Applying The Path-Goal Leadership Model

Transformational leaders motivate by utilizing values, care, and inspiration (Marquis & Huston, 2015). These leaders are developing their employees to strive for growth. Transformational leadership enables companies to look towards the

Right out of college I had aspirations to lead others and understood I had to develop the necessary skills and start somewhere. I was a go-getter and wanted to use my unique strengths I was born with, while acknowledging and learning from my shortcomings. I focused on applying at companies that would require leading others. My leadership journey began when I accepted a role at Target to lead a team of leaders in a retail store. I trained for three months and successfully managed to make all my three interim direct reports cry. One was a guy, the other two were girls, and one of the girls I had a class with in college. My expectations were too high and I wasn’t engaging and inspiring the team. I was driven to deliver results at whatever cost, and wasn’t able to plan how long it would take to complete tasks. I learned the process steps from my direct reports, everything they were willing to teach me. The leadership methods I learned from experiencing and thinking on my feet, or winging it. They didn’t have every scenario in the training book. Take for example a wife, at Guest Services, threatening another customer that her husband is going to kick the other husband’s ass for cutting in front of her in the line. Or when a guest walked in and stopped breathing at Guest Services, or when a pregnant mother fainted in the shoes department. Every day brought new obstacles to overcome while bringing us back to the reason why we were there. No one felt they were destined to work in a

In agreement with the leadership assessment that I do try to be attentive and respectful to others. I always seeking out the best for my friends and family but contrary I neglect my task at times. I sometimes put others’ concerns before my own. I will like to improve in balancing the concerns for people and be more productive. I have learned about myself that I am either all for people or either for the task. The transformational leadership is where I need to improve more effectively. I have the beginning part such as recruiting great people and supporting them yet I lack in making tough decision, listening to people first, weighing all the factors and the explanation part.

Good leaders are the ones that are not too good to learn from their followers. Transformational leadership can be defined as leadership that allows the leaders and the followers to raise each other’s levels of morality and motivation (Drenkard, 2012). You have to work on discovering what motivates the ones you lead. I am open minded enough to be an evolving transformational leader. According to Taylor’s Principles’ of Scientific Management, a manager is supposed to find the best way to do a job, find the best employee for a job, and to train and share the responsibility of results with the common workers (Butts and Rich, 2012). It is an important principle because many

The theories that will aid me in my career as a leader are transactional and transformational leadership styles. Transactional leadership theory emphasizes the role of management and how their followers are encouraged through reward and punishment. Transformational leadership theory focuses on the leader and how they inspire his/her followers to achieve a higher level of ethical values and motivation. Prior to my present education the world around me seemed to demonstrate only an Authoritarian leadership style where what the boss said was law with no input from those who were carrying out the specified duties. During my current and previous work experience I always remember telling myself, “why stay here, nobody cares to listen to ideas that are not their own”; with that in mind, when speaking with the management team about ideas to improve daily processes rejection followed swiftly. So as time progressed, my outlook on the system began to change; it led me to contemplate what I would do different if I were giving the orders. If I am to find myself in a leadership position I would like to think that when a challenge arose I would handle it as soon as it occurred and with the perspective of all individuals involved to repair and prevent future issue.

A leader is an individual who has the ability to mold and cultivate others to reach their full potential. In this essay, the importance of leadership and what a leader exemplifies will be discussed and analyzed in depth. Also an influential leader in my workplace will be described using the path-goal leadership theory, to elaborate on the styles, behaviors, and effectiveness demonstrated by my leader. In addition, a detailed description of my leaders role and utilization of the path-goal theory in the workplace will be explained as well.

Within the path-goal theory of leadership House (1996) suggests that degree to which subordinates need clarification is dependent on the require amount of motivation from their leader. Therefore, the subordinates who require more clarification of their action require extra motivation to increase their confidence. Some people view motivation as encouragement whilst other to some extent find it insulting, hence an effective leader will be aware of where their motivational leadership is required.

The term path-goal is derived from the belief that effective leaders clarify the path to help their followers get from where they are to the achievement of their work goals and make the journey along the path easier by reducing roadblocks and pitfalls (Robbins 2001, p. 229).

As we all know certain companies become extremely successful, while others unfortunately succumb to failure. This of course can be due to various amounts of reasons, but one of those major reasons may be due to lack of leadership skills. A company that has everything going for it, great product, a nice work place, and so on and so forth does not always become successful unless they possess prime leaders. As we have learned so far, there are various degrees of leadership styles and when and where they are best used and therefore most efficient. The path-goal theory shows how leaders are able to motivate their followers in order to accomplish a variety of goals. Steve Jobs was a successful leader and that showed through his extremely successful company. Not only are the products that Apple makes great, but the reason they became as successful as they did was due to the fact that Jobs had a clear leadership model and understood what worked and what did not (Penn State World Campus, 2013) .

The leaders ' behavior is not set in stone as there are other leadership styles that may

Carol practices all four initial Path-goal leadership theories. However, she goes further and deals with the subordinate characteristics, and task characteristics (Northouse, 2012). Using all of the knowledge and expertise of the Path- goal leadership style has Carol’s subordinates happy, willing to work hard, and are motivated when needed by

Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to work for several leaders who in one way or another influenced and molded my personal leadership style. Although not all of them are revered as positive influences, each one of them provided me with the building blocks to develop myself as a leader and find my place within the organization.

If leadership is about meeting other needs, and treat them as I want to be treated, then I have to identify other needs and at that point act upon these needs in a the way I would like other to do it over my own needs. So, what kind of leader I am? And what kind of leader I would like to be? And quoting from the book, “I am not where I need to be, but I am better than I used to be.” Being a leader is a constant process of learning and practice, and I find myself making progress if I am better now than I was yesterday, and I think that is a key point, I progress step by step and if I am a better person today than I was yesterday I am going in the right direction.

I have been working in my family’s business since I was 12 years. I come from a business-oriented family, both my sister and I have worked the family business. Through sheer hard work, I have been able to rise up to a management position. In my life as a leader, I have always strived to apply the path-goal leadership theory, by Northouse (2013). I have come up with a clear-cut leadership model. I have learned what works best, and does not work for the family business. I continually emphasize to employees the importance of working together as a team and try as much as possible to be a role model for other workers. I continually encourage other workers to do their best and be the best in whatever work they are

Path Goal Theory also known as the path–goal theory of leader effectiveness or the path–goal model is a theory proposed by Martin Evans and Robert House, which is then developed by Robert House who is an