LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION

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LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION

• B.V.L.NARAYANA
• SPTM/RSC/BRC

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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP

• Leadership
• Process of social influence
• Which enlists the aid of people
• To achieve something(extraordinary)
• Or
• Creating a way for people to contribute
• Contribute in form of
• Ideas, effort, resources,
• Achieve
• Common goals

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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP

• Innovation
• intentionally bringing into existence something
  new that can be sustained and repeated and which
  has some value or utility.
• Innovation change
• Leadership --change

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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP

• Change is associated with
• Resistance
• Resistance to acceptance requires influence
• Coping adjustments
• Requires motivation and resources
• Responding ownership
• Requires commitment so influence
• Choosing acceptance
• Requires feasibility a vision--direction
• Bringing forth
• Creativity with ownership and feasibility
• Mastery
• Ability to create circumstances for change

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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP

• PROVIDE
• LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION
• AND
• INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP

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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP
PROVIDES INNOVATIVE THINKING
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INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP

• REQUIRES SIX THINKING SKILLS
• PAYING ATTENTION
• PERSONALISING
• TAPPING INOT CUSTOMER AND EXPERIENCE
• IMAGING
• USE PICTURES, STORIES,METAPHORS TO TRANSMIT IDEAS
• SERIOUS PLAY
• OUT OF WAY THINKING TO GET SERIOUS RESULTS
• COLLABORATIVE THINKING WITH STAKE HOLDERS
• CRAFTING
• RESOLVE PARADOXES

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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP
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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP

• INNOVATIVE THINKING LEADER
• PROMOTES ORGANISATIONAL ENCOURAGEMENT FOR
  INNOVATION
• REMOVES IMPEDIMENTS
• PROVIDES SUFFICIENT RESOURCES
• ENCOURAGES CREATIVE INDIVIDUALS
• PROVIDES FREEDOM AND A REALISTIC AND WORKLOAD
• PROVIDES CHALLENGING WORK
• PROMOTES TEAM WORK AND COLLABORATION

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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP

• LEADERSHIP HAS INFLUENCE ON
• INNOVATION AND PERFORMANCE
• DIRECTLY THROUGH DECISION MAKING (Zhu, Chew and
  Sprangler 2005)
• MORE THROUGH CREATION OF SUITABLE ORGANISATIONAL
  CLIMATE ( Reiter-Palmon and IIlies(2004))

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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP

• Organizational climate
• Recurring pattern of behaviors, attitudes and
  feeling that characterize life in an organization
  what members experience
• Organizational culture
• The values, beliefs, history, traditions etc
  reflecting the deeper foundations of an
  organization- what members value
• Climate lead to strengthening or change in
  culture
• Leadership accounts for 40-80 of variance
  (Ekvall 1997)

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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP

• Leadership impacts across nine dimensions
• Challenge/involvement
• Freedom
• Trust/openness
• Idea time
• Playfulness
• Conflict reduction
• Idea support
• Debate risk taking

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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP

• Factors influencing organizational climate

Leadership. The organizational vision,
mission, goals and strategies. The amount of
available resources. Personnel policies
(particularly rewards and promotions). The
behaviors of the people in the organization.
The beliefs and values of the organization. The
organizational structures and systems. Concern
for profits and losses. Levels of job
satisfaction.
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ROLE OF LEADERSHIP

• Findings of a global study (2008)
• Higher the perceived degree of success in
  proximal innovation (innovation at work unit
  level) better the organizational climate
• Higher the perceived degree of success in omnibus
  innovation (innovation at organizational) better
  the organizational climate
• Perception of a leaders ability to support
  innovation improves the perception of
  organizational climate

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