process: organizational problems
2. Contributing to the leadership process by
1. Expectations
becoming skilled at “influencing upward”
2. Personality traits
3. Staying flexible and open to opportunities
3. Maturity levels
4. Levels of competence Alternative approach to understanding
5. Motivation followership:
CHAPTER SUMMARY
- Leadership is the process of influencing an
organized group toward achieving its goals
Quiz #1 8. The importance of leader and follower
relationship is the decentralized of power in the
1. Which of the following is not the function of a
organization.
leader?
True
E. Originate
False
C. Control
D. Develop 9. Leadership is a process of influencing an
A. Innovate organize group towards accomplishing its goal.
B. Inspire True
False
2. In his speech “I Have a dream” he inspired
people to action and touched their heart and 10. Leadership is not a process, but a position.
minds. True
E. Lenin False
B. King
11. A successful, effective manager, that
C. Jobb
he/she spend more time in the organization.
A. Kennedy
True
D. Pacquiao
False
3. He developed the Contingency Model and
12. Leadership is not a process, but a position.
recognize the importance of LFS.
True
C. Gates
False
Fiedler
D. Lin 13.Pragmatist follower is "habitually point out
A. Maslow all negative aspects of the organization to
B. Hamilton others".
True
4. Which of the following “are the yes people”
False
in the organization.
C. Alienated 14. One of the differences of leadership
E. Exemplary involves both rational and emotional skills of
A. Passive human experience.
B. Pragmatist True
D. None False
5. Which of the following is the function of a 15. Leadership and management are two
leader? overlapping functions.
B. Control True
A. Admission False
D. Initiate
16. The myth tells us, that good leadership only
C. Have a long term view
entails common sense.
E. Maintain
True
6. Which of the following aspects of followers False
affect the leadership process?
17. Formal study and experiential learning
D. All of the above
complement each other.
C. Levels of competence
True
A. Expectations
False
B. Motivation
18. A character of a leader includes calm and
7. The world’s greatest national transformation
is not prone to emotional outburst.
of the past 100 years.
True
E. Sultan Al Nahyan
False
A. Schultz
D. Revere 19. Leader is the most ambiguous aspect of
C. Hamilton the leadership framework.
B. Gates True
False
20. One of the problems, that constrain women 7. Which of the following is not a leader
from gaining leadership role is a strong development in college?
masculine stereotype of leadership continues A. increasing LD is occurring in the context of work
to exist in the workplace. itself
True C. Progress should be multidisciplinary
False E. None
B. Service learning is used to indicate values
Quiz #2
D. Focus on development outcome.
1. The following are to be developed by the
8. Which of the following leadership programs for
Middle-managers.
CEO?
D. Both A and C
C. Interpersonal skills
A. Giving feedback
A. Strategic Planning
C. Conducting reviews
E. None
B. Oral and written skills
B. Time Management
E. None
D. Public Relations
2. It is the process of equipping people with the
9. Coaching acts as a guide, role model and
tools, knowledge and opportunities.
sponsor.
C. Opportunities and skills
True
E. Skills
False
B. Mentoring
D. Coaching 10. Informal mentoring may be more effective than
A. Staffing formal mentoring as it creates a stronger emotional
bond and can last a lifetime.
3. They imagine possibilities that can benefit all the
True
members is:
False
E. None
A. Teacher & Mentor 11. Leadership and learning are indispensable to
C. Father & Judge each other by Michael Douglas?
B. Warrior & Knight True
D. Revolutionary & Crusader False
4. In the A-O-R model A stands for? 12. Training design to develop skill in giving
A. Attitude feedback to another person would be considered
B. Ability Leader development?
D. None True
C. Activity False
E. Active
13. What is your name is one of the questions in
5. They are the one who takes risks and action in the A-O-R model?
crisis. True
E. None False
D. Visionary & Alchemist
14.Leaders tend to ignore perception because they
B. Warrior & Knight
lack time?
A. Revolutionary & Crusader
True
C. Father & Judge
False
6. That people can learn the most from experiences
15. Leadership development in organization
when they spend time thinking about and
knowledge is often transferred via lecture method.
reflecting on these experienced.
True
E. None
False
B. Theory of Game
A. Theory of Experience 16. Individuals learn only about subjects within
D. Theory of Deconstructionism their comfort zone of their belief systems.
C. Theory of Learning True
False
17. The Spiral of experience is the most productive
way to develop as a leader.
True
False
18. Leadership training programs are more
narrowly focused than university courses and are
much shorter.
