Week 12_OBHR

• Transformational leadership


  Occurs when leaders and followers raise one another to higher level of motivation and morality
• Transformational leadership

  • Grounded in the needs of and values of both leaders and followers
  • Raises followers' consciousness to appealing to higher ideals: Liberty, justice, equality, peace, humanitarianism
• Transformational leadership


  • Leads to employee satisfaction, engagement, commitment and performance
  • Positively related to overall Organizational Citizenship Behaviour
  • Positively influence the psychological wellbeing of workers
  • Leads to employee creativity by encouraging employees to challenge the status quo and to try new approaches
  • Significantly associated with trust in the leader and emotional intelligence
• Level 5 leadership


  • A blend of personal humility and professional will
  • Personal ego needs are focused toward building a great company
  • Take responsibility for failures and give credit to others for successes
• Ethical leadership


  Doing the right thing, not just doing things right
• Socialized CHarismatic leadership


  • Leaders should model ethical conduct and be other-centered
  • Truth telling
  • Promise keeping
  • Fairness
  • Respect for the individual
• GLOBE leadership styles


  • Performance-oriented style
  • Team-oriented style
  • Participative style
  • Humane style
  • Autonomous style
  • Self-protective (and group-protective) style
• Universal leader characteristics - the good


  • Trustworthy
  • Just
  • Honest
  • Foresight
  • Plans ahead
  • Encouraging
  • Positive
  • Dynamic
  • Motive arouser
  • Confidence builder
  • Motivational
  • Decisive
  • Excellence-oriented
  • Dependable
  • Intelligent
  • Effective bargainer
  • Win-win problem solver
  • Administratively skilled
  • Communicative
  • Informed
  • Coordinator
  • Team builder
• Universal leader characteristics - the bad


  • Loner
  • Asocial
  • Indirect/Non-explicit
  • Non-cooperative
  • Irritable
  • Egocentric
  • Ruthless
  • Dictatorial
• Culturally contingent leadership characteristics


  • Anticipatory
  • Ambitious
  • Autonomous
  • Cautious
  • Class conscious
  • Compassionate
  • Cunning
  • Domineering
  • Elitist
  • Enthusiastic
  • Evasive
  • Formal
  • Habitual
  • Independent
  • Indirect
  • Individualistic
  • Intuitive
  • Logical
  • Micro-manager
  • Orderly
  • Procedural
  • Provocateur
  • Risk taker
  • Ruler
  • Self-sacrificial
  • Sensitive
  • Sincere
  • Status-conscious
  • Subdued
  • Unique
  • Willful
  • Worldly
• Americans appreciate two kinds of leaders:

  -those who grant autonomy and delegate authority,

  -bold, forceful, confident, and risk-taking leaders
• The Dutch place emphasis on egalitarianism and are skeptical about the value of leadership
• People from Arab cultures "worship" their leaders as long as they are in power
• Iranians seek power and strength in their leaders
• Malaysians expect their leaders to behave in a manner that is humble, modest, and dignified
• The French expect their leaders to be "cultivated" - highly educated in the arts and in mathematics, and they want "elitist" leaders, unlike the Americans