Disruptive Leadership: Looking Beyond The Horizon

ISBN-13: 9783656486336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 28 str.

Suryansh Pant; Christian P. Angern; Darima Pivovarova

Opis

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 100, Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH, course: Global Leadership, language: English, abstract: Disruptive leadership stresses the implementation of disruptive innovation in organizations. The following report focuses in linking the relationship between disruptive leadership and a disruptive innovator. Relevant sub components were developed which were: Diplomat, Dynamic Innovator and Interpreter. Each sub component was further defined by 5 items. The theory was tested through an online questionnaire filled by a diverse group of participants. Reliability analysis and factor analysis on SPSS software enabled to validate the constructs. Finally 14 items defined the overarching construct of disruptive leadership. The results suggested that Disruptive leadership was closely linked to Transformational Leadership. However, linkages to Paternalistic Leadership styles mainly Moral character and Benevolence was unexpected. Lastly, the definition of creativity and its importance for a disruptive leader was defined.