True
False
19. One of the main points of Chapter 2 is to
describe how perceptions can affect a leader’s
interpretation
True
False
20. Mentoring is the process of equipping people
with the tools, knowledge, and opportunities that
they need to develop and become more successful.
True
False
CHAPTER 2
LEADER DEVELOPMENT
“The more you contain your ego, the more
realistic you are about your problems. You
learn how to listen and admit that you don’t
know all the answers. You exhibit the attitude
that you can learn from anyone at any time.
Your pride doesn’t get in the way of gathering
the information you need to achieve the best
results.” - Learning theorists suggest that people can
- Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan on humility learn the most from experiences when they
- Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things spend time thinking about and reflecting on
Done those experiences.
- This notion provides the basis for the
John F. Kennedy - Leadership and learning action-observation-reflection (A-O-R) model
are indispensable to each other. and the spiral of experience.
Leader Development - more appropriate to - It is not enough just to have experiences,
use when referring to methods intended to but one needs to think about what they did,
facilitate growth in individual’s perspective or what the outcomes were, and how they can
skills. leverage what they did to learn the skills
required to continue to perform effectively
Leadership Development - focus on or how they can change to be more
developing shared properties of whole groups effective.
or social systems such as the degree of trust - Developing the skills necessary to observe
among all members of a team or department, the consequences of one’s actions and
or on enhancing the reward systems in an reflecting on the importance and meaning
organization to better encourage collaborative will improve leadership development and
behavior. leadership performance.
THE ACTION-OBSERVATION-REFLECTION Key Role of Perception in the Spiral of
MODEL Experience
- It shows that leadership development is 1. Experience depends on what events
enhanced when the experience involves the happen to one and how one perceives
following processes: those events.
1. Action 2. Perception affects all three phases of the
2. Observation action, observation, and reflection or A O R
3. Reflection model.
- Leadership development through 3. People actively shape and construct their
experience may be better understood as experiences.
the growth resulting from repeated
movements through all three phases rather Perception and Observation
than merely in terms of some objective - With respect to observation, people
dimension. selectively attend to events in the
The Spiral of experience - the most environment.
productive way to develop as a leader. - One phenomenon that demonstrates this
selectivity is called perceptual set.
- Perceptual sets can influence any of our
senses, and they are the tendency or bias
to perceive one thing and not another.
- Many factors can trigger a perceptual set,
such as feelings, needs, prior experience,
and expectations.
Perceptual sets can influence any of one’s Self-fulfilling prophecy occurs when one's
senses. expectations or predictions play a causal role in
bringing about the events he or she predicts.
1. Tendency or bias to perceive one thing and
not another. Reflection and Leadership Development
2. Feelings, needs, prior experiences, and - Reflection offers leaders insights about
expectations can all trigger a perceptual set framing problems differently, viewing
situations from multiple perspectives, and
3. Stereotypes about gender, race, and the
understanding subordinates better.
like represent powerful impediments to
- Leaders tend to ignore reflection because
learning because they function as filters that
they lack time or they lack awareness of its
distort one’s observations.
value.
Perception and Reflection - Leadership development can be enhanced
by raising implicit beliefs to conscious
- Perception influences reflection.
awareness in order to aid thoughtful
- Reflection is how humans interpret their
reflection.
observations.
- Intentional reflection may prompt one to see
- Perception is inherently an interpretive, or a
potential benefits in experience not initially
meaning-making, activity, of which
considered relevant to leadership.
attribution is an important aspect
- Attributions: Explanations that one develops FUNDAMENTAL ARCHETYPES OF
for the characteristics, behaviors, or actions LEADERSHIP
he or she attends to
- These archetypes provide the value for
Factors that affect the attribution process: helping developing leaders articulate their
tacit knowledge on leadership, see the
1. Fundamental attribution error: Tendency
similarities and differences and have a
to overestimate the dispositional causes of
better understanding on the complexities of
behavior and underestimate the
leadership.
environmental causes when others fail.
2. Self-serving bias: Tendency to make
Teacher and mentor
external attributions for one’s own failures
and make internal attributions for one’s own Father and judge
successes Warrior and knight
the fact that people who are observing an Visionary and alchemist
action are much more likely than the actor
to make the fundamental attribution error
SINGLE- AND DOUBLE-LOOP LEARNING
4. Apart from perception and attribution,
1. Single-loop learners
reflection also involves higher functions like
- seek relatively little feedback that may
evaluation and judgment
significantly confront their fundamental
Perception and Action ideas or actions.
