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Slide 1McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should have a good understanding
of:
The three key activities in which all successful leaders must be
continually engaged.
The importance of recognizing the interdependence of the three key
leadership activities, and the salience of power in overcoming
resistance to change.
The crucial role of emotional intelligence (EI) in successful
leadership as well as its potential drawbacks.
The value of creating and maintaining a “learning organization” in
today’s global marketplace.
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Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should have a good understanding
of:
The five central elements of a “learning organization.”
The leader’s role in establishing an ethical organization.
The benefits of developing an ethical organization.
The high financial and nonfinancial costs associated with ethical
crises.
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Leadership: Three
Interdependent Activities
Leadership is the process of transforming organizations from what
they are to what the leader would have them become
Leadership should be
Focused on the creation and implementation of a creative
vision
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Leadership: Three
Interdependent Activities
Adapted from Exhibit 11.1 Three Interdependent Activities of
Leadership
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Knowledge of salient environmental trends and events
Integrate that knowledge into a vision of what the organization
could become
Required capacities
Example
DuPont’s vision statement is “to be the world's most dynamic
science company, creating sustainable solutions essential to a
better, safer and healthier life for people everywhere.”
Source: www.dupont.com
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Lack of understanding of responsibility and accountability among
managers
Reward systems that do not motivate individuals and groups toward
desired organizational goals
Inadequate or inappropriate budgeting and control systems
Insufficient mechanisms to coordinate and integrate activities
across the organization
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Nurturing a Culture
In nurturing a culture dedicated to excellence and ethical
behavior, managers and top executives must
Accept personal responsibility for developing and strengthening
ethical behavior
Consistently demonstrate that such behavior is central to the
vision and mission
Develop and reinforce
Overcoming Barriers to Change and the Effective Use of Power
Reasons why organizations and managers at all levels are prone to
inertia and slow to learn, adapt, and change
Vested interests in the status quo
Systemic barriers
Behavioral barriers
Political barriers
Exhibit 11.2 A Leader’s Bases of Power
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Accounting, business planning, etc.
Ability to work with others, passion for work, etc.
Successful traits of leaders at the highest level
Technical skills
Cognitive abilities
Emotional intelligence
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Emotional Intelligence
Self-awareness
Self-regulation
Motivation
Empathy
Definition Hallmarks
Self-management skills:
Self-awareness
The ability to recognize and understand your moods, emotions, and
drives, as well as their effect on others.
Self-confidence
The ability to control or redirect disruptive impulses and
moods.
The propensity to suspend judgment—to think before acting.
Trustworthiness and integrity
Comfort with ambiguity
Openness to change
Source: Adapted from D. Goleman, “What Makes a Leader,” Harvard
Business Review, October-November 1998, p. 95 (with
permission)
Adapted from Exhibit 11.3 The Five Components of Emotional
Intelligence at Work
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Definition Hallmarks
Managing Relationships:
Empathy
Adapted from Exhibit 11.3 The Five Components of Emotional
Intelligence at Work
Self-management skills:
Motivation
A passion to work for reasons that go beyond money or status.
A propensity to pursue goals with energy and persistence.
Strong drive to achieve
Organizational commitment
The ability to understand the emotional makeup of other
people.
Skill in treating people according to their emotional
reactions.
Expertise in building and retaining talent
Cross-cultural sensitivity
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Definition Hallmarks
Adapted from Exhibit 11.3 The Five Components of Emotional
Intelligence at Work
Managing Relationships:
Social Skill
An ability to find common ground and build rapport.
Effectiveness in leading change
Expertise in building and leading teams
Source: Adapted from D. Goleman, “What Makes a Leader,” Harvard
Business Review, October-November 1998, p. 95 (with
permission)
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Actively solicit the involvement of employees at all levels
Enable all employees to use their intelligence and apply their
imagination
Learning environment
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Salient elements of empowerment
Teach employees skills of self-management
Build teams to encourage cooperative behavior
Encourage intelligent risk taking
Trust people to perform
Question
Do you agree with this statement by Ken Melrose, “the great leader
is a great servant”?
The role of a manager should be to create an environment where your
employees can flourish and reach their full potential. The old view
of a manager was to simply control resources and power within an
organization.
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“Open book” management
Numbers on each employee’s work performance and production costs
generated daily
Information is aggregated once a week from top level to bottom
level
Extensive training in how to use and interpret the numbers – how to
understand balance sheets, cash flows and income statements
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Awareness of environmental trends and events
Internet accelerates the speed with which useful information can be
located
“Garden variety” traditional sources for acquisition of external
information
Benchmarking
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Challenging the status quo
Foster a culture that encourages risk taking
Cultivate culture of experimentation and curiosity
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Unethical business practices
Involves tacit, if not explicit, cooperation of others
Reflect the values, attitudes, and behavior pattern that define the
organization’s operating culture
Driving forces of ethical organizations
Ethical values
Example
In order to avoid unethical business practices, you should never do
the following:
Suppress information that might damage your reputation.
Deny charges that are relevant and factual.
Spend money for public relations or advertising to counter honest
complaints.
Ignore problems with the products you sell.
Refuse to accept blame.
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Shape the decision-making process used by individuals and
groups
Provide a common frame of reference that serves as a unifying
force
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Essential links between organizational integrity and individual
integrity
Cannot be high-integrity organizations without high-integrity
individuals
Individual integrity is rarely self-sustaining
Organizational integrity, resting on a concept of
Purpose
Responsibility
Ideals
Integrity-based ethics programs combines a concern for law with an
______.
A) emphasis on the proper use of managerial power
B) emphasis on legal consequences of unethical behavior
C) emphasis on managerial responsibility for ethical behavior
D) emphasis on social responsibility for ethical behavior
Answer: C
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imposed standards chosen standards
misconduct
lawyers, HR, and others
Source: L. S. Paine, “Managing for Organizational Integrity,”
Harvard Business Review 72, no. 2 (1994), p. 113 (with
permission).
Adapted from Exhibit 11.6 Approaches to Ethics Management
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Source: L. S. Paine, “Managing for Organizational Integrity,”
Harvard Business Review 72, no. 2 (1994), p. 113 (with
permission).
Adapted from Exhibit 11.6 Approaches to Ethics Management
Methods Education, reduced Education, leadership,
discretion, auditing and accountability, organizational
controls, penalties systems and decision
processes, auditing and controls, penalties
Behavioral Autonomous beings Social beings guided by
Assumptions guided by material material self-interest,
values,
self-interest ideals, peers
Role models
Reward and evaluation systems
Leaders must be consistent in their words and deeds
Values and character of leaders become transparent to an
organization’s employees
Effective leaders take responsibility for ethical lapses within the
organization
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Corporate credos and codes of conduct
Provide a statement and guidelines for norms, beliefs and decision
making
Provide employees with clear understanding of the organizations
position regarding employee behavior
Provide the basis for employees to refuse to commit unethical
acts
Contents of credos and codes of conduct must be known to
employees
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Reward and evaluation systems
Inappropriate reward systems may cause individuals at all levels of
the organization to commit unethical acts that they might not
otherwise do
Penalties in terms of damage to reputations, human capital erosion,
and financial loss are typically much higher than any gains that
could be obtained through such unethical behavior
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Policies and procedures
Policies and procedures can specify proper relationships with a
firm’s customers and suppliers
Policies and procedures can guide employees to behavior
ethically
Policies and procedures must be reinforced
Effective communication