EDU602 - (Handouts) Educational Leadership and Management
EDU602 - (Handouts) Educational Leadership and Management
“Good School is that which most successfully achieves the targets set by the stakeholders by showing high
grades and good results in exams”
A school is effective not because of the specific nature of what is taught (though it is important) but through the
manner in which a positive, supportive, richy and frequently interactive atmosphere is created. (Gammage,
1985)
Effective schools can be good schools and good schools can be effective schools-but two are not necessarily the
same. (Carl Gickman, 1987)
David Hopkins, a famous researcher on school improvement, tells us about effective schools:
- The peaceful and quite corridors, calm and friendly faces, collegial and collaborative staff, clean and
committed environment are the basic components of an effective school.
- Here the students and the staff are full of respect and regard of each other. They are deeply concerned
about the future and precisely focused on how to get to that. Doors do not band and breaks do not
scream here.
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Topic 3 Educational Leaders
- The role of the educational leaders will become paramount as the pace of change continues to
quicken….
- According to David Green, 2000 “Those organizations will survive and flourish which have Change
Leaders. These are the individuals who thrive on chaos and actively seek to make future”.
- Ambiguity of change, complexity of the role, status of the profession and impact on the family life are
all the reasons why there is a dearth of candidates seeking leadership roles in schools…… but then
remember: Being a head is a great job – especially if you do not weaken.
(Brain Caldwell, 2003)
- About 40 years ago, Dr. Lezotte and his colleagues Ron Edmonds, Wilbur Brookover and other effective
school researchers identified the common characteristics of successful schools-schools where all
children learn.
- The research of these dedicated individuals refuted the notion that schools had no impact on learning
and, in doing so, identified the correlates of Effective Schools.
- The correlates of effective schools are means of achieving high and equitable levels of students learning.
- It is expected that all children (whether they be male or female, rich or poor, black or white) will learn at
least the essentially needed
• Knowledge
• Concept and
• Skills
- So that they can be successful at the next level next year.
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- What is unique about the correlates is that they are the only set of research based characteristics of a
school’s climate associated with improved and better student learning.
- They are the only set of research identified concepts with which we can analyze that complex social
organization of a school in order to cause the school as a whole to improve.
Correlates of an effective school
1. Instructional Leadership
2. Clear and focused mission
3. Safe and orderly environment
4. Climate of high expectations
5. Frequent monitoring of student progress
6. Positive home-school relations
7. Opportunity to learn and student time on task
- School communities that are welcoming and intentionally inviting insist on relationships that sponsor
mutual respect and proper conduct among students.
- The term “safe environment” refers not only to the physical condition of the school, but also means that
it is a place which is free from physical or verbal aggression, harassment or discrimination.
- Students must feel secure in their school community so that their energies can e applied to learning.
- School mission statements and codes of conduct are major factors in this respect.
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- Students who are regularly tested on their academic progress are more successful than those who are
not.
- Frequent teacher-written evaluations give teachers the information they needed to make changes if some
or all students were not mastering class material.
- Teachers can and should assess the students’ learning more holistically and less formally than
standardized exams----
- Relying less on multiple choices tests and giving more attention to portfolios and presentations.
- The effective school allocates and protects a significant amount of time for instruction of the essential
curricular areas.
- Students tend to learn the things they spend the most time on.
- Teachers at effective schools are aware of limited instruction time and create a syllabus with that in
mind.
- Keeping the mission at the forefront, teachers must create a syllabus that allows for not just all material
to be covered, but also for it to be mastered, within the time constraints of the class.
- The syllabus must be flexible enough to allow re-teaching when the students are having trouble with
certain key concepts.
- The broader concept of leadership recognizes that leadership is always passed on from the followership
in any organization.
- And expertise is generally distributed among many, not concentrated in a single person.
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- There are very few natural visionary leaders in the world.
- The good news is that this is a skill that can be learned.
- It is probably the most powerful tool in a leader’s toolbox.
The Situation: Define the situation, what needs to be accomplished and set a clear and focusing vision of
accomplished.
It is understanding what is needed , in terms of human and other resources, to achieve success and developing
the plan to achieve it.
Followers:
The important points is that followers ONLY bring their unique gifts to the situation.
As leaders, we can not ask people to do more than they are capable, but we can ask them to do all they are
capable of doing!
Understand your own strengths. You also only bring your unique gifts to your role as a leader.
You can not lead in a way that is not natural. Followers will see right through and will not find what they need
in you as a leader.
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Thus, aligning your leadership to your own unique gifts and choosing to “lead from strength” is the only way to
create the optimal chance for leadership success, and the optimal opportunity for fulfilment as a leader.
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to
do it”. (General Dwight Eisenhower)
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born – that there is a genetic factor to
leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born”. (Wareen
Bennis)
The function that coordinates the efforts of people to accomplish goals and objectives using available resources
efficiently and effectively.
Resources:
Consist of people, their skills, know-how and experience, machinery, raw materials, computers and IT, parents,
financial capital and loyal customers and employees.
Manager:
The person responsible for supervising the use of an organization’s resources in fulfilment of the organization’s
goals and objectives.
Topic 20 Organization
All managers work in organizations.
Organization:
A structure unit of people who work together and coordinate their actions to achieve a collective goal.
Organizational Performance
Efficiency:
“A measure of how well or how productively resources are used to achieve a goal”.
Effectiveness:
“A measure of the appropriateness of the goals an organization is pursuing and the degree to which they are
achieved”.
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The four functions of management include:
1. Planning
Planning or deciding upon business goals and the methods to achieve them.
2. Organizing
Organizing or determining the best allocation of people and resources.
3. Leading
Leading, directing, motivating, instructing and supervising workers assigned to the activity.
4. Controlling
Controlling or analysing metrics during business activities to ensure completion of tasks and identify
areas for improvement.
- Top managers
- Middle managers
- First line managers
- The ability to analyse and diagnose a situation and distinguish between cause and effect.
Human skills
- The ability to understand, alter, lead and control the behaviour of other individuals and groups.
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Topic 25 Overview
A manger is at times a leader and a leader is at times a manager.
Leadership skills are often defined as providing vision and strategy as well as leading transformational change,
while management skills are frequently considered to be planning, controlling and monitoring.
As Buckingham (2005, p59) states: The core activities of a manger and leader are simply different.
Kotter (1990), claims that leadership is different from management, but if either is missing, success in today’s
competitive environment will be elusive.
Topic 26 Background
- The world of work has undergone significant changes in recent years.
- During 1980’s and into early 1990’s , a major restructuring of work took place due to technological
advancement, competition and outsourcing.
- There was significant job-less and wrenching change.
- Cooper (2005) explains that this led to learner organizations and less security.
- The new challenges and ever increasing speed of change led to fundamental changes in the way that
businesses operate.
- That affected leadership and management skills which are required by organizations.
- According to Burke and Cooper (2004) management is now based around knowledge workers.
- This has clearly had a profound impact on the types of leadership and management skills that are
required in organizations in 21st century.
- Organizations have had to adapt to such dramatic changes and correspondingly, leadership and
management skills have changed.
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- The leader ensures results and trust whereas the manger represents control and authority.
A leader is the inspiration for other, on whom the team can show its interest and confidence. He has to
be the one who can appropriately set the tempo and pace of his group.
Mangers are responsible for maintain law and order. They help people in developing their assets and
bring out their best talents, for fulfilling their own mission.
Topic 30 In summary
- This table in the next slides summarizes and gives a sense of the differences between being a leader and
being a manger. This is, of course, an illustrative characterization and there is a whole spectrum between
either ends of these scales.
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Topic 31 Overview
- The idea of management is not new.
- Early forms of management concepts have been applied throughout history in order to progress as a
society.
- Could Egyptian pyramids have been built without the management of all of the required tasks?
- Could the stones of these monuments have been found, cut and moved without a plan?
- Management activities were needed in order to complete these massive projects.
- Next slide briefly indicates development of early management thought.
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- He developed the seminal “bureaucracy” theory, a formalized and idealized view of organizations. It is
based on 6 major principles:
1. A formal hierarchical structure.
2. Management by rule.
3. Organization by task competency.
4. Impersonal relationships.
5. A focused mission.
6. Employment based on tech. qualifications.
- The scientific school of management used an objective and systematic method to identify the “one best
way” to do a job using scientific selection and training methods.
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- An apprentice and associate of Frederick Taylor, he designed a project scheduling model for increasing
the efficiency of project execution and completion.
- Managers need specific roles in order to manage work and workers. Fayol named 6 functions/roles of
management.
1. Forecasting
2. Planning
3. Organizing
4. Commanding
5. Coordinating
6. Controlling
7. These roles evolved into 14 principles of management.
Division of work, authority, discipline, unity of command, unity of direction, subordination of interests,
remuneration, centralization, scalar chain, equity, order, stability of tenure of personnel, initiative, esprit de
corp.
Topic 36 Summary
- The idea of management is not new.
- Extensive work has been done in the last century.
- Critical Perspective
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Critical Perspective
- The Neo-classical thought emerged in reaction against the Scientific Theory of Management, which
stressed upon “Standardization” of jobs, processes and technologies to maximize economic yield.
- Focus shifted to the human side of organizations.
1. The best way to motivate, structure and support employees.
2. The need for workers to find intrinsic value in their jobs.
3. The positive impact of social relationships on worker productivity.
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- The neoclassical theory was an attempt at incorporating the behavioural sciences into management
thought.
- Rather than focus on production, structures or technology, the neoclassical theory was concerned with
the employee.
- Productivity increases when workers believe that they are being observed closely.
- Employees perform better when managers and co-workers make them feel valued.
- Financial rewards are not necessarily conducive to increasing worker productivity.