- Individuals learn only about subjects within
- Research shows that perceptions and
the comfort zone of their belief systems.
biases affect supervisors’ actions toward
2. Double-loop learning
poorly performing subordinates.
- involves being willing to confront one’s own
- Self-fulfilling prophecy is a perceptual
views and inviting others to do the same
variable that can affect actions.
- Mastering double-loop learning is viewed as
- Having expectations about others can
learning how to learn
subtly influence our actions, and these
- Learning is enhanced through a practice of
actions can, in turn, affect the way others
systematic reflection or after event reviews
behave.
or A E Rs.
Making the Most of One's Leadership Different leader development methods may
Experiences: Learning to Learn from be used beyond service learning.
Experience
Some courses or program elements
- Research shows a meaningful link between might involve individualized feedback to
stress and learning. students in the form of:
- The learning events and developmental
1. Personality, intelligence, values, or interest
experiences that punctuate one’s life are
test scores
usually—perhaps always—stressful.
- In stressful situations, there is a tendency to 2. Leadership behavior ratings
do what’s always been done.
3. Case studies and role playing are used as
- What results is one of the great challenges
vehicles for leadership discussions
of adult development: the times when
people most need to break out of the mold 4. Simulations and games are structured
created by past learning patterns are the activities designed to mirror the challenges
times when they are most unwilling to do or decisions commonly faced in the work
so. environment
- Being able to go against the grain of one’s
Leader Development in Organizational
personal historical success requires an
Settings
unwavering commitment to learning and a
relentless willingness to let go of the fear of - Leadership training programs are more
failure and the unknown. narrowly focused than university courses
- To be successful, learning must continue and are much shorter.
throughout life, beyond the completion of - Oftentimes, these training programs target
one’s formal education. a specific audience and the set of skills that
audience needs to better accomplish their
Leader Development in College job tasks and responsibilities (e.g., mid-
level managers).
- University courses in leadership generally
- Increasingly leadership development is
provide a broad survey of leadership occurring in the context of work itself.
research and findings. - A great deal of research has demonstrated
- In these settings, knowledge is often the positive effects of education and training
transferred via the lecture method. programs on performance and
- Additionally, these courses make use of advancement, but the content of these
individualized feedback, role playing, and programs varies substantially.
case studies to enhance learning and
Program content depends on the
development.
organization level of participants:
- Simulations and games are other
methods of leader development. 1. First-level Supervisors - use lectures,
- Recent research suggests that case studies, and role-playing
development as a leader may most exercises to improve supervisory skills.
authentically and enduringly occur when the They focus on:
context and design of the experiences Training
afford learns the opportunity to deeply Monitoring
personalize their lessons of experience. Giving feedback
- Leadership programs should be Conducting performance reviews
multidisciplinary and should cultivate values 2. Mid-level Managers - use individualized
feedback, case studies, presentations,
represented in the broader field.
role playing, simulations, and in-basket
- Service learning is used to inculcate values
exercises to improve:
such as social responsibility and the
Interpersonal skills
expectation to become engaged in one’s
Oral and written communication skills
community.
Time management
- Should focus on expected developmental
Planning
outcomes, with associated assessment and
Goal setting
evaluation to determine program
effectiveness.
- Conger states that a multi-tiered approach Provides a methodology for leaders to
is effective and should focus on personal improve their behavior even as they go about
growth, skill building, feedback, and their daily work activities.
conceptual awareness.
- Some approaches to leadership Coaching
development emphasize individualized - Key leadership skill that can help leaders
feedback about each person’s strengths improve the bench strength of the group
and weaknesses based on standardized and retain high-quality followers.
assessment methods. - Process of equipping people with the tools,
- Others emphasize that leader development knowledge, and opportunities that they
in the twenty-first century must occur in need to develop and become more
more lifelike situations and contexts. successful.
- Leadership programs for senior executives
and CEOs focus on: Types of Coaching
1. strategic planning 1. Informal coaching: Takes place
2. public relations, and whenever a leader helps followers to
3. interpersonal skills. change their behaviors.
Training Programs and Action Learning 2. Formal coaching programs: Designed
for the specific needs and goals of
- Traditional training programs involve individual executives and managers in
personnel taking leadership classes during leadership positions.
work hours.
