Organizational Behaviour Write in your own words. Do Leaders make a difference?

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Organizational Behaviour

Write in your own words.

Do Leaders make a difference?

* Complete the "Do Leaders make a difference?" self-assesment exercise (in the pictures below)

* Interpret your score, then discuss your results in 2 or 3 paragraphs (very important, please follow instructions for a good rate)

Scoring key on pages B-13 and B-14 (in the pictures)

Scoring Keys:

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elf-Assessment: DO LEADERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Purpose This assessment is designed to help you to assess your beliefs about the influence of leaders. Instructions Read each of the statements below and circle the response that best indicates your personal belief about that statement. Then use the scoring key in Appendix B to calculate the results for each leadership dimension. After completing this assessment, be prepared to discuss in class the relevance and level of implicit leadership theory Romance of Leadership Scale Strongly Strongly Agree Neutral DisagreeDisagree To what extent do you agree or disagree that. . . gree 1. Even in an economic recession, a good leader can prevent a company from doing poorly 2. The quallty of leadershlp is the single most Important Influence on how well the organizatlon functions 3. The CEO and executive team have relatively little effect on the company's success or failure 4. Sooner or later, bad leadership at the top will result in declining organizational performance 5. The effect of a company's leaders on organizational performance is fairly weak 6. A company is only as good or as bad as its leaders 7. Even the best leaders can't help an organization very much when the econ- omy is bad or competition is tough 8. It is impossible for an organization to do well when its leaders are average 9. Compared with the economy, competitlon, and other external forces, leaders have only a small Influence on a firm's performance 10. The company's top executives have the power to make or break the organization Source: This instrument is adapted and condensed from B. Schyns. J. R. Meindl, and M. A. Croon. "The Romance of Leadership Scale: Cross-cultural Testing and Refinement." Leadership 3, no. 1 (2007): 2916.

Explanation / Answer

1. Organisational behaviour:

- As the name indicates, the OB concept is based on the behaviour of the people in the organization

- It can either be individual behaviour or group behaviour

- this helps in building an efficient organisation

- the are many OB theories developed which talks about the employee behaviour and once identified then how to handle these diferent kinds of behaviour

2. Leaders make a difference:

- this assessment talks about the effectiveness of a leader in an organisation

- they have asked the student to complete the self assessment part

- they have also provided the means on how to calculate the scores

- hence I would be helping with all the three scores result discussion

- the students may use whatever bucket he or she falls in.

3. Result discussion:

Romance of leadership constitutes of:

- high leadership skills

- a person who could change the organisation for its good

- a person who could handle the team excellently

- finally a best leader in the organisation who guides the team members and looks into their growth and development

- this in turn would increase the productivity

- the brand image of the company would be held high.

a. 38 to 50- above average romance of leadership:

- these are people with excellent leadership skills

- they would be in the wanted list of all organisation

- they would remain as role models

B.27 to 37- average romance of leadership

- for these kinds of leaders there is always a scope for development

- even though they guide well they lack in few qualities

- hence training would be the best option to improve their skills

10 to 26- below average romance of leadership

- These kinds of leaders have lot of scope for development

- the lack being effective leader

- organisation need to think twice before hiring them

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