Leadership, Teambuilding, and Communications

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Assignment 3: Leadership, Teambuilding, and Communication April Woods Professor Smith BUS 322 – Organizational Behavior May 29, 2013 The purpose of this paper is to show how leadership, teambuilding, and communication affect an organization. The company that I chose to research for this paper is a previous company that I worked for, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin, Oshinksy, et al. In addition, this paper will examine traditional, contemporary, and emerging leadership theories in which will describe the most appropriate leadership characteristics in terms of leadership style, as well as interpersonal forms of power. I will show how these characteristics impact the organizations performance and how they can be addressed. Finally, potential sources conflict within the group or work team and communication barriers will also be discussed. Examine traditional, contemporary, and emerging leadership theories and interpersonal forms of power. Create a profile of the ideal leader for the company you researched in which you describe the most appropriate leadership characteristics in terms of leadership style and interpersonal forms of power; and how these characteristics impact organizational performance. There are many different types of leadership styles from traditional, contemporary and emerging theories. According to Nelson and Quick (2013), “Leadership in organizations is the process of guiding and directing the behavior of people in the work environment” (p. 193). Traditional styles of leadership are autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire. An autocratic leader is considered to be authoritarian. They possess the power to dictate their will on employees and will not hesitate to do so if needed. A manager that uses this leadership style does not consult or allow their employees to give any input in decision-making processes. Employees that are
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