The Changing Nature of Leadership
Objective 9-6 Discuss leaders as coaches and examine gender and cross-cultural issues in leadership.
Various alternatives to leadership aside, many settings still call for at least some degree of leadership, although the nature of that leadership continues to evolve. Among the recent changes in leadership that managers should recognize are the increasing role of leaders as coaches as well as gender and cross-cultural patterns of leader behavior.
Leaders as Coaches
We noted in Chapter 6 and again in Chapter 8 that m any organizations today are using teams. Many other organizations are attempting to become less hierarchical by eliminating the old-fashioned command-and-control mentality often inherent in bureaucratic ...
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