- Workers care about self fulfilment, autonomy, empowerment, social status and personal relationships
with co workers.
- People are social beings and are motivated by the social needs.
- People drive a sense of identity from inter-personal relationships.
- Workers are more receptive to social force of peer groups than monetary incentives and management
controls.
- Workers respond positively to attention from management, co-workers and customers.
- Organizational goals will be achieved and managerial authority will be accepted if workers believe that
their individual needs are being met.
- Developed one of the most widely recognized need theories, a theory of motivation based upon a
consideration of human needs has three assumptions:
1. Human needs are never completely satisfied.
2. Human behaviour is purposeful and is motivated by the ned for satisfaction.
3. Needs can be arranged in a hierarchy of importance from the lowest to highest.
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Topic 42 Summary
Neo-classical School of Management
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The quantitative school comprises
Scientific management
Operations management
- Managing the process of combining capital, materials and workers to produce goods and services.
- Transforming historic, current and projected data from internal and external sources into useful, usable
management information.
- Argued that technology and production system were critical aspects of organizational design; advanced
a contingency approach to organizing.
- Suggested that successful organizations match their structure to the nature of the environment.
- Presented a unified, open systems approach extending organizational theory beyond the boundaries of a
single organization.
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“A theory of leadership effectiveness”
- Argued that leadership effectiveness was contingent upon two interacting factors, leadership style and
situational favourableness.
- What managers do depends on or is contingent on the situation at hand; it emphasizes an “if- then
relationship”.
- If a particular situational variable exists, then mangers are likely to take a particular action.
- Successful mangers must consider the realities of the specific organizational circumstances they face
when applying management concepts, principles, tools and techniques.
- Management techniques should be dependent upon the circumstances.
- The way you mange should change depending on the circumstances.
- One size does not fit all.
Perceiving
Choosing
Competently
Topic 48 Summary
Evolution of Management Theory
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Topic 49 Background
- A wide range of views on leadership has been developed by researchers and practitioners over the years.
- Three major theories have emerged from these ongoing studies.
1. Trait theories
2. Behavioural and
3. Contingency
- Trait theories deal with the personal characteristics of the leaders.
- Behavioural theories deal with behaviour of leaders.
- The two view the principles of effective leadership as being universally applicable to any situation and
to any organization.
- The contingency theories do not deal with the universal applicability.
- Instead, they deal with leadership in the context of specific situations.
Topic 51 Overview
Stogdill (1974)
- Adaptable to situations
- Alert to social environment
- Ambitions and achievement oriented
- Assertive
- Cooperative
- Decisive
- Dependable
- Dominant
IQ and technical skills are threshold capabilities. They are necessary but not sufficient requirements for
leadership.
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- Some traits are particularly suited to leadership.
- People who make good learners have the right or sufficient combination of traits.
Topic 54 Traits
• Dominant (desire to influence others)
• Energetic (high activity level)
• Persistent
• Self-confidence
• Tolerant of stress
• Willing to assume responsibility
• Clever (intelligent)
• Conceptually skilled & creative
• Diplomatic and tactful
• Fluent in speaking
• Knowledgeable about group task
• Organized (administrative ability)
• Persuasive
• Socially skilled
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Topic 56 Great Man Theory
- Leaders are born and not made.
- Great leaders will arise when there is a great need.
Description:
Early research on leadership was based on the study of people who were already great leaders.
These people were often from the aristocracy, as few from lower classes had the opportunity to lead.
This contributed to the notion that leadership had something to do with breeding.
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Topic 57 Behavioural theory
- Given the flaws of early state studies, researchers turned to examining the actions, behaviours or that
separated the effective leaders from ineffective leaders.
- Behavioural theories are considered as being universally applicable.
- Leaders can be made rather than being born.
- Successful leadership is based in definable, learnable behaviour.
Description:
Behavioural theories of leadership do not seek inborn traits, rather they look at what leaders actually do.
Structured based behavioural theories – focus on the development and maintenance of relationships –
process oriented employee needs and concerns (consideration).
Autocratic Leader
Democratic Leader
Laissez-faire Leader
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- The leader’s ability to lead is contingent upon various situational factors, including the leader’s
preferred style, the capabilities and behaviours of followers and also various other situational factors.
- Leaders who are very effective at one place and time may become unsuccessful either when transplanted
to another situations or when the factors around them change.
- This helps to explain how some leaders who seem for a while to have the Midas touch suddenly appear
to have lost their magic and make very unsuccessful decisions.
- Contingency theory views leadership as being more flexible- different leadership styles used at different
times depending on the circumstances.
- Suggests leadership is not a fixed series of characteristics that can be transposed into different context.
- The main similarity is that both approaches emphasize that there are identifiable actions that any leader
must be capable of doing in any given situation.
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- Behaviourism is a “trait” in the sense that it, too, holds that leaders must show certain common
personality makers or habits of mind, but it argues that these can be elicited from any one at any time,
and that no one person has more potential than another.
- Trait theory and behaviourism are two similar approaches to questions about effective leadership. They
both see leadership as an objective set of qualities or actions that must be mastered. They differ on who
can develop these behaviours.
- Behaviourism is a more “democratic” kind of theory. Becoming a leader, according to the behaviourist
school of thought, is just a matter of proper training, while trait theory holds that a leader must have
certain inherent, innate qualities.
- Take, for example, two people. One was born to a house of a family that was weak willed and was
known for letting people take advantage of them. Another was born in a house filled with powerful
executives and those commonly called “born leaders”.
- Theoretically, the person from the former house will develop the habits of servility, while the second
person will develop the habits of assertiveness.
- According to behaviourism, had their upbringings been switched, they each would have developed
differently, so either is equally likely to be a good leader with proper training.
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- Does not trust anybody.
- Can create demotivation and alienation of staff.
- May be valuable in some types of business where decisions need to be made quickly and decisively.
- Leader uses this because there is not enough time and the members ran out of ideas.
- Leader uses this style by directly stating the3 decisions without asking the team members.
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- It is rooted in a leadership method that comprises strict discipline and authority, paternal kindness and
moral integrity with in a ruling atmosphere.
- High concern for production, use of rewards for compliance and loyalty.
- Leaders act as a father figure.
- Decisions are made by leaders but he may consult.
- Believes in the need to support the staff.
Servant Leadership
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- A “servant leader” is someone regardless of level, who leads simply by meeting the needs of the team.
- The term sometimes describe a person without formal recognition as a leader.
- Leading by example have high integrity and lead with generously
- Approach can create a positive corporate culture and can lead to high morale among team members.
- Ill -suited to meeting tight deadlines/making quick decisions.
- Leaders follow rules rigorously and ensure that their people follow procedures preciously.
- Appropriate for work involving serious safety risks (such as working with machinery with toxic
substances or at dangerous heights) or with large sums of money.
- Also useful for managing employees who perform routine tasks.
- Much less effective in teams and organizations that rely on flexibility, creativity or innovation.
Facilitative Leadership
- Leader gather follower through strength of personality and charm, rather than any form of external
power or authority.
- Leader injects huge doses of enthusiasm into team – is very energetic in driving other forwards.
- Charismatic leaders, however, can tend to believe more in themselves than in the team- no change.
- Followers believe that success is tied with the presence of leader.
- This can create the risk of the team, or the organization, failing if the leader leaves.
Visionary leadership
- Focuses on how the leader defines the future for the followers and moves them towards it.
- Most appropriate when an organization needs a new direction. Its goal is to move people towards a new
set of shared dreams.
- “visionary leaders articulate where a group is going, but not how it will get there – setting people free to
innovate, experiment, take calculated risks” Daniel Goleman.
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Topic 79 Transformational Leadership
Definition
“A leadership style focused on effecting revolutionary change in organizations through a commitment to the
organization’s vision” (Sulllivan & Decker 2001)
- A style of leadership in which the leader identifies the needed change, creates a vision to guide the
change through inspiration and executes the change with the commitment of the members of the group.
Focus
- Self
- Team
- Group and
- Organization
Focus rationale
Causes widespread organizational reforms by establishing the following:
- Burns make a distinction between ordinary leaders, who ensure followers loyalty through rewards
(transactional), and the extra ordinary leaders, who focus on fulfilling the essential needs of followers
(transformational).
- Bass (1985) identified transformational leadership as motivating followers by appealing to their self
interest.
- Bass and Avolio (1994) further describe this leadership style as management with active involvement.
- Change agent
- Courageous individual
- Believe in people
- Value-driven
- Lifelong learners
- Ability to deal with complexity
- Visionary
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Idealized influence:
Inspirational motivation:
Leaders who communicate high expectations, inspiring them to become committed to organizational goals.
Intellectual stimulation:
Individualized consideration:
Leaders who provide a supportive climate in which they listen to needs of followers.
The relationship
- Leader’s internal locus of control.
- Follower’s spiritual development.
- Leader’s spiritual development.
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Topic 85 Process of Transformational Leadership
Step 1
Developing Vision
- Creating and communicating an inspiring vision of future that is exciting and attracts potential
followers.
- Sets out the purpose of the team/organization.
- Vision is developed through understanding values of the followers, understanding capabilities and the
resources of the organization and by conducting an analysis of the environment and then selecting the
best way forward within it.
- If developing a vision for the organization, start with analysing the environment and then develop
strategy.
- This is usually then expressed in a business plan and summarized in a mission statement.
- If developing a vision for them start with the company’s mission and vision and explore the ways in
which your team can contribute directly to it.
- Starting with mission statement, leader needs to appeal to followers’ values and inspire them with where
he/she is going to lead them and why.
- Link the vision to people’s goals and tasks to give it context and help people see how they can
contribute to it.
- Constantly sell the vision and build a strong network of high potential.
- Transformational leaders realize that noting significant happens unless they encourage their people.
