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Self-Protective Leadership

True Service vs. Self- Righteous

by: Kelsey Carr

Tan offers that self-righteous service is very self focused similar to the characteristics in SPL.

Tan argues that leading with true service is ultimately serving Jesus, which means we give up the right to be in charge and we live into humility (69).

Self-Protective Leadership in Confucian Asia

What does the Globe Project say?

Countries in Comparison

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Leadership Scores

Confucian Asia

Most of the Asian societies are associated with face-saving and status consciousness, therefore, although they find SPL neutral, they find the face saving a positive attribute to this leadership dimension.

In comparison of countries- almost all cluster respondents viewed SPL as impediment to effective leadership. Confucian Asian and Southern Asia view SPL as an almost neutral manner- yet Rich Brislin claims most Asian cultures are "group protective" (Chhokar et al, 707).

(Chhokar, kindle)

Self-protective leadership (SPL), is perceived globally as the least effective of Project GLOBE's six leadership styles, is about ensuring individual and/or group safety and security. It encompasses being status-conscious, self-centered, conflict-inducing, procedural and face-saving (House, 2004).

Scientifically Speaking..

The Self-Protective System is in the brain or our emotional and instinctual brains. "This Systems agenda is to ensure our survival by reacting to perceived threats in an instinctual or emotional fashion — fight, flight, freeze, befriend, etc. While we are able to use reason and plan our responses, we can get stuck in automatic self-protective patterns of behavior that limit our lives and get in the way of healthy relationships. These behaviors are not learned, but are hard-wired into the fabric of our brain’s physical organization and are only concerned with the preservation of our self, self-image or self-concept." (Dranitsaris, 2012)

Self-protection is a natural instinct, but how do leaders care for both self and others in a balanced and healthy manner?

What is Self-Protective Leadership?

The Correlation of Power Distance and SPL

Self-Protective: Autonomous leadership refers to independent and individualistic leadership attributes

Pros

5 ways to identify a Self-Protective Leader...

-procedural

-saving face

-protection from acts of criticism and corruption

-autonomy

ex: Leaders may need to make autonomous decisions when responding to humane needs and be self-protective so that they aren't made the scape goats for political ends (Chhokar, 555)

In Conclusion

Cons

-status and class conscious

-ritualistic

-secretive

-evasive

-indirect

-self centered

ex: Leader makes decisions

thinking only about themselves.

How does it look behaviorally?

-Power distance has a positive association with Self-Protective Leadership.

-Power distance cultural practices and values scores were significantly related to the SPL dimension and explained a total of 38.6% of organizational and societal variance for this dimension. (Chhokar, 553).

1) Not responding to an employee’s request for information or to meet.

2) Not giving positive feedback.

3) Not attending meetings or arriving late.

4) Sounding like they agree or assent to a request, but denying it later.

5) Silent treatment to employee (Dranitsaris, 2012)

Looking out for me!

SPL is not viewed in the most positive light, yet there are Confucian countries that continue to use this sort of leadership in order to save face. In summary, SPL dimension includes five primary leadership subscales... 1) self centered, 2) status conscious 3) conflict inducer, 4) face saver, and 5) procedural. While not all of these attributes are negative, they are usually very self-focused.

(Chhokar, 675).

Self-protective behavior is often the only way a person has to make them self feel that they have any power or control over what is going on.

"One of the ways that many people behave from their SP System is doing and saying nothing at all when others need them to. There is great power in not doing something that someone else needs you to do. We generally call these behaviors passive-aggressive because they are emotionally driven and result in people, other than the one who is being passive aggressive, feeling helpless, frustrated or angry. Doing nothing is a very powerful way of feeling in control even though it doesn’t really resolve issues or get us what we want." (Dranitsaris, 2012)

Bibliography

Chhokar, Jagdeep Singh, Felix C. Brodbeck, and Robert J. House. Culture and Leadership across the World: The GLOBE Book of In-depth Studies of 25 Societies. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.

Dranitsaris, Anne, Ph.D. "The Power of the Self-Protective System." Striving Styles Blog. Anne Dranitsaris Ph.D., 14 Aug. 2012. Web. 15 Nov. 2016.

http://www.grovewell.com/wp-content/uploads/pub-GLOBE-leadership-style.pdf

Tan, Siang-Yang. Full Service: Moving from Self-serve Christianity to Total Servanthood.

Baker Books, 2006.

Osinski, Caroline. "Leadership Styles Across Cultures." Human Resources IQ. N.p., 20 Feb. 2014. Web. 17 Nov. 2016.

http://www.humanresourcesiq.com/hr-learning-development/articles/leadership-styles-across-cultures

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