4.1 Values-Based and Contemporary Approaches to Leadership
What’s in It for Me?
Reading this chapter will help you do the following:
- Analyze the context for contemporary principles of leadership and management.
- Identify key global trends.
- Determine how globalization is affecting leadership and management principles and practices.
- Explain the importance of value-based leadership (ethics).
In this chapter, you’ll learn that some principles of leadership and management are enduring, but you’ll also see that leaders need to be continually adapting to changing times. Global trends affect both the style and the substance of leadership. As the world becomes more global, managers find themselves leading workforces that may be distributed across the country—and the world. Workers are more educated, but more is expected of them.
The realm of managers is expanding, and the capacity to lead is a necessity in 21st-century workplaces. You will need to be a role model in the organization, setting the tone not just for what gets done but how it gets done. Increasingly, good business practice extends to stewardship, not just of the organization, but of the environment and community at large. Ethics and values-based leadership aren’t just good ideas—they’re vital to attracting talent and retaining loyal customers and business partners.
Views of Leadership Through the Ages
A leader is a dealer in hope.
—Napoleon
I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.
—Indira Gandhi
What leaders really do: set direction, align people, and motivate people.
—John Kotter (Kotter, 1990)
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