Executive Summary
The use of power in a leadership role is a multi-faceted process. Understanding the types of power available and the tactics that support them can create a more efficient leadership role. Ethical leadership can be reflected in the use of power and the motivations that are utilized by that power. Locus of control, Machiavellian Personality, and Narcissism assists in defining leadership performance. Myers-Briggs Type Leaders (MBTI) can reveal responses to leadership and predict certain outcomes and successes. The use of power, influence, and tactics are aspects of leadership that can empower workers and leaders to create an interaction that leads to resolving some common worker issues. Understanding these factors can create a strategy for success. Understanding where these factors can be inappropriate can also ensure that a strategy can be found to re-center the leadership perspective.Read full article.
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Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, and Corruption
All Rights Reserved 2009 Dianne Irene
The very basis of corruption in leadership is spear headed by the lack of emotional intelligence or what some call spiritual maturity. In early stages of development, humans discover that certain reactions to situations can elicit certain results. In infancy, humans learn that crying can get attention or food. In adolescence humans discover that they can further use responses to elicit specific reactions with greater accuracy and a refining of what was learned becomes a process of uncertainty and deeper emotional responses. By adulthood, the cycle of behaviors and responses should be balanced and encompass a self-aware individual capable of empathy, understanding, and a sense of appropriateness. Read full article.
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Conflict Management By Dianne Irene © 2004
A new sensibility
about conflict reflects the ability to channel energy into a positive
outcome where resolution is the goal rather than ascertaining a victory
of political, personal, or egocentric origin. The power is in how
one reacts to situations in life and not always, what is happening.
It is rather a comfort to see the higher functioning of individuals
in social groups.
However,
with moral issues the resolution is not always achieved. One example
given by Pierce in Moral Conflict, speaks of two groups disputing
over a CIA visit to their campus. Even when negotiations were sought,
these two groups displayed reactions that opposed the idea of a new
sensibility and “The party line of both sides was that the other
had forfeited its right to participate in civilized society”
(Pierce, 1997, p. 5). Pierce explains that moral conflicts do not
always reach a resolution by “ordinary discourse” (p.
5). Conflict is “the expressed disagreements between people
who see incompatible goals and potential interference in achieving
these goals. Conflict, then, is defined by its mixed motive nature
as entailing both cooperation and competition” (Putnam, 2001,
p. 11). Putnam points out that recognizing certain ironies, accepting
them, and developing new concepts are important as handling conflict
continues to evolve over time (p. 11). Read full article.
