The Anatomy of Leadership: a Conceptual Analytical Approach: Leadership Demystified

©2011 Camilius Chike Egeni, Ph.D. All rights reserved.

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First published by AuthorHouse 9/30/2011

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LEADERSHIP

The Anatomy of Leadership: A Conceptual Analytical Approach

LEADERSHIP DEMYSTIFIED

Breadth, Depth, and Application

Leading the social change effort…

BY

Camilius Chike Egeni, MBA, PhD.

Forward Ever Back Never

Transformational Leadership is Like Parenting

Object drives behavior, when you change object, behavior wll change.

Contents

ABOUT THIS BOOK

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

COMING NEXT

ABSTRACT

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PURPOSE

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ANALYSIS

LEADERSHIP DEMYSTIFIED-BREADTH COMPONENT

The Breadth Component

Charismatic Leadership

DEPTH COMPONENT

The Depth Component

Depth Introduction

Descriptions of Leadership

Classification of Leadership Styles

Characteristics of Transformational Leadership

Transformational Leadership Training and Development

Conclusive Summary

APPLICATION COMPONENT

History and Introduction

History of the Inuit

Why Inuit Suicide as the Application Component

Why Suicide is a Major Public Issue

Suicide Factors/Enablers

Preventive Strategies to Suicide

Best-of-Fit Leadership Strategy

Transactional Leadership Strategy and Inuit Suicide

Charismatic Leadership Strategy and Inuit Suicide

Transformational Leadership and Inuit Suicide

Appropriate Leadership Summation

Access to Transformational Leaders

Sustaining the Leaders

Potential Impact of these Leaders

CONCLUSIVE SUMMARY

REFERENCES

ABOUT THIS BOOK

This book analyzed the various leadership strategies. It is grouped in three key components, namely: breadth, depth and the application components. The breadth component explored and analyzed the theories of leadership from various theorists, such as: Fiedler (1967), Sanford (1949), Reuters (1967) and Stogdill (1957), (1960). The depth component provided a comprehensive analysis of current literature and research studies on leadership. Over fifty-five current literature and research studies on leadership were reviewed, analyzed, compared and contrasted. As the name may suggest, in the application component the concepts of leadership identified in both the breadth and depth components were applied to solve a known public problem. The suicide epidemic among the Inuit of Nunavut was used to demonstrate how the learning from the theories, literature and research studies on leadership could be used to solve a public problem. The author applied the leadership tenets identified in the various leadership strategies, namely: charismatic, transformational, situational, and transactional leadership approaches for the exposition. The book emphasized on the importance of leadership and how leadership creates social change. This is a good book for managers, supervisors, leaders from various backgrounds,

research scholars, teachers and anyone who wants to add values to create social change. It is a strategic book for decision makers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Camilius Egeni is a senior public administrator with proven success in both public policy and financial management. He holds a PhD in Public Policy and Administration, MBA in Executive and Strategic Business Management, and a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting. Dr. Egeni has held various management positions within the public sector. He was a police officer prior to accepting the various non-law enforcement positions, the job which has helped to shape his understanding of human behavior and which has continued to influence his thought provoking and writings on sociopolitical, socioenvironmental, and socioeconomic issues. He was the Manager, Internal Audit with the Department of Finance and later became the Director, Corporate Services with the Department of Environment, Government of Nunavut. Presently, Dr. Egeni is the Director, Expenditure Management with the Government of Nunavut. He has completed various other research studies including studies on employee motivation, suicide, privatization, and training program evaluation. He is the author of Suicide ‘Eminaq’ The Socio-Economic and Environmental Effects on Public Behavior: The Case of Inuit Suicide. Dr. Egeni is working on his next book on Employee Motivation.

COMING NEXT

Read how to motivate your employees from Dr. Egeni’s next book!

Dr. Egeni is writing his next book, contemporary issues and emerging trends on employee motivation. In this book, Dr. Egeni will review the history, theories, concepts, and contemporary literature on motivation. Dr. Egeni will use case analysis to demonstrate how to use motivational variables to solve contemporary organizational problems in divergent contexts.

Whether you want to motivate your management, operational level staff or both, this book will provide you with the knowledge on how various motivational factors work and how to apply motivational variables in divergent situations. It is a must read book for supervisors, managers, scholars of management studies, and social scientists.

Are you interested in preventing SUICIDE… read Dr. Egeni’s research and book on suicide titled The Socioeconomic and Environmental Effects on Public Behavior: The Case of Inuit Suicide. This book discussed suicide in general, causes, factors, and etc; it provided recommendations on how to arrest those factors that have been identified as precursors to suicide.

The book is available from most bookstores in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. It is also available online from various on-line book stores.