- They acquire knowledge of different kinds of motivational measures and use them to inspire people to
deliver their best.
- Transformational leaders focus attention on their people and work hard to help the people achieve their
goals and dreams.
- Leadership is a long term process, the leader needs to work constantly to build relationships, earn trust
and help the people grow as individuals.
- Meet the people individually to understand their developmental needs.
- Build trust with people by being open and honest in the interactions.
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- Set aside time to coach the people – a skilled team is created when people are helped to their own
solutions and their self-confidence and trust in leader are also fortified.
Transformational Management
Business Acumen
- Financing strategies
- Organizational dynamics
- Human resource development
- Internal /external radar
- Marketing and branding
- Negotiation skills
- Dispute and conflict resolution
- Group facilitation
- Concept mapping
- Future casting
- Lateral thinking
Summary
- Transformational leadership is more likely to emerge and be effective in organic organizations than in
mechanistic organizations.
- Organic organizations impose fewer constraints on members’ activities.
- They enable and encourage individual behaviour by both leaders and potential followers.
- They provide both a greater need and a greater scope for the emergence of transformational leaders.
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- Mechanistic organizations, in contrast, provide fewer opportunities for organizational members to
exercise choice.
- They supress the expression of individual differences by both leaders and followers.
Topic 93 Importance of TL 2
Teaching and Learning
- A school with transformational leading teachers provides inspiration and motivation to the students to
express creative behaviour.
- Leading to changes in both educational policy and teaching practices (ChanLin et al.2006)
Decision making
- “An institution is intended to represent the good of its stakeholders”. (Brower and Balch, 2005)
- In transformational decision making the decision reflects on the common good but not the individual
good.
- TL helps in setting clear and adequately high performance standards for schools and teachers.
- Emphasizes a greater understanding, solving problem, EQ and personal skills and not just memorization.
Topic 94 Evaluation of TL
- The evidence supporting the superiority of transformational leadership over transactional leadership is
impressive (khan, 2009)
- This leadership style has been favoured in many countries and at various job levels.
- A review of 87 studies, testing transformational leadership found that it was related to the motivation
and satisfaction of followers and to the higher performance and perceived effectiveness of the leaders.
(Khan, 2009)
- The overall evidence indicates that transformational leadership is more strongly correlated than
transactional leadership with lower turnover rate, higher productivity and higher employee satisfaction.
- Well over 100 empirical studies have found TL to be consistently related to organizational and
leadership effectiveness-Bryman, 1992: Lowe et al 1996.
- Samples and contexts from Fortune 100 businesses to military units, to presidential administrations.
Topic 95 Critique
- It is elitist and antidemocratic, too much emphasis is placed on the “”heroic” aspects of leadership.
(Northouse, 2007)
- They act independently of their followers – they create and transmit a vision of their own in an effort to
achieve change.
- Transformational leadership has the potential to be absued.
- Since transformational leaders change employees’ values and provide a new vision of the future,
question is: who decides if the new vision is better than the old one?
- Who determines whether the new direction is good?
- History provides us with examples of leaders who have exploited their people and where their vision has
eventually led to death and destruction of their followers. (e.g. Hitler)
- Transformational leadership may be a personality trait or personal disposition which might be difficult
to change, rather than a behaviour that can be trained and developed (Bryman, 1992)
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Topic 96 Summary-TL
- Several Theories have evolved after Burns introduced the concept of transformational leadership (1978)
- Visions have been proposed by the theorists like Bass (1985), Bennis and Nanus (1985), Tichy and
Ulrich (1986) and Sashkin (1988).
- The most prominent of these and the one used most often is Bass’ theory of transformational and
transactional leadership. (Yukl, 1999)
- Bass differs from burns’ in viewing transactional and transformational leadership not as being at
opposite sides on a continuum but as two different facts where a leader can be both transactional and
transformational at the same time, though to different degrees.
- Also in opposition to Burns, who argue that leader should strive for a transformational leadership only,
Bass argues that leaders can and should be both transactional and transformational and that a
combination of these two is the most successful kind.
Good to great
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The five levels of leadership -- There are five levels of leadership, with five being the highest level. These
levels of skills and performance are not necessarily developed in sequence, but a Level 5 leaders embody all
five levels of the hierarchy.
1. Level 5 Executive -- builds enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal humility and
professional will
2. Effective Leader -- catalyzes commitment to and vigorous pursuit of a clear and compelling vision,
stimulating higher performance standards.
3. Competent Manager -- organizes people and resources toward the effective and efficient pursuit of
predetermined objectives.
4. Contributing Team Member -- contributes individual capabilities to the achievement of group objectives
and works effectively with others in a group setting.
5. Highly Capable Individual -- Makes productive contributions through talent, knowledge, skills, and
good work habits.
Topic 99 The Bedrock of Level 5 Leadership
“You can accomplish anything in life provided that you do not mind who gets the credit” (Harry S.
Truman)
- Level 5 leaders look out the window to appropriate credit to factors outside themselves when things go
well.
- If they can not find a specific person or event to give credit to, they credit good luck.
- At the same time, they look in the mirror to apportion responsibility, never blaming bad luck when
things go poorly.
- They think about legacy on their way into a position, rather than on their way out of one.
Topic 100 The Two Sides of Level 5
Professional Will
- Creates superb results, a clear catalyst in the transition from good to great.
- Demonstrates an unwavering resolve to do whatever must be done to produce the best long term results
no matter how difficult.
- Sets the standards of building and enduring great company; will settle for nothing less.
Personal Humility
- Demonstrates a compelling modesty, shunning public adulation; never boastful.
- Acts with quiet, calm determination.
- Relies principally on inspired standards not inspiring charisma, to motivate.
- Channels ambitions to company not to self.
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, its thinking of yourself less”
C.S.Lewis
Topic 101 Succession Planning
- Level 5 leaders have ambition not for themselves but for their organizations.
- They routinely select superb successors.
- They want to see their organizations become even more successful in the next generation.
- Comfortable with the idea that most people won’t even know that the roots of that success trace back to
them.
- Level 4 leaders often fail to set up the organization for enduring success- what better way to demonstrate
your personal greatness than that the place falls apart after you leave.
- These leaders want to make clock-builders, not be time-tellers.
- Rather than always have the answer, or be quick to solve someone’s problem, Level 5 leadership help
team members solve their own problems or find their own answers. So, build own abilities.
Topic 102 Money and Level 5
Not always about the money
- A level 5 leader is not concerned about money only.
- This leader is much more concerned with the overall success of the company in the present as well as in
the future when they are gone.
- They will go everything they can to make sure the company will succeed after them by appointing a
successor with their same characteristics.
When it is about the money
- When it is about the money you are probably talking about a level 4 leader.
- This is somebody who is not concerned with the future of the company after they are gone, but who just
wants to get paid.
- They are all about the “I” and not about the “We”.
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- This leader will not “set their successor up for success”. In fact they will most likely choose a person
who is not ready, or does not have any idea what it takes to be a leader of that magnitude.
Topic 103 Pathways to Greatness
- Level 5 leadership is a necessary element for taking an organization from good to great – but it’s not the
only one.
- There are other “diverse”, combined with level 5 – the combined package – which takes the organization
beyond ordinary.
The drivers are:
- First Who
- Stockdale Paradox
- The Flywheel
- The Hedgehog Concept
- A Culture of Discipline
First Who
- Good to great leaders start with people first and then deal with vision and strategy second.
- They get the right people on the bus.
- Move the wrong people off.
- Usher the right people to the right seats, and
- Determine where to drive it.
Topic 104 Pathways to greatness- 2
Stockdale Paradox
- Named after Admiral James Stockdale, winner of the Medal of honour, who survived for 7 years in a
Viet Cong POW camp by holding on to two contradictory beliefs.
- His life could not be worse at the moment, and his life would someday be better than ever .
- Good to great leaders confront the most brutal facts of their current reality, with absolute faith that they
will prevail in the end.
- They hold both disciplines – facts and faith – at the same time, all the time.
Topic 105 Pathways to Greatness- 3
Buildup - Breakthrough Flywheel
- G-to-g transformations do not happen in one big leap or overnight.
- Rather, it starts one movement at a time, gradually building up momentum, till there is a breakthrough.
- Mediocre organizations never sustain the breakthrough momentum.
- Instead, they lurch back and forth with radical change programs, reactionary moves and restructuring.
The Hedgehog concept
- The fox knows a little about many things.
- A fox is complex.
- A hedgehog knows only one big thing very well.
- The hedgehog is simple.
- And the hedgehog wins!
Topic 106 The Hedgehog Concept
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When an organization has identified its Hedgehog Concept, its leaders should devote all their energy and
resources to pursuing the one thing it does best. Collins argues that when the going gets tough, it's the
organizations that focus on what they're good at, rather than searching for alternative strategies, that survive and
thrive.
The great irony is that the attitude and personal ambition that often drive people to positions of power stand at
odds with the humility required for level 5 leadership.
Therefore:
You can see why level 5 leaders rarely appear at the top of our institutions.
The problem is not with the availability of level 5 leader. The problem is recognizing that what they have is
important.
Level 5 leadership may come naturally to some people, but there will always be growth and practice needed for
all of them.
Not everyone will be a level 5 leader, but all of us can benefit from the practice and study of personal humility
and professional will.
• process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve a desired goal.
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Topic 110 Purpose of planning
Planning: The process of setting goals and courses of action, developing rules and procedures, and forecasting
future outcomes.
Actions: the means, or specific activities, that are planned to achieve the objectives
Resources: constraints on the course of action; also involves budgeting: identifying the sources and levels of
resources that can be committed to the courses of action
Implementation: the assignment and direction of personnel to carry out the plan.
