This document summarizes a presentation on assessing leadership and measuring its effects. The presentation covers 4 topics: 1) assessing leadership through techniques like competency models and assessment centers, 2) measuring the effects of leadership using ratings and performance indices, 3) methodologies for studying leadership including case studies and experiments, and 4) theories of leadership which aim to conceptualize relationships between variables. The presentation provides an overview of best practices for evaluating and understanding leadership.

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CMU’s undergraduate program June 2010
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Discussion Questions
1. Why do we have good and bad leader?
2. Why is everything because of leader?
3. Why do good leaders are good problem solvers?
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Course Objectives
1. Assessing Leadership
2. Measuring the Effects of Leadership
3. Methodologies Used to Study Leadership
4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership
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1. Assessing Leadership
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Putting the wrong people into
key leadership positions can
cost billions of dollars and
lead organizational to ruin.
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1. Assessing Leadership
1. Commonly techniques
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• application blanks
• reference checks
• unstructured
interviews
 are also the least
valid.
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1. Assessing Leadership
2. Best Practices
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• Determine the leadership level
of the position.
• Build a competency model.
• Use a multiple hurdles
approach.
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Competency model
Knowledge Ability Skills
+ +
+
other relevant contributes
to success performance in a
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particular job
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Multiple Hurdles Approach
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Figure 4-2
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1.2 Assessment Center Simulations
In-Basket exercise
=> Work simulation that requires candidate to
do actual “paperwork.”
Role-Play simulations
=> Actors are trained assessors who observe
and rate the performance of each candidate.
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2. Measuring the Effects of Leadership
• Common Measures of Successful and
Unsuccessful Leadership
• Best Practices in Measuring Leadership Success
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Common Measures
 Superiors’ effectiveness and performance ratings.
 Subordinates’ ratings on
satisfaction,
organizational climate,
morale, motivation, and
leadership effectiveness.
 Unit performance indices.
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2.2 Best Practices in Measuring Leadership
Success
o Ratings by superiors and subordinates
o Multiple measures
o How their behavior affects the measures used to
judge leadership success
o Be aware of leadership success measures being
biased.
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3. Methodologies Used to Study Leadership
The Qualitative Approach
The most common qualitative
approach is the case study.
Quantitative Approaches
Correlational studies
Experiments
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4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership
 Maxims: personal opinions that can give
valuable advice about leadership.
 Theory: framework for conceptualizing
relationships between variables and guiding
research toward a fuller
understanding of phenomena.
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4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership
Theories: are central scientific research due to:
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=>Public predictions of how
leadership variables are
interrelated.
=>The systematic gathering and
analysis of data.
=>Peer review of results.
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17. R5: People do not lack strength, they lack will.
4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership
 Maxims
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may represent valid advice,
but they are ultimately no
more than personal opinion.
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4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership
Only theories add to the
body of knowledge
concerning the science
of leadership and help
the development of
universal laws of
leadership.
Maxims and
theories are useful
for understanding
leadership
situations.
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19. The road to success is always under construction
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R5: Decide what really want and willing to pay the price to make it happen
You create your world by your
thought. Buddha
By our thought, we create our world, Buddha.
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What does human can do?
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