Sarah wrote
https://create.twu.ca/sjasmins/2018/09/29/learning-activity-4-blog-post-2/
Hi Sarah,
I am interested in reading your story as an emergent leader. You also wrote “trust” is very important for leadership and I imagined you have practiced and now be trusted by your colleague.
For your question “Do you think it’s rare for someone in an assigned leadership role to take both a management and leadership approach? Which approach do you think more assigned leaders tend to practice?”
I think it doesn’t matter whichever the leadership is assigned or emergent, it is more depends on the level of leadership position and type of business where an assigned leadership is taken. If a group or an organization is small, I think an assigned leader more often take both approach. Think of small business owner with a few employee. As Northouse worte, leader and manager can take both, managers think more about people rather than leader think more about change or vision of the group. For small group, leader who has the most information and experience also practice the role of manager. An emergent leader is promoted to be an assigned leaders.
Hopefully I would like know what you think about it.
Best regards,
Hiromi
Hi Hiromi,
Thank you for your comments. I agree with you that with a small business, it’s probably more likely the assigned leader will take both the manager and leader approach as they have to wear many “hats”. However I do find that in large organizations, it’s more likely that assigned leaders at a lower level take more of a manager approach and are fixated on the bottom line and executing projects on time. True leaders I find are more often at an executive level. They are most concerned with the direction of the organization and building the culture within it as opposed to the day to day operations. I suppose this is because once an organization get too big, it becomes more difficult to successfully and consistently use both approaches.
Have you witnessed this divide in large organizations?
Cheers.
Sarah Jasmins
Hi Sarah,
I am sorry for late reply because I am still struggling to use wordpress.
I agree with your comment, too. Maybe it is not only depends on the size of organization itself but also the level of assigned leaders.
Unfortunately this impression of mine is just imagination. In the medical field in Japan, we had the restriction that only doctors could run hospitals and even now most of the hospital are run by doctors and I don’t have any experience to work in companies. Doctors normally do both practicing as a clinician and work as a leader together and they don’t have any special education of business (Maybe also because we have the same insurance system in Canada).
I can find few good leader in Japan.
Blessing,
Hiromi