Case 4 Leadership
Learning goals:
1. What is leadership?
2. What are the characteristcs of a leader and which leadership styles can be identied?
3. What are the diferences between a manager and a leader?
4. What is the role of followers and followership?
5. Why is transformatonal leadership suitable in professional organizatons and healthcare?
6. What is the role of leadership in relaton to strategic management(Case1), Professionalism
and culture (Case 2), and organizatonal change (Case 3)?
7. Based on your understanding of the literature, what steps would you take to fulil your new
role as leader of the BCH?
1. What is leadership?
Learn about the main message. Pierce talks about 3 diferent deinitons. Describe it in your own
words.
Burns; chapter 2
Leadership= influencing a group of people towards the achieeement of a goal
Daft-Organizatonal behaeior
Leadership: An influence relatonship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that
reflect their shared purposes.
t- Influence means that the relatonship is not passiee.
t- The people ineoleed want substantee changes
t- Thus, leadership ineolees the influence of people to bring about change toward a desirable
future
Burke – Transformatonal leadership
Definition leadership: the act of making something happen that would not otherwise occur.
Leadership is diferent from management (see learning goal 3)
Leadership is associated with authority from below and within and less with authority from
aboee.
Leadership has more to do with the person and less to do with the role and positon
Leadership requires followership.
Pierce
Leadership is an interacton between two or more members of a group that ofen ineolees a
structuring or restructuring of the situaton and the perceptons and expectatons of the members.
Leadership as the process of influencing the moeement of a group toward the atainment of a
partcular outcome.
We belieee that leadership is a relatonship, a group phenomenon (i.e., sociological in nature)
ineoleing two or more people encompassing the exercise of influence in goal pursuit.
, FINAL deiniton:
a sociological phenomenon (a process) ineoleing the intentonal exercise of influence exercised by
one person oeer one or more other indieiduals, in an efort to guide acteites toward the atainment
o The leader is the person who takes charge and guides the performance or acteity.
o The follower(s) is the indieidual or group of people who perform under the guidance
and instructons of a leader
o The context is the situaton – formal or informal, social or work, dynamic or statc,
emergency or routne, complex or simple, and so on – surrounding a leadert-follower
relatonship
o The process reflects that which is embedded in the act of leadership. Process is
multdimensional in nature and consists of leading and following, as well as the
assumpton and surrender of power to deine the situraton, the proeision of
guidance toward goal atainment, exchanges, the building of relatonships and so on
2. What are the characteristcs of a leader and which leadership styles can be identied?
Trait theories, behaeioral theories, contngency theories
Characteristics of leader efectiteness
Daft-Organizatonal behaeior
The trait approach
Traits are the distnguishing characteristcs of a leader (appearance, selft-conidence)
Leadership is not a genetc endowment, that is, leaders are made not born.
In general, research has found only a weak relatonship between personal traits and leader
success.
The dieersity of traits that efectee leaders possess indicates that leadership ability is not
necessarily a genetc endowment. Howeeer, it is likely that some traits are associated with
efectee leadership.
Physical characteristcs Intelligence and ability
Learning goals:
1. What is leadership?
2. What are the characteristcs of a leader and which leadership styles can be identied?
3. What are the diferences between a manager and a leader?
4. What is the role of followers and followership?
5. Why is transformatonal leadership suitable in professional organizatons and healthcare?
6. What is the role of leadership in relaton to strategic management(Case1), Professionalism
and culture (Case 2), and organizatonal change (Case 3)?
7. Based on your understanding of the literature, what steps would you take to fulil your new
role as leader of the BCH?
1. What is leadership?
Learn about the main message. Pierce talks about 3 diferent deinitons. Describe it in your own
words.
Burns; chapter 2
Leadership= influencing a group of people towards the achieeement of a goal
Daft-Organizatonal behaeior
Leadership: An influence relatonship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that
reflect their shared purposes.
t- Influence means that the relatonship is not passiee.
t- The people ineoleed want substantee changes
t- Thus, leadership ineolees the influence of people to bring about change toward a desirable
future
Burke – Transformatonal leadership
Definition leadership: the act of making something happen that would not otherwise occur.
Leadership is diferent from management (see learning goal 3)
Leadership is associated with authority from below and within and less with authority from
aboee.
Leadership has more to do with the person and less to do with the role and positon
Leadership requires followership.
Pierce
Leadership is an interacton between two or more members of a group that ofen ineolees a
structuring or restructuring of the situaton and the perceptons and expectatons of the members.
Leadership as the process of influencing the moeement of a group toward the atainment of a
partcular outcome.
We belieee that leadership is a relatonship, a group phenomenon (i.e., sociological in nature)
ineoleing two or more people encompassing the exercise of influence in goal pursuit.
, FINAL deiniton:
a sociological phenomenon (a process) ineoleing the intentonal exercise of influence exercised by
one person oeer one or more other indieiduals, in an efort to guide acteites toward the atainment
o The leader is the person who takes charge and guides the performance or acteity.
o The follower(s) is the indieidual or group of people who perform under the guidance
and instructons of a leader
o The context is the situaton – formal or informal, social or work, dynamic or statc,
emergency or routne, complex or simple, and so on – surrounding a leadert-follower
relatonship
o The process reflects that which is embedded in the act of leadership. Process is
multdimensional in nature and consists of leading and following, as well as the
assumpton and surrender of power to deine the situraton, the proeision of
guidance toward goal atainment, exchanges, the building of relatonships and so on
2. What are the characteristcs of a leader and which leadership styles can be identied?
Trait theories, behaeioral theories, contngency theories
Characteristics of leader efectiteness
Daft-Organizatonal behaeior
The trait approach
Traits are the distnguishing characteristcs of a leader (appearance, selft-conidence)
Leadership is not a genetc endowment, that is, leaders are made not born.
In general, research has found only a weak relatonship between personal traits and leader
success.
The dieersity of traits that efectee leaders possess indicates that leadership ability is not
necessarily a genetc endowment. Howeeer, it is likely that some traits are associated with
efectee leadership.
Physical characteristcs Intelligence and ability
