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made myself transparent and available and thus utilized both authentic and servant leadership styles (Wong and Laschinger, 2013; Dinh et al., 2014; Spence et al., 2013; Parris and Peachey, 2013).
What I wanted to change was the parish church's orientation to the community. For many years the parish had been in the community but there had been virtually no outreach to the community, nothing done by the church to connect it to others outside the parish. The idea I had was to connect the church with locals from the community and develop a more significant relationship. Thus, I struck upon the idea… Continue Reading...
style that Gates exhibits among his employees. Bill gates has been known to display a mix of three major leadership styles, the autocratic style of leadership, participatory leadership and laissez faire leadership style.
Bill gates is known to be a leader who makes decisions on critical matters with little consultation or with very little consultation among the top leadership, the autocratic leadership style. This has been leadership style that comes out due to his character traits of being intelligent, skillful, determined and a person of high integrity. He known to be less social especially at the work environment making him less likely to consult on various issues, luckily with… Continue Reading...
motivate, support and drive the team to accomplish the mission. Leadership styles are diverse in the military and can include everything from the autocratic style to the servant leadership style. The key to employing best practices in military leadership, however, is to understand the needs of the situation, the needs of the stakeholders, and the needs of the moment so that the right strategy is employed for the goal to be achieved.[endnoteRef:2] This paper will discuss leadership best practices, particularly how sharing leadership best practices can help individual, group, corporation and military success. [2: For this reason, Stogdill asserts that… Continue Reading...
leadership styles.
Servant leadership is advantageous for a number of reasons. First, servant leaders build strong relationships with their followers (Neuschel, 2005). Due to their evident commitment to the needs of their followers, servant leaders gain the trust and confidence of their followers. With assurance that the leader is concerned about their wellbeing, followers reciprocate by portraying loyalty to the leader, ultimately resulting in a strong team. Another upside of servant leadership is that it fosters shared decision making. Servant leaders empower their followers to participate in decision making. This… Continue Reading...
paper will examine leadership as Salesforce, through the lens of situational leadership.
Situational Leadership Styles
There are several different situational leadership styles, which the leader would apply to different followers and different situations as need be. The four main situational leadership styles are delegating, supporting, coaching and directing (Todorov, 2017). Individuals with a high commitment level but low competence are given the directing style. The degree of supportive and directive behaviors will change with the competence and commitment level of the employee. Salesforce is now ranked as the #1 company to work for, and has been highly successful in its relatively short existence,… Continue Reading...
.....efficacy and standing as the basis of leadership styles. Those three prompts, in the order in which they will be discussed, are communication, task management and the driving of results and integrity and trustworthiness. While these items are collectively quite good in terms of being the basis of leadership styles, they should indeed be part of a wider collection of ideas and should not be left to stand on their own.
Communication
On its face, communication is a good thing to focus on and have as part of a leadership brand and system. At the same time,… Continue Reading...
Numerous experts have argued that different components of emotional intelligence, for instance, self-assurance, compassion, and self-awareness are fundamental footings of some leadership styles. This article examines the relationship between leadership and emotional intelligence.
In accordance to research by Esfahani and Soflu (2011), empathy, an element of emotional intelligence, has a direct link to managers and leaders with such feelings, in that against the personal notions and considerations of personnel, they utilize fitting motivational techniques. This is particularly linked to transformational leaders as they are able to express their feelings with much ease and increase accountable feelings in personnel by individual and organizational communication and also generate positive motivation. This indicates that… Continue Reading...
all apply to the Army. Because I have a better understanding of the diversity of leadership styles, my attitudes about leadership have changed since taking this course. Some leaders are more effective as transactional managers, focused on specific tasks and goals, but lack the big picture vision that sets apart servant leaders and visionary leaders. I appreciate that the Army recognizes different theories of leadership, all of which should ultimately be evidence-based, with outcomes proving the efficacy of different styles or approaches. In fact, the Army does allow individual leaders to cultivate specific skills and traits to promote the greater good of the organization—and the… Continue Reading...
research measures both personality traits and leadership styles. Interestingly, the trait of conscientiousness is negatively correlated with organizational performance and also with transformational leadership. However, transformational leadership was associated with higher levels of organizational commitment among the employees/followers. The results also show that personality diversity at the upper echelons of the organization mitigate CEO-specific leadership traits. It is important to incorporate research on senior management as well as employees to show how personality traits at various levels of the organization will affect performance objectives.
Article: Fischer, R. & Boer, D. (2014). Motivational basis of personality traits.… Continue Reading...
which leadership skills can be developed and assesses the importance of leadership in organizations seeking to achieve specific aims. Leadership styles, such as servant leadership and transformational leadership, are analyzed and qualities such as boldness, good judgment and emotional intelligence are examined to show how they support effective leadership. The paper concludes with a discussion of what leadership means to different people and how leadership styles can reflect an individuals own subjective take on leadership and how it should be demonstrated.
