Post Heroic Leadership Essay
POST-HEROIC LEADERSHIP
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Presently, leadership is understood to be socially embedded and constructed; therefore, it should be distributed among those involved in leadership. In that regard, relational, collectivist, procession, and non-authoritarian dimension of leadership is supported (Fletcher 2004; Friedrich). This paper demonstrates practical implications of post-heroic leadership theories. It claims that practices streamlined by post-heroic leadership aspects are much more valuable than what heroic leadership delivers. In the first place, this leadership has a capability to catch up with the wide quickly-changing world; and second; if its real nature is taken into consideration, it can bring high achievements. Since this paper focuses on post-heroic leadership, five distinct theories will be considered: a philosophical approach to leadership, complex adaptive leadership, relational leadership, leadership from process perspective, and shared leadership (Giuliani 2002). This paper will …show more content…
On top of that, this transformational leadership aims at empowering employees so that they can be dedicated and contented to their work. Since the CEO does is not involved in decision-making at departmental levels, the departmental managers have freedom to implement decisions they deem fit. This decision-making flexibility has improved innovation and productivity of the company (Manville & Ober 2003; Dell Inc 2013). Toole,Galbraith,and Lawler(2001) affirm that apparent disconnection of divisions and hierarchical levels obstruct the materialization of cross-functional hierarchical groups. For example, Dell corporation workers are able to work effectively in distributed leadership as portrayed by the company’s high
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Presently, leadership is understood to be socially embedded and constructed; therefore, it should be distributed among those involved in leadership. In that regard, relational, collectivist, procession, and non-authoritarian dimension of leadership is supported (Fletcher 2004; Friedrich). This paper demonstrates practical implications of post-heroic leadership theories. It claims that practices streamlined by post-heroic leadership aspects are much more valuable than what heroic leadership delivers. In the first place, this leadership has a capability to catch up with the wide quickly-changing world; and second; if its real nature is taken into consideration, it can bring high achievements. Since this paper focuses on post-heroic leadership, five distinct theories will be considered: a philosophical approach to leadership, complex adaptive leadership, relational leadership, leadership from process perspective, and shared leadership (Giuliani 2002). This paper will …show more content…
On top of that, this transformational leadership aims at empowering employees so that they can be dedicated and contented to their work. Since the CEO does is not involved in decision-making at departmental levels, the departmental managers have freedom to implement decisions they deem fit. This decision-making flexibility has improved innovation and productivity of the company (Manville & Ober 2003; Dell Inc 2013). Toole,Galbraith,and Lawler(2001) affirm that apparent disconnection of divisions and hierarchical levels obstruct the materialization of cross-functional hierarchical groups. For example, Dell corporation workers are able to work effectively in distributed leadership as portrayed by the company’s high