Have been doing lots of reading on organisational theory and leadership and its quite illuminating in terms of the leadership and follower behaviour in my own work environment. Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership (in Marzano, Walters and McNulty, 2005) was particularly interesting. In brief it describes the different leadership techniques you employ based on on the followers un/willingness and in/ability.
In brief:
Unable and Unwilling ---- telling
Unable but willing --------particpating
able but unwilling -------- selling
able and willing ---------- delegating
The other idea that has struck me this week was the notion of Instructional Leadership and Leadership for learning (Townsend, 2011). I appreciate the underlying philosophical difference in the terms and am inclined to favour the UK propensity to use leadership for learning which seems to sit much more comfortably with constructivist notions of learning and shifts in educational pedagogy. I also like the notion of distributed leadership in the sense that it alludes to the capacity for leadership in all members of the school.
Marzano, R. J., Waters, T., & McNulty, B. A. (2005). Some theories and theorists on leadership. School leadership that works: from research to results (pp. 13-27). Alexandria, Va.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development ;.Retrieved 27 January, 2013 from http://site.ebrary.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/lib/csuau/docDetail.action?docID=10089219
Townsend, T. (2011). School leadership in the twenty-first century: different approaches to common problems?. School Leadership and Management, 31(2),
93-103. Retrieved January 28, 2013, from.
http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/doi/abs/10.1080/13632434.2011.572419
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