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Leadership
Psychodynamic Approach
Overview
Psychodynamic Approach Perspective
Psychodynamic Approach Background
Eric Berne & Transactional Analysis
Sigmund Freud & Personality Types
Carl Jung & Personality Types
Sixteen Types and Leadership
Dealing With Followers
How Does the Psychodynamic Approach Work?
Trait approach
characteristics are important
to leadership status and tasks
Style approach certain
behavior = best style, ex. team
management (9,9)
CP = critical parent
NP = nurturing parent
A = adult
FC = free child
AC = adapted child
Obsessive
Prefers order & stability
Value maintaining status quo
Living up to rules & regulations of society or
organization
Strong conscience
Sixteen
Types and
Leadership
Psychological
Types and
Leadership
Psychodynamic Approach
How does it work?
Assessments accomplished:
Psychological types MBTI or similar
method or questionnaires
Ego states TA model, ego states is used
Psychodynamic Approach
How does it work?
Strengths
Results in an analysis of the
relationship between a leader and a
follower
Is based on a search for universal truth
Emphasizes the leaders need for
insight
Discourages manipulative techniques
in leadership
Criticisms
Based on the psychology of the
abnormal rather than the normal
The MBTI may have reliability or
validity problems
TA has limitations as there is no
standardized assessment each person
evaluates own ego states
Criticisms
Focuses primarily on personalities of leader
& followers that dictate nature of relationship
between them
Rejection of notion that emotional reactions
occur toward leaders, followers & coworkers,
and that those reactions arise from
predispositions in individuals
Does not lend itself to traditional training
paradigm