Effective Leadership Theories and Traits

This assignment provides a comprehensive analysis of various leadership theories, traits, and behaviors. It covers motivation theory, which inspires vision and cultivates enthusiasm; trait theory, which helps increase productivity by matching team members with projects that modify their execution; and behavioral theory, which aids in improving skills such as fostering creativity and communication. The report also discusses transformational leadership theory, which raises inspirational motivation, boosts relations with team members, and increases productivity.

Leadership

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................1
Four feature of an effective leader .........................................................................................1
Justify theory and model contribute to effective leadership ..................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is study area and practical skill encompassing the ability to lead or guide to
single person or whole company. It is process of social influence in which an individual can help
of other in the achieving of common task. Research of leadership have produced concepts
including traits, function, behaviour, power, vision, between other (Antonakis and Day, eds.,
2017). Leadership includes making decisions and giving followers with knowledge and tools to
accomplish those goals. An effective leader possess different characteristics such as strong
communication skills, creative and innovative. This report is based on case study of Natural
product and WorldCom. This report will explain four features of an effective leader. It will
justify different theories and models to contribute to effective leadership.
TASK
Four feature of an effective leader
Leadership is the skill of an individual or group to influence and guide followers or other
members of company. It includes making decisions, articulating clear vision, setting realizable
objectives and giving necessary knowledge and tools to accomplish those goals (Daft, 2014). In
this context, an effective leader possess following characteristics like self confidence, strong
communication, administration skills, creative and innovative thinking. In times of crisis, leader
must have determination in face of failure, disposition to take risks, openness to change and
reactiveness. There are many features which is necessary to be effective leader in the any of
organization.
Enthusiasm: It is great eagerness to be included in specific action which leader like,
enjoy and important to think. This term used to describe great excitement and interest. Leaders of
WorldCom and Natural product both are normally seen as active, expressive and energetic
(Collinson, 2014). They are rarely very cheerful and open to change. Overall, Natural product's
leaders are normally quick, alert and tend to be unrestrained. If the figurehead is dull and seems
uninterested, so that it is tough for people to go excited and assemblage around any reason. Even
leaders always appear to be their firm's biggest fan when if they have to fake it at time. It is
necessary to be enthusiastic team member when leader improve this trait in the workplace. For
this, leaders follows different ways such as create clear vision, giving training to their followers,
keep consistent and keep enthused and motivated to their team members.
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Communication: WorldCom and Natural product's Leaders needs to be able to clearly
explain to their workers everything from organizational objective to particular projects. They
must master all forms of communication involving face-to-face, divisional, full staff
conversation and communication through phone, email and social media. A big part of
communication includes listening. Thus, leaders set dependable flow of interaction between
themselves and their followers or team members. They make regularly available to discuss issues
and concern with workers (Fairhurst and Connaughton, 2014). There are many skills related to
communication which involve such as active listening, articulating, presentation, verbal and non-
verbal, written communication and so on. An effective leader follow different ways to improve
communication skill and relation with other people as well as promote productiveness and
morale of team. These ways are following such as know their audience, be direct, specific and
clear, pay attention to non-verbal communication, listen more than speak, be positive and
respectful.
Inspiring vision: One of the pleasure of being WorldCom and Natural product's leader is
the chance to motivate and inspire person to do their best activity and pursue tasks as well as
goals. It allows then to develop and grow. Ebbers who is working as leader in WorldCom
prioritize beginning of an inspiring work environment that moves their group to look beyond
their detected boundaries and establish to new situations (5 Key Leadership Behaviours, 2018).
Motivational leaders have discriminated knowing to make powerful sense of community and
belonging within their companies, celebrate and reward accomplishments, establish standards for
execution be modelling drive, initiative taking and power. As the outcome, their teams tend to
look lower turnover, raised productiveness and motivation.
Fostering creativity: Leaders must have spirit to risk inquiry and boost creativity. With
foster creation that will lead company to new destinations around twist and turn of changing
business point of view. The key is to always be relentless in pursuing goals and open minded as
well as flexible in get there (Antonakis and Day, eds., 2017). Most of worker also be affected
and inspired be leaders who doesn't always select safe and conventional path. There are some
abilities regarded to creativity such as critical thinking, identifying patterns, imaginative,
problem solving, innovative, creating abstract connection, open-minded, measurement and so on.
In order to that, leaders follow different ways to promote creativity and innovation in the
workplace. Such as: leaders must have removed their limits, take brainstorm offline, build
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diverse team, encouraging experiment and help failure as well as giving the appropriate path
which aids to achieve personal and professional goals. With this, leaders improve their
performance, behaviour, increasing productiveness and efficiency in the workplace.
Justify theory and model contribute to effective leadership
There are different theories and models which is contributed to effectiveness of
leadership and also related to their traits, skills and behaviour. These theories and models are
such as following:
Motivation Theory: Motivation is the explanation for actions, willingness and objectives
of people. It is defined as need satisfaction. These wants that are acquired by effect of culture,
social group, lifestyle and so on. It is focused to behaviour and reasons person to need to repeat
behaviour as well as set of force that acts behind motives (Collinson, 2014). In order to that,
there are many theories to increase the motivation of an individual or group of people. Such as:
Maslow's Need hierarchy, Vroom Expectancy, Herzberg's Two Factor and so on. In this context,
it is necessary to increase motivation to effective leaders. Motivation theory has really shown
that there are proven modes leaders can motivate and inspire their team. WorldCom and Natural
product's motivational leaders piercing discernment to make powerful sense of community and
belonging within their company, observe and rewards accomplishments, fixed standards by
modelling device for execution and initiative power. As outcome, team attend to look lower
