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Assessing Leadership and MeasuringIts Effects
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Matakuliah : L0244 – Psikologi KepemimpinanTahun : 2010
Practice-Research Gap• The gap between what researchers know about
predicting and evaluating leadership effectiveness and the techniques actually used by organizations to hire, evaluate, and promote leaders.
• This gap has a profound impact on the quality of people in leadership positions today.
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Managerial Incompetence• Despite the pervasiveness of leadership, the base rate of
managerial incompetence may be somewhere between 50 – 75 percent.
• The Dr Gordy test is one way to determine the level of incompetence among leaders.
• Effective leaders are individuals who are good at building teams and getting results.
• Most people in leadership positions get paid to get results, and they get results by building teams.
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Managerial Incompetence (continued)
• Managers can be categorized as being:– Competent Managers– Results Only Managers– Cheerleaders– In Name Only Managers
• Research shows that organizations having higher number of Competent Managers occupying critical positions are more successful than those without.
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Need for Leadership Talent Management
• The biggest source of worry for organizations anywhere is the lack of high quality leadership talent.
• Three critical ingredients most looked for in persons in positions of authority include:– Problem solving and sound decision making abilities.– Local/functional know-how.– Ability to get things done through others.
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Need for Leadership Talent Management
(continued)• Several factors contribute to the shortfall in managerial
incompetence:– Demographics– Lack of employee loyalty– Lack of good systems to identify and develop leadership talent– Technology
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Leadership Talent Management
• Leadership talent management system: Consists of those processes and procedures organizations use to hire, develop, evaluate, reward, promote, and retain its leaders.
• Research has shown that good talent management systems can have a profound impact on organizational effectiveness and success.
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Steps Involved in Leadership Talent Management (continued)
• Clarify the organization’s strategy for the future.• Identify what are or will be the critical leadership positions
in the organization.• Develop a competency model for the critical leadership
positions.• Ensure the organization’s recruiting and selection processes
are identifying, hiring, developing, rewarding, and promoting the right candidates.
• Adopt valid and well-researched processes for hiring, developing, and promoting leadership talent.
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Assessing Leadership Potential• It is fundamentally concerned with predicting who
will or will not be an effective leader before they have been placed into a position.– Accurately predicting managerial effectiveness is critically
important but not at all straightforward.• Research has systematically determined which
leadership assessment techniques yield more valid and accurate predictions than other techniques.
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Typical Correlations between Different Assessment Techniques and Job Performance in the United States
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Best Practices in Assessing Leadership Potential
• Research shows that by developing a competency model, one can clearly define the skills and attributes required in the right candidate.
• The best candidate would be the person with the most, if not all, of those skills and attributes.
• The multiple hurdles approach is the most cost-effective and valid way to identify the best candidate from the applicant pool.
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Multiple Hurdles Approach (continued)
• Use most inexpensive assessment techniques first.• Use Internet or paper-and-pencil measures of leadership
potential.• Interview the remaining talent pool.
– Structured interviews– Unstructured interviews
• Put the top three candidates through an assessment center.– In-Basket exercises– Role plays
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Making Sense of the Process• Many times, having a clearly defined competency
model, a biographical form, and structural interview questions linked to the model will suffice.
• Research is the only way to determine which assessment techniques are the most valid for which leadership positions.
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Measuring the Effects of Leadership• Just as various techniques are used to assess leaders, there
are also various ways to measure their effects on subordinates and organizations.– When judging, the consequences of leader behaviors are
examined, than the behaviors per se.• Commonly used measures to judge successful and
unsuccessful leaders include:– Superiors’ effectiveness and performance ratings– Subordinates’ ratings of their job satisfaction and morale or of
their leader’s effectiveness– Unit performance indices
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Best Practices in Measuring Leadership Success• Ratings by superiors and subordinates generally yield useful
information about a leader’s effectiveness.• Multiple measures often yield the best information about
leadership success.• Practitioners need to think critically about how their behavior
affects the measures used to judge leadership success.• Practitioners need to be aware of leadership success
measures being biased.
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Methodologies Used to Study Leadership• Qualitative Approach
– Case study: In-depth analysis of a leader’s activities.• Quantitative Approaches
– Correlational studies: Used to determine statistical relationship between leader qualities and various measures of leadership effectiveness.
• Correlation coefficient• Casual inferences
– Experiments: Generally consist of both:• Independent variables• Dependent variables
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Maxims and Theories of Leadership• Maxims: Personal opinions that can give leaders valuable
advice about leadership.• Theory: Framework for conceptualizing relationships
between variables and guiding research toward a fuller understanding of phenomena.
• Theories are central to scientific research because:– Public predictions of how leadership variables are interrelated.– The systematic gathering and analysis of data.– Peer review of results.
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Summary• Leadership is the most important topic in the world today.• Leadership talent management systems helps organizations
minimize crisis of insufficient effective leaders.• Various techniques exist for organizations to assess leadership
potential and performance.• Quantitative and qualitative approaches are used to study linkages
between leadership potential and performance measures.• Maxims may represent valid advice, but they are ultimately no more
than personal opinion.• Theories are a collection of testable predictions about the
relationships between certain variables.
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