MGT-560: Leadership Development Module 11: Adaptive Leadership

Module 11: IntroductionAttached Files:

Chapter 11 PowerPoint Slides (244.319 KB)

In this module, you will explore the theory and model of adaptive leadership, which is utilized by scores of managers and organizations to ensure they create and maintain an organization that can adjust to an ever-changing economic and societal environment. This environment requires organizations to be nimble and flexible, attributes that those who study adaptive leadership become well informed about, and then utilize these attributes to create a more malleable organization.

Learning Outcomes

Examine the role of adaptive leadership and authentic leadership in an organization.

Assess how adaptive leadership facilitates a positive response of employees in changing environments.

ReadingsRequired:

Leadership: Theory and PracticeChapter 11: Adaptive Leadership

Yaghi, A. (2017).

Adaptive organizational leadership style: Contextualizing transformation leadership in a non-western country

.International Journal of Public Leadership, 13(4), 243-259.

Recommended:

Chapter 11 PowerPoint Slides – Leadership: Theory and Practice

Alshuaibi, A. (2017).

Technology as an important role in the implementation of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030

. International Journal of Business, Humanities, and Technology, 7(2), 52-62. Retrieved from

http://www.ijbhtnet.com/journals/Vol_7_No_2_June_2017/5.pdf

Module 11: Discussion

Adaptive Leadership

Throughout this course we have conversed about leadership—particularly its importance and uses within an organization. One aspect of leadership that is becoming increasingly relevant is adaptive leadership, mainly because of the ever-changing world in which we live.In the following discussion question, compare and contrast one theory of leadership with the theory of adaptive leadership. Then select one model of adaptive leadership (e.g., situational challenges, leader behaviors, and adaptive work) and showcase how that model can be utilized to address—and potentially resolve—an issue or problem with in your organization, or one you are aware of in Saudi Arabia.

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Chapter 11: Adaptive Leadership
Description (1 of 5)
• Adaptations.
• Behaviors in relation to followers.
• Most writing prescriptive.
• Leader assists people with problems.
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Adaptive Leadership Defined (1 of 2).
• Follower centered.
• Adaptive leadership.
• Directive activities.
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Adaptive Leadership Defined (2 of 2).
• Ideas from four perspectives.
• Element of complexity leadership theory.
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TABLE 11.1 Adaptive Leadership in Practice
Adaptive leaders mobilize, motivate, organize, orient, and focus the attention
of others to address and resolve changes that are central in their lives. These
are some examples of cases where adaptive leadership would be beneficial:
Student Organization
You are the president of Women in Business, a student organization at a
large public university whose mission is to prepare women for successful
careers in business. Some members have expressed that issues affecting
transwomen should be discussed and explored; other group members are
not interested in adding this to the focus of the group. As the president, you
must guide the group to reach a resolution.
Company Merger
A midsize, family-owned paper company merges with another similar paper
company. The merger creates tensions between the employees regarding
job titles and duties, different wage schedules, overtime, and vacation pay.
The new owners must bring these two groups of employees together to
have the company function successfully.
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Merit Pay
In an established engineering company, a small group of young, highachieving
engineers wants to change the way merit pay is given by
removing seniority and years of service as part of the criteria. Long-time
employees are resisting the change. The management must find a way to
address this issue without alienating either group.
Health and Safety
You are mayor of a moderate-sized city that is home to a large prison where
over 600 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19. The number of new
cases in the city is rising sharply. Sheltering in place and wearing masks has
been found to be the only way to curtail and control the virus’s spread, but
a large majority of city residents think the problem is the prison’s and refuse
to obey your recent orders to close all businesses in the city.
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Situational Challenges: Technical
Challenges.
• Technical challenges.
• Leader’s responsibility.
• Key factors involved.
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Situational Challenges: Technical and
Adaptive Challenges.
• Clearly defined.
• No distinct, straightforward solutions.
• Solutions shared by leader and
people.
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Situational Challenges: Adaptive
Challenges.
• Adaptive challenges.
• Beyond realm of leader or organizational
solutions.
• Resistance.
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Leader Behaviors (1 of 3).
• Six pivotal leader behaviors.
– Get on the balcony.
– Identify the adaptive challenge.
– Regulate distress.
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Leader Behaviors (2 of 3).
– Maintain disciplined attention.
– Give work back to people.
– Protect leadership voices from below.
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Leader Behaviors (3 of 3).
• Archetypes of behaviors.
• Maintaining productive stress levels.
• Managing uncertainty and distress.
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Adaptive Work.
• Adaptive work.
• Holding environment.
• Followers.
• Leaders interact with people.
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How Does Adaptive Leadership
Work? (1 of 3)
• Complex multidimensional process.
• Adaptive leadership processes.
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How Does Adaptive Leadership Work?
(2 of 3)
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How Does Adaptive Leadership
Work? (3 of 3)
• Coronavirus pandemic’s need for adaptive
leadership.
– Decisions based on available data.
– Identify which interventions work best.
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Strengths (1 of 2)
• Process approach.
• Unique follower-centered approach.
• Deals with conflicting values.
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Strengths (2 of 2)
• Useful, direct, practical.
• Value of prescriptive approach.
• Holding environment.
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Criticisms (1 of 2)
• Lacks empirical research.
• Needs refinement.
• Overly wide-ranging and abstract.
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Criticisms (2 of 2)
• Uncomfortable for followers.
• Unclear moral dimension.
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Application (1 of 2)
• Provides conceptual framework to
individual leaders.
– Widely applicable.
• Model for organizations’ challenges.
– Widely applicable.
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Application (2 of 2)
• Widely researched in healthcare.
– Focus on efficient, patient-centered,
sustainable healthcare.
– Useful with patient and family member
challenges.
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