...touch the SWOT analysis (refer the Appendix 1) and the career plan (refer the Appendix 2), there are two leadership theories will be identified, situational leadership and transformational leadership; which can help Jiamin improve the lack skills of working as a employee and to obtain the personal and career goals. In 1969, Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard published the first edition situational leadership, named “life Cycle Theory of Leadership; and during the mid-1970s, it was renamed “situational leadership theory” (Graeff 1997). According to the task behavior and the relationship behavior that between leaders and followers, Hersey and Blanchard defined four styles in the situational leadership theory (Hersey & Blanchard, 1977). The first one is Telling; means the leaders has a high directive to underling, but offer a low support. The second one is Selling, which instead of the leader is high directive and high supportive. If leaders are low directive and high supportive, it is named “Participating”. “Delegating” means leaders are low directive and low supportive, thus employees can use their inventive powers. Meanwhile, in term of the ability and willing of employees, they also put forward the corresponding Maturity levels include four stages to the four leadership styles (Avery & Ryan, 2002). For instance, if employee who belong “able to do, and willing to do the task”, it will refer the “Delegating” leadership style. Applying the situational leadership to the facts...
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...Leadership Training In Public Administration Mr. Khalid abdulaziz Introduction As leaderships training is one of the significant parts in each organization and it is one of the reasons to enhance the organization, this essay will discuses the two types of leadership and how they affect the organization. In Addition, this essay will take in consideration the organization structure and its culture. The main concern of this essay the relation between the leaders and their followers and how it is improved through leadership training. Background information In the recent years, many nations have seen a paradigm shift in public administration. This shift to a new paradigm is often referred to as new public management (NPM). In essence, NPM is based on two philosophies: economic rationalism and managerialism. In Australia, the implementation of reforms in public services have become more efficient, effective and economical (James 2005). This can be further enhanced when a market-oriented approach will be taken in public policies and with the introduction of business methods and practices in public sector management. Public sector management can be developed because of leadership training for organizational change. The ability to lead is not always acquired naturally. It is not always apparent and is not found in the behavior and personality of the individual. Proper education and training can draw the leadership ability and help it become...
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...Mini Case Study - Time to Rebound at Willow Pond Heather Osaka had worked ten years in the hospital administration field, at two hospitals, one HMO, and one nursing home. However, she had yet to hold a chief administrator position. One afternoon, she received a text message from Jake Wofford, a former classmate who was now in the executive recruiting business. “Maybe a great opportunity for you. Get back.” said the message. Osaka did get back to Wofford quickly. The opportunity to which he referred was a position as the director of Willow Pond, a medium-size assisted living home in the same city where Osaka now lived. “Assisted living” refers to helping older residents who are not quite able to care for themselves, yet do not require the level of care provided by the nursing home. Jake was frank in informing Heather that Willow Pond was troubled and that the previous director had been fired. Yet, the home still complied enough with state regulations to remain in operation. The most recent problem at the home receiving publicity involved a man with a criminal record who walked into Willow Pond, sneaked into a resident’s studio apartment, and sexually molested her. To gain entrance to the living area, the intruder donned a “Friends of Willow Pond” smock designated for volunteers. Wearing the smock facilitated his roaming the living area. Before finally accepting the position, Heather spoke with the owners, who also operated several other homes for the elderly. She also consulted...
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...Table of Contents S.No. | Description 1.0. | Introduction 2.0 | Literature Review 2.1 | Leadership and inventive behavior 2.2 | Transformational leaderships (TL) and inventive behavior 2.3 | The measuring role of effective commitments amongst transformational leadership (TL) and inventive behavior 2.4 | The measuring role of inventive climate among transformational leaderships (TL) and inventive behavior. 2.5 | The measuring role of effective commitment among transformational leaderships (TL) and inventive behavior. 2.6 | The measuring role of inventive climate among transformational leadership (TL) and staffs inventive behavior. 2.7 | Criticism Transformational leaderships (TL). 3.0 | Methodology. 3.1 | The background of the Samatel Company (STC). 3.1.1 | Political climate. 3.1.2 | Culture and Social climate. 3.1.3 | Financial and Economic climate. 3.2.1 | Nature of the research 3.2.2 | Data Collection. 4.0 | Discussion. 4.1 | Analysis the questionnaire of section (A). 4.2 | Analysis the questionnaire of section (B). 5.0 | Conclusion. 6.0 | Improving individual personality. 7.0 | References. 8.0 | Appendix 1 1.0. Introduction: According to Gumsluogu and IIsev, (2009) stated that, in an attempt to responsive and adaptive to doubtful, changing and competitive natures, corporations, essentially technology forced corporations, have to be extremely inventive and creative in sequence to continue a challenging...
