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1CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
ORGANIZATION
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2CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
ORGANIZATION
Organizational Leadership Attributes
- Leadership
- The process of transforming organizations from
what they are to what the leader would have them
become - Desire to change the status quo
- Vision of the desired future
- Process for bringing about change
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3CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
ORGANIZATION
Organizational Leadership Attributes
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4CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
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Organizational Leadership Attributes
- Setting a Direction
- Understand the organization and all of its
stakeholders capabilities, limitations,
potential - Understand the current environment, environmental
trends and futures - Create a vision that positions the company in a
future state what it should become to realize
its potential relative to its future environment
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5CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
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Organizational Leadership Attributes
- Designing the Organization
- A strategic leadership activity of building
structures, teams, systems, and organizational
processes that facilitate the implementation of
the leaders vision and strategies - Requires a lot of insight, decisions and internal
organizational support to implement
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Organizational Leadership Attributes
- Difficulties in implementing the leaders vision
and strategies - Lack of understanding of responsibility and
accountability among managers - Reward systems that do not motivate individuals
and groups toward desired organizational goals - Inadequate or inappropriate budgeting and control
systems - Insufficient mechanisms to coordinate and
integrate activities across the organization
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7CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
ORGANIZATION
Organizational Leadership Attributes
- Developing an excellent and ethical
organizational culture - The organizational culture should reinforce core
competencies and high ethical standards - Leaders are the role models for the
organizational culture - Leaders who fail to demonstrate ethical behavior
undermine the ethical standards of the
organization
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8CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
ORGANIZATION
Elements of Effective Leadership
- Integrative Thinking
- The process by which people reconcile opposing
thoughts to identify creative solutions that
provide them with more options and new
alternatives - Identify and consider multiple avenues and
conflicting ideas - Determine multiple outcomes from following each
idea to its logical conclusion - Decide on the best or most feasible outcome
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9CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
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Elements of Effective Leadership
- Overcoming Barriers to Change
- Reasons why organizations are prone to inertia
and slow to change - Risk aversion and resistance to change
- Systemic organizational barriers
- Individual behavioral barriers - mindset
- Political barriers power relationships
- Personal time constraints
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10CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
ORGANIZATION
A Leaders Bases of Power
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11CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
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Leadership Traits
- Key Leadership Traits
- Technical Skill (Applied Knowledge)
- Cognitive Ability (Analytical Capability)
- Emotional Intelligence
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Leadership Traits
- Emotional Intelligence
- An individuals capacity for recognizing his own
emotions and those of others - Encompasses five components of self awareness
- Self Awareness
- Self Regulation
- Motivation
- Empathy
- Social Skill
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13CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
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Emotional Intelligence
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14CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
ORGANIZATION
Leadership Traits
- Effective leaders have empathy for others
- Effective leaders are astute judges of people
- Effective leaders are passionate about what they
do, and they show it - Effective leaders create personal connections
with their people
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15CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
ORGANIZATION
Inspiring and Motivating People
- Successful Learning Organizations
- Create a proactive, creative approach to the
unknown - Actively solicit the involvement of employees at
all levels - Enable all employees to use their intelligence
and apply their imagination
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16CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
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Empowering People
- Top-Down Approach (Control-Oriented)
- Start at the top
- Clarify the organizations mission, vision and
values - Clearly specify the tasks, roles and rewards
- Delegate responsibility based on demonstrated
capability - Hold people accountable for results
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17CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
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Empowering People
- Bottom-Up Approach (Trust-orientated)
- Start at the bottom
- Learn the needs of employees and what motivates
them - Teach employees self-management skills and model
desired behaviors - Build teams to encourage cooperative behavior
- Encourage innovation and intelligent risk-taking
- Trust people to perform
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18CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
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Sharing Internal Knowledge
- Open Book Approach
- Track daily, weekly and month-to-date performance
metrics at all levels of the organization - Share metrics with all levels of employees
- Teach employees what the metrics mean and how
they influence them - Share key financial results tied to metrics and
explain what they mean
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19CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
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Sharing External Knowledge
- Benchmarking
- Comparing basic performance metrics and financial
indicators across comparable organizational units - Internal benchmarking compares key metrics and
financial indicators across similar functional
units of the same company - External benchmarking compares key metrics and
financial indicators across similar functional
units of the same industry
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20CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
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Stimulating Creativity and Challenge
- Create a sense of urgency to change and improve
- Allow challenge of the status quo and dissenting
opinions - Foster innovative risk taking
- Foster curiosity and experimentation
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21CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
ORGANIZATION
Creating an Ethical Organization
- Organizational Ethics
- The values, attitudes, and behavioral patterns
that define an organizations operating culture
and that determine what an organization holds as
acceptable behavior
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Creating an Ethical Organization
- Organizational vs. Personal Ethics
- Organizational ethics policies benefit the
organization by creating boundaries that limit
legal liability and maintain regulatory
compliance - Organizational ethics are also valued in customer
and supplier relationships, and convey a sense of
social responsibility and trust in the marketplace
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23CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
ORGANIZATION
Creating an Ethical Organization
- Organizational vs. Personal Ethics
- Management leadership at all levels provides the
role model for ethical behavior - Personal ethical values that are inconsistent
with organizational ethics can create
organizational conflict - Punitive actions taken against employees who
violate ethical standards are after-the-fact and
not likely to change personal values - Recruit employees whose ethical values are
consistent with the organizational standards
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24CREATING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND AN ETHICAL
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Creating an Ethical Organization
- Compliance-Based Ethics Programs
- Programs for building ethical organizations that
have the goal of preventing, detecting, and
punishing legal violations - Integrity-based ethics programs
- Programs for building ethical organizations that
combine a concern for law with an emphasis on
managerial responsibility for ethical behavior
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Creating an Ethical Organization
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Creating an Ethical Organization
- Elements of Corporate Ethics Programs
- Leadership role models and involvement
- Corporate codes of conduct
- Detailed policies and procedures defining
specific situations and issues - Employee training with management involvement and
leadership - Review of rewards and incentive systems for
potential conflicts with ethical standards
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