Choosing goals and courses of action and deciding now what to do in the future to achieve those goals.
o Strategic
o Tactical
o Operational
• This multilevel planning allows managers at each level to consider the actions necessary to achieve their
goals
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• define a broad scope of long-term organizational actions to attain strategic goals
• narrower in scope
o regularly recurring
One-time occurrence
Single-Use Plans
1) Programme: complex set of interrelated actions aimed at achieving a goal pursued once
2) Project:
Standing Plans
• for on-going goals, requiring same type of situation to be dealt with again and again
1. Policy: provides general guidelines/ broad boundaries for action for recurring situations; flexibility
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2. Procedure: outlines specific steps to be followed in particular recurring situation; more detailed; allows
less latitude; series of steps, SPOs
3. Rule: details specific circumstances under which certain activities are to be performed; narrowest;
Contingency Plans
• for unexpected environmental shifts, but still requiring managerial response if objectives are to be
achieved
• the process of selecting one alternative from among a number of alternatives available
Definition
“Decision-making is a process of selection from a set of alternative courses of action which is thought to fulfill
the objective of the decision-problem more satisfactorily than others” (1961)
Definition
• George Terry
“Decision-making is selecting an alternative, from two or more alternatives, to determine an opinion or a course
of action” (1961)
• process of reducing any hesitation, or uncertainty, about the available options for attaining a practical
and sensible choice
a) Decisions Whether
• weighing the pros and cons, if the answer is a “no”, then another alternative is considered
b) Decisions Which
• the alternatives are compared to each other against a set criteria for selecting the most probable and
beneficial option
c) Contingent Decisions
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• decisions that were already identified but were set aside until the suitable conditions are available/
met with
• if the past decision was beneficial and positive, individual is likely to make similar decisions in a similar
situation
b. Cognitive Biases
• the individual’s thinking patterns based on his/ her observations and conclusions that may sometimes
lead to false assumptions, wrong judgments, and faulty reasoning.
o age
o socioeconomic status
o educational background
o cognitive abilities
1. Individual
2. Authoritarian
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• leader must ensure gathering sufficient knowledge to make decision beneficial to the team/ group/ org.
• leader must explain the chosen alternative to the group in order to gain acceptance
3. Group
• members brainstorm and share ideas, talk over the matters, make and then implement the agreed
decision
• usually more effective as everyone takes accountability for the outcome there is
• part of this phase is for determining the goal as well - get clear thoughts
• evaluate options
• only one option is to be selected from the list which is already cut down into the most promising and
applicable choices after evaluation
• if it is a solution to an existing problem, then apply the decision to resolve the issue
• if it is an opportunity, then apply the chosen alternative to avail that opportunity aptly
o admission: college
o daytime/ evening?
o long distance ?
o correspondence?
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• series of decisions
• need for decision-making is only when alternative ways of performing a task exist
3. Positive or negative
4. Deferment
• As a science, decision-making requires knowledge of method, and rule or principle concerning the issue
or problem
6. Situational
• the decision-maker may make different decisions for the same problem under different situations
• e.g. a teacher may let a student coming late to enter the class on a particular day but may not allow him/
her on another day
• decision-maker’s own decision without any pressure; voluntary; spontaneous, made with open mind
• when pressurized, either by individuals or by the situation, the decision becomes induced
8. Complexity
• involves careful consideration of the alternative courses of action, evaluation of the same and selection
of the best course of action
9. Ongoing activity
• continuous process
• permanent choices
b. Reversible Decisions
• such as, when the decision made is not right or when the option selected is a failure
c. Quick Decisions
• only good decision makers arrive at instant and correct decisions easily
• involves certainty and assurance of the initial results before a final decision is made
• it is ensured that the preliminary outcome is positive and assuring in order to guarantee success of the
decision to be taken
• decision maker tries out several courses of action until one alternative is left that seems to be convincing
and positive
f. Conditional Decisions
• when a decision is conditional, the person is open for other possibilities or other alternatives.
• in any case, when the initial decision fails, there are other options to choose from
• the mental process of making a wise judgment focusing on personal conviction and actions
• some components are observation, reasoning classification, analysis, inference, evaluation, meta-
cognition, etc.
Processing Phase
determine alternatives & evaluate for best option Output Phase
decision is implemented Review Phase
evaluates outcomes and makes changes, if any.
Creativity
• process of generating new ideas, views and systems to solve problems and arrive at decisions
efficiently
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Topic 126 Common Decision Making Mistakes
Being too dependent on “expert” information
Some people rely too much on the experts when in fact not all of them are truly experts – try widening the
search and sources
Overconfidence
humbles the overconfident attitude and remain open to possible options
• be open to ideas.
• The internal, formal framework of a business which shows the way in which management is linked
together, and how authority is transmitted
Hierarchy: the levels of management in a firm from the highest to the lowest ranks.
• Org. structure also determines how information flows from level to level within the co. company
• A good org. structure can often be the difference between a smooth operating organization and one in
chaos.
• By establishing a hierarchical structure with a clear chain of command, companies are better able to
streamline their operations.
Organization Chart
• The New York and Erie Railroad developed the first org. chart in the 19th century
• shows the structure of the org. including the title of each manager’s position and who is
accountable to whom
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Topic 129 Types of Organizational Structure
Seven types of organizational structures
1) Simple
2) Functional
3) Divisional
4) Matrix
5) Team-based
6) Network
7) Modular
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Topic 130 Types of Organizational Structure 2
3. The Divisional Structure: Grouping by Similarity of Purpose
• Diverse occupational specialties are put together in formal groups by similar products or services,
customers or clients, or geographic regions.
4. The Matrix Structure: A Grid by Functions & Divisions for Two Chains of Command
• an organization combines functional and divisional chains of command in a grid so that there are two
command structures—vertical and horizontal – used for projects
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Topic 131 Types of Organizational Structure 3
5: The Team-Based Structure: Eliminating Functional Barriers to Solve Problems
• teams or workgroups, either temporary or permanent, are used to improve horizontal relations and solve
problems throughout the organization
6. The Network Structure: Connecting a Central Core to Outside Firms by Computer Connections
The organization has a central core that is linked to outside independent firms by computer connections, and
operated as if all were a single organization
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7. The Modular Structure: Outsourcing Pieces of a Product to Outside Firms
Differs from previous in that it outsources certain pieces of a product rather than outsourcing certain
processes (such as human resources or warehousing) of an organization.
• as an org. grows, the number of management levels increases and the structure grows taller.
• has fewer management levels, controlling a broad area or group with each level
An organization is a collection of people who work together to achieve individual and organizational goals.
• Organizational behaviour (OB) is the study of factors which profoundly effect how people and groups
act, think, feel, and respond to work and organizations, and how organizations respond to their
environments
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Topic 134 Studying Organizational Behaviour
• Organizational studies involve the study of org. from various perspectives, methods, and levels
of analysis:
• Macro: whole org, how they adapt; - and the strategies, structures, and contingencies that guide them
• Meso scale structures involve power, culture, and the networks of individuals in org.
Dependent Variables
• primary dependent variables to be explained/ predicted: productivity, turnover, absenteeism, and job
satisfaction
Productivity
• an org. is productive if it achieves its goals, and does so by transferring inputs to outputs at lowest cost
• major concern of OB
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Topic 136 Developing an Organizational Model 2
Absenteeism
• take rest, instead of causing poor output or even accident (e.g. pilot, surgeon, etc.)
• beyond normal range, directly impacts org.’s effectiveness & efficiency negatively
Turnover
Job Satisfaction
• "a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job or job experiences”
(Locke 1976)
• that is, the factors believed to be the causes of changes in the dependent variables
Individual-level Variables:
• people carry some personal characteris-tics when they join job: age, gender, marital status, values,
attitude, personality, ability; and behaviour, perception, decision making, learning, & motivation
Group-level Variables:
• this level includes communication patterns, leadership styles, power and politics, inter-group relations,
and levels of conflict
• includes design of the formal organization, work processes and jobs, human resource policies and
practices, and the internal culture
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• OB especially focuses on how to improve productivity, reduce absenteeism and turnover, and increase
employee satisfaction
• as such, to be effective in their jobs, managers must develop their people/ interpersonal skills
Generalizations
• OB uses systematic study for predictions of behaviour not intuition, as people are different
• can improve productivity by learning how to empower people, and how to design and implement change
programs
• Group: two or more interdependent people, who interact in pursuit of common purpose
• fans standing in a queue waiting together to purchase concert tickets may have a common goal, but:
• workforce diversity needs managers to lead groups that transcend gender, culture and age
• these can be categorized on the basis of how the group forms, who its members are, and what the group
does
• the most basic distinction is between formal groups and the informal groups
• created by the org. to perform a specific set of tasks in pursuit of the org.’s goals
• part of org’s formal structure and hierarchy, e.g. command group, functional group, task group, etc.
INFORMAL GROUPS
TEAMS
• today, many orgs. are replacing traditional structure of formal command groups by groups with greater
autonomy and employee participation
• some roles assigned formally (G.M.) but additional assumed informally influencing group performance
NORMS
• roles are behaviors that differentiate, norms are behaviors common to all
COHESIVENESS
• strong commitment and desire to remain within the group increases group cohesiveness
• maintains that these stages are inevitable for the team to grow, to face up to challenges, to tackle
problems, to find solutions, to plan work and deliver result
Forming
Storming
Members start to communicate their feelings but still view themselves as individuals rather than the part of the
team.
People feel part of the team and realize that they can achieve more work if they accept others viewpoints.
Performing
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Team work in an open and trusting atmosphere where flexibility is the key and hierarchy is of little importance.
Adjourning
Team conducts an assessment of the year and implements a plan of transitioning roles and recognizing
members’ contributions.
Synergistic groups can create something greater than individual members could create independently.
