Part 1) Introduction: In today's more rapidly changing world, leadership prevails everywhere. It is playing a more important role not only in our personal life but also in our professional life, because leadership has a great impact and influence on people. So, utilizing leadership adequately can bring us a piece of attractive picture. To use humanizing actions is a critical leadership skill, which will be discussed in the following paragraphs, to motivate and inspire energy of team members to achieve the set goal. I would like to use Contingency Theory and Integrative Theory and Path Goal Model and Follower-ship to demonstrate that this critical skill has an impact on leadership effectiveness. Body: Leadership is the ability to inspire confidence, support and trust among the people who need to achieve organizational goals. (Chan & Maubourgne 1992) It invariably requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people in order to create new approaches and imagine new areas to explore. This definition has emphasized on influencing people to achieve set goals. In other words, we can say, the objective of leadership is achieving goals, meanwhile, the application is influencing other people to motivate the energy and stimulate the potential towards the goals. The contemporary era is the time with constant changes and new demands. In view of this point, we can't put unitary leadership into real work. Accordingly, the term of "contingency leadership theory" (also namely "situational leadership") is given rise to by those situational factors. This theory notes that managers can vary their styles to suit different circumstances. For instance, a sole proprietorship's leader leads self's business and t... ... middle of paper ... ...g goal greatly. Reference Chan, K. W. & Maubourgne, R. A. 1992, Parables of leadership, Harvard Business Review, July-August. Deal and Jenkins.1994 Book about managing Workers Operating Behind The Scenes (p xiii).(p257) Dubrin, A & Daglish, C.2003, Leadership: An Australian Focus, John Wiley, Brisbane. House, R.J, 1971, A path-goal theory of leader effectiveness, Administrative Science Quarterly, 16 Howell, J. P., Bowen, D. E., Dorfman, P. W., Kerr S. & Podaskoff, P. 1990, `Substitutes for leadership: Effective alternatives to ineffective leadership', Organizational Dynamics, summer, (p 23) Miller, P. 2004, Leadership Study Guide, Southern Cross University, Lismore Pfeffer, J. 1997, `The Ambiguity of Leadership', Academy of Management Review, (p104-12) Roger Cartwright. 2002 Mastering Team Leadership Palgrave Macmillan, New York (p123)
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Leadership is defined as a socially constructed process and which also affect organizational future outcomes. Leader is someone at high position who have overall duty for an organization, she or he decide what to do and the way how to achieve it. (Carter and Greer, 2013)The role of leader is extremely important for an organization, leader use their own power to influence the followers though many different ways such as motivation in order to realize the organization object. (Waal and Sivro, 2012)
Leadership is that process in which one person sets the purpose or direction for one or more other persons and gets them to move along together with him or her and with each other in that direction with competence and full commitment (Elliott, 2009). Leadership is supposed to guide people to attain a particular set vision. Motivation is fundamental in the process of leadership as if there is no motivation there will be laxity among the people involved. It is also a critical scenario for leadership to have followers; this will infer a relationship between leaders and followers (Frank, 2003).
Similar to Situational Leadership discussed previously, Contingency Theory classifies managerial behavior and style as either task based or relationship based, the former characterized by low interpersonal connections and the latter by high interpersonal connections. Contingency Theory then seeks to define the situational forces as they relate to three main categories: Leader-Member Relations, Task Structure, and Position Power. (Fiedler & Chalmers 1974), with each category being rated in high/low or weak/strong type format.
