Leadership approach

The above are examples of early application of the new genre of leadership theory in selection. However, since selection procedures require serious legal considerations, the application of findings from recent research to selection is relatively slow. However, recent leadership approaches may provide insights for other recruiting-related functions, such as mentoring. 

If, however, you are confronted with behavior-driven change, Kotter s transformational leadership approaches will not necessarily work. Indeed, as extensively discussed in Smith (1996), study after study shows that up to four out of five change efforts either fail or seriously suboptimize. And the root cause of these failures lie in leaders who follow decision-driven approaches like those suggested by Kotter when, in fact, they face behavior-driven change. 

It is important to recognize that new leadership approaches also are required. Deborah Ancona s research work on successful enterprise teams (dubbed X-Teams) indicates that a distributed (versus hierarchical) leadership model is particularly effective in these complex environments (Ancona and Bresman, 2007). That leadership must permeate all levels of the organization. X-Teams also projected upwards... 

McGregor s book The Human Side of Enterprise was published in 1960. His view was that the leadership approach managers took was based on assumptions they made about the people they managed. McGregor grouped possible assumptions in what he called Theory X and Theory Y categories. 

Roughton, James, Safety Culture An Innovative leadership Approach, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 2013. 

This book proposes a movement towards collaborative and shared leadership approaches. It views OSH and performance excellence as entailing a broader examination of leadership relationships and practices. The complexity of leadership is explored through the impact that contexts (e.g. national and organizational culture) may have on leaders. Different views on bottom-up and top-down processes are integrated. 

Developing an Effective Safety Culture A Leadership Approach... 

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