1) Extent to which the group's productive output meets the standard of quantity, quality, and timeliness for
the users of the output.
2) Extent to which the group process of actually doing the work enhances the capability of group members
to work together interdependently in the future.
3) Extent to which group experience contributes to the growth and well being of its members.
• communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession; it modifies the
disposition of both parties who partake it -- John Dewey
It is the process by which activities of an organization are collected and coordinated to reach the goals of
both individuals and the organization
In simple terms:
• it is the information flow that happens in an organization but the flow of information is based on a
structure, direction and process
Non-verbal Communication
• physical ways of communication, like, tone of the voice, touch, smell and body motion.
Written Communication
Visual Communication
• television and video clips are the electronic form of visual communication
Sender/ Encoder: is the person who sends the message – makes use of symbols (words, visuals, graphics) to
convey the message and produce the required response
Message: the key idea that the sender wants to communicate – must be clear
Encoding: converting subject matter into language that is understandable by the receiver
Decoding: translating encoded message into ordinary language to get the meaning by receiver
Feedback: response of receiver to sender – helps sender to determine correct receipt, and comprehension
Noise: anything that disrupts or interferes in the communication process between a speaker and an audience
or receiver
• Linear model
• Transactional Model
Linear Model
• one-way communication
• information is transmitted from sender to receiver via a channel without the sender receiving any
feedback
Interactive Model
• the sender sends a message to the receiver and the receiver then becomes the sender and sends a
message to the original sender
• feedback is added
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Transactional Model
External Communication:
• communication between the organization and the ones outside the organization, such as, customers,
suppliers, banks, govt.
Formal Communication
• used mainly with non- peers and other not well-known people
Informal Communication
• used mainly with peers and other well-known people – most likely in personal situations
• in many communications, the message (what is said) may not be received exactly the way the sender
intended.
• it is, therefore, important that the communicator seeks feedback to check that their message is clearly
understood.
• but the skilled communicator also needs to be aware of the barriers to effective communication and how
to avoid or overcome them.
• effective communication involves overcoming these barriers and conveying a clear and concise
message.
• even when communicating in the same language, the terminology used in a message may act as a barrier
if it is not fully understood by the receiver(s)
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Psychological Barriers
• the psychological state of the communicators will influence how the message is sent, received and
perceived
• e.g. under stress, or being angry, one may say things that one did not actually mean.
Physiological Barriers
• may result from sensory dysfunction, either on the part of the receiver or the sender
Systematic Barriers
• may exist where there are inefficient or inappropriate information systems and communication channels
• or where there is a lack of understanding of the roles and responsibilities for communication.
Attitudinal Barriers
• may result from personality conflicts, poor management, resistance to change or a lack of motivation.
• Emotional barriers & taboos: some people may find it difficult to express their emotions and some
topics may be completely 'off-limits' or taboo.
• Not being able to see the non-verbal cues, gestures, posture and general body language
• Cultural differences
- Centralized Network
- Members cannot communicate with each other
- Effective in simple task
- Preferred by org. where HO is totally in charge
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Completely Connected
- Decentralized network
- Everyone interacts
- Effective in complex tasks – can be slow
- Leadership is unclear
Line
Circle
• by learning how power operates, you will be better able to become a more effective leader
• in its simplest terms, power is the ability to influence someone else (Nelson & Quick, 2012).
• they all also have the personal power to enact it (Gibson et al, 2012).
• e.g, Steve Jobs (Apple Computer), Bill Gates (Microsoft), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Jeff Bezos
(Amazon.com)
• they were able to transform their visions into reality, because they had acquired and used the necessary
power to do so.
• great leaders make things happen by utilizing personal power (Pfeffer, 2011).
• one of the most influential theories of power comes from the work of French and Raven (1959)
• explored the sources of power used by leaders to influence others for attainment
French and Raven identified five sources of power that can be classified into two
categories:
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• Generally, the personal sources of power are more strongly related to
o job performance
• the various sources of power should not be viewed as being completely separate from each other
• comes from having a position of power in an organization, such as being the boss or a key member of a
leadership team
• if a person rises in power, subordinates must believe s/he deserves it; otherwise it will be a bad move
Reward Power
• reward power is indicated through rewarding individuals for compliance with leader’s wishes.
• this may be done through giving bonuses, raises, a promotion, extra time off from work, etc.
Coercive Power
• conveyed through making employee fear losing job, being demoted, receiving a poor performance
review, etc.
• with more knowledge, skills and experience in particular areas we become thought leaders in those
areas, and gather expert power that can be used to get others to help us
Referent Power
• we can gain referent power when others trust what we do and respect us for how we handle situations
• when workers link the leadership’s power with expert or referent power, they are more engaged, more
devoted to the organization and their role within it
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Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford University) is one of today's most influential management thinkers - inspires leaders
to seek power through evidence-based management, the knowing-doing gap, high performance culture, and
unconventional wisdom
• must coincide with expert power, otherwise there may be negative effects on productivity
Reward power can directly influence the employee-performance behaviours in the short run
• prolonged use of reward power can lead to a dependent relationship in which workers feel manipulated
and become dissatisfied
• usage of expert power results in attitudinal conformity and internalized motivation by the workers
• this in turn requires less surveillance of workers than does reward or coercive power
Referent power can lead to enthusiastic and unquestioning trust, compliance, loyalty, and commitment
from subordinates.
Regulatory process that directs the activities of an organization to achieve anticipated goals and standards.
Old Concept
Modern Concept
it ensures that the overall directions of individuals and groups are consistent with short and long term plans
• The key requirement of a control system is that it should maintain the level and kind of output needed
to achieve the system's objectives (March & Simon)
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1. Establish Objectives and Standards
o performance objectives are defined and the standards for measuring them are established
o Input Standards measure work efforts that go into a performance task (e.g. training)
o Output Standards measure performance results in terms of quantity, quality, cost, or time (e.g. product)
o to identify deviations or variances between what is most desired and what really occurs
o comparison of actual performance with desired performance establishes the need for action
▪ historical / relative
▪ benchmarking
b. correct the actual performance – when standards are not met, managers must carefully assess the
reasons why, and take corrective action
ensure that standards and the associated performance remain relevant for the future
1. Feed-forward
- The preliminary or preventive control
- Anticipates problems
- Focus is on input
2. Concurrent
- Solves problems as they occur
- Focus is ongoing processes
- Assesses current work activities, relies on performance standards
- Aims to ensure that work activities produce the correct results
3. Feedback
- Solve problems after their occurrence
- Focuses on the organization’s outputs
- Also called post-action or output control
Managers need to measure progress, offer feedback and direct their teams to succeed.
The ultimate purpose of the controls is to help mangers make better decisions.
o to satisfy ambition
o to feel important
What is motivation?
• the drives within a person that account for the degree, direction and persistence of the effort spent at
work
• internal and external factors that stimulate people to take action for achieving a goal
o arrive late
o be slow to react
Monetary Rewards
• include increase in pay, profit sharing, bonuses, staff discounts, company shares, etc.
• these have traditionally helped maintain a positive environment for staffs (Kepner, 2001).
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Include flexible work hours, training, vocation, pleasant work environment, car, free health care, etc.
• yet, there are many factors that get in the way of us feeling good
feel good
• what we link pleasure to, and what we associate with pain, shape our whole life
• in the 1950s and 60s, psychologist Fredrick Herzberg researched to determine the effect of attitude on
motivation
• he asked people to describe situations where they felt really good, and really bad, about their jobs
• he found that people who felt good about their jobs gave very different responses from the people who
felt bad.
• these results form the basis of Herzberg's Motivation-Hygiene Theory (sometimes known as Herzberg's
Two Factor Theory)
• according to Herzberg, the factors leading to job satisfaction are "separate and distinct from those that
lead to job dissatisfaction."
• therefore, if you eliminate dissatisfying job factors you may calm everyone, but not necessarily enhance
performance.
• these are:
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The conclusion he drew was that:
• nor will adding the factors of job satisfaction eliminate job dissatisfaction.
• if you have a hostile work environment, giving someone a promotion will not make him or her satisfied
• when these have been adequately met, people will not be dissatisfied nor will be satisfied.
• to motivate, focus on satisfaction factors like achievement, recognition, and responsibility - motivators
• to motivate people, first remove things that are annoying them about the company and the workplace;
make sure they are treated fairly, and with respect
• then, look for ways to help people grow within their jobs, give them breaks for achievement and praise
their feat
• all infants, kids, and adults constantly have dynamic mixes of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual
needs (discomforts) and.............
• all behavior is motivated by the eternal instinctive urge to reduce our current needs
• they habitually focus on surface needs as they did as kids, so their primary needs keep recurring
• first the lowest level of needs is satisfied; then next levels are satisfied incrementally
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Topic 176 Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs 2
1. Physiological Needs
2. Security Needs
o stable physical and emotional environment issues such as benefits, pension, fair work practices, safe
work-setting
3. Belongingness Needs
o our primitive need to feel accepted by, and be part of, a group of other people
o positive self-image and respect and recognition issues such as job titles, nice work spaces, and
prestigious job assignments
o if you have a staff that you manage it is important to understand that the methods you use to reward and
recognize their achievements can have an impact on their self esteem – which of course in turn will
affect their motivation
o the opposite is true as well – if you fail to recognize the efforts and achievements of your team, you
could end up damaging the motivation levels of your team and even possibly their self esteem
5. Self-Actualization Needs
o achievement issues such as workplace autonomy, challenging work, and subject matter expert status on
the job
• Generally, a person beginning their career will be very concerned with physiological needs such as
adequate wages and stable income and security needs such as benefits and a safe work environment.
• employees whose lowest level needs have not been met will make job decisions based on compensation,
safety, or stability concerns.