turnover, raised productiveness and motivation (Daft, 2014). For increasing inspiration,
Herzberg's two factor theory helpful to effective leadership. In this theory, there are two factors
are involved such as hygiene and motivational. Achievement, work itself, accountability,
identification and advancement that includes in motivating factor. Company policy, supervision,
wages, working situation, interpersonal relations that involves in hygiene factor. By motivating
factor, increasing satisfaction level of leader. Therefore, they increasing motivation and
inspiration of their team in the workplace.
Trait Theory: This theory defines characteristics of leadership as it is based on the
beliefs that successful leaders are assumed to features more than certain traits and belief that
there are particular inborn traits which creates person effective leaders. Traits theory expresses in
creating profile of an ideal leader depends on watching of good and bad leaders and personal
features be them (Tannenbaum and Schmidt, 2017). The personality and individual
characteristics featured be good or bad leaders are then analysed to define critical leadership
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traits that are obsessed by effective leaders in importantly various amounts when compared with
bad leaders. In this approach, there are many traits involves such as intelligence, ability to
tolerate expression, managerial, interpersonal ability, ability to motivate people, initiative,
mechanism and foresightedness. Trait approach help to increase enthusiasm to effective
leadership in the workplace. It is approach to research of human personality. Traits are features
of personality that are relatively stable over time differ across individuals, over status ad effect
behaviour (Collinson, 2014). Some of personality traits involves in this approach such as
emotional stability, liveliness, social boldness, privateness, sensitivity, self reliance, openness to
change, reasoning and so on.
Behavioural Theory: Leadership approaches concepts the behaviour in specific
situations that determine leadership style. There are different types of leaders such as autocratic,
democratic and laissez-faire leaders. In order to that, autocratic leaders who are separately
responsible all leading judgement. They do not needfully consult with their team that making this
leadership style (Tourish, 2014). Democratic leaders who work with teams to create whole
judgement. They are always consulted with all team members to make appropriate decisions.
This is more popular leadership style in the workplace. Lastly, laissez-faire leaders who hand
more power to the team. This style works occurrence when team is competent, highly developed
and works in connection. Therefore, democratic leadership style helps for improving
communication and increasing foster creativity to effective leader in the WorldCom. Behaviour
theories of leadership are categorized as such because they direct on the research of particular
behaviour of leader. A Natural product's leader behaviour is the best expression of their
leadership effect as outcome of their success. This theory gives real marketing possible as
behaviour can be learned in effective manner (Tannenbaum and Schmidt, 2017). There are two
types of leaders are categorized such as people oriented and task oriented leaders. The task
oriented leaders are directing their behaviour on the structure of organization. These leaders are
concerned with motivation of their workers. They also focus on initiating, organizing, clarifying
and collecting information. People oriented leaders are directing on ensuring that satisfied with
internal people needs and wants. These leaders are centralised on inspiriting, observing, hearing,
coaching and instructing of people in the organization.
Transformational Theory: It is approach of leadership where leader performs with
teams to determine necessary change, making vision to guide to modify by inspiration and
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executing the alteration in placement with committed members of team. It makes valuable and
positive modification in the followers with the end goal of evolving followers into leaders. This
theory increases motivation, morale and execution of members by mixture of mechanism. This
approach increase level of motivation and morality (Transformational Leadership, 2017). There
are different factors involves in this theory which can serve in the workplace such as idealized
influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulus and personalized concern about the team
members. This theory includes many characteristics such as increasing awareness of moral
standard, detailing essential prioritises, raising higher moral maturity in followers. This approach
assists in promoting self interest to common good to team members and making ethical climate
that involves share value, large ethical standards by followers. Transnational leadership aids to
give single coaching and mentoring, appealing to thought and enabling freedom of choice for
followers. These leaders are determined to hold positive outlook for team members believing
that they can do their best (Tannenbaum and Schmidt, 2017). As outcome, they stimulate,
empower and excite to exceed general levels of execution. Leaders are also directed and cared
about members and their personal wants and growth. These leaders fit well in leading and
working with complex work team and company. Transformational leadership theory involve
linking sense of denote and self to mission and collective individuality of firm. It also includes
role model for inspires team members, challenging followers to take larger ownership for their
activity as well as knowing the strength and weaknesses of team members. With this, leaders can
match members with projects that modify their execution. In order to that, there are five primary
personality traits have been determined as elements imparting to the likeliness of single person
showing the features of transformational leaders such as: productivity, openness to experience,
amenity and carefulness. It has many results by implementing this theory not only in
organization but also in another conditions. All four elements are connected with higher job
satisfaction and effectuality of workers. Inspirational motivation and intellectual stimulation and
linked with high level of positive emotions such as enthusiasm, spirit, and sense of pride in the
member's work in the firm.
CONCLUSION
This report has summarised that different features such as Enthusiasm, Communication,
Inspiring vision, Fostering creativity that help to effective leaders. It can be concluded that
various theories that includes motivation theory, trait theory and behavioural theory to contribute
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in effective leadership. It can be discussed that motivation theory helps to cultivate to inspire
vision, trait theory assists to increase enthusiasm and behavioural theory aids to improve
different skills such as fostering creativity and communication for effective leadership in the
organization. Furthermore, report has completed that follow transformational leadership theory
helps to raise inspirational motivation, boost relations with team members and increasing
productivity in the organization.
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REFERENCES
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Tannenbaum, R. and Schmidt, W. H., 2017. How to choose a leadership pattern. In Leadership
Perspectives (pp. 75-84). Routledge.
Tourish, D., 2014. Leadership, more or less? A processual, communication perspective on the
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