Defining Leadership To define leadership as a process, it can mean that leadership may not be a trait or characteristic that resides in a leader, but rather it is more of a transactional event that occurs between the leader and the followers. This process affects both the leader and the followers. It does also say that leadership is not a linear one-way process but involves the whole team to interact with the leader and work together as one. In addition, some researchers define leadership in terms of power. The power relationship that exists between the leader and followers. From this point of view, it’s said that leaders have the power to captivate and wield an effect to change others. It is a transformational process that makes followers to accomplish more than what is expected. Finally, other scholars believe that leadership could be skill motivated or seen from a skill perspective. This can be defined on how followers can be using the capabilities (knowledge and skills) from the leader to make effective leadership.
Running Head: PSYCHOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP Psychology of Leadership Introduction Social psychology, the major branch of modern psychology, is a science that studies and understands the nature of human mind and his mental system when it is at work in social life. Leadership is a psychological as well as a social process attributed by
A Hierarchical Taxonomy of Leadership Behavior: Integrating a Half Century of Behavior Research Gary Yukl Angela Gordon University at Albany, Tom Taber State University of New York, Albany, NY A major problem leadership research and has been lack of agreement about which theory behavior categories are relevant and meaningful. It is difficult to integrate findings from five decades of research unless the many diverse leadership behaviors can be integrated in a parsimonious and meaningful conceptual An emerging solution is a framework. hierarchical taxonomy with three metacategories (task, relations, and change behavior). Confirmatory factor analysis of a behavior
Nursing Leadership Analysis Leadership at times can be a complex topic to delve into and may appear to be a simple and graspable concept for a certain few. Leadership skills are not simply acquired through position, seniority, pay scale, or the amount of titles an individual holds but is a characteristic acquired or is an innate trait for the fortunate few who possess it. Leadership can be misconstrued with management; a manager “manages” the daily operations of a company’s work while a leader envisions, influences, and empowers the individuals around them.
Throughout this study we have identified that leadership develops through size different stages that go from awareness to implementation. Since every person is different there the impact of each of these stages can affect the views towards themselves and also others. The process within each stage engaged developing self with group influences, which in turn influenced the changing view of self with others from dependence to interdependence and shaped the broadening view of leadership, shifting from an external view of leadership to leadership as a process (Komives, Owen, Longerbeam, Mainella,
In addition, leadership itself can be described in various forms and through the highlight of different skill sets, but the one thing that all definitions have in common is that “leadership involves influencing the attitudes, beliefs, behaviours and feelings of other people” Spector’s work (as cited in Curtis, de Vries, & Sheerin, 2011, p.306). When the skill set of a leader is compared to that of a manager, true differences are noted. Some of these key differences are apparent even in the approach utilized to reach the desired goals. While a manager directs, a leader transforms, a manager sustains and a leader improves, a manager controls, a leader motivates, a manager’s focus is on short-term goals and a leader’s is long-term based, managers ask how and when, while
References Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership: Theory and practice (6th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.
1. How is leadership different today than 30 years ago? It was describing as an ability to control others. Now days, it describes as a characteristics and traits which allow the leader to effect the group. 2. Describe how leadership is a process and the variables that impact this process. Leadership is process means
The author introduced the article with an abstract that provided a brief summary of main points as well as the outlook developed by the article. It is evident from the abstract that the article explores a multi-theory integrated approach that consolidates classic leadership theories into one feasible framework that is based on findings from both past and present research on leadership. The abstract mirrored the article and in the proper form; the reader can understand the article’s overall objective from the abstract and can therefore whether or not to continue reading.
Chapter 3 METHODOLOGY The study will collect and analyze data around perceptions of leadership, and leadership related behaviors and participation. A qualitative approach is more appropriate than quantitative for for two main reasons. First, unlike quantitative research, the current study does not aim to try to confirm or disconfirm a particular
Leadership has been studied from a wide range of perspectives and thus it means different things to different people. Some people view leadership as the focus of group processes, some others view it from a personality or skills perspective, to some others leadership is an act or behavior, some school of thought describe leadership in terms of power relationship while some view leadership as a transformational process (Northouse, 2012). Looking at the various definitions of leadership, there are various terms that are important; including the fact that leadership is a process that involves influence and the attainment of a common goal, and usually occurs in the context of a group (Northouse, 2012). The path-goal theory is one of the
Name: Course: Tutor: Date: Power and Leadership Influence Introduction Leadership has been a topic that has been researched for a long time in many disciplines. Leadership as a personality focuses on the characteristics of an individual that gives them power to act as leaders. There is leadership as an attribution this approach views leadership as phenomenon that causes group of followers to have outcomes.(Wu et al, 2010, 90).Researchers have used the following approaches to study leadership; they are mainly trait, behavior, power influence, situation and integrative approaches. Trait approaches focuses on the characteristics, values, skill and personality of leaders. Behavior approaches is focused on the leaders behaviors, differentiating between the behavior of ineffective and effective leaders. Integrative approach combines all the approaches to have a holistic picture of the process, outcomes and determinants of leadership. The approach that this paper uses is situational approach that is not leader centered but more on the significance of the context as an influence of leadership. Leaders should be able to choose the leadership quality appropriate to a particular situation.
As we know that, leadership is nothing. But the influencing flowers. Leadership includes three fundamental clusters of skills creating vision, garnering commitment to that vision, an managing progress toward the realization of that vision. powerful and effective leaders plays very vital role to reach the maximum production for any organization. This
Leadership: Leadership is defined as senior executives who support the creation of processes (Hammer, 2007). There are four aspects in leadership including awareness, alignment, behavior, and style. According to Hammer’s PEMM and the analysis of evidence in this case, four perspectives including awareness, alignment, behavior,
Reflection: Is Leadership Style Situation-Dependent? Leaders are known to play a vital role in determining the success of an organisation (Zenger, Folkman, Sherwin, & Steel, 2012). Effective leadership is defined as the aptitude of a leader to craft and spread the organisation’s aim among its members as well as support, motivate and direct its members towards the success of the organisation’s aim (de Charon, 2003). The primary purpose of this reflective journal is to examine the inter-relationship between the theories, researches and practices of organisational leadership and also to reflect whether leadership style is situation-dependent or universal across all situations.