• also, employees will revert to satisfying their lowest level needs when these needs are no longer met or
are threatened
• this places an extra obligation on managers to act humanely when difficult organizational decisions such
as staff reductions have to be implemented.
• callous implementation of difficult decisions will cause the remaining employees to feel threatened
Empowering Employees
• permits choices and to transform choices into desired actions and outcomes.
• rewards are for people whose performance accomplishments help meet organizational objectives
• rewards are often used to reinforce employee behavior that is desired to be continued
o valued outcomes given to worker by manager – bonus, promotion, time off, assignment, praise
o “feels good” – feeling of competency, personal development, and self‐control over work
• applies motivational theories to the structure of work for improving productivity and satisfaction
• when redesigning jobs, managers look at both job scope and job depth
• reduces monotony
Job rotation
• includes not only an increased variety of tasks, but also provides an employee with more responsibility
and authority
• if job skills match with jobholder's abilities, improves morale and performance
• a group of people that has a job to do, either as paid participants or as volunteers
• a group that has spent some time together, either in smaller increments over a long period of time
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• a group that achieves cohesiveness
• a group with a common objective and one purpose - members are interdependent
• whereas other groups may recognize the strengths of each member, team members rely on the strengths
of each member to accomplish the objective
• as you can see, work groups have strong individual focus and teams have strong collective focus
• individual is not lost in a team – instead his work is coordinated to fit in with the greater good
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• tables indicate that teams meet more often than traditional work groups
• next slide depicts the progression of team development through a series of steps on a graph.
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Stage One - Forming
• period in which members are guarded in their interactions as they’re not sure what to expect from other
team members
• share responsibility
• provide structure
• there are various degrees of conflict dealing with issues of power, leadership and decision-making
• functional relationships are developed resulting in the evolution of trust among members
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Norming – to enhance team development:
- the team now has the capability to define tasks, work through relationships and manage team conflicts
by themselves.
- Members interact with out fear of rejection
- Leadership is participative and shared
Stage 5 – Transforming
- Occurs when the team is at such an effective level of functioning that it can redefine its shared purpose
and respond quickly to change
- Leadership is shared, trust is high, and communication is open
The most effective teams arrive at decisions through “consensus” by following a rational process that includes:
Shaper
Implementer
Completer Finisher
Coordinator
- Acts as a chairperson
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Team worker
- Encourages cooperation
Resource Investigators
Plant
Monitor-Evaluation
Specialist
Resource
- An available means
Management
- Materials
- Human resources
- Time
- Space
- Information
- Relationship
That is, for every rupee spent there must be a corresponding value for it
Major issue, therefore, is to have value for money at any point in time for all spending
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- Small differences in definitions.
- Core meaning of value for money is clear in all the definitions i.e. economy, efficiency and
effectiveness.
- Value for money (VfM), then, is a requirement to maximize the use of scarce resources in our daily
operations.
Economy is defined as “minimizing the cost of resources used for an activity having regard to the appropriate
quality”
That is economy is the practice of careful spending, discretion and good house keeping
Relates to all types of resources such as physical, human, time and information
Economy is observed in getting any resource when proper attention is given to the right amount and of the right
kind, right place and the right time, and at the right cost.
A value mindset aligns interests of the manger spending money with those of the owners of the money.
Efficiency refers to the relationship of inputs and outputs – relevant to the use of resources.
For example teacher pupil ratio in a school; machine-hours to output ratio in a factory.
An increase in output without a corresponding increase in input, or getting the same output as before with a
reduced input indicates increase in efficiency.
The focus of efficiency is to obtain maximum useful output from the resources devoted for an activity.
Effectiveness means that “the service as provided meets a real need properly”.
It is an ends-oriented concept that measures the degree to which predetermined goals and objectives for a
particular activity or program are achieved.
1. Program effectiveness
This relates to the continuing relevance of a programme, the attainment of its intended objectives, its
impact and its cost-effectiveness.
2. Operational effectiveness
This relates to the achievement of output targets, the delivery system of goods and services produced
and the cost effectiveness of these systems.
3. Organizational effectiveness
This relates to the overall capability of the organization and the interactions among strategic planning,
management structures, processes and human and financial resources.
o includes: resource allocation, resource management, acquisition and investment – all money
matters
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The efficient and effective management of money (funds) in such a manner as to accomplish the objectives of
the organization
Management
• financial management includes everything that involves finances, assets, and resources
• accounting is more about reporting the financial information of a particular business entity
• calculates and advises profit and loss of the business after a fixed tome period
• it incorporates system of preparing and using budget, monitoring, and correction system
• it helps to achieve organization’s goals, and assists in running a more effective organization
• a budget is simply a plant that outlines how money will be spent ; your household budget is also a plan
Effective Evaluation: goals broken into objectives/ time blocks, allow performance assessment
Communication & Unity in the organization: goals have to be conveyed, people convinced and performance
quantified.
Restrict expenditure: develop ability to limit how much money is spent on certain operations
Ensure that capital is not wasted on unessential items or the company does not overpay for economic resources
used in the business
(a) Resources
(b) Goals
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Sales/ revenue, inventory, expenditure, production
• Each budget structure is composed of budget levels that indicate the budget hierarchy of the structure
• Budget structures consist of one to four budget levels that correspond to increasingly more detailed
levels of budgeting in the structure.
1. Operational Budget provides all the info necessary to prepare a budgeted P&L account
2. Financial Budget includes cash budget, financial statement, projections other than P&L account
4. Performance Reports provide tools for monitoring and measuring success of the budget
1. Environmental statement a scan of the operating environment against long term missions
2. General objectives and policies policy statement based on global needs and co-concerns
4. Measure goals Goals, broken down activity-wise, for easy monitoring and control
FORECASTING
o technology upgrades,
o initiatives by rivals,
• ANTICIPATED
FORECASTING
A conservative estimate of how much revenue you will have next year
• look at what you made last year, and extrapolate and forecast from that based on likely market
conditions
Budgetary Control
EXAMPLE
The process of limiting the negative aspects of conflict while increasing the positive aspects of conflict
• Aims to improve group outcomes, including performance in organizational setting (Rahim, 2002)
What is Conflict?
“A situation that arises when one party perceives that another party has negatively affected, or is about
to negatively affect, something that the first party cares about”
• A disagreement in which parties involved perceive a threat to their needs, interests, concerns or
interpretations.
• Substantive conflict dissent over goals, resources, rewards, policies, procedures, and job assignments.
• Emotional conflict feelings of anger, distrust, dislike, fear and resentment, as well as relationship
problems
• In order to best understand the threat perceived by those engaged in a conflict, we need to consider all of
these dimensions
• Participants’ response is likely to be based on their perceptions of the situation, rather than an objective
review of it
• People filter their perceptions, and reactions, through their values, culture, beliefs, information, gender,
experience, and other such variables
• They are also, to a large degree, predictable and expectable situations that naturally arise as we continue
managing complex and stressful projects in which we are much involved
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• As such, if we develop procedures for identifying conflicts likely to arise, as well as systems through
which we can constructively manage conflicts, we may discover new openings to transform conflict into
a productive learning experience
• We need to transform the situation from one in which it is 'my way or the highway' into one in which we
find new possibilities which were elusive
• when we say “conflict”, most often the words that come to mind are all negative
• if properly managed, conflict can actually be a positive opportunity in the work place
• exploring the positive side of conflict begins with being aware of the different types of conflict you may
encounter at work
1. Open conflict
Occurs when people who have different interests demonstrate it with antagonistic behaviors
• This conflict is very visible and has deep roots, sometimes over several generations.
When people have different interests, but do not respond with antagonistic behavior
• It might need to be brought out into the open before it can be effectively addressed
3. False conflict
4. No conflict
• Though communities in this category are good at resolving conflict before it develops
• Claims that all forms of conflict hold harmful effects for an org.
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• Brought about by a lack of communication between the staff
• Argued that conflict was a natural occurrence in all groups and org.
• Acceptance of conflict
3. Interactionist View
• Because a completely cooperative, harmonious group of ‘yes-men’ may lead the organization into a
static, non-responsive entity
• Satisfy certain psychological needs like dominance, aggression, esteem and ego, and thereby provide an
opportunity for the constructive use and release of aggressive urges
• Facilitate an understanding of the problem, people and interrelationships between people, better co-
ordination among individuals and departments, in addition to strengthening intra group relationships
• Motivate and add variety to an individual’s organizational live; individual’s abilities and talents come to
the front in a conflict situation
• Provide diagnostic information generating cues for better management to prevent occurrence of similar
By comparison, acts as a barrier to the performance of the group and frustrates the objectives of the org.
• Conflicts may lead to work sabotage, morale problems, and consequent loss of productivity
• In a conflict situation people may promote their self-interests at the cost of others in the organization
• Intense conflicts over a prolonged period affect individuals emotionally and physically and give rise to
psychosomatic disorders
• Conflicts affect individual and organizational performance; resolving conflicts consumes a considerable
amount of managerial time and energy which could be spent more productively in the absence of
conflicts
• Task conflict relates to the content and goals of the work – functional Relationship conflict focuses on
interpersonal relationship-dysfunctional
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Topic 207 Types of Conflict
Interpersonal conflict refers to a conflict between two individuals.
• A natural occurrence, can eventually help in personal growth or developing relations with others.
