SHN169 – Leadership & Role Modelling
Role-modelling and leading by example
Leadership Styles Continued
Contemporary Leadership Styles
Recap – Making Sense of Theories
o Theories that focus on the personal qualities or personality of the leader as
an individual
o Theories relating to the interaction of the leader with others
o Theories which seek to explain leadership behaviours in relation to the
environment or system
Personal Qualities or Personality
Great man’ theories
o position, heredity, religion
o ‘Heroic leader’
Trait theory – qualities of a leader
Servant leadership –to serve first
Authentic, fallible, value led,
affective (emotional labour)
Wise leader
Servant leadership –to serve first
Putting others first
Compliments democratic leadership style
Similar to transformational style
What are the behaviours of Servant Leaders?
o Support
o Safety
o Protection
Examples:
o Mother Teressa
o Nelson Mandela
o George Washington
o Ghandi
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH_RAMXxPQ
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, SHN169 – Leadership & Role Modelling
Authentic Leadership
Luthans and Avolio (2003) defined authentic leadership as: "a process that draws
from both positive psychological capacities and a highly developed organizational
context, which results in both greater self-awareness and self-regulated positive
behaviours on the part of leaders and associates, fostering positive self-
development" (p. 243).
“to thine own self be true” Zielinska, 2012,p.1
Example:
o Barrack Obama – demonstrated his emotions 7 times in public (most
memorably in Twenty children, aged between six and seven years old, and six
teachers were shot dead by Adam Lanza in 2012 at Sandy Hook elementary
school).
Real
o Idea that the person you present to the world is the person you are in
private
Openness
Values – family, work ethic, respect (self/others), making a difference – positive
impact
Foster trust
Vulnerability - It is not about being perfect; Making mistakes is a part of learning.
An authentic leader is not afraid of failure.
o
See - Wright, R. (2015). It's messy being authentic - lessons learned on the road
to becoming an authentic leader. Strategic HR Review, 14(3), 79-84. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/SHR-03-2015-0024
Interaction of Leader with Others
Transactional leadership
Emotional intelligence
Situational leadership
Leadership Styles
Team working
Relational
Followership
Power relations, authority
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Role-modelling and leading by example
Leadership Styles Continued
Contemporary Leadership Styles
Recap – Making Sense of Theories
o Theories that focus on the personal qualities or personality of the leader as
an individual
o Theories relating to the interaction of the leader with others
o Theories which seek to explain leadership behaviours in relation to the
environment or system
Personal Qualities or Personality
Great man’ theories
o position, heredity, religion
o ‘Heroic leader’
Trait theory – qualities of a leader
Servant leadership –to serve first
Authentic, fallible, value led,
affective (emotional labour)
Wise leader
Servant leadership –to serve first
Putting others first
Compliments democratic leadership style
Similar to transformational style
What are the behaviours of Servant Leaders?
o Support
o Safety
o Protection
Examples:
o Mother Teressa
o Nelson Mandela
o George Washington
o Ghandi
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnH_RAMXxPQ
1
, SHN169 – Leadership & Role Modelling
Authentic Leadership
Luthans and Avolio (2003) defined authentic leadership as: "a process that draws
from both positive psychological capacities and a highly developed organizational
context, which results in both greater self-awareness and self-regulated positive
behaviours on the part of leaders and associates, fostering positive self-
development" (p. 243).
“to thine own self be true” Zielinska, 2012,p.1
Example:
o Barrack Obama – demonstrated his emotions 7 times in public (most
memorably in Twenty children, aged between six and seven years old, and six
teachers were shot dead by Adam Lanza in 2012 at Sandy Hook elementary
school).
Real
o Idea that the person you present to the world is the person you are in
private
Openness
Values – family, work ethic, respect (self/others), making a difference – positive
impact
Foster trust
Vulnerability - It is not about being perfect; Making mistakes is a part of learning.
An authentic leader is not afraid of failure.
o
See - Wright, R. (2015). It's messy being authentic - lessons learned on the road
to becoming an authentic leader. Strategic HR Review, 14(3), 79-84. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/SHR-03-2015-0024
Interaction of Leader with Others
Transactional leadership
Emotional intelligence
Situational leadership
Leadership Styles
Team working
Relational
Followership
Power relations, authority
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