Dr. Peter Northouse's Leadership Lecture at UIUC

Dr. Peter Northouse's Leadership Lecture at UIUC

 

On Sept. 26 2012, Illinois Leadership Center (contact: Mr. Heath Harding, Associate Director) hosted a special lecture of Dr. Peter Northouse - the prominent leadership scholar in the world. Dr. Peter Northouse is well-known his seminal textbook of "Leadership: Theory & Practice - http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235117). Dr. Peter Northouse presented his insights about leadership. 

 

 

Place: Levis Faculty Center

Time: Sept. 26, 2012, Noon ~ 1PM

 

Contributions from the Theories

• Trait approach: intuitively appealing/meager results
• Skills approach: expansive/ general and less precise
• Style approach: task/process powerful constructs
• Situational approach: pragmatic/weak research
• Contingency approach: abstruse but good data
• Path goal : expectancy approach/pragmatic appeal
• LMX: in & ut groups real/how to begin groupness
• Transformational approach: the moral issue / factors
• Authentic leadership: developmental / untested
• Psychodynamic approach: deals with authority issue

 

What's Hot - What's not

 

Hot	Not hot
Civic responsibility / ethics Character / values/ strengths Servant leadership Complexity theory Emotional intelligence Leader centricity / followers / context Trait theory Stories/narrative Competencies	Situational leadership Leadership / management Contingency theory

 

 

* The follower centric approach is not much addressed, but it is getting hotter and hotter as information flourish. 

* As information flourish, followers challenge leadership authority and legitimacy. 

 

The role of Stories and Leadership (narrative)

 

* President Barack Obama

- Harvard Lawyer, Community organizer, First African American President...more

* Former governor Mitt Romney

- Harvard Lawyer, Mormon bishop, Massachusetts Health Care Plan... more

 

Importance of LIfe Stories: 

"Life-stories are a major source of leader authenticity"

(Shamir & Eilam (2005: Leadership Quartely, 16, 295-417. 

 

- LIfe stories provide a meaning system

- Life stories provide information about clarifies the leader's values and convictions.

- Life stories help leaders establish an identity. 

 

Trait Leadership is Alive

 

"Must Great Leaders Be Gregarious?"

* Susan Cain - Author of The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking

 

Resources in Leadership

 

Associations	Journals
Internatioanl Leadership Association Center for Creative Leadership National Clearninghouse for Leadership Programs Regent University	Leadership quarterly, and many other journals

 

 

 

Summary: 

 

• Theory exists and it can inform practice
• We can all learn to improve our leadership
• Effective leadership builds community and enhances the common ground

 

 

Q&A: 

 

Q: Why does situational leadership is not hot anymore? 

A: Situational leadership did not get many academic supports. 

 

Q: What's your current research? 

A: Ethical leadership style; Calvinistic approach; Feministic approach 

 

Q: What is ethical leadership?

A: Distribute common goods. How way of ethic behaviors of leadership make different consequences? 

 

 

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I had a chance to ask a question. "There is a big tension between managers and employees from my interviews at a subsidiary MNC in Korea. Managers demands more self-directed employee behavior while employees want more autonomy. In business literature, there is a self-leadership concept. Do you think the self-leadership is one of 'leadership' theory or it is self-directed behavior stuff?" 

 

Dr. Peter Northouse replied that "it sounds like a 'self-directed behavior' rather than self-leadership' because self-leadership has no 'leader-follower' relationship. He suggested me to look on 'Robert House's GLOBE study' to address cultural difference in MNC. 

 

I really thanked his kind and insightful comments. In addition, I am very honored that he gave me a signature with the best wish.

 

 

 

 

Jeonghwan Choi

 

Sept 26, 2012, UIUC