Intrapersonal conflict
Occurs within an individual - the experience takes place in the person’s mind
Intragroup conflict
• Within a team, can be helpful in coming up with decisions which will eventually allow them to reach
their objectives as a team
Intergroup conflict
• Due to the varied sets of goals and interests of these different groups
• Or a rivalry in resources
• Or the boundaries set by a group to others which establishes their own identity as a team
o behavior and emotions of each party is directed toward maximizing its gain
2. Value conflict involves incompatibility in ideologies - the preferences, principles and practices that
people believe in
3. Power conflict when each party wishes to maintain or maximize the amount of influence that it exerts in
the relationship
Most conflicts are not of a pure type, but involve a mixture of sources; e.g. :
Union-management conflict typically involves economic competition, but may also take the form of a
power struggle and often involves different political values
• An individual firmly pursues own concerns despite the resistance of the other person
• May involve pushing one viewpoint at the expense of another or maintaining firm resistance to another
person’s actions.
Possible advantages
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• May provide a quick resolution to a conflict
Limitation
• May negatively affect your relationship with the opponent in the long run
Win-Win (Collaborating)
• Includes identifying the opponents’ concerns and finding jointly acceptable solution
Possible advantages
Limitations
• May require more effort and more time than some other method
Looks for an expedient and mutually acceptable solution which partially satisfies both parties
• For example, when the goals are moderately important and not worth the use of more assertive or more
involving approaches, such as forcing or collaborating
Possible advantages
Limitations
• May result in a situation where both parties are not satisfied with the outcome (a lose-lose situation)
• Accommodating the concerns of other people first of all, rather than one's own.
• When it is important to provide a temporary relief from the conflict or buy time until you are in a better
position to respond/push back
• The reaction people produce to excessive pressures or demands placed upon them - arises when they
worry that they cannot cope
• Body's reaction to a change that requires a physical, mental or emotional adjustment or response
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• Stress may be defined as "a state of psychological and / or physiological imbalance resulting from the
disparity between situational demand and the individual's ability and / or motivation to meet those
demands."
• Stress is often termed as a twentieth century syndrome, born out of man's race towards modern progress
and its ensuing complexities
• S=P>R
Stage 1: Alarm
Stage 2: Resistance
Stage 3: Exhaustion
Stage 1: Alarm
The “ Fight or Flight” response that prepares the body for immediate action
Stage 2: Resistance If
The source persists, the body prepares for long-term protection, secreting hormones to increase blood sugar
levels
• Common and not necessarily harmful, but must include periods of relaxation and rest to counterbalance
the stress response
Stage 3: Exhaustion If stressor continues beyond body’s capacity, organism exhausts resources (emotional,
physical and mental)
• It is our response to stress—how we manage stress—that makes a difference in terms of how it affects
us.
EUSTRESS
• nature: curative
DISTRESS
• Bad stress
• If a stimulus we react to is negative, we are actually feeling “distress” though we label it as stress. e. g.
death of a close friend
Acute stress
• Resulting from specific events or situations that involve novelty, a threat to ego, unpredictability, and
leave us with a poor sense of control
Chronic stress
It is a prolonged stress that exists for weeks, months, or even years – due to poverty, broken families
Organisational Climate: A high pressure environment which places chronic work demands on employees
fuels the stress response
Organisational Structure defines the levels of hierarchy, the degree of rules and regulations and where
decisions are made.
• Excessive rules and lack of participation in decisions are examples of structural variables that might be
potential stressors
Organisational Leadership represents the managerial style of the organisation’s senior executives
• Some chief executive officers create a culture characterised by tension, fear and anxiety
Organisational Changes when changes occur, people have to adapt to those changes and this may cause stress
Work Under-load: very little work, or too simple or repetitive work is done by the employee
• Doing less work or jobs of routine and simple nature would lead to state of monotony and boredom
Working Conditions: employees may be subject to poor working conditions – e.g. poor lighting and
ventilations, excessive noise and dust, etc.
• Unpleasant conditions create physiological and psychological imbalance in humans thereby causing
stress
Second-hand Stress
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• Workers who always appear rushed and busy increase the stress levels of almost everybody whom they
came in contact with throughout the day
Role Analysis Technique (RAT): helps both the manager and the employee to analyse the requirements and
expectations from the job
• Helps to eliminate reduction of work and thus lowers down the stress level
Delegation: can directly decrease workload upon the manager and help to reduce the stress6)
More Information & Help: helping inexperienced/ less-informed employees would lead to much efficient,
effective work
- To make the form, nature, content, future course etc. of something different from what it is or from what
it would be if left alone.
“A systematic approach to dealing with change, both from the perspective of an organization and on the
individual level”.
“To define and implement the procedures to deal with the changes and to profit from changes opportunities”.
• CM is the processes, tools and techniques for managing the people-side of change
• CM is a method for reducing and managing resistance to change when implementing process,
technology or organizational change
→ market conditions,
→ customer demands,
→ technologies,
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→ input costs and
→ competition
They must adapt to these shifting forces to avoid being swallowed up by other companies
Change management is managing the impact that these crucial adaptations can have on the people of an
organization
• The application of change management should never become so automatic and rote that it becomes
like a "recipe" of tasks
• the result may be that you learn the 'how' but not the 'why‘
• Lacking understanding of the 'why' behind your actions as a change manager, changes may fail even
when sound change management processes are followed
• A cook does exactly as the recipe calls for – follows steps – but does not know why the recipe works
• Changes in temperature and other variables can affect the results greatly
• A chef understands the chemistry of what is occurring, and knows the 'why' behind each element of
the recipe
• When variables change, chefs can adjust to create the outcome they want
• It is a mistake!
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• The possibility of losing what we have grown used to & comfortable with creates worry, anxiety and
fear.
• For effective change management shift from preventing and managing resistance to engaging employees
and building enthusiasm and passion around the change
• Accept resistance
• Enable mangers
• Individuals do not change just because they received an email or attended a training program
• When we experience change, we move from what we have known and done, through a period of
transition to arrive at a desired new way of behaving and doing our job.
• Breaking down the change into distinct phases allows you to better tailor your approach to ensure
employees successfully adopt the change
• The collection of processes, behaviors, tools, technologies, structures and job roles that constitute how
work is being done
• It may not be working great, but it is familiar and comfortable because we know what to expect.
• Productivity declines
• Requires us to accept new perspectives and learn new ways of behaving, while still keeping up our day-
to-day efforts running
• It is where we are trying to get to - often not fully defined, and can actually shift during our efforts
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• Can often be worrisome – it may not match our personal and professional goals, and there is a chance
that we may not be successful
❖ maintain momentum
• Identify the key stakeholders, groups, and individuals in the org. who must feel the need for
change
• To make the case for change, it is essential to talk about the need for change, the consequences
of not changing, and the ways to solve the problems
• Ensuring a sense of urgency among people is crucial to getting cooperation for change
o leadership skills,
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o credibility,
o communications ability,
o authority,
o a sense of urgency
o remember that one person cannot implement wide-scale change; a coalition is essential
o when building a guiding coalition, think whether they have the right mix of skills, knowledge,
and capabilities
• clarify how the future will be different from the past, and how you can make that future a reality
It is important that the guiding coalition be instrumental in the creation of the vision and strategy
• ensure that max others understand and accept the vision and strategy
• an environment must be established where concerns can be brought forward and discussed
without fear of retribution
• accept and plan for resistance – resisters help to clarify the issue
• systems or structures that undermine the change vision, and other obstacles to change, must be changed /
eliminated:
• encourage teamwork
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Step 6: Produce Short-Term Wins create some visible, unambiguous successes as soon as possible
• plan and create the wins – be sure to visibly recognize and reward people who made the wins
possible
• be relentless with instituting change after change until the vision becomes a reality
• you may have to change systems, structures, and policies that do not fit the transformation vision
• hire, promote, and develop people who can implement the change vision
• strengthen the process with new projects, themes, and change agents
Step 8: Create a New Culture hold onto the new ways of behaving and make sure they succeed until they
become a part of the very culture of the group
• it is only after people change their actions that there can be a change in culture
• sense of loss/confusion
Addressing mind-set
• build relationships
- The process by which organizations move from their present state to some desired future state to
increase their effectiveness.
- Aims to increase an organization’s ability to create value by finding better ways of using resources and
capabilities.
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Need for Change
Based on external or internal forces. Performance gap disparity between existing and desired performance
levels.
- Human resources
- Functional resources
- Technological capabilities
- Organizational capabilities
General Rule:
Changes include:
Functional resources
Changes Include:
- Transferring resources to the functions where the most value can be created in response to
environmental change.
- An organization can improve the value that its functions create by changing its structure, culture and
technology.
Change include:
Efforts aimed at giving an organization the capacity to change itself in order to exploit market opportunities.
Changing strategy.
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Evolutionary change:
Revolutionary change:
Evolutionary Change
Force field analysis a powerful strategic tool used to understand what is needed for change.
- Two sets of opposing forces within an organization determine how change will take place.
- Forces for change and forces against or resistant to change.
Topic 234
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Unfreeze preparing the organization to accept that change is necessary – involves breaking down the existing
status quo.
- Start at the core – challenge the beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors that currently define the
organization.
- Prepare compelling message why change?
Change people begin to resolve their uncertainty and look for new ways to do things – they start to believe and
act in ways that support the new direction.
- Ensure that changes are used all the time and are incorporated into everyday business with a new sense
of stability, employees feel comfortable with the new ways of working.
Pattern of shared values and beliefs that produce certain norms of behavior is called organizational culture.
For example, how things are done, for some, culture is considered the” glue” that holds an organization together
and for others, the “compass”.
It is a system of meaning that members share and that distinguish the organization from others dominant
cultures core values shared by the majority of organization’s members subcultures core values of the dominant
culture plus additional values unique to the members of the department/geography.
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3. Assumptions are deeply held beliefs that guide behaviors and tell members of an organization how to
perceive and think about the things.
Adhocracy oriented cultures are dynamic and entrepreneurial, with a focus on risk taking innovation and doing
things first.
Market oriented cultures are results oriented with a focus on competition, achievement and getting the things
done.
