Questions and Answers of Introduction To Leadership Concepts

Who is Ignatius of Loyola?
What is Ignatian spirituality?
How can the Ignatian dynamics of indifference, discernment, and adaptation assist higher education leaders as they innovate and lead change during moments of crisis?
What dimensions of the Ignatian ethos resonate with your approach to leading organizational change during these turbulent times?
How might higher education leaders more intentionally and authentically harness their institutional history and heritage to respond to the VUCA of our contemporary context?
How might decision-makers creatively change their mental models of higher education to make colleges and universities more assessable, affordable, and achievable to historically marginalized
What is your basic attitude toward the realities you face? Is your reality a gift or an obstacle, a friend or an enemy?
Whom are you willing to trust, and why? Is your trust dependent on credentials? Growth and success? Compassion? Or something else? How does your trust influence your leadership in the organization?
Do you see leadership primarily as envisioning, motivating, and directing? Or more as listening, discerning, and nudging? What is most necessary in your organization? Would those you lead agree with
What do you think of celebrating your organization, your vision, your values, your results? What aspects of your organization do you and others honor? How does the presence or absence of such
Is your mission formulated in terms of what you and your organization contribute to the good of the community? Does your organization focus on human flourishing, or does it ignore its social and
Do you believe that women have a creative edge in positions of national and corporate leadership? Why or why not?
Why do you think that so many women have emerged as climate change action activists?
Are CSR positions in industry merely ceremonial, or do you believe that such posts can make a measurable difference in lowering carbon outputs?
Do you believe that a carbon tax that fines those who pollute is an equitable way of reducing greenhouse gases? Why or why not?
What, if any, traditional negative stereotypes of women in powerful positions have you witnessed or directly experienced? If any are discerned, what would be a solution to remedying such
How can a relational approach help others make sense of a changing environment and reframe leadership challenges?
What are the areas of resistance (e.g., cultural, norms, governance structures) that may limit the emergence of female leaders, and how might communal leadership strengths counteract these?
What are the interdependencies of agentic and communal leadership approaches that are necessary in environments of change and uncertainty?
What are the environmental forces and organizational changes that present opportunities to leverage communal strengths as an emerging leader?
How might women discern between traditional stereotype-based roles and opportunities that benefit from dual agentic and communal expectations?
Compare and contrast people you know and list the characteristics that you believe makes that person a leader and include areas for improvement.
Do you believe that political leadership is considered a male role? If so, why or why not?
Does gender matter when you are voting? If so, why or why not?
Do you think that the characteristics, as described throughout the chapter, perpetuate stereotypes of women, why or why not?
Why women are still underrepresented in leadership roles, especially in higher education, even though women are now earning more degrees than men?
Why women remain largely underrepresented in leadership positions in the education field despite their positive contribution to organizations in a myriad of ways?
Why gender imbalances and pay gap continue to exist at the executive level even in the corporate world?
Metaphors about barriers to women leadership abound. In your view, which metaphor is the most representative of such barriers? And why?
What single change in the society or workplace would you consider to be the most important to achieve maximum gain in developing more women leaders in higher education?
When faced with change problems, do I consider the difference between issues for which there is a solution (benign issues) and issues for which I cannot present one solution but which I can work on
When faced with a change problem, do I consider the problem as part of a broader change path?
Do I take a critical approach when faced with a wicked problem, or, in other words, am I willing to “unlearn” and set aside previously used practices to address a unique, unprecedented issue in
Do I engage and involve middle managers sufficiently in wicked change problems?
Are the leadership and management development programs provided to our managers well equipped to help develop the skills and competences needed to adequately employ an integrative responsible
What are the distinguishing features of a leader to be able to make a change in the organization?
How can the perspective of change be understood through folktales?
Why the change in the organizational strategy is essential, and how a leader makes it fruitful for employees’ well-being?
Think of VUCA. Give an example of an organization that has successfully confronted transformational forces of VUCA. Can you recognize the power of mission or vision in this transformation?
Think of an organization of your choice in parastatal stage of transformation. What are the major challenges that managers have to deal with? What are real or potential benefits of Hybrid/In-Between
Think of ambidexterity. What kind of structural configurations, organizational cultures, and leadership styles are in best position of boosting ambidexterity in VUCA environments?
