Organizational Leadership Overview

Organizational Leadership

• Learning Outcomes: Explain organizational leadership, distinguish leadership from management, explain situational leadership and servant leadership, and discuss sustaining change in organizations.
• Key Roles: Teachers (CPD – Promotion), School Heads, Classroom Managers
• Leaders' Role: Set strategic goals for the organization, motivate teachers, parents, learners, and non-teaching personnel to achieve school goals
• Organizational Leadership Defined: An attitude and work ethic that empowers individuals to lead from any position within an organization (e.g., teacher leadership).
• Leadership vs. Management: A table comparing managers and leaders:
  • Managers: Administer, work-focused, have subordinates, do things right
  • Leaders: Innovate, people-focused, have followers, do the right thing
• Key Skills for Leaders:
  • Technical skills
  • Human skills
  • Conceptual skills
• Leadership Styles:
  • Autocratic: Decision-making by the leader, meetings don't necessarily involve stakeholder approval
  • Democratic: Members fully participate in decision-making leading to consensus
  • Laissez-faire: Avoidance of responsibility, allowing members to manage their own work (kanya-kanya mentality)
  • Consultative

Situational Leadership Model

• Leadership style adapts to the readiness and willingness of group members
• Paul Hersey and Kenneth H. Blanchard (1996) model:
  • S1 (Selling/Directing): high task/low relationship.
  • S2 (Telling/Coaching): high task/moderate relationship.
  • S3 (Participating/Supporting): moderate task/high relationship.
  • S4 (Delegating): low task/low relationship.

Servant Leadership

• Robert K. Greenleaf (1977)
• Servant's feeling
• public servants" are a part of this.

Transformational Leadership

• Robert Kennedy
• Not content with the status quo
• Positive changes are a focus

Sustaining Change

• Reforms to transform, innovations introduced by the transformational leader must be institutionalized and sustained:
  • Seek stakeholder support
  • Involve people early and often
  • Plan a communications campaign to sell the innovation
  • Ensure the innovation is understood by all
  • Consider timing and phasing aspects of change

This quiz covers the essential aspects of organizational leadership, including the distinctions between leadership and management. Learn about key leadership styles, skills necessary for effective leadership, and strategies for sustaining change within organizations. Ideal for teachers, school heads, and classroom managers.