...our individual creative intelligence styles. Creative Intelligence refers to the way individuals use their creative potential. More specifically, Creative Intelligence describes the aspects of personality that drive us to achieve outstanding results. It also covers how we see and understand the world around us. It deals with our basic values in terms of what we consider right and wrong, or good and bad. And finally, it covers our willingness to take risks. The styles are as follows: Intuitive - Focuses on results and relies on past experience to guide actions. Innovative - Concentrates on problem-solving, is systematic, and relies on data. Imaginative - Is able to visualize opportunities, is artistic, enjoys writing, and thinks “out of the box.” Inspirational - Focuses on social change and the giving of self toward that end (Apollo Group Incorporated, 2004). After doing the worksheet, the results are as follows. Vernette Kudler Fine Foods is a growing organization the leaders at Kudler contribute to the success of the organization. A person’s creativity and intellectual ability goes together. Individuals have different personality traits these traits can help an organization succeed or fail. In completing the Creative Intelligence Profile, I rated in the category inspirational. In analyzing Kindler’s Foods organization my leadership skills fall in the category of integrity. The integrity and success of the company is very important. Leaders are honest and demonstrate...
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...Introduction According to the theory of leadership, there are many definitions relating to the trait of leaders. The concept of leadership can be defined as a potential to motivate their followers and be able to drive them to accomplish their objective (Robbins et al, 2010:316). Moreover, the main characteristics of leaders should consist of the ability to illustrate the beneficial ways for the majority and persuade their followers to accept the most significant aim to be successfully (Yukl 2013:22). This report will investigate about the leadership style of the President of the South African leader Invictus (Nelson Mandela), as depicted in the film directed by Clint Eastwood, “Invictus” (2009). Invictus represents the story of President Nelson Mandela and is based on historical true story while he was the President of South Africa. The story began before the World Cup Rugby during his term in 1994. The significant of movie is shown in three parts which involved with Mandela’s life during he was the nation’s leader. The first part began with Mandela’s personal traits, which are Conscientiousness, Openness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Emotional stability. He has a leader behavior that can lead people to accept and respect him. The second part demonstrates how Mandela uses the potential leader’s power to manage the problems in the nation. He achieved his goal by using referent power in the right way. He can use the power to inspire people to follow his objective in term...
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...The Relationship between The Big Five Personality Traits (Five Factor Model-FFM) and Transformational Leadership Yunita Agustian Minjalnis (1121200127) Fatima Al-Qadhibi (1121200083) Aurora Noor Aisa (1121200128) Vasantakumaren Seri Ramalo (1111200145) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chong Chin Wei – DBA/PhD/MPhil Malaysia 26th December 2012 MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY INTRODUCTION Are you born to be a leader? Are you a “natural”? Or is leadership a set of behaviors and competencies that anyone can develop, given the right experiences, circumstances, and training? Since the 1960s, researchers have examined whether there is a relationship between the basic agreed-on factors that make up personality and leadership. The Big Five personality factors are Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, and Extraversion, which some researchers have labelled the CANOE personality model as an easy aid to remembering each factor (Bligh, 2009). As Tejeda (2001) asserts, “the past two decades have witnessed a great deal of scholarly attention transformational leadership behavior, which is currently the most widely accepted leadership paradigm” (as cited in Rubin, Munz, & Bommer, 2005, p.845). Transformational leadership behavior represents the most active/effective form of leadership, a form in which leaders are closely engaged with followers, motivating them to perform beyond their transactional agreements. Barling, Weber, and Kelloway (1996) demonstrated that some transformational leadership...
