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Leadership and Administrative DynamicsEckerd Fall 2011
AgendaMyers Briggs exercise
Read memos in class.Memo writing
• Bureaucracy• Scientific Management• Universal Management Principles• Classical Theories in modern organizations• Human Relations approaches• Human Resources Model• Open Systems• Contemporary Developments• Contingency Theories
Organization theories
What is Myers Briggs
• Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology• Father of Myers Briggs Type Indicator• Jung believed:• Eight psychological types (for our purposes two)
• Introverted and extroverted.• Four main functions of consciousness
• Two perceiving functions – sensation and intuition• Two judging functions – thinking and feeling
Carl Jung
Myers Briggs
• There are certain preferred ways of thinking and acting. • There is not a better or worse type.• Four pairs of opposites equal 16 possible psychological types.
Why is this important to a leader?
• It is important to know yourself as a supervisor.• It is equally important to know who you are supervising.
• Judging• Perceiving
• Thinking• Feeling
• Sensing• Intuition
• Introvert• Extrovert
Where do I get energy? How do I
take in information?
How do I organize my
world?
How do I make
decisions?
• Judging• Perceiving
• Thinking• Feeling
• Sensing• Intuition
• Introvert• Extrovert
Work in groups or
Work alone
Facts or 30,000 feet in
the air
Solve the problem or
prefer processing
and flexibility
Business decision or
People decision
EXTREMES
• Pre-Scientific Management (Pre-1800s)• Classical Management (1800-1930)
• Administrative Theory/Universalism (Henri Fayol)• Scientific Management (Federick Taylor, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, Henry Gantt-“Gantt
Chart”)• Structuralist School (Max Weber-“bureaucracy”)
• Neoclassical Management and Organization Theory (1930-1960s)• Human Relations School (Human Relations/Hawthorne Experiments)• Behavioral School (Abraham Maslow, Douglas McGregor, Rensis Likert, Chris Argyris,
Frederick Herzberg, David McClelland)
Modern Management and Organization Theory (1960-2000s)Management Science (OM, MRP, JIT, CI, TQM)Systems Theory (Peter Senge)(Subsystems, Open/Closed)Contingency Theory (Open Systems Planning, Organizational Design, Leadership)
Extraverted/Introverted (E/I)
• In general:
At work
Introvert Extrovert
Reflects then acts ACTION!Needs time alone Needs peopleDeep interaction Breadth of knowledgePrefers depth of knowledge Frequent interaction
Extrovert – 70% US population• Let’s talk about it. (extracts
information externally)• Loud• Prefer environments where
co-workers are talking.• Do not like long intervals of
working alone.• Want to work with other
people in teams.
Introvert – 30% of US population• Let me think about it.• Quiet please!• Prefer to work alone.• Even if they know working in a
team is important, they will still need “alone time” to re-energize.
Extrovert / Introvert
E•Seems to have decided but are just processing out loud.•Can overwhelm •Can dominate the conversation
I• Seems to have decided but is really just thinking.• Staff observe introverts to be aloof and unfriendly.• If dismissed in discussions, they will retreat and not provide valuable input.
Dark Side – particularly in a leader
Sensing/intuition (S/N)
• How do we gather information
At work
Sensing Intuition
Details/fact abstract, theoreticalInformation that touches the 5 senses unconscious mind
hunches
Sensing
Work NEEDs to be organized from point A to point B and so on.
Loves policies, procedures, repetition and rules
Have to start from point A.
Intuitive
Thinks conceptually at the 30,000 foot level.
Policies, procedures, repetition and rules are boring.
May start by considering the outcome first.
S• Do the work.• Prefer to work at one project at a
time and even better if the projects are in order.• Long-term stamina to complete a
project.
I• Conceive the work• Major multi-taskers• Energy bursts
S• Future oriented tasks
are not appealing.• Can’t see the forest for
the trees syndrome.
I• Details and simplistic
explanations are points of frustration.• Get to the bottom line!• May make decisions
that are unrealistic based on what could be vs. what is.
Dark Side
Feeling/Thinking (T/F)
• How do we judge? How do we make decisions?
Once we get the data from either sensing or intuition
Thinking Feeling
Logical empathyRational consensus“Business approach” balance
harmony
Dark SideT• Can be perceived as
uncaring and cold• Staff may have hurt
feelings• No crying!
F• May appear naïve • Poor decision making
to spare feelings• Time not effectively
utilized trying to make staff feel better.
Judgment/perception (J/P)
• How do we judge? How do we make decisions?
Once we get the data from either sensing or intuition
Judging Perceiving
•I like to have things decided.•I appear to be task oriented.•I like to make lists of things to do.•I like to get my work done before playing.•I plan work to avoid rushing just before a deadline.•Sometimes I focus so much on the goal that I miss new information.
•I like to stay open to respond to whatever happens.•I appear to be loose and casual. I like to keep plans to a minimum.•I like to approach work as play or mix work and play.•I work in bursts of energy.•I am stimulated by an approaching deadline.•Sometimes I stay open to new information so long I miss making decisions when they are needed.
Judging vs. Perceiving
J• Makes decision in order
to solve the problem and move on.• Strong planners• Strong organizers• Work is much more
important than personal life/having a good time.
• Delays decision making to gain more information.• Last minute vs. planners• Personal life/having a
good timeis more important than work.
P
J• Routine•Order•Do not like open ended issues• Can motivate themselves• The goal is getting there.
• Adaptable• Process and processing is good.•Need motivation from others.• Life is a sojourn and so is work.
P
J• Resistance to change•Decisions made to quickly• Focus is not at 30,000 foot level enough
•May not get things accomplished in a timely way.•May be off on another tangent while staff are still working
on the first idea.
