Leadership analysis of Mother Teresa

1. Mother Teresa
Cross Cultural Leadership
2015
Prapered by: Didem SahinPrapered by: Didem Sahin

2. Index
O Biography
O Leadership Models / Styles
O Situational Approach
O Servant Leader
O Transformational Leader
O Woman and Leadership
O Authentic Leader

3. Early Days
 She was born on 27th
August 1910 in Skopje
Republic of Macedonia.
 Her real name was
Agnes Gionxhu Bojaxhiu.
(Gonca Boyacı)
 She was the youngest
child in her family.
 Her parents were Nikolle
and Drana
 Mother Teresa died on
the 5th
of September
1997.

4. OShe was 10 when her father died.
O.After her father's death, her mother raised her as a Roman Catholic.
OTeresa was convinced by the age of twelve that she should commit
herself to a religious life.
OTeresa left home at the age of 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto as a
missionary.
OShe took her first religious vows as a nun on May 24, 1931.
OShe never saw her mum and sisters again.
OIn 1944 she bacame head mistress at the Loreto Convent School.

5. O Relationship Oriented ,Situational Leader
O Mother Teresa was a situational leader.
O She helped people according to their situation, for
example if they were starving she would provide food
for them, if they had no place to stay she would
provide a home for them to say at, if they were ill she
took her time to practice medicine in order to help
heal them.
O If a situation came, she would find a solution to help
them in some way.
Leadership Styles / Models
Situational Approach

6. Servant Leader
O 10.9.1964 -she got the calling to
work with the poor. She began
missionary work with the poor of
Calcutta.
O 1948- she took Indian citizenship
O 1848 -opened her first school in
Motjhil to serve the homeless and
starving.
O 7.10.1950 – Vatican permission to
set up Missionaries of Charity, to
care for the hungry, the naked, the
homeless, the crippled, the blind
and lepers.
O She started with 13 nuns now there
are over 4,000

7. Homes for the poor
O 1952 – opens Nirmal
Hriday [pure heart] for the
dying.
O 1955 – opens Nirmala
Shishua Bhavan
[ immaculate heart] for lost
children or children's home.
O 1957 – opens Shanti Nagar
[city of peace] a home for
lepers.
O Her order became well
known for this work!

8. Transformational Leader
O She was very blessed.
O Found most characteristic leader in
Weber’s Theory of Social Organizations.
O Extraordinary moral inspiration :First
followers were her students whose parent
and relatives had a high profile politically.
O Problem Solver: Always developed radical
solutions to crises.
She transformed people to good people
and helped them to find the higher level of
inside them.
O She transformed the society to a charity
with love and faith
O -1970she had become internationally
famed as a humanitarian

9. Awards that she got
O 1962 - Padma shri award
O 1971 - Pope John XXIII peace prize
O 1975 - Albert Schweiter international prize
O 1976 - Pacem in Terris award
O 1978 - Balzon prize
O 1979 - Noble Peace Prize
O 1983 - Order of Merit
O 1985 - Medal of Freedom
O 1994 - Golden Honour of the Nation [Albania]
O 1996 - Honorary citizenship of USA
1998 - Pope John Paul II begins the process to make her a
saint.
This process is still going on !

10. Authentic Leader
O Being an authentic leader means you lead with your
heart.
O Mother Theresa was a compelling example of an
authentic leader.
O She had created an organization of 4,000
missionaries operating in a hundred countries.
O Strong vision and mission
O After the Nobel Prize she did not accept celebration
dinner and she demaned the money of the dinner to
give the poor people.(Self Discipline)
O She also had a very close relationship with people
and exercised self-discipline.(Princess Diana,And
diplomates etc)

11. Woman and Leadership
O She dealed with lots of problems
even men can not deal .
O Mother Teresa helped people with
Leprosy.Most people wouldn’t go
near people with neprosy.
O She went around people who have
deadly deseases.
O A saying abput her ‘She had gread
courage in a lord.’
O She was asked, "What can we do to
promote world peace?" She
answered: "Go home and love your
family."

12. Where she helped
O 1982 – siege of Beirut O 1985 - Ethopia
O 1986 - Chernobyl O 1988 - Armenia

13. International
Charity

14. Pictures of her funeral

15. Thank you
O “ Not all of us can do
great things. But we
can do small things
with great love.”
– Mother Teresa