Fairleigh Dickinson University, Vancouver Campus
MADS 6602 V3 – Personnel Administration
Taranjeet Kaur, MAS (Candidate)
Student ID: 1732181
Instructor: Dr. Jay Ariken 14 APRIL ,2016
Ques-10 Describe how leadership styles are interconnected with culture and tradition of an organization?
Answer - leadership can be defined as an art of motivating a group of people to act towards attaining a same goal. In other words, the process of encouraging and promoting others to work enthusiastically in achieving objectives. Leadership is a way for people to participate in making something extraordinary and different.
Essence of leadership –
Leadership actually means the power or talent of an individual to influence
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IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP -
Leadership is not only a quality of using people’s potential in realizing and attaining an organization’s goal. It has an ultimate aim of raising the level of human conduct and ethical aspiration of both the leader and the led.
The leader should elevate, inspire and motivate others.
Formal leadership – The exercise of formal leadership is done through organization’s hierarchy of positions like the highest authority of manager is given all the duties to lead and supervise his under staff.
Informal leadership – The leadership which is influential without any formal authority.
LEADERSHIP STYLE’S -
1.Based on authority retained
a. Autocratic style -
In this style all decision making power is confined to the leaders as dictator leader. They do not consider any kind of suggestions or initiatives from their subordinates. The autocratic leadership style has been successful as it gives strong motivation to the manager.It actually allows quick decision-making , as only a single person decides for the whole group and keeps each decision stick to himself until he feels it is needed to be shared with the rest of the group members. This kind of leadership has a increased amount of dependency on the leader.It is only needed in some types of business where decisions need to be made extremely fast.
Most of the employees hates this leaderstyle style where boss is so strict and motivation factor is absent.
This style is generally not
Leadership is “the fusion of heart and mind, selfless action, encourage betterment of others, and to make a difference. It is the process of influencing
Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation to accomplish the mission and provide organization. (FM 6-22, 2015) As a leader, we must communicate with our seniors, peers, and subordinates in order to accomplish the mission or goal. Listening to the details of the task or mission
Leadership is the process of influencing individuals or a group of individuals by providing purpose, direction with the support of others, and motivating those individuals with the purpose of accomplishing a certain obligation which is helpful to all individual that is involved.
What is leadership? Leadership by definition is the ability of an individual or organization to guide other individuals, teams, or organizations. Without leadership many would just follow one another's actions like blind sheep. Many of the powerful shifts in American history were started by men and women who made the decision to guide and instruct one another rather than being a follower.
Authoritarian leaders are the leaders who like to do all the group decisions on their own and tell other group members what to do and how to do it. This type of leadership is very beneficial when you are in need of a quick decision or faced with some type of crisis. This type of decision making can easily be abused and can often be viewed as being bossy and over controlling. Leaders who use this style may provoke dependence, criticism, dissatisfaction, and aggression from their group members (Forsyth, 1990). According to Gladding 2012, authoritarian leaders do not ask for consideration or suggestions from group members; instead, they structure and direct their groups according to their own wishes, purposes, and the information available to them. A task group could benefit more from an Authoritarian leader. Tasks groups focus on accomplishing specific goals. According to Gladding 1994, “with task groups, an
Leadership is about helping people, empowering people, setting clear goals and motivation, while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organisation.
According to Business Dictionary.com, leadership is defined as the individuals who are the leaders in an organization, regarded collectively. It also can be define as the activity of leading a group of people or an organization or the ability to do this. Leadership involves the establishing of a clear vision, sharing the vision with other so that they will follow willingly, providing the needed information, knowledge, and methods to realize the vision and coordinating and balancing the conflicts interests of all members and stakeholders.
Leadership is creating an environment where individuals within your sphere of influence are inspired to move forward with the short term goals, plans, missions, and strategic intent of an organization while performing within the bounds of that organizations moral and ethical boundaries.
This article seeks to understand the two-way, intrinsic relationship held between culture and leadership. Topics include three types of culture which may have a mediating effect on the practice of leadership; regional culture, business sector culture, and organizational culture. Organizational culture is then examined in the context of culture’s effect on leadership, and leadership’s effect on culture. Suggestions for further research into these areas are presented.
Over the years, a great deal of time, and research has been dedicate to the study of leadership. Even with extensive data on the topic, many still disagree on what leadership really means. Hence, leadership is a word that has many different meanings and different researched theories associated with it. On a basic level, leadership involves having and establishing a clear vision, sharing that vision with followers, respecting followers, and leading an organization with excellence while ensuring that everyone is part of the team. Leadership is also a method by which a leader uses his or her influence towards getting a group of followers to take ownership or buy into a vision.
Edgar H Schein: 1996 “Culture: The missing concept in organization studies” Administrative Science Quarterly, 41, 229 – 240.
The team manager often talks with the team about her beliefs in constant personal improvement and high productivity so that her team can stand out and have an excellent resume’ when they are ready and willing to move into a different role at Humana. She encourages the team to learn about the many different areas of the company and focus on where they would like to go inside the company.
Leadership is an approach for a leader to guide, motivate, supervise, manage, and influence others in different situation to reach a goal. According to the Pettinger (2007), the leadership can be explained in several situations. First, the leaders have the responsible to provide vision and direction to the followers. Second, the leaders shall energise and motivate the followers. Third, the leaders shall set and enforce absolute standards of behaviour, attitude, presentation and performance.
This style is not about bossing the crew around it’s about managing to them how to run the company properly and successfully. It is best used for employees who don’t know their job well or for new employees who don’t know their job at all. This style will make it better on the employee because they will receive coaching and they will better perfect their job. Being a successful leader requires courage, flexibility and capability to enhance an effective organization. You can use any of the styles that works for you but you have to have great characteristics to go along with it. Authoritarian leaders tend to fail their organization because they don’t have any creativity or development towards their foundation. Creativity involves more than one person it involves a team. Usually this type of leader do not accept anyone’s input but their own and then problems start to occur where the team begins to think the leader is demanding, egotistical, or just plain out bossy. Using the authoritarian style doesn’t make leaders bossy but only using this style does. For authoritarian to work well it requires understanding, abiding, and hard working individuals. This style would not work for members who want their voice heard. The employee must be able to trust their employer and put all faith into them.
For a quick review, the definition of leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group or individuals, to achieve a common goal.