...Running head: LEADERSHIP STYLES 1 Leadership Styles Student Name LET1 (Task 2) WGU August 21, 2013 Course Mentor Name LEADERSHIP STYLES 2 Abstract Leadership is a series of actions by which an individual inspires others to achieve a task and leads the corporation to make it more coherent and cohesive. Leadership means the willingness and ability to lead and influence others. A leader can be the CEO of a corporation, or a leader who leads his or her team to success behind the scenes. The ability to lead effectively is based on a number of key skills (Xaxx, n.d.). Three styles of leadership will be discussed, identified, and evaluated to understand these styles better and to decide which style would best replace a retiring CEO of a corporation. LEADERSHIP STYLES 3 Leadership Styles Leadership styles have substantial effects on the corporate world. These styles can affect every person from higher management to the most recent employee. They generate the culture of a corporation that can influence the corporation’s operations. The culture of a corporation is normally an effect of the leaders’ personalities. Corporations need to be aware of the type of leadership they are presenting if they desire to manage the types of activity and communication they produce in their corporations. Leadership styles have strong influences on corporate culture because employees seem to mirror their leaders in their actions. The expression "the way we do things"...
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...Being a Leader Introduction: Being a leader is bliss in its true sense as it helps a person to set goals or targets in their lives and then prepare an organized plan of action in order to accomplish all these goals. Leadership is the capability of efficient execution of various tasks by driving each member of the team to give his/her best and channelize his/her potential and co-ordinates the entire team to work collectively in order to accomplish greater organizational goals. Learning outcome 1) Understand the organisation’s ethical and value-based approach to leadership 1.1) Evaluate the impact of the organization’s culture and values on leadership Organisational culture is a total of the organisation’s past and current assumptions, experiences, philosophy and values that hold it together. These are expressed in its self-image, inner workings, interactions with the outside world, and future expectations. It is the way the organization conducts its business, communicates and exchange information. The ideal organisational culture depends on the strategy of the company and kinds of competitive forces its businesses are dealing with. Values are building blocks of culture. They motivate behavior and emotional responses. They support the process in which people approach their work, make choices and decisions and deal with each other. Deal and Kennedy’s cultural model helps us understand rites and rituals in corporate culture. Deal and Kennedy’s cultural framework was...
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...A Definition of Leadership A traditional definition of leadership: Leadership is an interpersonal influence directed toward the achievement of a goal or goals. Three important parts of this definition are the terms interpersonal, influence, and goal. · Interpersonal means between persons. Thus, a leader has more than one person (group) to lead. · Influence is the power to affect others. · Goal is the end one strives to attain. Basically, this traditional definition of leadership says that a leader influences more than one person toward a goal. The definition of leadership used in this course follows. LEADERSHIP is a dynamic relationship based on mutual influence and common purpose between leaders and collaborators in which both are moved to higher levels of motivation and moral development as they affect real, intended change. (Kevin Freiberg and Jackie Freiberg, NUTS! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success, Bard Press, 1996, p. 298) Three important parts of this definition are the terms relationship, mutual, and collaborators. Relationship is the connection between people. Mutual means shared in common. Collaborators cooperate or work together. This definition of leadership says that the leader is influenced by the collaborators while they work together to achieve an important goal. Leadership versus Management A leader can be a manager, but a manager is not necessarily a leader. The leader of the work group may emerge informally as the...
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...LEADERSHIP IN THE WORKPLACE Presented to: Cindy Murphy Management 1115 – Leadership By: Bermina Benson October 12th, 2011 Leadership in the workplace 1) Introduction 2) Leadership a) What is Leadership b) Leadership versus Management defined c) The importance of Leadership in today’s workplace discussed d) Leadership trends and priorities 3) Compare and contrast leadership styles a) Pros and Cons of leadership styles 4) Conclusion Introduction This paper is an attempt to briefly explore the concept of leadership and how it differs from management. Sometimes leadership and management may seem similar; they may be used interchangeably, and may even occupy the same social space in institutions and organizations; the two concepts are different in a fundamental way. Those differences will be discussed. Businesses succeed and fail on the strengths of their business models. These models are conceived and guided by leaders. Why then do some businesses fail when their business models are best conceived? Can it be traced to the changing trends in leadership or the leadership style one adopts? These questions will be discussed as well. What is Leadership? Leadership is a skill that embodies vision, inspiration, and human passion, according to Harvard professor Abraham Zaleznik. It is a critical management skill which arises out of desires – the passion and vision of the...
