Category: Leadership Styles

The article goes over the concept of servant leadership introduced by Robert K. Greenleaf in 1970.  The style has been adopted by many leaders over the years to help them achieve success within their organizations.  Leaders must possess the ability to influence groups toward the goals of the organization.  The skills, behavior, and attitude of the leader will help determine how successful they will be in managing their organization and the people who depend on them. The paper goes over five very important attitudes that an individual need to adopt it if they want to be an effective servant leader.The […]

If one chooses to oblige herself/himself to go through the evolution of the Management or the Leadership theory, one may not end-up either with a textbook definition or a proper explanation of the concept of “Social leadership”. Correspondingly, the concept of Social Leadership hasn’t been subject to noteworthy exploration, debate, and inculcation  in the communal and organizational culture. And, a potential for the development of Social Leadership into a definite and credible theory has yet to be recognized in the world of academia.But, regardless of lack of proper history associated with this “jargon”, we can understand the model of Social […]

Abraham LincolnWe would really like to assume all of our presidents of the USA had been sincerely high-quality men and to make certain, simply coping with the remarkable obligation of the presidency takes a special type of man or woman.  One of the particular and superb matters approximately the device of government in America is the concept of citizen leadership.  This is the idea of an normal citizen rising up and becoming president for some time after which returning to personal existence. But of the handful of guys who’ve held that workplace, a few have stood out for his or […]

In plan tomeasure managerial performance productively, system could be used, a managerialreview system. This is a way to analyse managerial performance by using methodssuch as communication, leadership and change, to measure effectiveness.The review system is developed to be interactive and to support communicationmethods between the management and it will involve actions such as performancemanagement and appraisals.Performance management is related to make sure the objective of theorganisation is being consistently met. It does not only concentrate on themanagement performance but also it can be used to examine individual’s workersas well as the entire organisation. Performance management aids theorganisation as it guarantees […]

         Leadership is the influencing process of leaders to achieve organizational objectives through changes. An effective leader could utilize these techniques to promote opportunities of success. There are traits involved in leadership like intelligence, confidence and determination that are integral to become an effective leader. This can be considered a great leader you must motivate people to bring about positive changes and can develop a leader within each individual. The leadership style and organizational culture can lead to multiple different theories, I believe the leadership styles involving transformational leadership have the most influential effect on organizational culture. Organizational culture is the […]

Leadership: Theory, Application, Skill Development Name: Lecturer: Institution: Course: Date: Leadership: Theory, Application, Skill Development Leadership: Theory, application, skill development is one of the fundamental practical leadership books for leaders who may want to achieve success in leadership. I chose this book for review because it uses unique approaches such as leadership theories, application as well as skills development. This book is vital not only for present leaders but also for leaders of tomorrow because it provides vital concepts for successful leaders. Moreover, it combines traditional theories with the leadership topics, which are presented in a concise manner. This textbook […]

Annotated Bibliography Name: Institution: Lecturer: Course: Date: Annotated Bibliography Collison, J. R. (2005). Reconstituting superman: Identifying ideal leadership styles in a financial services context. University of Pennsylvania). According to Collison, leadership research is mainly conducted in academic fronts, focusing on analyses in the micro level, attempting to distinguish efficient leadership into component segments. He stated that issues concerning individual preference on professional integrated contexts on holistic leadership styles have rare emphasis. To investigate this issue, Collison worked with professionals from large financial service firms across hierarchical levels. He interviewed senior leaders to understand their leadership style perceptions. In his findings, […]

ABSTRACT Leadership is defined as a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. The role of leadership in an organization is determined by the culture of the company and based on the manager’s beliefs, values and assumptions will have major influence over their decisions. A good leader sees the best in people and figures out what it takes to motivates the individuals. A manager is judged as either good, or bad leader based on the decisions they make, the results and how […]

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”  This quote from Abraham Maslow seems to be the only sentence necessary to summarize John Maxwell’s Hammer Principle.  When dealing with situations or conflict, some people tend to overreact or jump to conclusions when dealing with difficult situations or conflict; this reactionary interaction with people is called the hammer principle.   The problem with this problem solving “solution” is that in the long run it can damage relationships in the workplace, or even in our personal lives, whether intentional or not.  Maxwell […]

1        Introduction:In1974 Stogdill argue that the concept of Leadership lacks a generally altruisticdefinition “there are almost as many different definitions of leadership asthere are persons who have attempted to define the concept” (Stogdill,1974),also, Bennis has stated overtime that during the last century, there werenothing less than 650 definitions on the concept of leadership, but each of thosedefinitions tally with the mindset of a researcher and also the situation thatsuch a researcher wants the definition for (Bennis & Townsend, 1995).Additionally,McCleskey in 2014 & Citing Bass in 2008, has adduced further that thesearch for a single definition on the topic, would amount to […]