Accord Status, Esteem And Leadership Analysis

The chapter that I read was titled “Accord Status, Esteem & Leadership” and it focuses mainly on how someone’s status and esteem (respectively) affect one’s ability to be an effective leader. Status is defined as someone’s ability to be “the master of objects the other men covet”. This can mean simply material items (i.e. having the nicest clothes, car, and a lot of money) and also workplace positions (desirable jobs with influence). Esteem on the other hand, is described as the value that is accorded to them by others for their personal traits and qualities that they possess. With this being said, it is very possible for someone to high status but low esteem. Esteem and status are however, generally correlated with each other. Moreover, it

Esteem differs from status because it focuses on what people believe in them (or what other people believe they do/are) rather than the position they hold. Esteem has been incredibly important in the business environment because according to a study performed by Wurster, Bass, and Alcock (1961) “just as we would like to occupy valued positions, most of us also desire to be valued as persons particularly by those we value”. This specific study really stuck out to me because I feel that it very accurately sums up what esteem is. People don’t need to simply be liked because of their job or family name, as humans we need to be valued as people and be valued for who they are. If workers do not feel that they are valued at work, they will work less and be significantly less insinuated to contribute to the group objectives. We are more satisfied with situations and groups that provide us with esteem, since inherintinely high esteem levels make people feel good about themselves. Esteem is vital on both sides of the leader-follower relationship, according to further analysis of the D.T. Campbell study (1953) “subordinates value and esteem leaders who are considerate of their needs and who avoid being domineering”. What this means is that followers like to have their leaders value their concerns and not be overbearing with their leadership tactics. Overall,

The speaker in the video discussed how on the first day of college he was walking around and giving lollypops to new students who seemed to be overwhelmed by college itself. The striking part of the story was that he had probably given out a couple hundred lollypops that day, but there was one girl that he gave one to that changed her life and helped her to become a more confident person. This related directly to status, because the girl felt she was a lower status than other people on campus because she was new. So when he came up to her (he is someone she perceives to be higher status) she felt that she became higher status because he was choosing to interact with her. This led to her gaining confidence to go out and make friends at college, which led to her having a significantly higher opinion of herself (she gained esteem). Overall, I really enjoyed taking this course because of stories like this. We got to focus on what we can do better going forward to be more impactful leaders and also learned to treat everyone equally (regardless of their status) which is a pretty difficult thing to attempt to do. I hope to keep the lessons I learned instilled in my actions day to day, and utilize my new knowledge to become a great leader in the