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...LEADERSHIP STYLES LEADERSHIP STYLES By Siddhartha Panapakam ,Bhola Singh, Pankaj Sultane A Brief Idea… As quoted by the famous Leader Nelson Mandela. “Every real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive; to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before. ” Leader is the person who influences a group of people towards the achievement of a goal and Leadership is defined as a process of influencing people to accomplish the mission, inspiring their commitment, and improving the organization. Daniel Goleman, an internationally known psychologist in his book “Emotional Intelligence” has written six basic styles of Leadership like the Coercive style, Authoritative style, Affiliative Style, Democratic Style, Pacesetting Style and Coaching Style. In this article all the six leadership styles are discussed in brief giving the advantages, disadvantages and example of each style. The best Leaders don’t just adapt one way of leadership style but they are skilled with all the styles and they are comfortable enough to switch between the styles according to the situations. Page | 1 LEADERSHIP STYLES The Leadership Styles are as follows: The Coercive Style: Daniel Goleman penned this style with a title “Do what I say”. This means that the manager or leader following this type of style has a complete idea what is going on in the organization in the specified time interval and uses his power to force an...
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...S2, the High Support and High Direction Style S2 leadership style consists of directions from managers based on ideas that are solicited from members of the managers’ team. S2 leaders actively seek team member’s involvement in the process by encouraging them to speak their concerns and creating an environment that members feel they are able to voice their concerns and opinions involving organizational problems and active participants in the solutions. S2 leaders like to share problems with team members, listen to their points of view regarding problems before deciding on a course of action to correct the issue. S2 leaders meet only with the individuals that need to be involved, run effective meetings when required and are excellent at using input acquired from members to make decisions that will speed up the decision making process. S2 leaders typically use a systematic approach that can include the following. * Identifying problems * Clarifying goals * Generating alternatives * Choosing the best solution * Building an action plan * Monitoring implementation Strengths of the S2 leadership style: The S2 leadership style can benefit team members and an organization in many ways such as a positive work environment, successful initiatives or projects, increased creative thinking, and can reduce friction and office politics within the group. * Positive work environment: S2 leaders create a positive work environment by allowing team members...
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...http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-leadershipquizbc.htm Quiz - What's Your Leadership Style? | | Leadership Quiz - Your Results | | | | | | | Your results indicate that your leadership style is both: Participative and Delegative Participative Leadership Participative leaders accept input from one or more group members when making decisions and solving problems, but the leader retains the final say when choices are made. Group members tend to be encouraged and motivated by this style of leadership. This style of leadership often leads to more effective and accurate decisions, since no leader can be an expert in all areas. Input from group members with specialized knowledge and expertise creates a more complete basis for decision-making. Delegative Leadership Delegative leaders allow group members to make decisions. This style is best used in situations where the leader needs to rely on qualified employees. The leader cannot be an expert in all situations, which is why it is important to delegate certain tasks out to knowledgeable and trustworthy employees. Remember, good leaders utilize all three styles depending upon the situation. For example: * Use an authoritarian style if a group member lacks knowledge about a certain procedure. Autocratic leadership, also known as authoritarian leadership, is a leadership style characterized by individual control over all decisions and little input from group members. Autocratic leaders typically make...