Hierarchy oriented cultures are structured and controlled with a focus on efficiency, stability and doing things
right.
Hierarchy and market focus on stability. Clan and Adhocracy focus on flexibility and adaptability.
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A hierarchy culture based on control will lead mainly to incremental change.
- For example: Which of these candidates should I select for the job?
Interpersonal issues----- it can be difficult to predict how other people will react.
1. Construct
2. Compile
3. Collect
4. Compare
5. Consider
6. Commit
- Decision makers do not always behave in an objective manner in the way they gather, evaluate, and
apply information in making their choices.
- People have biases that interfere with objective rationality.
- These are reflected in:
a) Illusion of control
People’s beliefs that they can influence events, even when they have no control over what will happen. Such
overconfidence in business may be tragic- decision makers ignore risks and fail to objectively evaluate the
odds of success.
b) Framing effects
Decision bias influenced by how the problem or decisions alternative is phrased or presented. For example,
course A had 70% chance of profit and course B 30% chance of loss- the choices were equivalent –
manager selected course A. (Bateman and Zeithaml)
A bias giving short term costs and benefits more weightage than longer term costs and benefits. For
example, many people would avoid going for dental check-up now even though condition may worsen in
future. Negative long term consequences.
Today’s fast business setting asks for acting quickly- slow decisions may become irrelevant. But fast
decisions may ignore caution, supress conflict and make decisions on one’s own without consulting other.
Speed-trap = dangerous
Social realities
Even the manager acting alone is accountable to the boss and to others and must consider the preferences
and reactions of many people.
Therefore, many decisions are the result of intensive social interactions, bargaining and politicking.
- More information is available when several people are involved in making the decision.
- Multiple perspectives to solve the problem are available.
- Group discussions offer intellectual simulation.
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Topic 246 Common Decision Making Errors
Hearing and seeing only what we want
- Each individual has their preferences or biases which gravitate them to certain information.
- Best way to deal with this issue is to identify your biases and preferences and to be open to the
information when making decision.
We often rely on certain individuals for information and support. Usually suitable – but if not closely involved
in the problem situation they may not have the necessary information or knowledge to help make decision.
Placing too little emphasis on the information you receive from others
Members of team are most closely involved in a problem situation and have the most pertinent info in relation
to the problem--- solution: involve team members in the decision making process.
On many occasions we are actually aware at a subconscious level of the correct course of action. Unfortunately,
we often tend to ignore our intuition. Intuition is useful in non-standard situations and in expedient decision
making.
“Meeting and exceeding the implied and stated needs of the customer”
Who is a customer?
(Also called client) is the recipient of a good, service, product, or idea, obtained from a seller, or supplier for
monetary or other consideration of value
• internal customer: other divisions of the company that receive the processed product
Customer satisfaction?
A measure of how products and services supplied by a company meet or surpass customer expectations
What is TQM?
• The integration of all functions and processes within an organization in order to achieve continuous
improvement of the quality of goods and services
Total
Quality
Management
• These supplier/ customer relationships should ensure a chain of quality throughout the organization
• It leads to continuously improving processes, technology, and people and machine capabilities in the
org.
• The key idea is that mistakes can be avoided and defects can be prevented
• Mistakes may be made by people, but most of them are caused, or at least permitted, by faulty systems
and processes.
• As such, root cause of such mistakes can be identified & eliminated, and errors prevented by changing
the process (Gilbert, 1992)
Major tools:
• i.e. org.’s history, its current needs, events that lead to TQM, and the existing quality of employee’s
working life
• If an org. has been historically reactive and has no skill at improving its operating systems, there will be
employee skepticism, and a lack of skilled change agents as well
• A management audit will identify current levels of org. functioning and areas to change
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• An organization should be basically healthy before beginning TQM
• If it has significant problems such as an unstable funding base, weak administrative systems, lack of
managerial skills, or poor employee morale, TQM would not be appropriate - Tichey’83
PLAN
• establish objectives
DO
STUDY
• identify gaps
ACT
• ISO describes the functions and the actions that you need to be able to have the minimum standard of
quality systems in place.
• ISO can be considered as a tool to implement TQM, and also has some requirements like strict
documentation for audit purposes.
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• You can easily monitor your records with ISO management system.
• TQM focuses on finding the best and maximum results, and how to get to them – it is a management
program based on quality – TQM does not require any kind of documentation.
• TQM more of a program, it helps you become involved in the whole process in the proper manner.
o educational management,
o conduct,
o operation, and
o is concerned with the efficiency and commitment that the available manpower puts together to help in
goal realization
o adopts practical measures to ensure the work system assists educational process, & meets with the set
goals and objectives
• So, there must always be a refreshing change in line with situation in the institution.
• Educational institutions must constantly identify and implement improvements in their setup –
procedures, curricula, new needs and technologies.
• Edu.admin.is not a thing of intellectual beauty but a hub of educational activities, where all excellent
ideas policies and practices fail, in absence of good administration.
• Stimulate: efficiency
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• Explore: new vistas
• Assist: ways to adopt results and diagnose, all the practices done in the field of education
Direction fixes the aims which are generally contained in the ‘Motto’ of the educational institution
• Supervision is doubly needed in teaching and learning i.e. supervision in material resources and human
resources
Take an analytical view, and then advise and stimulate new ways
• First observe the planned program, see the results of all those program, and weigh them wisely
• Promote new plans and see their feasibility for introduction in the task
Explore
• Explore if there is any set-back or room for improvement in the set program and plans
• It includes all types of activities that take place in the field of teaching-learning task
• Administration must first conceive all round development of education and then ensure the maximum
development
Tt ensures:
4. Communicating
• Includes all the means, both formal and informal, by which information is passed up, down, and across
the network of bosses, managers and staff
• Internal comm. is vital for relations and getting the job done – external is critical for survival
5. Coordinating
7. Decision making
8. Staffing
• Whole personnel function of bringing in and training the staff, and maintaining positive work conditions
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• Includes recruitment, dismissal, resignation, and retirement, staff health, safety and welfare, training,
salary and wages, etc.
• The manpower needs
In old authoritarian schools, where the school administrator was a dictator, the SA (School administrator) only
needed ability to inspire awe/fear in students and staff and all went well.
- SA needs to study their community thoroughly, learn its resources of wealth and deploy accordingly.
- Produce a continuous long term improvement programme.
- Exercise initiative to meet new needs.
Improvement of instruction
- It includes all permanent and semi permanent structures/educational facilities in the school used for the
achievement of all educational objectives: site, buildings, physical equipment, recreational spaces,
textbooks, etc. (Olchuckwu, 2002)
- Desirable levels of students’ academic performance may not be possible where instructional spaces such
as classrooms, libraries, technical workshops and laboratories are lacking or ill-planned. (Ajayi, 2007)
- SA to ensure that every possible opportunity is realized to have the physical plant contribute positively
to the approved educational process:
1. Planning plant facilities
2. Equipping the facilities
3. Utilizing and maintenance
- Administering meaning
- Administrating community
- Administering excellence
Administering meaning
- To provide opportunities to students to discover meaning in their world – the meaning of nature, of
human affairs and human relationships.
- Enabling them to learn beyond memorizing superficial knowledge for success at examinations.
Administering community
- To convert the traditional separation of the individual from the community into their essential union.
- Creating more chances for cooperative learning and teamwork to build learning organization.
- Management by commitment not control.
Administering excellence
- To promote and encourage high quality performance in school, not only in terms of productivity,
innovations or technical ability but more so in terms of the students’ character and to mold them to be
useful citizen and members of the society.
o is evaluative,
2. Normative (Managerial) refers to accountability, developing best practice principles, ethical and
legal considerations, compliance with organizational procedures and professional standards for the well-being
of the users/ clients
3. Restorative (Supportive) considers the impact of work on the supervisee and the necessary psychological
support required to offer professional support to the supervisee - this function can help lessen the stresses and
impacts of the work and promote supervisee’s well-being
• In some cases, every level of management gets involved in supervision and duplicates the function
• First, this leaves little time for managers to perform their own jobs, which are distinctly different, and
essential
• Second, when the org. feels the managerial activities are not being done, it adds additional levels of
management, increasing overhead costs
• Third, managers using up supervisors’ work denies supervisors learning by experience – cannot be
offset with training
• Study by Columbia University indicates that successful org. strengthens authority of first line
supervisors and expands their control
Mission workers
“The non-supervisory people who perform the work of their group – e.g. mission of accounting unit is to fulfill
accounting needs – those who do the actual account work are mission workers- accountants, etc”.
• They provide help or service, but do not do “the work” – e.g., staff assistant, secretary
Lead workers
“Those who have some supervisory responsibility but the assigned mission work load is so heavy it leaves very
little time for true supervision”.
Supervisors
• Unique responsibility
“Those who have supervisors and/ or other managers reporting directly to them”.
Staff Managers
“People who serve line managers with specialist advice, but have no mission workers,…etc.. reporting to them”.
Top executives
“Members of top management who have managers or supervisors reporting to them, plan the org.’s future,
figure how to acquire necessary resources and establish overall policy”.
• Having a personal service worker (such as a secretary) reporting to a person do not qualify that person
as a supervisor
• Only mission workers and lead workers reporting to a person will qualify the person as a supervisor
• Manager should be involved with resource management, anticipating the needs for tomorrow’s work,
and planning for tomorrow
• Org. does not perform as a team when these two positions get confused
• Supervisor plays very significant role, and fulfills three major responsibilities, as:
1) Head of workgroup
2) Coordinator with other supervisors
3) Management member
Ensures that the work gets done, free of errors, meets quality standards, & within budgeted costs:
• Equipment capacity?
3. Member of management
• As the mission workers look upwards into the org, they should see supervisor as denoting management –
the first management person to solve issues and guide