Executive Assessment and the Bottom Line: Thinking Clearly about Leadership Effectiveness
Kaiser, R.B. (2010, February). Executive Assessment and the Bottom Line: Thinking Clearly about Leadership Effectiveness. Workshop delivered at the Society for Psychologists in Management annual conference, Tampa, FL.
What does it mean for a leader to be effective? A critical examination of psychological research and consultation suggests a major disconnect between our espoused theories and our theories in use. In this interactive session, we will articulate implicit ideas about leadership effectiveness and carefully evaluate how we assess the effectiveness of our clients. In particular, we will explore the possibility that management psychologists, like most everyday people, have fallen prey to romantic individualistic notions of leadership at the expense of the ultimate functions of leadership as a resource for collective performance. A conceptual model for understanding how leaders influence organizational success or failure will be proposed, along with specific tools and techniques for making executive assessment more relevant to the fate of organizations.
Learning Goals
- Get explicit about implicit assumptions in executive assessment concerning what it means to be an “effective” leader.
- Critically evaluate the state of research and practice concerning leadership effectiveness.
- Learn new models, tools, and techniques for gauging the effectiveness of managers for development and selection.
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