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...ILM Diploma in leadership and Management Assignment No 1 : Assessing your own leadership capability and performance The first step in being a good leader is to understand yourself. Gaining an understanding of your personality type, leadership style, and leadership skills is paramount. All leaders, regardless of their natural abilities, experience, and training, must be aware of their own personal areas of improvement so they can grow and become more successful. Understanding Leadership styles within the organisation • Review the prevailing leadership styles in the organisation Leadership styles vary according to organisational structure, people, environment, and task. Leaders promote loyalty among subordinates by keeping an open mind, being self-aware, and being inquisitive .Awareness is important in working effectively with diverse groups and individuals, regardless of personal bias. Anger and frustration indicate a closed mind. The effective leader asks questions with a genuine interest in learning more, rather than as a probe to expose a mistake or fault. Employee inquiries should be conducted with genuine interest and with demonstrated respect. Even more important is listening to the feedback, so that appropriate action may be taken. There are four main leadership styles. • Directing, leaders direct subordinates in what, how, when and where tasks should be done. These leaders maintain a standard of performance, and their style is high-directive...
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...Exploration on Group Leadership Styles Wilmington University Abstract This exploration paper will encompass some of the characteristics and preferences of good leadership styles enabling us to explore some theoretical approaches within group facilitation which best accommodate our own theories. Through continued researching of all these aspects of group leadership we could explore what might be most challenging to ourselves individually and at the same time assess what type of co-leader one could actually work with to obtain the most efficient results overall. In order to explore these topics and try to answer most of these questions, I began with Internet resources, along with some peer-reviewed journal reviews and lastly I reverted back to our course resources. Although some of the questions are not fully responded to directly, I have gained a greater knowledge into group leadership styles and group facilitation which exhibit how best to approach situations that might arise within a group, while at the same time maintaining focus on a solution. This provides the ability to gain the know-how to seek out what contravening factors caused these problems or issues, these enablers also gave me a clearer understanding about which direction, point of origin or whose involvements contributed to the problem. Exploration on Group Leadership Styles Looking at the theoretical approach to group facilitation, the selectee has to be from amongst all the members of the group...
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...Different leadership styles used in the public services - P1 Abbie Wood In this assignment I will be writing about all the different leadership styles which are used in the public services and everyday life: Authoritarian – This is a direct leadership style where the leader gives clear instructions for what needs to be completed. It is a style where the leader maintains power/order. The leader makes decisions on their own (independently) and no one in the rest of the group has a say or has an opinion. This leadership style would normally be used by an officer in the army, like Hitler, this is because they normally generally are loud and bossy also, this leadership style helps to motivate teams. They think that they are always right (which in most cases they normally are) and that they’re way is the best way. This type of leadership style could be used in a situation where the/a team needs to do something fast and successfully (For example – on the battlefield, if a team is under fire the leader shouts instructions and the team (unit) must respond quickly because everyone in that groups life’s are on the line). This style however wouldn’t work effectively in a situation where a group needs to plan something because only the leader (‘boss’) has a say and therefore some members of the group might not listen and do their own thing or they wouldn’t pay attention and maybe won’t have a clue what they need to do. This leadership style is similar to the ‘task orientated’ style because...
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...upheld. One of the most important principles and practices of critical care that need not to be tampered within the nursing profession happens to be leadership. It has been argued that “a simple definition of leadership is that leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal” (Ward 2011). From this definition, we immediately see how important leadership is to any professional setup, including the critical care nursing profession. This point is built around the fact that leadership as a principle and practice helps in the realization of the goals and ambitions of any professional setup. This means that with a very good leadership in place in the critical care nursing profession, the all-important goal of saving lives by promoting healthy living will be achieved. To achieve good leadership however, a lot more depends on the kind of leadership style that is in use as leadership is conducted in many different styles. Review of Professional Nursing Literature This component of the paper seeks to achieve two major aims. Firstly, it is to describe two different leadership styles in the nursing profession and also discuss how these two nursing leadership styles can be implemented in a professional nursing practice. In the first place, (Rampur 2011) identifies two major leadership styles in the nursing...
