Leadership And Change Literature Review
Literature Review
Introduction
This literature review aims to analyses three book chapters consists of Leadership and Change, Hard Systems models of Change and Soft System models for Change, and relates them into Kasket’s triangle.
Chapter 6
The chapter of Leadership and Change focuses on the relationship of the leader’s role which leads to organizational change. Regarding to the book chapter, Kotter’s comparing management and leadership, and grouped their differences into four elements which consisting of creating an agenda, developing a human network for accomplish the agenda, execution and the outcomes. In this case, management takes place on planning, budgeting, organizing, staffing, monitoring and problem solving to make sure it produces the predicted outcome for stakeholders of the company. However, leaders focus on establishing direction, aligning people, motivation, inspiring and produce changes which usually drastic and positive. Both leader and manager is an important assets in an organization which they need to work together to produce positive outcomes but their role are different. Senior & Fleming (2006) states, manager must always be the leader while a leader could lead without being the manager. We can see the role of leadership anywhere and it is inseparable in our daily life. Lord, De Vader and Alliger (1986) concluded that a successful leader could be intelligence, having an extrovert personality, dominance, masculinity, conservatism and being better adjusted than non-leaders in the book chapter, page 251. I strongly agree with Kotter’s distinction between leadership and management. Al Gini (1997) notes that leader’s first and central job is to focus on create and communicate a clear vision delegated, what is needed to be achieved and their expectation from their followers. Al Gini’s (1997) is supporting Kotter’s distinction of leadership in the element of creating agenda, developing a human network for achieving the agenda,...
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