Peterson and Hicks: Steps in Informal
- Such training addresses common Coaching
leadership issues, but its artificial nature
makes it difficult to transfer concepts to 1. Forging a partnership
actual work situations. 2. Inspiring commitment
3. Growing skills
- Action learning involves the use of actual 4. Promoting persistence
work issues and challenges as the 5. Shaping the environment
developmental activity itself.
Informal Coaching
- It works on the philosophy that best learning
involves learning by doing. - The process can be used to diagnose why
behavioral change is not occurring and
- They are conducted in teams of work what can be done about a.
colleagues who are addressing real - It can and does occur anywhere in the
company challenges. organization and is effective for both high-
performing and low-performing followers.
Development Planning
- Increases in difficulty when it occurs either
- To make enduring behavioral changes, remotely or across cultures.
leaders must provide positive answers to
Features of Formal Coaching
the following five questions:
1. Do leaders know which of their - Formal coaching programs can be
behaviors need to change? expensive. It cost more than 100,000
2. Is the leader motivated to change these dollars.
behaviors? - Coaching may be more effective at
3. Do leaders have plans in place for changing behavior than more traditional
changing targeted behaviors? learning and training approaches.
4. Do leaders have opportunities to 1. One-on-one relationship between manager
practice new skills? and coach lasts from six months to more
5. Are leaders held accountable for than a year.
changing targeted behaviors? 2. The process begins with an assessment of
the manager to clarify development needs.
Good development plans are constantly
3. Coach and manager meet regularly to build
being revised as new skills are learned or new
skills.
opportunities to develop skills become
4. Role plays and videotape are used
available.
extensively, and coaches provide
immediate feedback.
5. Outcomes of coaching programs 3. People who want to avoid the
6. Clarification of managers’ values responsibilities of leadership should
7. Identification of discrepancies between keep an open mind about the
managers’ espoused values and their importance and pervasiveness of
actual behaviors leadership.
8. Development of strategies to better align
managers’ behaviors with their values CHAPTER SUMMARY
- One way to add value to one's leadership
Mentoring
courses and experiences is by applying the
- Personal relationship in which a more action, observation, and reflection model.
experienced mentor acts as a guide, role - To become a better leader, one must seek
model, and sponsor of a less experienced challenges and try to make the best of any
protégé. leadership opportunity.
- In a formal mentoring program, the - Behavior change efforts are most
organization assigns a relatively successful if some formal system or
inexperienced but high-potential leader to a process of behavioral change is put into
top executive in the company. place.
- Often used to accelerate the development - Systems include action learning,
of female or minority protégés. development planning, informal and formal
- Informal mentoring may be more effective coaching programs, and mentorships.
than formal mentoring as it creates a - Leaders can help their followers with
stronger emotional bond and can last a behavioral change through coaching or
lifetime. mentoring programs.
-
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, and support about
career opportunities, organizational strategy
and policy, and office politics.
Mentoring is not the same as coaching
because:
- It may not target specific development
needs
- Guidance is provided by someone several
leadership levels higher in the organization
and not the immediate supervisor
- Mentor may not even be part of the
organization
- There are formal and informal mentoring
programs
- Informal mentoring occurs when a protégé
and mentor build a long-term relationship
based on friendship, similar interests, and
mutual respect
The First Day: Making First Impression These individuals can offer unique insights
into the history of the team and its team
- The first meeting with the boss happens members, and this source of information
in the boss’s office and lasts an hour. should not be overlooked.
The Key Topics to address in the meeting The two other pieces of organization new
are: 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 The Major events for the third month:
internal candidates for the team leader
1. Meet with the entire team
position.
2. Meet off-site with direct reports if the team
New leaders should need this information to is large
ensure they have the best talent filing key roles
and to see if anyone on the team may be The purpose of the first meeting is to enable
hoping to fail. the leader to share the information he gathered
during the process, vision for the future,
The First Two Months: Strategy, Structure, staffing model, team structure, his/her
and Staffing expectations about the team members and any
rationale regarding changes in the team.
It is essential for the Leader to gather more
information, determine the direction, and The change pertains to the tangible actions
finalize the appropriate structure and staffing taken by the leader.
for the team for the next six weeks.
Key Objectives of the Off-site Meeting:
The first 90 days on the job provide a
unique window for driving change and leaders 1. Get agreement on the critical attributes
should know how to “socialize” their strategy, and values of team members.
structure, and staffing ideas with their bosses - New leaders should set-off time to finalize
and peers before making any personnel and clearly define the positive and negative
decisions. behaviors for all attributes and values they
want to see in their members.
The tasks to be performed include: 2. Create a team scorecard.
