After reading the articles illustrated below, I want assistance in understanding the relationship of leadership to the politics of the organization. With this in mind, please be sure to address the following issues, along with presenting any other ideas about this concept that you find interesting to assist me with this problem such as:
1. Your assessment of the practicality of Dr. Kennedy's advice. (please be specific in your references)
2. Any things that have changed, for better or worse, in the last ten years, from her article until now.
3. Anything about her medical context that makes it problematical trying to apply her ideas in other related organization/s
4. Your overall thoughts on the management of power in social relationships, and the balance of personal vs. organizational responsibility for doing this management (please note - I'm not looking for a "one right answer" here because there isn't one), but please just back up your argument with facts (if you can think of any).
5. What, if anything, does thinking about an "organization as a political system" add to thinking about an "organization as a machine", an "organization as an organism", an "organization as a brain", and an "organization as a culture"?
The case for this module calls for you to look at an exercise in "leadership" and then analyze it in terms of its context, its execution, and its consequences. As we noted in the introduction to the module, leadership is not often considered to be a political problem, but it certainly makes sense to consider it in this context, since the political environment of the organization constitutes the critical background within which any leader's efforts must be conducted. Leadership is a political effort, and mobilizes in its service all the formal and informal resources available to those charged with it. For elaboration on these observations, please see:
Leadership and organizational politics. ALAGSE. https://www.alagse.com/leadership/l3.php
In order to place this within a larger political context, however, is most useful for you to start by reviewing this excellent summary of issues in organizational politics:
Wilf Ratzburg, Defining Organizational Politics [Obnotes.Htm: available at
https://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1650/htmlpolitc01.html]
You're going to need access to some of the vocabulary of leadership analysis, both for this case and for your future work. The following is an adequate general summary, cast in a largely nonacademic frame but still reflecting the academic analysis of leadership. (The optional readings and supplementary material contain considerable additional supporting material on leadership analysis if you would like to dig further into this aspect of the case.)
Clark, D. (N.D.) Leadership Styles. https://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadstl.html
Marilyn Moats Kennedy in 1998 published "The new rules of leadership and organizational politics - In the Trenches" in Physician Executive
(https://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0843/is_1_24/ai_102286818
(Please note I only read Marilyn Moats Kennedy in 1998 published “The new rules of leadership and organizational politics article and leadership and organizational politics, ALAGSE, listed above)