Let’s begin with Frank Fountain, an African American male, who grew up on a farm in the southern United States. This within itself can create a whole set of issues. Prior to attending business school, he served in the Peace Corps where he volunteered in West Bengal, India. In 1973, Frank Fountain received his Masters of Business Administration in Finance from the Wharton School of Business.
Not so far into the future, he started his career at Chrysler Corporation as an investment analyst. He remained in the finance world for approximately twenty years until he accepted a position in the company’s government affairs office in Washington, D.C. Currently, Frank Fountain is Chrysler Corporation’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs (Executive Leadership Council, 2008).
Paula Banks, on the other hand, is an African American female from Chicago, Illinois, who started her career in 1972 as a management trainee with Sears, Roebuck and Company and did extremely well as a line manager. She advanced through store-management positions and in 1975 accepted a special human resources job. Paula Banks was named President of the Sears Foundation and after 24 years with the company and then accepted the position of President of the Amoco Foundation.
Upon Amoco’s merger with BP, she accepted a position in London which expanded her expertise into the global world arena. Currently, Paula Banks is Senior Vice President of the Global Diversity/Inclusion and Organizational Partnerships at PepsiCo, Incorporated (Executive Leadership Council, 2008).
Mapping the Strategy
For the most part, Frank Fountain attributed much of his success in acquiring corporate power and influence to referent power and expert power (Anonymous, n.d.). One can explain that referent power is prevalent with charismatic leaders. Keep in mind that charismatic leaders are ones that involve the emotions and can move the masses. Such leaders as Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Ceasar Chavez. These people use networking in the workplace to gain a group of peers that they can rely on and hopefully call upon when needed.
Expert power is common with subject matter experts. Your knowledge is power. Usually these leaders have extensive background and training in their field of expertise. Frank Fountain started out at the beginning of his career with Chrysler Corporation by building strong and supportive relationships with several of his peers.
... the future of black business in America. Just from reading this book and seeing the future of business and the commodification of black culture since its first publishing, most of the areas that the book touches upon have given accurate insight to how others have cashed in on black culture and how black business has evolved. An example that is evident is of George Foreman and his promotion of the Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine. Here is a black heavyweight boxer that is using not only his name and his former athletic prowess to endorse a product, but, one can say, also stereotypical blackness, with his affinity to unhealthy foods such as hamburgers and hot dogs, to promote a promote a product for Salton, Inc., a Jewish-founded company. Foreman, like Jordan, amassed a large fortune from his promotion of the grills but at the price of selling black culture.
To determine what factors Brown had to overcome to become a success, we must look at what was against him. He was a black man in a white dominant society. The only factor that could have made Brown being black any worse was if he grew up in the South. He shows us this through his parents they moved from the South to Harlem to escape its prejudices. Like many black families Brown’s parents wanted to be the first Northern urban generation of Negro’s. He showed the kind of Southern black mentality his parents had with the jobs they took and the way they reacted to his quitting of what they called good paying jobs....
The most common would be positional power in which a manager’s power is derived from their position in the organizations hierarchy. If the CEO tells the followers what to do it will be done without question out of respect for the power the CEO has over the organization and followers but if it’s someone lower in the hierarchy, the followers may not be as willing to do as they are asked. Another source of power would be charismatic power in which a manager’s personal qualities have a way of influencing follower either by a sense of loyalty they inspire or a history of having good insight into situations that have occurred in the past.
Transformational Leadership and High-Intensity Interval Training posits; “The athlete’s sense of accomplishment provides a heightened sense of well-being, pride, confidence, belongingness, perseverance, self-awareness of capabilities, and a belief in their capacity to conquer challenge” (Himelhoch, 2014, p.37). These traits are important for a transformational leader, but are also found in a charismatic leader. Charisma in a leader is defined in Leadership Theory, Application & Skill Development as “a social construct between the leader and follower, in which the leader offers a transformative vision or ideal which exceeds the status quo and then convinces followers to accept this course of action not because of its rational likelihood of success, but because of their implicit belief in the extraordinary qualities of the leader” (Lussier & Achua, 2013, p.325). Charismatic and transformational types of leadership styles are very similar, but a transformative leader may not have that special “it factor” that a charismatic leader possesses. Leadership Theory, Application & Skill Development give examples of such leaders; “Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Abraham Lincoln, or Jack Welch are transformational, but few will label them as charismatic” (Lussier & Achua, 2013, p.342). While these leaders have affected
Charismatic leadership is a characteristic in which a person has the ability to communicate with people in a deep and emotional level. Charismatic leaders are able to express their ideas and vision effectively.
This book was about Booker T Washington who was a slave on a plantation in Virginia until he was nine years old. His autobiography offers readers a look into his life as a young child. Simple pleasures, such as eating with a fork, sleeping in a bed, and wearing comfortable clothing, were unavailable to Washington and his family. His brief glimpses into a schoolhouse were all it took to make him long for a chance to study and learn. Readers will enjoy the straightforward and strong voice Washington uses to tell his story. The book document his childhood as a slave and his efforts to get an education, and he directly credits his education with his later success as a man of action in his community and the nation. Washington details his transition from student to teacher, and outlines his own development as an educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He tells the story of Tuskegee's growth, from classes held in a shantytown to a campus with many new buildings. In the final chapters of, it Washington describes his career as a public speaker and civil rights activist. Washington includes the address he gave at the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895, which made him a national figure. He concludes his autobiography with an account of several recognitions he has received for his work, including an honorary degree from Harvard, and two significant visits to Tuskegee, one by President McKinley and another by General Samuel C. Armstrong. During his lifetime, Booker T. Washington was a national leader for the betterment of African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South. He advocated for economic and industrial improvement of Blacks while accommodating Whites on voting rights and social equality.