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...TRANSFORMATIONAL VERSUS TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP LDR550Z-Leadership and Team Development-Fall 2011 Abstract This research paper addresses various aspects of transformational and transactional leadership styles. It mainly presents a comparative overview of these leadership styles. Further, it talks about an example of each transformational and transactional leadership in real-world. This leads to mentioning various applications that each leadership style finds in today’s business. Analysis of strengths and weaknesses or potential growth areas of both leadership styles is mentioned to help in better understanding of the subject. At last, the paper concludes with some discusses if knowing one’s leadership style and leadership style of your leader is important or not. Introduction In today’s volatile economy, the business is rapidly changing and getting more competitive with each passing day. Therefore, in order to survive in this market, the organizations need to continuously come out with innovative solutions. In these situations, transformational leaders play a vital role by encouraging creativity from their followers and maximizing their performance and productivity. On the other hand, transactional leaders are needed to maintain the stability and achieve goals on a regular basis. In order to analyze or compare these two styles of leadership, a brief introduction to both the styles is needed. Transformational Leader According to Bernard Bass, “Transformational...
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...Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple, which he co-founder in 1976(Anonymous, 2002). As we were known, Apple success is known under Steve Jobs leadership. To deeply evaluate his leadership style, first of all, we need to understand clearly the Steve Jobs’ legacy both in the terms of thins and ideas. Steve JOBS attended Reed College in Portland. Unfortunately, he dropped out after six months(Stanford, 2008). There are two factors that lead to this situation: perhaps the primary reason is about expensive college tuition were being wiped out all of his working-class parents’ savings. Another contributing factor is that he found college couldn’t help him to figure out the value he wants. It is considered by many that transformational business leadership will exercise a profound influence upon the change of the company’s direction(Chirantan Basu, 2015). Two of significant essential elements of transformational leadership is about ability to bring innovation and change (Bass, 1995; Devanna & Tichy, 1996; Eastman & Pawar, 1997). Many people argue that when assessing Job’s leadership style, most people tend to characterize his leadership style as primarily transformational. As an illustration, I would like to take Steve Jobs as the typical example. As Jobs begins his second tour at Apple in the late 190s, Steve Jobs have used his special visions and super innovation to revitalized Apple Inc. And resulting in returning it to profit. Due to the internal struggled within the company...
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...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, p.5) captures the...
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...The Impact of leadership Styles on Quality Management in Health care Effective and strong leadership is one of, if not the most important and critical component for any organization’s success, particularly in health care facilities. Leadership also plays a major role in enhancing an organization’s competitiveness as confirmed by various academics (Rowe, 2001; Riaz & Haider, 2010). Many argue and suggest that there is a connection between an organization’s leadership style and its ability to implement and manage quality initiatives. That being said, researchers still encounter difficulties when assessing the effect of leadership styles on healthcare quality management, as most of the available theories were developed outside of healthcare setting. This paper aims to present an evaluation and a review of published scholarly articles discussing three styles of leadership and their association with quality management initiatives. The three leadership styles chosen for this evaluation are: Transformational leadership, servant leadership, and situational leadership. The paper will also describe my current leadership style, then compare it to the transformational model, and finally outline the changes I need to implement in order to incorporate its key characteristics into my own style. Research Summaries In the first article titled “Knowledge Management as a Mediator for the Efficacy of Transformational Leadership and Quality Management Initiatives in U.S. Health Care”...