Think of extending competitive advantages to long-term viability. What forces drive businesses toward search of long-term viability? What are major counterforces that tend to dwarf efforts of
Think of leaders who create a sustainable future. What kind of values, competences, and experience are needed for generating organizational and societal sustainability?
What is self-leadership?
Do the individuals in my organization exhibit self-leadership?
What facets of self-leadership are more commonly exhibited, and how do these enable personal change and organizational change?
What facets of self-leadership are often not seen in my organization, and how have these impacted our workplace well-being?
What practical exercises of the facets of self-leadership could be implemented to help the people in my organization attain their purpose and the purpose of the firm simultaneously?
What are the implications for leadership and followership in the wake of digitalization entering our contemporary healthcare?
What compatibility adjustments and behavioral changes in human behavior will be required to adapt humankind to the introduction of AI, robotics, and big data insights into our contemporary society?
What are ethical boundary conditions for AI, robotics, and big data insights?
How can public and/or private sector leadership align and work together on concerted action to be resilient after Covid-19, and what role does AI, robotics, and big data insights play?
What societal implications does the leadership and followership blend of human and novel technologies have for society?
What are the main strategies for technological change in change management models?
How to maintain sufficient communications throughout an organization’s change implementation?
How to “institutionalize” training needed to reduce resistance to change and create readiness?
What roles do leaders and managers play in technological change management?
Why is information technology important for successful change management?
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Purpose1. To develop an understanding of the practical value of path–goal leadership as a strategy for helping followers reach their goals2. To identify Obstacles that limit group effectiveness 3.
Purpose1. To identify your path–goal styles of leadership2. To examine how your use of each style relates to other styles of leadershipDirections1. For each of the statements below, circle the
Purpose1. To become aware of the dimensions of ethical leadership2. To assess how actual leaders exhibit ethical leadershipDirections1. For this exercise, you must observe a public presentation of a
Purpose1. To become aware of the dimensions of interpersonal conflict2. To explore how to use Fisher and Ury’s (1981) method of principled negotiation to address actual conflictDirections1. For
Purpose1. To identify your conflict style2. To examine how your conflict style varies in different contexts or relationshipsDirections1. Think of two different situations (A and B) where you have a
Purpose1. To learn to recognize out-groups and how they form2. To understand the role of out-groups in the leadership processDirections1. Your task in this exercise is to identify, observe, and
Purpose1. To identify your attitudes toward out-group members2. To explore how you, as a leader, respond to members of the out-groupDirections1. Place yourself in the role of a leader when responding
Purpose1. To become aware of the dimensions of diversity and inclusion2. To develop an understanding of how leaders address diversity and inclusion in the workplaceDirections1. Your task in this
Purpose1. To identify your attitudes and perspectives regarding cultural diversity2. To help you become aware of and understand your prejudices and biases3. To help you understand the potential
Purpose1. To develop an understanding of how leaders establish a constructive climate for a group or an organization2. To identify how specific factors contribute to effective group
Purpose1. To develop an understanding of how your leadership affects others2. To help you understand your strengths and weaknesses in establishing the climate for a group or an
Purpose1. To understand the way visions are constructed by leaders in ongoing groups and organizations2. To identify strategies that leaders employ to articulate and implement their
Purpose1. To assess your ability to create a vision for a group or an organization2. To help you understand how visions are formedDirections1. Think for a moment of a work, school, social, religious,
Purpose1. To develop an understanding of different types of leadership skills 2. To examine how leadership skills affect a leader’s performance Directions1. Your task in this exercise is to
Purpose1. To identify your leadership skills2. To provide a profile of your leadership skills showing your strengths and weaknessesDirections1. Place yourself in the role of a leader when responding
Given that you believe this change will improve your overall leadership, what can you do (i.e., what strategies can you use) to overcome the barriers you cite in Action Item #3 above?
Purpose1. To understand how leadership includes both task and relationship behaviors2. To contrast different leaders’ task and relationship behaviors Directions1. Over the next couple of days,
Purpose1. To identify how much you emphasize task and relationship behaviors in your life2. To explore how your task behavior is related to your relationship behaviorDirectionsFor each item below,

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