Leaders Develop Leaders

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BUSINESS DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY

• Leaders Develop Leaders
• Exploring the Role of Line Managers Human
  Resource Systems

Afroditi Dalakoura Ph.D. Candidate Supervisor
Professor D. Bourantas
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Some Leadership Theory Controversial Issues
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• Not defining leadership seems to be an accepted
  practice among scholars who discuss leadership
  (Barker, 1997 Rost, 1991)
• If we know all too much about our leaders, we
  know far too little about leadership (Burns,
  1978)
• Most authors are unaware of their reliance upon a
  very old paradigm of leadership that is beginning
  to conflict with the realities of the modern
  world (Barker, 1997)

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An Overview of Leadership Theory
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• Leadership as an ABILITY
• Initially, leadership was explained by the
  internal qualities with which a person is born,
  e.g. personality, physical and mental
  characteristics.
• A second major thrust looked at leader behaviors,
  in an attempt to determine what successful
  leaders do.
• A third approach dealt with the interaction
  between the leaders traits, the leaders
  behaviors, and the situation in which the leader
  exists.

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An Overview of Leadership Theory (continued)
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• Leadership as a RELATIONSHIP
• Later on, another approach deals with an analysis
  of the people who are led by leaders. The
  importance of the followers in leadership is
  emerging (House and Mitchell, 1974), and
  leadership is seen as an interaction between the
  goals of the followers and the leader
• The broad and varied body of work on leadership
  suggests that there are many appropriate ways to
  lead. For optimal success, both the leaders
  style and situation can be evaluated, along with
  characteristics of the followers (Horner, 1997)

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An Overview of Leadership Theory (continued)
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• Leadership as a PROCESS
• The most current theory on leadership looks at
  leadership as a social process that happens with
  group of people who are engaged in an activity
  together (Drath and Palus, 1994)
• Everyone involved in the activity is assumed to
  play an active role in leadership (Horner, 1997).
  
• Since every employee must be motivated and
  committed to reaching organizational goals, not
  just leaders, leadership takes on a different
  role.

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Some Current Consideration Issues
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• The entire workforce, from front-line employees
  to CEO, is being called upon more and more to
  provide ideas, make decisions and respond to
  changes. These changes require an equally drastic
  change in how the leadership of organizations is
  assessed, conducted and learned.
• The companies that win will be those that build
  or maintain a steady focus on developing leaders
  at all levels of the company (Tichy, 1997)
• Instead of focusing leadership development almost
  exclusively on training individuals to be
  leaders, leaders may learn to develop leadership
  by improving everyones ability to participate in
  the process of leadership. This would require
  research to help us understand what roles,
  behaviors, and capabilities are involved in
  leadership as a social process (Barker, 1997)

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Areas of Research Interest
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• Leadership Culture
• Leaders Develop Leaders
• Leadership Effectiveness
• DO and DONTs of Effective Leaders
• Leadership Roles
• Emphasis on the role of TEACHER

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Research Methodology
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• Qualitative research
• Quantitative research
• Questionnaire for HR MANAGERS
• Questionnaire for LINE MANAGERS
  (3 managers/organization)

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Research Timetable
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