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...WHAT ARE THE PRINCIPAL DISTINCTION BETWEEN TRANSACTIONAL AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP. Every Leader has a style that is adopted based on prevailing situation and their end focus in mind. However, it is pertinent to give some basic highlights on the various differences that are inherent in their various approach. For leadership concept to be complete and fully adopted there must always be a corresponding Followership. Burns define Leadership as, “ leaders inducing followers to act for certain goals that represent the values and the motivations-the wants and needs, the aspirations and expectations-of both leaders and followers.” Leadership is all about influencing the followers to achieve a desired goal. Over the years there have been ‘generation’ theories which are Trait theory, Behavioural Theory, Contingency theories and Transformational. The 1st question that comes to mind is what Transactional Leadership is. Transactional Leader: approaches followers with an eye to exchanging one thing for another … Burns pursues a cost benefit, economic exchange to met subordinates current material and psychic needs in return for “contracted” services rendered by the subordinate …. Bass Transactional Leadership is a style of leadership that uses the bases of conditions between a leader and follower. In essence, it is a form of conditional relationship in every facet of life, superiors’ sets target to the subordinates and expects the subordinate to perform and be rewarded. In an...
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...Transformational leadership is defined as a leadership approach that causes change in individuals and social systems. In its ideal form, it creates valuable and positive change in the followers with the end goal of developing followers into leaders. Enacted in its authentic form, transformational leadership enhances the motivation, morale and performance of followers through a variety of mechanisms. These include connecting the follower's sense of identity and self to the mission and the collective identity of the organization; being a role model for followers that inspires them; challenging followers to take greater ownership for their work, and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of followers, so the leader can align followers with tasks that optimize their performance.... Background James MacGregor Burns (1978)[1] first introduced the concept of transforming leadership in his descriptive research on political leaders, but this term is now used in organizational psychology as well. According to Burns, transforming leadership is a process in which "leaders and followers help each other to advance to a higher level of morale and motivation". Burns related to the difficulty in differentiation between management and leadership and claimed that the differences are in characteristics and behaviors. He established two concepts: "transforming leadership" and "transactional leadership". According to Burns, the transforming approach creates significant change in...
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...Part I The charismatic and passionate CEO, Jack Donally helped transform Innostat from “a small local manufacturer of scalpels and other surgical equipment into the world’s best known maker of prosthetic limbs and surgical implants” (Beer, 2006, p.43). Under his leadership Innostat enjoyed outstanding financial performance, with sales reaching more than $2 billion. During his tenure at Innostat Jack was widely respected, admired and perceived as a charismatic leader. According to Weber (1947), charismatic leaders are endowed with exceptional powers or qualities. In addition they are attributed with the following personal attributes: self-confidence, vision, dominance, a need for influence, and articulation ability (Bass, 1985; House 1977; Conger, 1985). It is widely agreed that followers perceive their leader as charismatic when at time of uncertainty and stress he/she provide radical vision that guides the organization to success (Weber, 1947; Trice & Beyer, 1993). In the case of Innostat, it is evident that Jack was able to transform the firm from a small and probably loss making local manufacturer into the world’s best known maker of prosthetic limbs and surgical implants. This made his workers believe that he is endowed with exceptional abilities and their respect towards him grew over the years. However, three years before Jack’s retirement the company lost its innovative edge and as a result, its performance dramatically declined. Applying the Burke-Litwin model...
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...significantly fall. Decision level should consider to establish the corporate social responsibility in order to enhance the company image and employee morale. Here is the second plan to report you that CEO should change leadership style to transformational leadership, it is able to improve organisational productivity and enhance organisational development capabilities. Finally, I would like to thank you for the opportunity this report gave me to provides the new leadership strategies for Siemens, and to develop my research skills, which will be invaluable for future projects. Regards, Chun-Chang, Tseng Executive Summary This report provides a described about the negative impact from the wrong leadership decision-made in Siemens. It provides two plans to solved the scenario and discuss how to access the two plans. Methods of solved the scenario are establishment corporate social responsibility and changed the leadership style to transformational leadership. Both the plans are able to improve the worst situations. Results of case analysed show that to help organisation transform reforming is an important direction for the company to reinvigorate. The report finds CEO is the helmsman of a company in future course. The correct leadership decision-making is the key to survival and development in a company. The role of CEO is not only policy direction, but also led the organisation to fulfill the task. CEO must be able to motivate employees, and to maximize...
