1. LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION B.V.L.NARAYANA SPTM/RSC/BRC

2. ROLE OF LEADERSHIP  Leadership  Process of social influence  Which enlists the aid of people  To achieve something(extraordinary)  Or  Creating a way for people to contribute  Contribute in form of  Ideas, effort, resources,  Achieve  Common goals

3. ROLE OF LEADERSHIP  Innovation  intentionally ‘bringing into existence’ something new that can be sustained and repeated and which has some value or utility.  Innovation – change  Leadership --change

4. ROLE OF LEADERSHIP  Change is associated with  Resistance  Resistance to acceptance requires influence  Coping –adjustments  Requires motivation and resources  Responding –ownership  Requires commitment –so influence  Choosing –acceptance  Requires feasibility –a vision--direction  Bringing forth  Creativity with ownership and feasibility  Mastery  Ability to create circumstances for change

5. ROLE OF LEADERSHIP  PROVIDE  LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION  AND  INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP

6. ROLE OF LEADERSHIP PROVIDES INNOVATIVE THINKING

7. INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP  REQUIRES SIX THINKING SKILLS  PAYING ATTENTION  PERSONALISING  TAPPING INOT CUSTOMER AND EXPERIENCE  IMAGING  USE PICTURES, STORIES,METAPHORS TO TRANSMIT IDEAS  SERIOUS PLAY  OUT OF WAY THINKING TO GET SERIOUS RESULTS  COLLABORATIVE THINKING WITH STAKE HOLDERS  CRAFTING  RESOLVE PARADOXES

8. ROLE OF LEADERSHIP

9.  INNOVATIVE THINKING LEADER  PROMOTES ORGANISATIONAL ENCOURAGEMENT FOR INNOVATION  REMOVES IMPEDIMENTS  PROVIDES SUFFICIENT RESOURCES  ENCOURAGES CREATIVE INDIVIDUALS  PROVIDES FREEDOM AND A REALISTIC AND WORKLOAD  PROVIDES CHALLENGING WORK  PROMOTES TEAM WORK AND COLLABORATION

10. ROLE OF LEADERSHIP  LEADERSHIP HAS INFLUENCE ON  INNOVATION AND PERFORMANCE  DIRECTLY THROUGH DECISION MAKING (Zhu, Chew and Sprangler 2005)  MORE THROUGH CREATION OF SUITABLE ORGANISATIONAL CLIMATE ( Reiter-Palmon and IIlies(2004))

11. ROLE OF LEADERSHIP  Organizational climate  Recurring pattern of behaviors, attitudes and feeling that characterize life in an organization – what members experience  Organizational culture  The values, beliefs, history, traditions etc reflecting the deeper foundations of an organization- what members value  Climate – lead to strengthening or change in culture  Leadership accounts for 40-80% of variance (Ekvall 1997)

12. ROLE OF LEADERSHIP  Leadership impacts across nine dimensions  Challenge/involvement  Freedom  Trust/openness  Idea time  Playfulness  Conflict reduction  Idea support  Debate risk taking

14. ROLE OF LEADERSHIP  Factors influencing organizational climate Leadership. The organizational vision, mission, goals and strategies. The amount of available resources. Personnel policies (particularly rewards and promotions). The behaviors of the people in the organization. The beliefs and values of the organization. The organizational structures and systems. Concern for profits and losses. Levels of job satisfaction.

15. ROLE OF LEADERSHIP  Findings of a global study (2008)  Higher the perceived degree of success in proximal innovation (innovation at work unit level) better the organizational climate  Higher the perceived degree of success in omnibus innovation (innovation at organizational) better the organizational climate  Perception of a leaders ability to support innovation improves the perception of organizational climate

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