Predominant Leadership Style: Participative Leadership In Employee

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Predominant Leadership Style I am currently working in Case Management with TANF recipients in the state of Tennessee. My position is not a leadership role, but I do provide guidance to our population. I do have some experience in a leadership role. I was a team leader in a previous position in a customer service call center. The team consisted of a manager, two supervisors and 1 team lead. The manager was adamant about the management group acknowledging staff input when goals, metrics and some of the company decisions were to be made. During the predominant leadership role research, I have determined that I have a participative leadership personality. I have a sharing or open to suggestions attitude. I feel like working in this type of environment, enhanced the participative personality. A participative leadership style is an organization’s consensus aspect to meet goals (Salahuddin, 2010, p. 2). Participative leadership is a type of management that allows staff members to provide recommendations and input on decision making. It was imperative to me that management be aware of the strengths and weakness of the employees that they manage. When taking into the consideration of staff members, the input …show more content…

Brody & Nair (2014) states that “leaders have flaws and some leaders have more flaws than others” (p.7). Initially when I read all of the flawed or challenges in management, I didn’t know see one that would fit me specifically. I think I can relate more to the charmer. I would consider say that this could fit into more of a people-pleaser. In my team lead role, I was excited to get the input of the other employees but I also worked real hard to get those suggestions implemented. I was fighting for the team because I had been in their position at one time. The staff all liked me and anticipated me getting their request met. Having the staff to like you and appreciate you, can be a double edge

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