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...The Transformational Leadership Report "The goal of transformational leadership is to “transform” people and organizations in a literal sense – to change them in mind and heart; enlarge vision, insight, and understanding; clarify purposes; make behavior congruent with beliefs, principles, or values; and bring about changes that are permanent, self-perpetuating, and momentum building." - Steven Covey, Author of 7 Habits of Highly Successful People - www.transformationalleadership.net Developing Tomorrow’s Transformational Leaders Today The Transformational Leadership Report INDEX What is Transformational Leadership? 3 Components of Transformational Leadership 5 Transformational Leadership vs. Transactional Leadership 6 A Brief History of Leadership 8 How does a Transformational Leader work? 10 What are the characteristics of a leader of change? 10 Where Transformational Leadership and Authenticity meet 11 Transformational Leadership Behaviors 13 Recommended Reading 17 TL Publications list 19 © 2007 www.transformationalleadership.net 2 of 19 The Transformational Leadership Report What is Transformational Leadership? Leadership has been around for thousands of years, and yet we still are unable to contain it in a single definition we all agree on. Perhaps this is because leadership is continuously evolving, and more than what it seems to be, depending on how you look at it. It is a...
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...The Transformational Leadership Report "The goal of transformational leadership is to “transform” people and organizations in a literal sense – to change them in mind and heart; enlarge vision, insight, and understanding; clarify purposes; make behavior congruent with beliefs, principles, or values; and bring about changes that are permanent, self-perpetuating, and momentum building." - Steven Covey, Author of 7 Habits of Highly Successful People - www.transformationalleadership.net Developing Tomorrow’s Transformational Leaders Today The Transformational Leadership Report INDEX What is Transformational Leadership? 3 Components of Transformational Leadership 5 Transformational Leadership vs. Transactional Leadership 6 A Brief History of Leadership 8 How does a Transformational Leader work? 10 What are the characteristics of a leader of change? 10 Where Transformational Leadership and Authenticity meet 11 Transformational Leadership Behaviors 13 Recommended Reading 17 TL Publications list 19 © 2007 www.transformationalleadership.net 2 of 19 The Transformational Leadership Report What is Transformational Leadership? Leadership has been around for thousands of years, and yet we still are unable to contain it in a single definition we all agree on. Perhaps this is because leadership is continuously evolving, and more than what it seems to be, depending on how you look at it. It is a complex concept...
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...COMPARE AND CONTRAST FOUR LEADERSHIP MODELS UNIVERISTY OF PHOENIX There are four leadership models that I will talk about. These leadership models are Charismatic, Transformational, Servant, and Transactional. These styles of leadership hold significant differences. However, The Charismatic Leadership style refers to a special quality that enables the leader to mobilize and sustain activity within an organization through specific personal actions combined with perceived personal characteristics (Wren, 1995, p. 108). The charismatic leader has three components which include envisioning, energizing, and enabling. Charismatic leaders display behaviors that will inspire others. And their ethical values are very high. It seems likely that under normal ethical charismatic circumstances, a leader’s mirror-needs play a central role in his or her desire to become the focus of social attention (Avolio & Yammarino, 2002, p. 248). The Transformational Leadership style is quite rewarding. The transforming leader shapes, alters, and elevates the motives and values and goals of followers (Wren, 1995, p. 103). Transformational leadership focuses on culture and learning experiences in the workplace. Although not the most agreeable man in history, Adolf Hitler has inherently follows the charismatic leadership model. He had many followers that followed his leadership as a dictator, and he took advantage of his “followers independent of their inherent intentions, thereby opening the door...
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