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...leader is about the ability to lead followers in a way that provides support, inspiration, and admiration. The following paper will illustrate ultimate leadership with Mohandas Ghandi as the model. Power and influence will be explained as fundamental components of effective leadership. Examples of operative leadership values and traits will be provided. Foundational to leading others is a certain behavior characteristic in the ultimate leader. This paper will explain how followers reacted to Ghandi’s type of leadership, as well as the effects. Ghandi was a spiritual leader of India, yet his leadership penetrated throughout the world. Ghandi, the Ultimate Leader ‘Imitation is the sincerest flattery’ is one of Ghandi’s famous quotes. Honored as the Father of the Nation, Ghandi was a renowned spiritual leader in India and a leading advocate for non-violence. His ability to lead was accomplished using non-violence to achieve his goals. He was an inspirational leader fighting for anti-discrimination. His weapon of choice was his outstanding leadership. His strength shined through innate power and influence, sincere leadership traits, values, and behaviors. Ghandi was known as a man of integrity (Bilgrami, 2001). Ghandi’s innate ability to lead taught the world many valuable lessons. As a transformational leader, Ghandi was able to move people to...
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...COMPARISON AND CONTRAST OF TRAIT-BASED, SITUATIONAL, AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP THEORIES 1 Comparison and Contrast of Trait-Based, Situational, and Transformational Leadership Theories Ciprian Patrulescu Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2132126 COMPARISON AND CONTRAST OF TRAIT-BASED, SITUATIONAL, AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP THEORIES 2 Abstract This research paper compares and contrasts several leadership theories, the evolution of the theories, and future research implications. The leadership theories discussed in the paper include the trait-based, situational, and transformational leadership theories. Trait-based theories represented the earliest attempts to quantitatively study leaders and leadership effectiveness by focusing on the innate skills and traits of the person. Situational theories expanded to explore the influence of different situations on leadership. Lastly, transformational leadership theories further expanded on the role of the leader in motivating followers through inspiration. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2132126 COMPARISON AND CONTRAST OF TRAIT-BASED, SITUATIONAL, AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP THEORIES 3 Comparison and Contrast of Trait-based, Situational, and Transformational Leadership Theories There are almost as many definitions of leadership as there are persons who have tried to define leadership (Stogdill, 1974). The definition of leadership by Weathersby (1999...
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...developing a vision of the future; then they align people by communicating this vision and inspiring them to overcome hurdles (Robbins & Judge, 2009). Throughout history strong leaders have been described in terms of their traits, trait theories of leadership differentiate leaders from non-leaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics. Different studies identified nearly 80 leadership traits, but only 5 of these traits were common in 4 or more studies (Robbins & Judge, 2009). A breakthrough of these studies came when researchers began organizing traits around the Big Five personality framework. It became clear that most of the dozens of traits emerging in various leadership reviews could be submitted under one of the Big Five and that this approach resulted in consistent and strong support for traits as predictors of leadership (Robbins & Judge, 2009). Extraversion is the most important trait of effective leaders when organized around the Big Five personality framework, conscientiousness and openness to experience also showed strong and consistent relationships, though not quite as strong as extraversion (Robbins & Judge, 2009). The traits of agreeableness and emotional stability weren’t as strongly correlated with leadership; it does appear that the trait...
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...help contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organization (Yukl, 2006, p. 21). Additionally, a leader is interpreted as someone who sets direction in an effort to influence people to follow that direction while possessing certain characteristics and traits. To be an effective leader, a manager must influence his associates in a positive way to reach the goals of the organization. They are numerous theories about leadership, or about carrying out the role of a leader. These theories both behavioral theories and trait theories as well as contingency theories such as the Leader Membership Exchange Theory, transformational leadership, path-goal theory, and Hershey & Blanchard situational leadership theory and how they influence leadership success. Trait theories are theories that consider personal qualities and characteristics that differentiate leaders from non leaders. In contrast, behavioral theories of leadership imply that individuals can be trained to be leaders. In recent times traits have been organized around the “Big Five Personality Framework” that is, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness to experience. Extraversion out of all the other personalities is mostly found in individuals who indicate effective leadership. A core component of EI is that empathy and empathetic leaders can sense others’ needs, listen to...