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Topics
What is leadership?
How can leadership qualities be promoted?
How does a bad leadership experience impact a workplace culture?
Real-life leaders in the 20th century
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Leadership Styles
Autocratic leadership is the style of leadership in which the leader assumes total control of the entire decision making process. Whatever the leader says is what goes. This style of leadership is seen in very hierarchical settings, such as the military, where there is a clear chain of command: the leader at the top passes down the orders to those below, who pass them on out to their subordinates. There is no room for questioning the leader or for inserting one’s own will into the process: one gets… Continue Reading...
the necessary knowledge and tools for them to achieve goals. There are different leadership styles that leaders follow or adhere to. The most common of them being the command and control leadership style. While it might be the most common leadership style in use today, that does not mean that it is the most effective style of leadership. This kind of leadership style has its roots in the military. In the command and control leadership style, the leader is always in command and they are also in control of the employees. According to Smith et al. (2016) the command and control leadership style… Continue Reading...
Crites, Kevin E. Dickson, & Alicia Lorenz, 2015).
Leadership Styles of Men and Women
In various earlier studies done in the area, researchers noted that no significant differences exist in the men's and women's leadership styles. In the recent past, however, a paradigm shift has taken root and different leadership characteristics are being labeled as either feminine or masculine and so giving either gender the opportunity to exhibit either of the characteristics. A results-oriented and rigid approach to leadership whose sole focus is the end result is deemed as masculine. (Syed Akif Hasan, Irma Zahid, & Muhammad Imtiaz… Continue Reading...
difficulty. This paper will discuss the relation of EI to Leadership Styles according to research that has been conducted in the field.
As Quader (2011) notes, EI can be defined by five elements or qualities: "Self-Awareness, Managing Emotion, Self-Motivation, Relating Well, and Emotional Mentoring" (p. 1). Yet not all practitioners of EI and leadership have all five elements at the same time. Quader's (2011) study showed that women actually scored higher in showing the qualities of Relating Well and Emotional Mentoring. Men, on the other hand, scored higher in the other three areas. Thus, EI and gender shows correlation in… Continue Reading...
his death. To this end, his transformational leadership style was very effective (Redziniak, 2016).
Conclusion
Both transactional and transformational leadership styles can be effective when used in environments that call for them. Transactional leadership works effectively where the leader’s followers know exactly what results need to be achieved and the specific steps needed to attain those results. It may be inadequate in an environment that is fast evolving and that requires fast independent innovation on the part of the followers. Where creative input to problem-solving is one of the main parts of the job of the followers, transformational leadership styles should be used alongside the transactional leadership style. It… Continue Reading...
My Leadership Approach
We all have diverse and unique leadership styles and approaches to leadership. In essence, my styles of leadership are essentially drawn from Goleman’s six situational styles. It is important to note that although Goleman is of the opinion that the said leadership styles ought to be customized to the situation, a person could be accustomed to any of the six styles of leading highlighted (Ahlstrom & Bruton, 2009). Towards this end, I am more of a coaching/pacesetting leader. As a coaching leader, I tend to be more focused on being conversational and aim to create a… Continue Reading...
linear modelling, the study found that follower self leadership behaviour was substantially influenced by both empowering and directive leadership styles as well as follower’s desire for independence. More specifically, a leadership style in which the leader empowered followers was found to have a strong positive effect on followers who had a strong need for autonomy. This relationship is depicted in Table II, which shows a positive correlation between empowering leadership and the need for autonomy (correlation coefficient = 0.11). This led to the confirmation of H1. On the contrary, as shown in Table II, a directive leadership style was found to have a strong negative impact on followers… Continue Reading...
the six leadership styles: visionary,… Continue Reading...
of quality leadership; leadership drives performance outcomes and creates the organizational climate and culture necessary for success. While multiple leadership styles can prove effective under various circumstances, toxic leadership almost always has an adverse impact on morale within the unit (Sadulski, 2018). Toxic leadership undermines trust, creates a climate of fear, and can even “violate the legitimate interests of the organization,” (Aubrey, 2012, p. 4). In fact, the effects of toxic leadership can reverberate far beyond the immediate interactions within the unit, penetrating “deep into families and family readiness,” (Jowers, 2015, p. 1). Defined as a self-seeking, “abrasive,” and “narcissistic” set of behaviors, toxic leadership undermines the fundamental principles… Continue Reading...
Someone like Richard Branson, who combines a variety of leadership styles—such as innovative leadership, charismatic leadership and transformational leadership, ultimately has as his core leadership value the style of servant leadership (De Vries, 1998). He consistently puts people first and recognizes what they need and how he can best help. That is the type of manager I would like to be. I would not want to distance myself from my workers nor hover over them to the point that they are distressed every time I come around. I would want them to know that I am there to support… Continue Reading...