The basic premise behind trait theory was that are leaders born or made. Leaders trait research examined the physical, social as well as mental aspect of a individual. In general these studies simply look for significant associations between individual traits and measure of leadership effectiveness. The initial result was that leader trait was that there were no universal traits that consistently separate effective leaders from other individual but in final result explain that that early research considered the impact of situation variables that might moderate the relationship between leader trait and measure of leader effectiveness. Therefore due to lack of consistent findings l individual traits to leadership effectiveness, studies of leader traits were largely abandoned in 1950. Contingency approach is also an important approach in leader subject, this approach was first to specify how situational factor interact with leader traits and behavioral which influence leadership quality and its effectiveness of a person. According to theory leader should make contact with subordinates goal attainment, strengthen subordinates ' expectancies that improved performance will lead to valued rewards, and provide coaching to make the path to payoffs easier for subordinates. Path-goal theory suggests that the leader behavior that will accomplish these tasks depends upon the subordinate and environmental contingency factors. But this approach has not been successful as it has been criticize on both theatrically and method approach However, it remains one of the better-known theories of leadership and offers important in stories of the interaction between subordinate and
It is clear that we rate James Parker as a great leader based on how he behave towards the crisis in the company. This forms the basis of Behavioral Theory which (Piccolo, 2013) describes as the behaviors that a leader demonstrates while handling different situations. How the leader behaves affects their performance which translates employee’s performance. Piccolo (2013), explains that different leadership behaviors are applicable to different situations and what makes a leader effective is how well he/she adopts the various styles and use the correct style under a different situation. While analyzing on the various behaviors leaders exhibit, two broad categories apply; task oriented leader behaviors and relationship-oriented leader behavior. Aspect relating to the contingency
One hand, as in the situational approach it is advised for a leader to adopt the development level of his or her subordinates. Otherhand, in the contingency theory, it is advised to a leader to match his or her styles with precise situation variables. But in this theory the focus is specifically on the relationship between the leader 's approach; and style with the characteristics of the subordinates in an organization, along with the work setting or the management. While this specific theory assures that subordinates will be aggravated if they think they are competent of performing their work, and also if they think their effort will not go to waste, rather will meet the goal of the organization; it shows how much a leader can accomplish if he or she took the initiative to motivate their subordinates in their everyday work. It will be challenging for leaders at the time to accomplish this goal, however, it is on the leader which approach they would choose to accolade or add enhancement in the work setting to ensure nothing is missing from the management location. As to ensure such as the subordinates are doing what they suppose to it is advised through this theory for a leader to add the reward system in the workplace, and providing tools and objectives in the workplace too so the subordinates reach the given
Northouse, P., G. (2013). Leadership: Theory and practice (6th ed.). Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications.
The leadership is a privilege and it is such a privilege and an honor which will carry the tremendous responsibility which will inspire others to direct them to accomplish goals and vision of the organization. Leadership is about influencing the people, by producing direction, purpose and motivating in order to accomplish the mission, vision and improving the organization. The leadership philosophy is evolved based on the experiences, both positive and negative, in most of the initiatives and activities that we undertake. It is also one among the collaboration and teamwork within which the team members can utilize each other’s strengths to counter the weaknesses of the individuals. By observing, introspecting and experimenting we can developed a leadership paradigm which is inclusive, collaborative and proactive. We can develop the ability to recognize which will approach in order to reach the productive conclusion. The great leaders know their limitations and are capable at utilize their strengths and also the strengths of others to compensate.
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”Leadership involves the exhibition of style or behavior by managers or supervisors while dealing with subordinates; leadership is a critical determinant of the employees ' actions toward the achievement of the organizational goals” (Saeed, Almas, Anis-ul-Haq, & Niazi, 2014). Leadership is a strength that initiates, inspires, and guides the cooperation and attitudes of others on the way to set vision. Leadership is influential and involves several styles of approaches that involve trust, accomplishment and focus to reach a projected result. Using and implementing the ideas of others motivates new thinking and gains the confidence to build the trust and encourage everyone to work to the same goals (Northouse,
Leadership is defined as a process by which an individual influences others to obtain goals. There are three aspects that should be addressed when explaining leadership. One aspect is that leadership is a social influence process; leadership could not exist without a leader and one or more followers. Another leadership aspect is compliance; all of the leader’s directions must be complied with voluntarily. Compliance is what separates leadership from other influence-based formal authority. Finally, leadership results in the followers’ behavior, that is purposeful and goal-directed which must be in some organized setting (Leadership Theories and Studies, 2009).
Northouse, P. (2010). Leadership: Theory and practice (5th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Leadership is trait that is extremely important in any society. Leadership is known as the way people attempting to make a difference in a situation. However, I believe that it is better said to be a way of influencing others actions. Leadership is usually connected to a great leader that affected his or her followers in a dynamic way. Throughout the semester for my leadership class, I have expanded the knowledge in numerous ways. I now have fully understanding of the purpose and process of leadership to a society. Being a leader one must maintain an image of being the role model. I believe that this is leader should be who is someone who has the ability to influence, encourage, listen, and nurture. They are able to inspire, stimulate, persuade, shape, and have an effect on others.
Leadership is the ability to influence individuals to make them want to achieve the objectives of the group the importance of leadership. It is the link between the workers and the organization's future plans and perceptions. It is working to unify the efforts of workers towards achieving the goals set. Control over the work and draw the necessary plans to solve problems. The development of individuals and their training, care and motivate them. The ability to increase individual development and humanitarian and practical