Leadership Depend On Leadership Style

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Thesis statement: Leadership depends on the leader’s leadership style and there way of communicating ideas rather than the leader themselves. Both women and men believe in similar leadership styles however women prefer a more participative leadership approach.
According to organisational behaviour by McShane, leadership is defined as influencing, motivating and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organisation of which they are members (page 382, McShane).Becoming an effective leader depends on the leader’s leadership style. Successful leaders have vision and charisma, also the leader should have an ongoing personality, talkative, careful and self-disciplined. The leader must also have self-concept with a high self-esteem and a motivation drive which peruses goals that motivates their followers. (McShane pg 382). Leaders should also have integrity, this is when the leaders are truthful and they have a consistency of words and actions. Authentic leadership is very important in a successful leader; the leader must be comfortable and act in a rightful manner with a self-concept that comes from within the leader by being themselves. There are cultural values and gender values when it comes to different leadership styles, research has found out that women and men both have different methods of being leaders such as men are more direct when giving a power speech compared to women who prefer a participative style of leadership (McShane pg 384).Leadership however is based on a technique the leader uses and how they apply it to their followers and not so much about who is following the leader but rather what technique best suits and relates to the followers.
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...ly (Mc Shane 397). An example of a good female leader is Joan of Arch, because she was assertive, dedicated (National post, 2011).

Becoming a successful leader requires many skills such as good communication skills; the leader must have knowledge, have a good personality and be motivated such as Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther the king and Joan of Arch. Compared to Adolf Hitler who had coercive power and none of effective leadership skills as a result he become the worst leader in history. There is not one best style of leadership nor who is following but depends solely on the leaders characterises and if they follow certain elements which make them effective leaders such as good communication skills. Women and men are both similar in terms of leadership however women prefer a more participative leadership style according to GLOBE (Mc Shane 382).

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