LU3 Leadership without management responsibility

1. LEARNING UNIT 3

2. WHAT’S COMING UP?
• Leadership without authority
• Leadership perceptions
• Distributed leadership

3. LEADERSHIP WITHOUT
AUTHORITY

4. ‘WHY SHOULD ANYONE
BE LED BY YOU?’ (GOFFEE
& JONES)
4 unexpected
qualities of leaders:
1. Show weakness
2. Use intuition
3. Tough empathy
4. Reveal
differences
‘LEADERSHIP WITHOUT
EASY ANSWERS’ (HEIFETZ)
Is it all about
values?
Is leadership value-
free?
Mandela was a
leader…how about
head of the Medellin
drug cartel, Pablo
Escobar?

5. ‘LEADERSHIP WITHOUT AUTHORITY’ (HEIFETZ)
In Part 3 of ‘Leadership without easy answers’ Heifetz
talks of the benefits of leading from the bottom of an
organisation. How can band 3 officers, such as yourself,
show leadership? Are you able to ask ‘questions that
disturb’?

6. FOLLOWERSHIP THEORY
(UHL-BIEN ET. AL.)
• There is a lack of
research on
followership compared
to leadership
• What are the shared
behaviours and
characteristics of
followers?
• People come together
in a social process to
co-create followership
• Are great leaders also
great followers?

7. EVERYONE LEADS (SCHMITZ)
Public Allies is an organisation committed to
changing the face of leadership. They work to
uncover untapped potential and support
grassroots leaders in communities across USA.
According to Schmitz, leadership is not about
having a fancy title or coming from an elite
background – it’s about building capacity in
your community.
As Band 3 prison officers how do you build
capacity in your community?

8. RESISTING THE SCOURGE OF MANAGERIALISM:
ON THE USES OF DISCRETION IN LATE-MODERN
PRISONS (CHELIOTIS)
Managerialism refers to a culture in which
organisations are tightly managed by
professional managers – it focuses largely on
bureaucracy, control and performance.
This chapter discusses the dangers of a
reliance on managerialism in prisons and
explores the ways in which prison officers can
fight against the rigid structures imposed,
namely by exercising a level of ‘discreet
discretion’.

9. DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP

10. WHAT IS DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP?
• Leadership that is dispersed among many
members of an organisation, not concentrated in a
few
• It emerges from multiple members of the
organisation grouped together (and exerting
influence) in many different ways
• Some (e.g. Gronn) have been critical of the
vagueness of the definition
• Largely applied to health & education settings
– What parallels do these settings have with the prison
service?