COMT 4/516: Leadership Seminar Leadership Concepts and Theories in Organizations
Ross: let’s be specific about the differences between leadership and management. It is the difference between influencing and coercing.
Following is a choice, being subordinate is an authority relationship When addressing subordinates always use baby talk!
Leaders vision real change, managers oversee production and sales.
Leaders seek mutual gain, managers coordinate subordinates’ activities for profit.
Greanleaf: servant leadership. (btw: Greanleaf’s book referenced on p 115 is really excellent, if you have time.) Ethical manipulation (service)
make the organization better
serve society
facilitate vision
delegate
manage information (share)
encourage internal motivation, commitment and pride
use authority as a last resort
more democratic culture (what a thought)
Work exists for the person as much as the person exists for the work... What requirements do you have for work?
This means that businesses exist to serve workers and users
Appropriate levels of trust "I will set a different tone. I will restore civility and respect to our national politics.... I will work with Republicans and reach out to Democrats... I will treat the other party with respect, and when we make progress, I will share the credit.... I will unite our nation, not divide it. I will bring Americans together." George Bush, April 2000
servant leadership is evolutionary Or is it that servant leadership is revolutionary?
the individual is subordinate to the group
a servant leader has a proactive bias
DePree: leadership as art Be a steward: leave a legacy
grow your people
strengthen ethical values
develop a healthy culture
be mature
be reasonable
Be knowledgeable (life-long learning, because knowledge is a process) Name some other professions that might fit this scenario.
maintain momentum
demand quality
model civility and respectful behavior
appreciate ambiguity
Burns: transactional and transforming leadership Transactional leadership means that we negotiate direction, goals, duties
transformational leadership additionally requires that we negotiate with a higher purpose in mind, to change who we are at work together for the better