ADMS 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Organizational Culture, Ethical Movement, Learning Organization

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 4900
• Professor: Jon Kerr

Document Summary

Strategic leadership creating a learning, ethical, and socially responsible. Recognize the importance of developing a learning organization. Instil a culture of empowerment (i. e. employees and managers throughout the organization develop a sense of self-determination, competence, meaning and impact that is centrally important to learning. Building an ethical organization with an ethical culture that contributes to the firm"s effectiveness. Leadership: three interdependent activities: determining a direction, designing the organization, nurturing a culture dedicated to excellence and ethical behaviour. Failure in today"s organizations can be attributed to failure to give equal consideration to all three activities. Leadership is proactive, goal-oriented and focused on the creation and implementation of a creative vision. It is the process of transforming organizations from what they are to what the leader wants them to become. Overlap between strategic management and leadership leadership is about managing strategically and strategic management relies on leadership skills; both deal with the process of guiding the organization to achieve its goals.