Management_Leadership Reflection Questions:
Description:
FORMAT:
Definition (with reference)
Example:
Integrate the two, develop a line of thought/inquiry.
Include the word count after each answer [in here].
Approximately 150 words for each qns
1) Why might the promotion of leadership be controlling, manipulative or exploitative in organisations?
2) How might we research the relationship between leadership and management and what issues might that raise?
3) Grint argues that what constitutes leadership context is subjective and contested. What does this mean?
4) What other understanding of context can we gain through a discursive lens on leadership?
5) Has leadership really moved on from leadership style or are we stuck with these general descriptive terms?
6) What do you see as the shared principles of early contingency theories?
7) What is the key contribution of LMX theories to our understanding of leadership and what are its implications for leader effectiveness?
8) Why has distributed leadership gained ground in the literature over the last 10 years?
9) How might leadership be influenced by remote working and the virtual community?
10) What are resistance and resistance leadership?
11) How might we conceptualize ‘organisational becoming’?
12) What creative methods would you employ in a leadership development programme?
13) What is meant by taking a critical approach to a leadership development?
14) Critical leadership scholars argue that women are seen as the ‘Other’. What does this mean?
15) What can be described as a diversity dilemma and what solutions can we find to it?
References (at end of assignment – not part of the word limit)
Kotter, J.P. (1990) A force for change: How leadership differs from management. NY: The Free Press.