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Dr. Jeffery D Whippo, a leadership consultant with years of success in business and military leadership. He believes that when measuring leadership, there are various techniques that are used to both measure the aptitude of the leaders themselves, to include their leadership competencies, as well as measuring their effect on their subordinates that are following them. According to Dr. Jeffery Whippo, some of the most commonly used measures to rate successful and unsuccessful leaders include - Rating superioru2019s effectiveness and performance ratings; Subordinates ratings of their job satisfaction and morale of their leaderu2019s effectiveness; and Business unit performance indices.
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Dr. Jeffery D Whippo Discusses the Common Measures of Successful and Unsuccessful Leadership
Dr. Jeffery D Whippo’s Views on Measuring Leadership Dr. Jeffery D Whippo, a leadership consultant with years of success in business and military leadership. He believes that when measuring leadership, there are various techniques that are used to both measure the aptitude of the leaders themselves, to include their leadership competencies, as well as measuring their effect on their subordinates that are following them. He also says that oftentimes the consequences or outcomes of the leader’s behaviors are judged rather than the actual behaviors themselves.
Dr. Jeffery Shared the Most Commonly Used Measures to Rate Successful & Unsuccessful Leaders According to Dr. Jeffery Whippo, some of the most commonly used measures to rate successful and unsuccessful leaders include Rating superior’s effectiveness and performance ratings Subordinates ratings of their job satisfaction and morale of their leader’s effectiveness Business unit performance indices
Whippo Talks about the Superior’s Ratings Measure Dr. Whippo states that the most commonly used measure of successful and unsuccessful leadership is the superior’s ratings measure. According to him, some of the disadvantages of utilizing this measure include superiors’ biases, raters may not be aware of true performance and the fact that raters may be unwilling to provide tough feedback. He feels that when utilizing subordinate’s ratings to measure successful and unsuccessful leadership, there are advantages in that the ratings are subject to the leaders’ behaviors and multiple raters are used so scores are averaged out to a mean performance rating. Furthermore, he indicates that the disadvantages of using subordinates’ ratings include the fact that some subordinates may simply not be motivated, there may be inherent biases with some subordinates that don’t accurately reflect the leader’s behaviors, and there may be no links between the ratings and the actual performance of the business unit.
Whippo Also Explains Unit Performance Indices in Detail According to Dr. Jeff Whippo, unit performance indices, when used for rating the success of leadership, provide actual evidence bases results. However these results, good or bad, may be due to factors that are completely beyond the control of the leader.
