Research Project: Leadership and organisational agility

Louise

The Significance of Organisational Agility

In the contemporary business landscape, organisational agility has become a prevailing theme. Management literature abounds with the buzzword, depicting an agile organisation as one that is lean, innovative, customer-centric, flexible, adaptable, and swift in responding to changes. Embracing agility necessitates not only a shift in organisational structures but also flexibility in leadership styles and the individuals assuming leadership roles under varying circumstances.

Research on Leadership Agility

Building upon the work of Katheryn Wells & Tim Kloppenborg and Anantatmula & Kloppenborg (2021) on the critical leadership competences for the roles of Scrum Master and Product Owner, the aim of this further research is to explore, in the South African context, the critical leadership competences for these two roles and, in addition, which leadership styles promote self-empowered teams.

We are interested in gaining input from people working in and around Agile projects.

Research context

The video below aims to prompt your thinking about leadership and sets the context for the research. We do encourage you to have a look at this before completing the survey.

The Survey Questionnaire

Now you have had a look at the video, consider:

  • Which of these leadership approaches are relevant to you?
  • What good and bad leadership practices have you observed in your organisation?
  • What do you think is the most important leadership skills when working in Agile teams?

The questionnaire is in Excel format and should take about 5-10 minutes to complete. It provides lists of competences grouped into three levels:

  • Value of responsibility
  • Value of Relationship
  • Value of respect

These are the levels and competences that have been identified in the initial work in the USA. We would like your views on which of these you think are most important to three roles:

  • Scrum Master
  • Product Owner
  • An empowered team member

And we would also love to hear what you feel has been missed. Do let us know your thoughts in the free format comment boxes provided.

Please email your completed Excel sheets to Louise Worsley, lworsley@pi3learning.com

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