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...1. Introduction There is a resurgence in the trait personality approach to understanding work-related behaviour and performance (for a current review, see Burch & Anderson, 2008). In particular, there is growing interest in the personality of leaders. For example, a recent meta-analysis into the trait-leadership relationship found leadership to be positively correlated with extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, and negatively related to neuroticism (Judge, Bono, Ilies, & Gerhardt, 2002). While there is this developing literature considering the ‘normal’ personality of leaders, another literature is growing alongside – that of the ‘dark side’ of leadership personality, that is, more negatively connotated traits (e.g., Hogan & Hogan, 2001). The study of the ‘dark side’ of personality has an important role in helping organizations identify those with the potential for ‘derailment’, deviant behaviours, and poor work performance (e.g., Furnham and Taylor, 2004, Hogan and Hogan, 2001 and Moscoso and Salagdo, 2004). Within this literature, a relationship between the ‘dark side’ and transformational leadership has often been alluded to (see Parry & Proctor-Thomson, 2002), yet there is limited empirical research investigating this relationship. Transformational leadership has been described by Bass and Avolio (2004) as encouraging other people to perform and develop beyond what is normally expected of them, and differs from transactional leadership, which refers to...
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...he/she be made? This paper analyzes formal contemporary studies of leader emergence and development to include personality traits, behaviors and situational factors which express leadership as both innate and formally adopted. Table of Contents Introduction 5-8 Overview 8-9 Distinctive Aspects 10-14 Trait Theory of Leadership 14-17 Situational Leadership Model 17-20 Implications 20-23 Summary and Conclusion 23-25 References 26-29 Introduction The meaning of “leadership” has been molded into numerous different meanings throughout history. Leaders have been depicted within an array of backgrounds to include prophets, kings, chiefs, idols, gods, government officials and inspirational individuals throughout the history. “The word leader dates back as early as the year 1300 but the word “leadership” did not appear until the first half of the nineteenth century” (Wren, 2008, p.50). The term “leadership” however, dates back as early as the Egyptians and Roman Greeks. “Throughout history, leadership has been defined by specific attributes that a leader is thought to have. There is not a right or wrong definition of leadership, but it is important to know the roots and history behind the term” (Coburn, 2008). Leadership is often defined as an intangible and usually difficult quality to define. However, it is not difficult to distinguish the traits of a...
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...Walmart CEO: William Simon Part of the long-term success of Walmart is the effectiveness of the leaders within the organization, including CEO William “Bill” Simon. An exceptional leader achieves goals for and with their business for the reason that “successful and effective leadership means, fundamentally, influencing others by establishing a direction for collective effort and managing, shaping, and developing the collective activities in accordance with this direction” (Lather, A., Jain, V. K., Jain, S., & Vikas, S., 2009). According to Derue, Nahrgang, Wellman, and Humphrey (2011), “leadership is one of the most discussed and debated topics in the social sciences [beginning] with a search for heritable attributes that differentiated leaders from non-leaders and explained individuals’ effectiveness as leaders” (p. 7). William Simon, without a doubt, carried each of these qualities, and as such, has helped to develop Walmart into the amazing conglomerate that it is today. William Simon has been Chief Executive Officer and President of Wal-Mart.com USA, LLC since 2010, and has been the Executive Vice President of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. since 2010, as well. He has over fifteen years of experience employed by major consumer brands, as well as worked for many marketing and development positions for major companies. I consider William Simon to be a transformational leader which, to me, is the most effective of leadership styles and philosophies. Simon, as a transformational...
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...on a movie “Kinky Boots” and the character ‘Lola’ who has played a strong and inspirational role, with great lessons for the people in our society. As a student, it is a good movie to watch and learn many things from the character Lola. The story of the movie revolves around the character “Charlie Price”, who was forced to step in and save his family’s shoe factory, due to the sudden death of his father in Northern England. Charlie was helpless and has no idea how to save his company from bankruptcy. He found an unexpected inspiration in the form of Lola, a fabulous drag performer. Lola helps Charlie discover that there are cross dressers who demand high heeled boots and there is an opportunity to serve this niche market segment. The movie shows how an unsuccessful business can be transformed into a successful business. How leaders should play its role, what kind of approach is required to make a difference. The movie has many lessons on leadership, personality, & behavior for business school students. How an effective leadership of Lola brought changes in the life of Charlie. It all became possible through acceptance of diversity, commitment and bringing new ideas to the table, an important message for the business owners of today. The report will focus on the character ‘Lola’ in relation with the class lectures. Discussion Identification & Application Kinky Boots is a great inspirational movie, with strong lessons for business leaders and entrepreneurs. The theme...
