Leadership is a personal characteristic - personal power. -The manager’s job is to plan, organize and coordinate. The leader’s job is to inspire and motivate. -the manager focuses on systems and structure; the leader focuses on people. – The manager relies on control; the leader inspires trust.
Lidia A. Hernandez Junior ROTC SFC Everett E. Dumas, Instructor December 2, 2012 Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisenhower was born on October 14, 1880. During World War II he was a five star general in the United States Army, and also served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. In 1951, Eisenhower became the first supreme commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He entered the presidential race as a Republican in 1952. He defeated Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
L.L. Bean Relies on Its Core Values and Effective Leadership 1. What style of leadership do you think most L.L. Bean managers probably employ? I believe that managers’ effectiveness often depends on their styles of leadership, that is, their ability to influence others, either formally or informally.
There are a number of models that have been developed to analyse leadership styles and to help me explore my own, I am going to use Douglas McGregor’s “XY Theory”, Ken Blanchard’s “Situational Leadership” and John Adair’s “Action Centred Leadership.” Douglas McGregor – XY Theory X Y Autocratic Style Democratic style McGregor’s theory describes a continuum whereby “X” is at one end of a sliding scale and “Y” the other. It assesses the behaviour of the leader and the attitude of those being led and how this can have an effect, both positive and negative, on workforce motivation. Under the autocratic leadership style of “X”, all decision-making powers are centralized in the leader. It permits quick decision-making, as only one person decides for the whole group and they keep each decision to themselves until they feel it needs to be shared with the rest of the group. But it also makes an assumption that workers need to be coerced into doing their jobs correctly and naturally leads to a much tougher approach with them, usually through a system of rewards and punishments.
1.1 DESCRIBE FACTORS THAT WILL INFLUENCE THE CHOICHE OF A LEADERSHIP STYLES OR BEHAVIOURS IN WORKPLACE SITUATIONS Leadership is defined as a dynamic process in a team whereby one individual influences the others to contribute voluntary to the achievement of team tasks in a given situation. Leadership depends not only on the knowledge, skills, and personality of the leader but also on the task to be achieved, the skills and the motivation of the team, and the environment or situation in which the leader has to operate. Leadership style is a leader's style of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people. The situational leadership theory (by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard) in 1969 proposes that leadership effectiveness depends on the leader's ability to tailor his or her behavior to the demands of the situation, namely, the subordinate's level of maturity. This theory highlights four different types of leadership behavior based on combining directive and supportive behavior: DIRECTING (high directive, low support), COACHING (high directive, high supporting), SUPPORTING (low directive, high supportive), and DELEGATING (low directive, low supportive).
He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation and he also won a National Book Award for his book American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, which were both bestsellers. This book examined the life and endeavors of the first President of the United States, General George Washington. In the book, Ellis covered three main parts of Washington’s life, his military feats in the French and Indian War, his achievements as a general during the American Revolution, and his terms as President of the United States all the way to his death in 1799. This book would be a delightful read for anyone who was looking to broaden their knowledge of George Washington or to dispel any of the famous myths about him also. For example, Washington never chopped down a cherry tree to prove to his father that he could not tell a lie or that he also never threw a silver dollar across the Potomac River.
Finally, I will conclude with a reflective analysis and reveal what I have learned from my research about leadership and the application of the three leadership theories. Three Theories/Models Fiedler’s Contingency Model Fiedler’s contingency model emphasizes the importance of both the leader's personal ability and the situation in which the leader must operate in. The model predicts that the effectiveness of the leader will depend on both the leadership style and how favorable is the situation (Northouse, 2010). Leadership style is measured by what Fiedler calls the least preferred co-worker (LPC) scale. Using a series of scales, the leader is asked to think of all
A leader has a large influence on the followers and helps them achieve common goals. The ethics of an organization are carried out by the leader who has an important role in developing and maintain an ethical environment (“Leadership Ethics,” 2013). This paper will compare and contrast three different empirical research articles about ethics in leadership. This paper will compare the following items: research questions, sample populations, limitations, and the conclusion and recommendations for further research. The first article is entitled “Ethical Leadership Evaluations After Moral Transgression: Social Distance Makes the Difference” by Adranik Tumasjan, Maria Strobel, and Isabell Welpe.
He teaches the U.S. history surveys, Nevada History, American Constitutional History, The Civil War, and History of Las Vegas. For UNLV’s Honors College, he teaches advanced undergraduate seminars on those topics. His books on the Civil War era are Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War (Fordham University Press, 2004), Politics and America in Crisis: The Coming of the Civil War (ABC-CLIO, 2010), and Lincoln and the Election of 1860 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2011).
I will compare and contrast the concepts of leadership and management. Next I will discuss what I consider to be the characteristics essential to becoming an effective leader and follower. I will also highlight my personal style of leadership. In conclusion, I will provide a reflective analysis of what I’ve learning in the course and how I plan to apply it in my life. My Definition of Leadership While one can find countless definitions of the word leadership, my personal definition is as follows: “Leadership can be defined as a process where one possesses the ability to influence and motivate a group of people towards the achievement of a common goal”.