State of Leadership Development in the Ethiopian Management Institute
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2010-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The notion of leadership development is an important aspect of organizational development for
building existing potentials of lea ders and improving performance. Leadership development is a
process which begins with improving th e person's understanding, skills, attitudes and
competencies required in modern leadership practices and competitive business world so that
teams, organizations as an entity as well as the society at large will benefit out of it. In Ethiopia,
various approaches of leadership deve lopm ent have been made by education and training
institutes, organizations by th eir own mechanisms as well as leaders themselves. Hence
tremendous experiences are available and the purpose of this study is contributingfor leadership
development by giving emphasis for the integration of transformational leadership training and
coaching methods designed and implemented by Ethiopian Management Institute. The study
used descriptive method of research and a combination of four data collecting techniques was
applied. 48 respondents from top, middle and line management (Addis Ababa Transport
Authority, Radio Fana, General Audit Office, and Oromia Water Works Construction Enterprise
were representing government organizations whereas; DH Geda SC from the private
organizations), who had taken Leadership Development Program of EMI and 30 management
consultants participated in ques tionnaire administration. In addition, 2 EMI directors and 3
LDP participants were also interviewed; the student researcher also attended transformational
leadership training to observe the process and also consulted relevant documents pertaining to
this study. The data has been entered into a computer and analyzed by the help of SPSS and
then findings were presented in the form of text, tables and charts. The study investigated
leadership capacity development activities of EMI and the selected government and private
organizations. Thus the study addressed three interdependent components. These are the
exp eriences of leadership development practices in the selected organizations, relevance of
transformational leadership and couching and its process as well as outcome level results so that
relevant experiences have been drawn. The study depicted the integration of more than one
leadership development methods brought effectiveness both for the individual leaders'
development as well as organizations. Specifically, theory based leadership education has
replaced by transformational skills and behaviors and also supported by coaching to cement the
change obtained from the training activity. If properly design ed and implem ented and with
commitment, organizational developm ents can be realized through LDP in a wider scale. In
LDP, the process has more value than any other thing in transforming thoughts, practices and
experiences for leading self and others. The combination of reviewed literature and the findings
of leadership development revealed that leadership is not only achieving the completion of a
given task but also utilizing untapped potentials for achieving th e desired goals in a sustainable
manner through committed leaders, coaches and facilitators of change. The implications of this
study have outlined and are believed to contribute for leadership development.
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