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...organizational success A leader does not have to be someone who holds a formal position or title. They can emerge from a group and provide vision and motivation to those around them. Management deals with the complexity of the organization and works with planning, organizing, leading and controlling to bring about order and consistency in the organization. Trait Theories of Leadership ➢ Theories that consider personality, social, physical, or intellectual traits to differentiate leaders from nonleaders ➢ Not very useful until matched with the Big Five Personality Framework ➢ Essential Leadership Traits – Extroversion – Conscientiousness – Openness – Emotional Intelligence (Qualified) ➢ Traits can predict leadership, but they are better at predicting leader emergence than effectiveness. Behavioral Theories of Leadership ➢ Theories proposing that specific behaviors differentiate leaders from nonleaders ➢ Differences between theories of leadership: – Trait theory: leadership is inherent, so we must identify the leader based on his or her traits – Behavioral theory: leadership is a skill set and can be taught to anyone, so we must identify the proper behaviors to teach potential leaders Important Behavioral Studies Ohio State studies were able to narrow it down to two dimensions – initiating structure and consideration. Initiating structure is when the leader is able to define and structure...
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... 3. Trait Theory 5 4. Charismatic Leadership Theory 7 5. Transformational Leadership Theory 7 6. Bill Gate’s Leadership Styles 9 7. Conclusion 10 8. List of References 11 Bill Gates leadership is being analyzed by applying various leadership theories and practical relevance are discussed in this report. 1. Bill Gates Leadership and practical relevance to Leadership Theories Leadership is shared interests that influence the relationship between leaders and followers which results changes and effects. (Daft, 2008) The leadership theories evolution started from Great Man & Trait theories to the present "Transformational" leadership. Kippenberger highlights the time-line of the evolution which starts from mid-1900 to present days. The time-line contains Great Man Theory , Traits Theory, Lewis Research in autocratic, democratic & laissez-faire styles , Behavioral Theory, Situational Theory , Contingency Theory, Charismatic Leadership, Team Leadership, Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership Theories (Kippenberger , 2002) We are applying Trait Theory, Charismatic Leadership and Transformation Leadership Theories to the leadership of Bill Gates to understand the practical relevance. 2. Trait Theory : Either people are born or made with some of the features that will make them the leadership that believes in the theory of leadership trait. Such good...
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...many individuals and has led to many theories and models to be developed that have both similarities and differences. Four theories or models of leadership that have been researched and developed include trait theories, transactional leadership, transformational leadership, and situational leadership. The research on each of these has varied in amount and focus, but mostly the information has helped to develop theories and styles that can be important in understanding and developing leadership skills (Clawson & Bevan, 2006). Trait Theories The first type of leadership theories studied revolved around the traits effective leaders were shown to have. Trait theories of leadership focused on what traits an individual has that assist in his or her leadership abilities. These traits were considered innate or heritable and were believed to be passed down through familial generations (Zaccaro, 2007). Originally the traits were believed to be a part of the individual from birth, but later enduring traits were considered just as important. Traits important to these theories included “accuracy in work, knowledge of human nature, and moral habits” such as judgment, speech, interpersonal, and administrative skills (Zaccaro, 2007, para. 1). Researchers would measure specific traits thought to be found in indivduals who...
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...There is an old business saying, “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” In order to be an effective leader of a large or diverse organization, one must have the courage to lead, follow, and get out of the way, depending on the situation. Every large organization has dozens or hundreds of leaders without titles who know just how to do that (Goddard, 2002, p.35). There are generally two types of leadership styles, transactional and transformational. Transactional leaders focus more on accomplishing tasks. They are job-centered leaders who concentrate on production and the technical aspects of performing a job. The transformational leader is more people-oriented; they focus on the individuality and personality of their employees. These leaders are charismatic and inspirational....
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