- New leaders will create the vision and
1. Gathering benchmarking information from
overall objectives for the future, direct report
other organizations
teams need to formulate concrete, specific
2. Meeting with key external customers and goals with timelines and benchmarks to
suppliers measure success.
3. Establish an operating rhythm.
3. Meeting with the former team leader, if
- Teams need to work on their rules of
appropriate
engagement.
New leaders need to be able to articulate: 4. Establish task forces to work on key
change initiatives
1. Where the team has been and where it
- Issues need to be addressed by the team
needs to go over the next one to three
can be done on off-site meetings, whereas
years
task forces may be a better venue for
2. What the team needs to accomplish and
resolving other issues.
what changes will be needed to make this
happen LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE
3. Their expectations for team members
Leadership practitioners can enhance the
Once the proposed changes have been learning value of experiences by:
agreed to, new leaders need to have one-on- 1. Creating opportunities to get feedback –
one meetings with all team members affected The most helpful information for developing
by any strategy, structure, and staffing leadership comes from feedback regarding
decisions. perceptions in one’s behavior, and impact
The new leaders should seek feedback on the group’s overall effectiveness.
from peers and recruiters. 2. Taking a 10 percent stretch- It conveys the
Third Month: Communicate and Drive idea of voluntary but determined efforts to
Change improve leadership skills.
1. Determining how the job contributes to the Ways to establish and maintain good peer
overall success of the organization. relationships:
2. Becoming an expert in the job through 1. Recognizing common interests and goals
education, training, observation, asking 2. Understanding peers’ tasks, problems, and
questions, and teaching. rewards
3. Seeking opportunities to broaden one’s 3. Practicing a theory Y attitude
experiences by performing tasks associated 4. recognition of an individual’s strengths and
with the other positions in one’s work group weaknesses.
and visiting other parts of the organization.
Development Planning
Advantages of Having a Good Working
Relationship with Superiors: - It is a systematic process of building
knowledge and experience or changing
1. Superiors and followers sharing the same behavior.
values, approaches, and attitudes will: - Peterson and Hicks believe that there are
Experience less conflict five interrelated phases to developmental
planning:
Provide higher levels of mutual
support 1. Identifying development needs
Be more satisfied with superior and 2. Analyzing data to identify and prioritize
follower relationships development needs
3. Using prioritized development needs to the future, and drive organizational
create a focused and achievable change.
development plan
Performance is a function of technical
4. Periodically reviewing the plan, competence.
reflecting on learning, and modifying or
Individuals who have good superior-
updating the plan as appropriate
follower relationships are often in the
5. Transferring learning to new superior’s in-group.
environments
Fundamental requirement of leadership
Conducting a GAPS analysis effectiveness is the ability to build strong
alliances with others.
G – goals
Development planning is the systematic
A – abilities
process of building knowledge and
P- perceptions experience or changing behavior.
S- standards.
- The first phase in the planning stage.
- This helps the leader to gather and
categorize all pertinent development
planning information.
Steps in GAPS Analysis
1. Identifying career goals
2. Identifying strengths and development
needs related to the career goals
3. Determining how one’s abilities, skills, and
behaviors are perceived by others by
asking others for feedback or through
performance reviews or 360-feedback
instruments
4. Determining the standard, one's boss or
organization has for one's career objectives
Bridging the GAPS: Building a Development
Plan
- Following are the steps for developing a
high-impact development plan:
1. Working on career and development
objectives
2. Determining the criteria for success
3. Determining action steps
4. Deciding whom to involve and
reassessing dates
5. Stretching assignments
6. Using various resources
7. Reflecting the knowledge with a partner
CHAPTER SUMMARY
The first three months give leaders
unique opportunities to make smooth
transitions, paint compelling pictures of
CHAPTER 4 • This is because the formal leader is not
always the person who possesses the
POWER AND INFLUENCE
most power in a leadership situation
“The true leader must submerge himself in the
Sources of Leader Power
fountain of the people.” - V. I. Lenin, Leader of
the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution 1. Furniture arrangement
IMPORTANT DISTINCTION, 1 2. Shape of the table used for meetings and
seating arrangements
Power
3. Prominently displayed symbols
- Capacity to produce effects on others or the
potential to influence others 4. Appearances of title and authority
Function of the leader, the followers, 5. Choice of clothing
and the situation
6. Presence or absence of crisis
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,
IMPORTANT DISTINCTION, 2
Influence
- Change in a target agent’s attitudes, values,
beliefs, or behaviors as the result of