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...Code 5741/41 LEADERSHIP –THEORY AND PRACTICE This essay will review the theory of leadership from early in the last century and critically assess the most relevant areas under debate. Theory What is leadership? Leadership is of itself constantly in debate, what is it, do we need it and how does it work are just some of the questions in what remains a live and ongoing debate. Whilst there are many definitions available in the wide array of literature the one selected here is that of Rost[1] who said” leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes” having analysed the definitions of leadership used in the literature from 1900-1979 . At its most fundamental level there is a great deal of discussions about what is leadership and what is management with authors such as Kotter[2] who describes a leader as someone who creates an agenda through the establishment of a vision and gives direction to help align the followers to achieve a successful outcome , compared to his arguably less positive description of a manager as someone who prepares plans and budgets, organizes and staffs the team and monitors the results against a plan, hence the manager is seen to provide order, consistency and predictability. Rost on the other hand argues against this[3] “up with leaders and down with management” approach which he suggests Kotter’s approach describes and concludes this obsession with leadership is not perhaps...
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...Assignment Leadership Style and Personality Assessment Anioushka G-Saint Cyril HA510 Professor Yu-Wei Yang August 4, 2015 There are many leadership styles and is important to know which style you are. There are many ways one can learn their leadership style, for example, through assessments. Knowing your leadership style will help you become a better leader. Although there are many leadership assessments our text discussed four assessments that can give insights into building blocks of personality most commonly identified by peers, subordinate employees, and supervisors (Ledlow, et al, 2014). These assessments include: Hemisphere Dominance assessments; Jungian assessments; Vark test; Struder Group; Price Group; and many more. Some of these assessments listed where taken to see my personal leadership style. This paper will explain my personal leadership style through the use of leadership and personality assessments. It is important to know your leadership style. Everyone has a different leadership style and therefore will lead differently. Leadership cannot really be defined but can say that it is dynamic and active creation and maintenance of organizational culture and strategic systems that focus the collective energy of both leading people and managing resources toward meeting the needs of the external environment utilizing the most efficient, effective, and efficacious methods possible by moral means (Ledlow & Coppola, 2014). By knowing your leadership style, yon...
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...Running head: Applying Leadership Theories Applying Leadership Theories in the School Setting Teresa E. McNair Grand Canyon University: EDA-574 September 28, 2011 Applying Leadership Theories in the School Setting As many of us already know, there are several variables in creating a successful school. A successful organization has one major attribute that sets it apart from unsuccessful organizations dynamic and effective leadership (Hersey, Blanchard, & Johnson, 2008). Leadership is defined as the process of influencing the activities of an individual or a group toward reaching goal achievement in a given situation (Hersey, Blanchard, & Johnson, 2008). For the past three decades, education has been going through a sustained period of reform and restructuring (Razik & Swanson, 2010). With these changes, leadership styles must undergo changes to keep up with the needs of the global society (Razik & Swanson, 2010). Experts do not agree on one leadership style or theory that should be implemented to achieve success. Many have decided that a combination of different theories based on needs will yield the best result. This essay will depict how different leadership theories apply to my school (Forest High School) setting as reflected from the leader’s behavior and actions. Applying Leadership Theories Individuals’ interest in leadership increased during the early part of the twentieth century. Early leadership theories focused on what qualities...
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...1. Which are the four personal skills most likely to be required of leaders? Can they be learned, or must a leader be born with them? A: The four personal skills that leadership requires are, persuasion, influence, social skills, and coaching. Most leaders must acquire, learn, and polish their skills. They do so by working at self-improvement, observing and studying effective leaders, obtaining useful feedback, and carefully analyzing their employees and the situations in which they do their jobs. 2. Some people have suggested that the four components of emotional intelligence are best developed in a particular order, as illustrated in the numbered quadrants in Figure 7-1. Explain why this order makes sense. A: This makes sense because one must be able to monitor and regulate their own emotions, before trying to understand another being’s feelings or emotions. You’re able to look at the situation from several perspectives and can develop an understanding in how to meet those needs of each individual. 3. As a supervisor of the catalog section of a direct-mail house, Mary has come to believe that without her close supervision, employees in her department would never get their work done. Which of McGregor’s assumptions about employees at work does Mary’s view represent? A: McGregor’s assumptions from Theory X (the average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if possible, and because of this human characteristic of dislike of work...
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