Assessing Leadership and Measuring Its Effects

Chapter4: Assessing Leadership and Measuring Its Effects

Presented by Mr. Hor ChanrothaCMU’s undergraduate program June 2010

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Discussion Questions

1. Why do we have good and bad leader?

2. Why is everything because of leader?

3. Why do good leaders are good problem solvers?

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Course Objectives1. Assessing Leadership

2. Measuring the Effects of Leadership

3. Methodologies Used to Study Leadership

4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership

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1. Assessing Leadership

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Putting the wrong people into key leadership positions can cost billions of dollars and lead organizational to ruin.

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1. Assessing Leadership

1. Commonly techniques

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• application blanks• reference checks • unstructured interviews

are also the least valid.

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2. Best Practices

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• Determine the leadership level of the position.• Build a competency model.• Use a multiple hurdles approach.

1. Assessing Leadership

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Competency model

Knowledge SkillsAbility

other relevant contributes

to success performance in a particular job

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Multiple Hurdles Approach

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1.2 Assessment Center SimulationsIn-Basket exercise

=> Work simulation that requires candidate to do actual “paperwork.”

Role-Play simulations

=> Actors are trained assessors who observe and rate the performance of each candidate.

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2. Measuring the Effects of Leadership

• Common Measures of Successful and Unsuccessful Leadership• Best Practices in Measuring Leadership Success

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Common Measures

Superiors’ effectiveness and performance ratings.

Subordinates’ ratings onsatisfaction, organizational climate, morale, motivation, and leadership effectiveness.

Unit performance indices.

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2.2 Best Practices in Measuring Leadership Success

o Ratings by superiors and subordinates

o Multiple measures

o How their behavior affects the measures used to judge leadership success

o Be aware of leadership success measures being biased.

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3. Methodologies Used to Study Leadership

The Qualitative ApproachThe most common qualitative

approach is the case study.Quantitative Approaches

Correlational studiesExperiments

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4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership

Maxims: personal opinions that can give valuable advice about leadership.

Theory: framework for conceptualizing relationships between variables

and guiding research toward a fuller understanding of phenomena.

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4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership

Theories: are central scientific research due to:

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=>Public predictions of how leadership variables are interrelated.=>The systematic gathering and analysis of data.=>Peer review of results.

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4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership

Maxims

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may represent valid advice, but they are ultimately no more than personal opinion.

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4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership

Only theories add to the body of knowledge concerning the science of leadership and help

the development of universal laws of

leadership.

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Maxims and theories are useful for understanding

leadership situations.

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The road to success is always under construction

You create your world by your thought. Buddha

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By our thought, we create our world, Buddha.

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The road to success is always under constructionR5: Decide what really want and willing to pay the price to make it happen R5: People do not lack strength, they lack will.

What does human can do?