As a long term strategy, we recommend James to be made Head of Operations of Controls Asia Pacific in Singapore because he is the best suited person who not only understands the culture and vision of the parent company in the US, but also can transcend that ideology to the Controls Asia-Pacific HQ and the joint venture.
The scholars expounds that Black athletes were commodities on the playing field to help win games and bring in revenue to their respected schools. However, the schools were just as eager and willing to leave their Black players behind and dishonoring the player as a part of the team. Therefore, not compromising the team’s winning and bring in profits for the school. Sadly, Black athletes at predominately White institutions (PWIs) who believed that they were bettering the live of themselves and their families members by going to college and playing collegiate sports to increase their post secondary careers. However, these athletes were only “show ponies” for their schools. Unfortunately, Black athletes had allegiance to their school; however, the school turned their backs on the athletes to protect the profit and notoriety of the school and the programs. Money and respect from White fans and spectators were more important to the PWIs than standing up for the respect of their Black players. Racial bigotry in sports was rampant and it was only going to get worse.
When we think about how it used to be 100 years ago, the only people in leadership roles where men, and there was no presence of women. Why is it that we tend to see more men in leadership positions? Usually when we think of what a leader looks like, we tend to describe them as powerful, assertive and confidence. Because of stereotypes our society immediately labels this person as a man, due to the roles that we are expected to follow. Today, there has been a huge shift for women in leadership positions; however, there are many challenges that they still have to overcome. A process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal (Northouse, 2007) defines a leader. Moreover, leaders come in different forms whether in a professional, educational, or group setting. As a male college student and an advocate for equal rights between men and women, my understanding of the struggles that women face has a huge impact on my philosophy of leadership. The three most important concepts in this course that has resonated with me the most are double bind, and think manager-think male and glass ceiling.
...s. Lunenburg (2012) specify that a true leader is skilled to influence others and alter behavior through possessing all of the sources of the power (Coercive, Expert, Informational, Legitimate, Referent, and Reward) simultaneously. In most cases, the personal sources of power are more vigorously related to employees’ job contentment, organizational dedication, and performance than are the organizational power sources. The idea of power and leadership has been and will persistent to be complementary.
Women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions in the public and private sector. Many countries have responded to this issue by implementing gender quotas for political seats and corporate boardroom positions. This paper reviews the stereotype beliefs that women leaders are faced with which serve as barriers for the attainment of high-power leadership positions. There is incomplete information on the identification of qualified women leaders and thus most likely the persistence of the stereotypes against women leaders. Greater exposure to qualified women leaders would reduce the gender bias and provide them with greater access to high-power leadership positions. Studies in France, the United Kingdom, and Argentina demonstrate that quotas increase female leadership and influence policy outcomes. Pros and cons to the implementation of mandatory gender quotas for publically listed companies in the United States are identified. Due to the relatively new initiatives of gender equality through quotas, longer-term effects are still to be determined.
university president for instance has more power than a dean of a business school, but they both have formal power. Personal power, on the other hand, is the capacity to influence others that comes from being viewed as knowledgeable and likable by followers. This is a type of power that derives from the interpersonal relationships that leaders develop with followers (Yukl, 2006). Some argue that when leaders have both position and personal power, it is advisable to use personal power most of the time. Overuse of position power may erode the ability of a leader to influence people (Goffee, & Jones, 2007). Of course, it is important to know when it is most appropriate to use position power and to be able and willing to use it (Daft, 2005; Goffee,
A charismatic leader is one whose followers are drawn to his or her personality and magnetism. They have extraordinary qualities and are described as almost god-like to those that follow them and look up to them. With being a team leader, their whole purpose is to try and allow for their passion and enthusiasm to rub off on their team members by portraying a positive and energetic attitude. Charisma stems from participating in something you truly have a passion for, something that undoubtedly sparks your interest. Charismatic leaders seem to become apparent in troubled times, whether it being within personal relationships or within an organization, simply because an inspiring personality helps to reduce any stress or anxiety amongst its followers. Charismatic leaders strongly appeal to the values and morals of their followers and the psychological ...
Power is the capacity or the ability for one to influence the behaviors of others in any given organization. In a business setting, those in control of the organization will always give instructions and directives to those in lower ranks when running of the business. Power is always accompanied with authority, control or even commands. Leadership is the process where by a person influences others to achieve certain objective and goals of a business and then guides the firm in a way that makes it more unified and comprehensible. Leaders directly affect the performance of any firm and good leaders are born and not made. There are leadership styles and leadership theories which are very vital in leadership of the organizations for they affect its success. For the success of business to be achieved there needs to be a group of experts and consultants in leadership for they will effectively and efficiently run the business as expected.
Charismatic Power – The ability to influence followers based on the leaders personality. Politicians often use this kind of power to get follower’s to support them.