L14: Inclusive Leadership

Question 1

What is inclusive leadership?

Answer 1

set of leader behaviours focused on facilitating group members feeling part of the group & retaining their sense of indivduality while contributing to group processes & outcomes
- value uniqueness (by enchancing diverse contributions, helping group members fully contribute)
- facilitaties belongingess (by supporting group members, ensuring justice & equity, shared decision making)

Question 2

What are the 2 complementary dimensions & 6 core behaviours of inclusive leadership?

Answer 2

• lead outward: accountability, ownership, allyship
• lead inward: curiosity, humility, courage

Question 3

What is meant by leading outward?

Answer 3

what u do to ensure team members are treated fairly, empowered, and able to flourish

Question 4

What is meant by leading inward?

Answer 4

requires a hard look at who you are & your inner ability to act courageously, learn, and self reflect

Question 5

What are the challenges of inclusive leadership?

Answer 5

• u need BOTH uniqueness & belongingness - just one backfires
• balance of unqiuess w some level of sharedness (u want a degree of uniform understanding)
• inclusive leadership might be seen as less agentic -> backlash for men? ou justement for non white & female leaders?

Question 6

What are the consequences of inclusive leadership?

Answer 6

• increases perceived organizational support
• increases employee innovative behaviour
• increases psych safety

Question 7

How can leaders develop inclusive leadership behaviours?

Answer 7

• use whole organization as support system:
• inclusive culture
• requires opportunity for safe learning
• requires inclusion of leaders & followers
• use of assignments, job rotation, job sharing, aciton learning, skills training

Question 8

what are the downsides of being an inclusive leader?

Answer 8

• backlash for women & non whtie individuals (thsi behaviour is not agentic so these groups REALLy do not fit leadership stereotype) -> feeds into incompetence stereotype & subsequently lower performance ratings
  -AKA burden on the minority, low status group members
  so need to involve high status majority members in diversity management