Organizational Leadership and Context

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Organizational Leadership and Context

• Lecture
• TMGT 461
• Spring/2004

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Leadership

• A group phenomenon
• Goal directed influence
• Assumes hierarchy
• EFFECTIVENESS Outcomes plus
• Internal Stability and External Adaptability

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Leadership and Culture

• Culture involves commonly held values
• Sets of norms, customs, values, assumptions that
  guide behaviour
• 3 levels of culture
• National
• Ethnic or Group
• Organizational

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Do Different Sectors of Our Field have Different
Cultures?

• Private
• Commercial
• Non-commercial
• Public
• Not-for-Profit

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The Context of Public Leadership

• Effectiveness is predicated on an understanding
  of politics and the political process as well as
  ability to lead in a political context
• Canadian political system gives differing roles
  to elected official and the bureaucracy
• Dichotomy and Discretion

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Cabinet Council Politics

• Budget constraints
• Ability to set the agenda
• Political appointments
• Directional controls

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Interest Group Politics

• Well entrenched
• Return of the spoils system
• PACs
• Lobbyists

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Media and Proxy Politics

• Media Politics
• More influence
• TV personality politics
• Government by Proxy
• Contracts
• Grants
• regulation

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Leading Public Agencies in a Political Context

• Skeletal legislation
• Co-alignment of goals
• Legislatively grounded
• Bargaining and negotiating
• Shared expertise

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Creating and Maintaining an Organizational
Cultureie. LEADING

• Choosing Key elements you wish to establish
• Sharing your vision/ Crafting the ideal
• Rewarding (Structure Maintenance)
• Attending to Big Little things
• Modeling Ideals