Leadership styles

An interesting quiz to assess your leadership style is based on Blake and Mouton’s model. This version is a useful one but should not be considered the definitive version of their leadership style model:
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/matrix.html 

A good interactive version of Fred Fiedler’s Least Preferred Co-worker model. Complete it to see what your leadership style is according to this survey:
http://www.practical-management.com/Analytics/Fiedler-LPC.html

Another quiz, this time to see your approach to leading or managing your staff. This one is more fun, and whilst it is not so academically rigorous, it might give you food for thought:
http://www.practical-management.com/Analytics/Lead-Vs-Manage-Quiz.html

This quiz claims to assess your styles according Lewin’s three leadership styles:
http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-leadershipquiz.htm

This website provides a graphic illustration of Hersey & Blanchard’s popular situational leadership model:
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/doing-research/leadership-development-for-principal-investigators-pis/leading-a-research-project/effective-research-project-leadership-1/research-leadership-styles

The Global Workforce survey

This page provides a link to the Global Workforce Survey report. The survey itself provides a fascinating insight into how modern employees think and some of the challenges that they face. In particular it brings out the issue that many employees do not feel engaged at work. This presents significant challenges regarding to manage them and what organizations and their leaders need to do to adapt. In doing so it raises the importance of followership:
http://www.towerswatson.com/Insights/IC-Types/Survey-Research-Results/2012/07/2012-Towers-Watson-Global-Workforce-Study

Royal Bank of Scotland and Stephen Hester

The following websites provide some interesting background information about the Royal Bank of Scotland and the subject of our interview, Stephen Hester:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9579704/Stephen-Hester-RBS-is-poster-child-for-banking-failures.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/rbs-nearly-recovered-says-stephen-hester-8175517.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19107542

The following stories focus on his bonus:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/feb/17/rbs-pay-chief-stephen-hester-bonus

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/29/rbs-stephen-hester-waives-bonus

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/27/david-cameron-stephen-hester-bonus

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2012/jan/30/stephen-hesters-country-estate?intcmp=239

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/27/stephen-hester-profile-rbs-bonus?intcmp=239

Women in the boardroom

This detailed report lays out some of the challenges that women face and the opportunities that companies have to improve the situation:
https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/press/cranfield-ftse-report-highlights-female-under-representation-in-executive-ranks

Another government-backed report looking in some detail about the position of women in boardrooms in the UK with some international comparison:
http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/business-law/docs/w/11-745-women-on-boards.pdf

A BBC news story about women in the boardroom, in Scotland:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-48639758

A United Nations-backed campaign to promote more women in the boardroom and in senior positions throughout the world. This website includes strong business reasons why having more women in the boardroom is an important issue:
https://www.unglobalcompact.org/take-action/action/womens-principles

Interesting news story about the potential quotas that the European Union might impose on companies in the EU to get the numbers of women on boardrooms to reach 40%:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/20/eu-to-push-for-40-quota-for-women-on-company-boards