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Leadership, Complexity and Change Individual Assignment

   

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BRISTOL INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT UMODFH-15-M Leadership, Complexity and Change Individual Assignment LCC – Personal Learning Log Kiriella Vithanage Prithuvi Kulasiri 19048522 2076 20/12/2019

Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 3 Transformational, transactional and situational leadership ......................................................................... 3 Experience ..................................................................................................................................................... 3 Feelings ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Reflection ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 Thoughts ....................................................................................................................................................... 7 Future Actions ............................................................................................................................................... 7 References .................................................................................................................................................. 10 Appendices .................................................................................................................................................. 12 Log 1 ........................................................................................................................................................ 12 Log 2 ........................................................................................................................................................ 13 Log 3 ........................................................................................................................................................ 14 Log 4 ........................................................................................................................................................ 15 Log 5 ........................................................................................................................................................ 16 Log 6 ........................................................................................................................................................ 17 Log 7 ........................................................................................................................................................ 18 Log 8 ........................................................................................................................................................ 18

Introduction This assignment consist the leadership styles that we discussed in the class. It includes transformational leadership, Transactional leadership and Situational leadership theory. During the study of this module and while doing this assignment I understood the important and complexity of leadership. Transformational, transactional and situational leadership Experience This reflection log is based on the experience I have faced in my workplace on Transactional leadership and Transformational leadership styles. I am working in an information technology service company. I have worked under two projects there. My previous project manager is more like following a transactional leadership style. He believes in a task-oriented approach. He was always keen on completing the task on time and pressured the staff to achieve targets to increase productivity and efficiency. Moreover, the project manager, whom I am currently working with, is more like following a transformational leadership style. He encourages his staff to share their ideas and help them to grow in their respective careers. He involves the employees in decision making, which is more decentralized. Feelings When I was working on my previous project, I often felt stressed. I felt sad and irritated because I could not explore and learn in my job. I was scared to share my creative ideas with my manager. His decisions never involved the staff, and we felt left out that we were there only to execute the decisions. The project that I am presently working on is very flexible. , and I feel happy because everyone there has the freedom to share their ideas, and decision making is decentralized, where the employees can be part of the decisions Not only that gives opportunity like organizing Christmas party or events to new and young staffs to motivate them and involve them I feel very motivated and inspired by the way he treats his staffs.

Reflection Transformational leaders are those who inspire others to achieve extraordinary outcomes and, in the process, develop their leadership capacity (Beerel.A, 2009). According to Bass and Riggio, the identified four critical components of transformational leadership are the idealized influence, Inspiration and motivation, Intellectual Stimulation, and Individualized consideration (Beerel.A, 2009). Idealized influence - My current project manager is admired and idealized as a role model by most of the people in our team. He sets a vision and drives all of us towards achieving them. His action creates faith and respect towards him, which increases employee’s confidence. He has created a positive and friendly work culture among our team. Motivates and inspire – All the employees in our project has the freedom to share their ideas. My manager always listens to people's thoughts and motivates and inspires them to execute their ideas. He often involves staff in decision making, and sometimes he gives a chance to lead tasks and events to encourage the employees. Intellectual Stimulation – Creative and innovating ideas and approaches always welcomed in our project. There are so many incidents that have happened where staff came up with problem-solving tools and robots, and it was executed and recognized. He often interacts with the team and addresses the issues and guides the subordinates to find the solution. Individualized consideration – The employees in the project can always reach my project manager for guidance individually. He has always guided me regarding higher studies, work-related training, and issues. Employees are very much comfortable to share their work issues with him, where he mentors and coach the team and lead them towards growth. Transactional leaders tend not to be concerned with the intrinsic motivational or emotional needs of their followers. They are more action and consequence driven (Beerel.A, 2009). Transactional Leadership can also be addressed as managerial leadership, focuses on the role of supervising, organizing, and group performance; transactional leadership is a style of leadership in which the leader promotes compliance of his followers through both rewards and punishments. (Odumeru and Ifeanyi, 2013). These types of leaders concentrate on actions rather than futuristic ideas. Transactional leaders focus on contingent reward, also known as contingent positive reinforcement or contingent penalization, also known as contingent negative reinforcement (Odumeru and Ifeanyi, 2013).

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