R5: People do not lack strength, they lack will.
Assessing Leadership and Measuring
Its Effects
Presented by Mr. Hor Chanrotha
CMU’s undergraduate program June 2010
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R5: People do not lack strength, they lack will.
Discussion Questions
1. Why do we have good and bad leader?
2. Why is everything because of leader?
3. Why do good leaders are good problem
solvers?
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Course Objectives
1. Assessing Leadership
2. Measuring the Effects of Leadership
3. Methodologies Used to Study Leadership
4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership
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1. Assessing Leadership
Putting the wrong people into
key leadership positions can
cost billions of dollars and
lead organizational to ruin.
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1. Assessing Leadership
1. Commonly techniques • application blanks
• reference checks
• unstructured
interviews
 are also the least
valid.
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1. Assessing Leadership
2. Best Practices
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• Determine the leadership level
of the position.
• Build a competency model.
• Use a multiple hurdles
approach.
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Competency model
Knowledge +
Ability
+
Skills
+
other relevant contributes
to success performance in a
particular job
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Multiple Hurdles Approach
Figure 4-2
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1.2 Assessment Center Simulations
 In-Basket
exercise
=> Work simulation that requires candidate to
do actual “paperwork.”
 Role-Play simulations
=> Actors are trained assessors who observe
and rate the performance of each candidate.
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2. Measuring the Effects of Leadership
• Common Measures of Successful and
Unsuccessful Leadership
• Best Practices in Measuring Leadership Success
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Common Measures
 Superiors’ effectiveness and performance
ratings.
 Subordinates’ ratings on
satisfaction,
organizational climate,
morale, motivation, and
leadership effectiveness.
 Unit performance indices.
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2.2 Best Practices in Measuring Leadership
Success
o Ratings by superiors and subordinates
o Multiple measures
o How their behavior affects the
measures used to judge leadership
success
o Be aware of leadership success
measures being biased.
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3. Methodologies Used to Study Leadership
The Qualitative Approach
The most common qualitative
approach is the case study.
Quantitative Approaches
Correlational studies
Experiments
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4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership
 Maxims: personal opinions that can give
valuable advice about leadership.
 Theory: framework for conceptualizing
relationships between variables and
guiding research toward a fuller
understanding of phenomena.
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4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership
Theories: are central scientific research due to:
=>Public predictions of how
leadership variables are
interrelated.
=>The systematic gathering and
analysis of data.
=>Peer review of results.
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4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership

Maxims
may represent valid advice,
but they are ultimately no
more than personal opinion.
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4. Maxims and Theories of Leadership
Maxims
and
theories are useful
for understanding
leadership
situations.
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 Only
theories add to
the body of knowledge
concerning the science
of leadership and help
the development of
universal laws of
leadership.
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make it happen
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do not
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lack to
will.
You create your world by your
thought. Buddha
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measuring Buddha.
its effects
By our thought,Chapter4:
we create
our and
world,
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The
towant
success
is always
under
R5: Decide what
really
andlack
willing
to pay
theconstruction
price
make it happen
R5:road
People
do not
strength,
they
lack to
will.
What does human can do?
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