Art. 2 Battilana

Question 1

Batillana et al. talk about two types of leadership competencies. Which two and what do they entail?

Answer 1

1. Task oriented
   
   • skills related to organizational structure, design, and control, and to
   • establishing routines to attain organizational goals and objectives
2. Person oriented
   
   • Include behavior that promote collaborative interaction among organization members,
   • establish a supportive social climate, and
   • promote management practices that ensure equitable treatment of organization members

Question 2

What are the three key activities involved in planned organizational change implementation?

Answer 2

• Communicating the need for change: refers to activities leaders undertake to make the case for change, to share their vision of the need for change with followers
• Mobilizing others to accept change: refers to actions leaders undertake to gain co-workers’ support for and acceptance of the enactment of new work routines.
• Evaluating change implementation: refers to measures leaders employ to monitor and assess the impact of implementation efforts and institutionalize changes.

Question 3

What are the findings for Communicating change?

Answer 3

1a) Leaders who are more effective at person-oriented behaviors are more likely than other leaders to focus on the activities associated with communicating the need for change

1b)

Question 4

What are the findings for Mobilizing

Answer 4

The results suggest that managers who are effective at task-oriented behaviors will put more emphasis on the mobilizing activities involved in planned organizational change implementation, but that there are no significant differences between those who are more effective at person-oriented behaviors and others.

Question 5

What are the findings for Evaluating

Answer 5

These results suggest that managers who are effective at task-oriented behaviors will put more emphasis on the evaluating activities involved in planned organizational change implementation, but that there are no significant differences between those who are more effective at person-oriented behaviors and others.

Question 6

What are the two important findings in this study?

Answer 6

1. Leaders who are more effective at task-oriented behaviors are more likely to focus on both the mobilizing and evaluating activities associated with planned organizational change implementation
2. Leaders who are more effective at person-oriented behaviors are more likely to focus on the communicating activities of planned organizational change implementation.

Question 7

What expectation is supported by this research?

Answer 7

That larger organizations might both have more standard operating procedures and resources devoted to change programs and be more resistant to change.

Question 8

Which two contributions are made by this research?

Answer 8

1) develops understanding of the process of change by identifying some new correlates (namely, leadership competencies) of key activities for implementing planned organizational change. By showing different activities to have different correlates in terms of leadership competencies, our results support the notion of organizational change as a complex, dynamic process.
2) contributes to the stream of research about organizational change by linking the work of organizational theorists and more practice-oriented scholars.