The document outlines substantive theories of leadership. It makes several assumptions: 1) Leadership involves relationships with other people based on loyalty and commitment. 2) Leadership is exercised over time, not as a single act. 3) Leadership takes place within an organization or community. Other assumptions are that leadership is rooted in meaning and convictions, emerges from a shared vision of what can be accomplished, and requires articulating that vision and building commitment to it through formal and informal means within an organization.

1. Substantive
theories of
Leadership

2. First assumptions
• Leadership implies a relationship to other
people. That relationship involves strong
bonds of loyalty, commitment and a
shared sense of humanity.

3. Second Assumption
• Leadership is exercise over time.
• Leadership cannot be exercised as a
single as a single act or event, as though
nothing led up to it and nothing was
acquired after that moment.

4. Third Assumptions
• Leadership takes place in relationship to
some organization, institution and agency,
or community.

5. Other assumptions
• Leadership is rooted in meaning. Leaders
act out of deep convictions. These
convictions are rooted in meanings, in
central human values such as the dignity
of human life, the promotion of scientific
knowledge , the promotion of health of
brotherhood, the need for social justice, or
respect law.

6. • Leadership emerges out of vision.
Leaders have a vision of what they and
their colleagues can accomplish. While
that vision flows out of the core meaning
which guide the leader’s basic approach
to life.

7. • Leadership emerges out of a dramatic
sense.
• Leadership requires the articulation of
vision and building covenant.
• The leader will embody the organizational
structures, policies and procedures.
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8. Communal
Institutionalization of vision
Roots of the Vision
Meaning Associated with:
•The nature of human person
•The nature of human society
•View of the past and the future

9. Communal
Institutionalization of vision
Articulation of the Vision
Belief about:
•The human mind and how one knows
•How children develop as full human beings
•How children should be socialized
•Varieties of human learning
•Moral , Political, religious values
•What kind of future the young will face.

10. Communal
Institutionalization of vision
Articulation of the Vision
Formal statement of Mission of the School
-Cultural - political
-Academic - Moral
-Economic - social
-religious purposes

11. Communal
Institutionalization of vision
Articulation of the Vision
Process of Communicating the vision
•Thematic Purposing
•Rituals
•Celebrations
•Championing
•Heroes
•Rewards

12. Communal
Institutionalization of vision
Institutionalization of the Vision
Formal Organization
•Policies
•Programs
•Procedures
Graduation requirements
Curriculum Discipline
Course selection and Student activities
assignment Staffing budget

13. Communal
Institutionalization of vision
Institutionalization of the Vision
Informal Organization
•Company spirit
•Style of communications
•Tone of relationships
•Informal group
•Informal curriculum

14. Communal
Institutionalization of vision
Operationalization of the Vision
Woodrow Wilson School
A school that opens its doors every day and
looks like:
People coming and going out
•Classes, activities, interactions making up a
fabric of experience, meanings, patterns,
rituals, symbolic action, celebrations

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