ABSTRACT

Leadership has been in existence ever since humans started forming groups to complete any given task including hunting. Leadership is the prescription to almost all public problems. It is a silver bullet organizations need to address their problems. There are five key leadership approaches, namely: transformational, situational, laissez faire, transactional and charismatic leadership strategies. Each leadership approach has traits and tenets that the leader displays. For example, a transactional leader uses reward and punishment to achieve goal. This leadership approach is common among managers and dictators. Charismatic leaders are naturally gifted and they use charisma and natural charm to attract and retain followers. Examples of charismatic leaders include politicians and celebrities. Situational leaders emerge during turmoil or challenging environment, such as: the emergence of the former Mayor of New York, Giuliani as a world leader after terrorists struck on the twin tower in New York, USA on 9/11 and the emergence of Nelson Mandela from the prison as the South African first black president. We also have transformational leadership strategy. Transformational leaders are those leaders who develop future leaders. They are role models and have visions. They share some tenets with charismatic leaders.

Some of the tenets of transformational leaders include inspirationally motivating, individual considerations, charisma, empowerment, and intellectually stimulating. Some examples of transformational leaders include Reverend Martin Luther King of the US, mother Theresa of India, and Gandhi of India. The key argument on leadership has been whether leaders are born or trained. This has been coined the nature and nurture arguments on leadership. While studies have shown that leaders are trained, no study has excluded the nature side of leadership. Research has shown that almost every organizational problem can be traced back to challenges in leadership. Studies also show that a leader who performed well in one organization may not necessarily perform well in another and vise versa. Similarly, studies also show that a well liked leader does not give better quality instructions than a leader who is not well liked or who is disliked by his followers. Leadership must be made to harmonize situations in order for the leadership to be successful. The results of this analysis could help guide supervisors, organizations, and other entities to improve their performances using their most valuable asset {their people} and it provides the rationale for the importance of good leadership in an organization. It also provides a basis for additional research on leadership.

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my children Divine Chimemerie, Angel Chimamaka, and Carmi Ifechi Egeni. I love you as you will never imagine.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many people deserve accolades for this book. First, I thank the Almighty God, who has been and continue to be my guardian. I am indebted to the following individuals who have made a difference in my life. My special thanks go to my wife, Juliet Chinyere Egeni, for her love and comfort. Heartfelt thanks go to my children, Carmi, Angel, and Divine Egeni, who have shown me what love is and who have continued to make me a youth. I thank my mother Beatrice Egeni, for her continued support and caring. A lot of thanks go to my brothers Ethelbert and Geekay Egeni and to my baby sister Cleriza Orby Otudeme, they have continued to encourage me to put my thoughts down in writing. I must thank my good friends Bernie and Mary Lodge for all their supports and caring to my family. My special thanks go to Professor Frank Besag for his special guidance, support, and suggestions that added immense value to this book. Dr. Besag is a clinical surgeon in motivation and people development, and a great mentor.

I must thank my former staff officials, namely: Wei Zeng, Jeremy Arreak, Irene Tagoona, John Murphy, Nannette Demavivas, MJ Phelan, Mat Onalik and Lena Hughes for all their supports which added invaluable information to this book. I appreciate your support!

PURPOSE

The core purpose of this book is to establish a broader view and understanding of leadership and organizational change by reviewing contemporary leadership theories and concepts, academic literature and research, and also use best principles, techniques and tools to further knowledge in organizational leadership and change. The aim is to learn how leadership concepts are applied in divergent organizational contexts.

This book is grouped in three key components namely: breadth, depth and the application components. The breadth component explores the historical evolution of leadership with much emphasis on transformational leadership. It also explored, compared and contrasted the key characteristics, qualities, strategies, and approaches of transformational leaders to other leadership strategies, namely: transactional, charismatic, and situational leadership.

Similar to the breadth component, the depth component contains an annotated bibliography critiquing current literature on leadership. In the depth components, the characteristics of transformational leadership, and the key differences between transformational leadership and other leadership strategies were analyzed. The strategic concentration of the essay is on transformational leadership tenets because they are the foundation of the application component of this book.

Next is the application component which uses those leadership traits and tenets identified in both the breadth and depth components to analyze and explore the ways which may be necessary to solve a known public problem, such as: the problem of suicide and alcohol abuse among the Inuit of Nunavut.

In the application component, the writer discussed how transformational leadership strategy could create social change by applying its concepts to demonstrate how to curtail the current spate in suicide among the Inuit of Nunavut. It is hoped that the analysis and suggestions provided in this book could assist to create social change by showing policymakers, resource allocators, managers or leaders the benefits of good leadership in an organization through value creation. The book teaches us why leaders challenge their followers to transform themselves and why redirecting individuals’ perspectives could assist to promote harmony and increase both social capital and equity.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ANALYSIS

This leadership analysis is significant because it reveals much information about leadership strategies and how leadership is used in different organizational contexts to address problems. Leadership research has dominated social science studies due to the need to understand human behaviors and find ways to improve