motivational analysis of organizations

The facilitator divides the respondents into small groups (four or five members in
each group). If intact work groups are present, they should constitute the small groups.
The Strategic Leadership Styles Instrument Discussion Guide is distributed, and the
facilitator instructs the groups to use the guide to stimulate discussion and then to
prepare individual action plans.
USES OF THE INSTRUMENT
The Strategic Leadership Styles Instrument is designed to accomplish the following
objectives:
1. To help individual respondents to examine their relative preferences for strategic
leadership styles associated with Miller’s developmental cycles;
2. To help respondents to differentiate the impact of the eight leadership styles on
their organizations;
3. To facilitate discussion among members of intact work groups about their
collective style pattern;
4. To initiate discussions about the appropriateness of individual or group
leadership style preferences within the context of an organization’s short- and
long-term viability; and
5. To stimulate planning designed to increase individual and group use of
appropriate leadership styles.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
Clifford, D.K, Jr. (1985). The winning performance: How America’s high-growth midsize companies succeed.
New York: Bantam.
Collins, E.G.C. (Ed.). (1983). Executive success: Making it in management. New York: John Wiley.
Hickman, C.R., & Silva, M.A. (1984). Creating excellence: Managing corporate culture, strategy, and change in
the new age. New York: New American Library.
Kilmann, R.H. (1989). Managing beyond the quick fix: A completely integrated program for creating and
maintaining organizational success. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Kouzes, J.M., & Posner, B.Z. (1989). The leadership challenge: How to get extraordinary things done in
organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Maccoby, M. (1988). Why work: Leading the new generation. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Manz, C.C., & Sims, H.P., Jr. (1989). Super leadership: Leading others to lead themselves. New York: Prentice-
Hall.
Miller, L.M. (1989). Barbarians to bureaucrats: Corporate life cycle strategies-lessons from the rise and fall of
civilizations. New York: Clarkson N. Potter.
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