influence tactics
Influence tactics
French and Raven’s Bases of Social Power:
- One person’s actual behaviors designed to Expert Power
change another person’s attitudes, beliefs,
values, or behaviors Power of knowledge
- Apart from leaders, followers can also wield - Some people are able to influence others
power and influence over leaders as well as with their relative expertise in particular
over each other areas
IMPORTANT DISTINCTION, 3 Followers may have more expert power
- Influence can be measured by the than leaders at times
behaviors or attitudes manifested by - If different followers have considerably
followers as a result of a leader’s influence greater amounts of expert power, the leader
tactics may be unable to influence them using
- Leaders with high amounts of power can expert power alone
cause fairly substantial changes in
subordinates’ attitudes and behaviors French and Raven’s Bases of Social Power:
- Amount of power followers have in work Referent Power
situations can also vary dramatically
Potential influence one has because of the
• Some followers may exert relatively strength of the relationship between the leader
more influence than the leader does in and the followers
certain situations
- Takes time to develop but can be lost
IMPORTANT DISTINCTION, 4 quickly
- Desire to maintain referent power may limit
- Individuals with a relatively large amount of
a leader’s actions in certain situations
power may successfully employ a wider
variety of influence tactics The stronger the relationship, the more
- Followers often can use a wider variety of influence leaders and followers exert over each
influence tactics than the leader other
- Followers with relatively more referent 2. Modifying their level of effort based on the
power than their peers are often leader’s performance
spokespersons for their units and have
more latitude to deviate from work-unit French and Raven’s Bases of Social Power:
norms Coercive Power
Potential to influence others through the
French and Raven’s Bases of Social Power:
administration of negative sanctions or the
Legitimate Power
removal of positive events
Depends upon on a person’s organizational
Reliance on this power has inherent limitations
role or his or her formal or official authority
Informal coercion can change the attitudes and
Allows exertion of influence through requests
behaviours of others
or demands deemed appropriate by virtue of
one’s role and position - One of the most common forms of coercion
is a superior’s temperamental outbursts
Holding a position and being a leader are not
synonymous Followers that use coercive power to influence
a leader’s behavior tend to have a relatively
- Effective leaders often intuitively realize
high amount of referent power among co-
they need more than legitimate power to be
workers
successful
- Followers can use their legitimate power, Concluding Thoughts about French and
job descriptions, bureaucratic rules, or Raven’s Power Taxonomy, 1
union policies to influence leaders
Leaders can usually exert more power during a
French and Raven’s Bases of Social Power: crisis than during periods of relative calm
Reward Power
- During a crisis, followers may be more
Involves the potential to influence others eager to receive direction and control from
through control over desired resources leaders
- Potential to influence others through reward Research indicates that leaders who rely on
power is a joint function of the leader, the referent and expert powers have
followers, and the situation subordinates who:
Problems associated with rewards 1. Are more motivated and satisfied
- Overemphasizing performance rewards can 2. Are absent less
lead to workers feeling resentful and
manipulated 3. Perform better
CHAPTER SUMMARY
• By reflecting on their different bases of
power, leaders may better understand
how they can affect followers and even
expand their power
• Leaders can improve their effectiveness
by finding ways to enhance the value of
their personal contribution to their team
CHAPTER 5 People in an organization vary in the relative
importance they place on values
VALUES, ETHICS, AND CHARACTER
1. Instrumental values: Modes of behavior, such
“Leadership cannot just go along to get along… as being helpful or being responsible
Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the
day” - Jesse Jackson, American civil rights 2. Terminal values: Desired end states, such as
family security or social recognition
activist
Values, 2
Leaders can use power for good or ill
Pervasive influences of broad forces at a particular
- Leader’s personal values and ethical code may
time tend to create common value systems
be the most important determinants of how that
leader exercises available power sources - May contribute to misunderstandings and
- Recent scandals involving political, business, tension in the interactions between older
and religious figures highlight the need to leaders and younger followers
consider values and ethics in terms of
All generations are molded by distinctive
leadership
experiences at their critical developmental periods
- Scholarly and popular literature have turned
greater attention to the question of ethical 1. The Veterans, 1922 to 1943
leadership
2. The Baby Boomers, 1942 to 1960
Leadership and “Doing the Right Things”, 1
3. The Gen Xers, 1961 to 1981
Leaders face dilemmas that require choices
between competing sets of values and priorities 4. Millennials, 1982 to 2005