Essay On Adaptive Leadership
Paper 1: Adaptive Leadership
1. Describe what adaptive leadership is.
Adaptive leadership involves changing the beliefs, habits and priorities of individuals by detaching deep rooted ways, standing losses associated with change and moving beyond authority to generate innovative ideas. Adaptive Leadership encourages individuals to stretch beyond their comfort zone and look beyond the surface problems by utilizing wisdom & knowhow of the past (discarding what is not required). It also involves coordinating with multiple stakeholder priorities for managing change. It addresses an individual’s views, anxieties and behaviors as the root cause of the problem and recommends involving them in devising the solution to a problem. An adaptive leader does not do things as per the expectations of others, instead he invents options and comes with …show more content…
With an objective to control the number of accidents, the management formulated the “Penalty Procedure for OHS Rules” which defined the disciplinary actions in case of deviation or noncompliance of safety rules. Strict rules were enforced and deviation from any safety compliance e.g. not wearing personal protective equipment, not following manufacturer’s recommendation, high speed driving within the campus resulted in heavy penalties. Similarly, if an accident happened in any of the shift, the shift in charges, managers and the head of the department were penalized and suspended. In cases of fatal accidents the promotion and the annual appraisals of all concerned were withheld. This however did not lead to any significant drop in the accident cases and employees were still violating rules and paying penalties. Moreover there was resentment in employees as they thought that the top management should be held responsible for all the accidents and not the
1. Describe what adaptive leadership is.
Adaptive leadership involves changing the beliefs, habits and priorities of individuals by detaching deep rooted ways, standing losses associated with change and moving beyond authority to generate innovative ideas. Adaptive Leadership encourages individuals to stretch beyond their comfort zone and look beyond the surface problems by utilizing wisdom & knowhow of the past (discarding what is not required). It also involves coordinating with multiple stakeholder priorities for managing change. It addresses an individual’s views, anxieties and behaviors as the root cause of the problem and recommends involving them in devising the solution to a problem. An adaptive leader does not do things as per the expectations of others, instead he invents options and comes with …show more content…
With an objective to control the number of accidents, the management formulated the “Penalty Procedure for OHS Rules” which defined the disciplinary actions in case of deviation or noncompliance of safety rules. Strict rules were enforced and deviation from any safety compliance e.g. not wearing personal protective equipment, not following manufacturer’s recommendation, high speed driving within the campus resulted in heavy penalties. Similarly, if an accident happened in any of the shift, the shift in charges, managers and the head of the department were penalized and suspended. In cases of fatal accidents the promotion and the annual appraisals of all concerned were withheld. This however did not lead to any significant drop in the accident cases and employees were still violating rules and paying penalties. Moreover there was resentment in employees as they thought that the top management should be held responsible for all the accidents and not the