P
Dark Side
CLASSICAL
• Context: factory work, under-educated workers. (assembly lines)
• People can be organized through measured steps to deliver the best outcome.
• Staff do not participate in decision making (to varying degrees).
• Hierarchical.• Informal peer leaders.• Routine jobs.• Division of labor.• Functional departments.• Hierarchical supervision.• Management by control.
• Administrative setting, well-educated professionals.
• People need to be challenged, work together, trust each other.
• Staff participates in decision making (to varying degrees).
• Flatter organizational structure• Formal teams.• Complex jobs.• Continuous learning.• Ecosystem is world-wide
MODERN
Theories compared
CLASSICAL MANAGEMENT
Early 20th Century thinking
Fayol
Weber
Taylor
Refined at the turn of the century, by Frederick Taylor (scientific management), Henri Fayol (principles and elements of management), and Max Weber (bureaucracy), this is the management philosophy that still dominates our organizational landscape.
Bureaucracy and Max Weber (I864-1920)
Formalized, hierarchical, specialized with a clear functional division of labor and demarcation of jurisdiction, standardized, rule based, and impersonal.
Professional, full-time administrative staff with lifelong employment, organized careers, salaries, and pensions, appointed to office and rewarded on the basis of formal education, merit, and tenure.
Normative structure where government is founded on authority, that is, the belief in a legitimate, rational-legal political order.
In 1847, a professor in political science at Heidelberg, Robert von Mohl, observed that:
"the privileged classes complained of loss of privileges, the commercial classes of interference in commerce, artisans of paperwork, scientists of ignorance,
statesmen of delay."
Weber
Legal guarantees against arbitrariness
Recruitment based on merit
Social and Economic differences can be mitigated through the law
Changes in human services decision making
Public administration is a “supermarket”
of services
Citizens/clients are “customers”
Flatter decision making, power
sharing internally and externally
Privatization
What are rules?• Rules can assist with interpretation of ambiguous worlds.• Rules define the world.
• roles, rights, obligations, interests, values, worldviews, and memory
• Rules can mean change.• Rules can fulfill the “invisible veil” Principle.• Rules need flexibility and discretion.• Rules are not inflexible, people are • inflexible.
Scientific Management
Taylor (1856-1915)•mass production• low cost, •acceptable quality•organizing large numbers of under-educated and/or non-English speaking immigrants•non-technical• rural workers for urban technical work.
Fayol (1841-1925)
• Planning• Organizing• Staffing• Budgeting• Coordinating• Controlling
• Fayol considered the need for staff to participatein decision making.
What do managers do? What do companies do?Production, Selling/marketingFinanceSecurityAccountingManagement
Fayol continued• 1. division of labor• 2. the establishment
of authority• 3. the enforcement of
discipline• 4. unified command,
one employee reports to only one supervisor
• 5. unity of direction• 6. subordination of
individual interests to the interest of the organization
• 7. fair salaries• 8. Centralized
authority• 9. Scalar hierarchy, in
which each employee is aware of his or her place and duties
• 10. a sense of order and purpose
• 11. Equity and fairness in dealings between staff and managers
• 12. stability of jobs and positions
• 13. development of individual initiative
• 14. esprit de corps
HUMAN RELATIONS
Mary Parker Follet (1868-1933)
Believed in the communities of creative practice and suggested that employees be considered an intrinsic part of the organization that allowed it to be more productive
• Elton Mayo•Western Electric experiments
• Conclusions•Group activity, collaboration and the role of informal teams.•Social world of adults•Belonging•Complaining•Social demands
Human Relations Approaches
BEHAVIORAL APPROACH
Abraham Maslow, Douglas McGregor, Rensis Likert, Chris Argyris, Frederick Herzberg, David McClelland
McGregor Theory X and Theory Y
Buying a pair of hands Building people
•Douglas McGregorHuman Resources Approach
Theory YTheory YTheory XTheory X
Work is NaturalWork is Natural
Self-Direction
Self-Direction
SeekResponsibility
SeekResponsibility
Good DecisionsWidely Dispersed
Good DecisionsWidely Dispersed
AvoidWork
AvoidWork
Must be Controlled
Must be Controlled
AvoidResponsibility
AvoidResponsibility
Seek SecuritySeek Security
Chris Argyris – classical organization structures lead to immature, dependent staff
Assumptions (values)
Action
Actual Results
Results Gap
Desired Outcome
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Argyris
•Teams COMMUNICATE more than individuals operating alone. •Leadership is key element to implementing and sustaining a learning environment.•Leaders are responsible for promoting an atmosphere conducive to learning•CREATIVE TENSION - Represents difference between the “vision” of where the organization could be and the reality of the current organizational situation.
Open Systems Peter Senge
Senge• Systems Theory is NOT a
prescriptive management theory• Attempts to widen lens
through which we examine and understand organizational behavior• The Learning Organization
• Synergy• Nonsummativity• Interdependence• Equifinality• Requisite Variety
• Emphasizes COMMUNICATION in the Learning Process
• Organizations cannot separate from their environment• Organizational teams or
subsystems cannot operate in isolation
Professional Bureaucracies (hospitals, universities)
Community-Based Organizations (small non-profits)
Total Quality Management
The Excellence Movement (In Search of Excellence)
Business Process Reengineering
Contemporary Developments
Taylor to TQMCustomer is always right
Upstream quality, not downstream fixing
Consistency in production
People work within systems not “how I think it is best to do it”
Continuous improvements of processes
Staff participate
Commitment from the top to the bottom
BPR (downsizing)
•Addresses silo “thinking” between functions. •Eliminates what is not needed.
Contingency Theory• There is no one best way to structure and
manage organizations.• Structure and management are contingent on
the nature of the environment in which the organization is situated.
• Argues for “finding the best communication structure under a given set of environmental circumstances.”
Memos