Effective Leadership Management

Running head: EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP MANAGEMENT
Effective Leadership Management
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Leadership is one of the most important aspect of the organizational management
process. Leadership can be defined as having characteristics to inspire and motivate
employees in order to increase the output of the organization as a whole. It is also defined by
the ability of the leaders to potentially use the processes of innovation into the system and to
increase the output of the organization.
Therefore, in the following essay the leadership approaches, theories and the
communication processes used or should be used by the leaders will be discussed and the
paper will also focus upon the best leaders that I have come across in my life, and the
leadership approaches and the communication processes used by that person will also be
highlighted.
While working as a sales person, in my first job, the team leader, under whom, I was
assigned, was the best leaders as according to me. After that I have changed three
organizations, and have worked under and with many people, but none of them were as good
as him, and now that I am a team lead in an eminent organization, I try to manage my team
and my works as he used to do.
The leader followed the leadership approaches, which were propounded by
Kanungo&Mendonca (1998), which are, Leadership by Action that entails that the leaders
must establish themselves as leaders through their actions, which can be the methods or the
system of communication that they will include in their leadership approaches. This
proposition further entails that the leaders must be consistent in their approach. The leader of
my first organization, had included a communication process that made us enabled us to
incorporate into our work.
The second approach is the leadership by influence, which basically refers to the
methods of incorporating values and work ethics into the processes of work, which was

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hugely practiced by my former leaders. He used to uphold the ideas of work ethics and
motivated us to follow them properly so that the quality of the work is preserved. He also
practiced the values related to human labor and work conditions and wage and labor, which
had enabled me to practice the same among my subordinates and establish a position among
them.
The third approach is the leadership by expertise, which basically refers to expertise
of the leader. My former leader had a vast knowledge in his filed and he was very adaptive
and included a continuous learning method in his approaches to work. This had motivated me
greatly and today, when I myself am a leader, I can understand how knowledge and proper
conception of work can help me to motivate my subordinates and elicit a good and quality
product from them.
The leadership process is guided by certain leadership theories. There are four main
leadership theories that govern the leadership processes. Firstly, the Trait Theory, states that
there are certain characteristics of a person which govern the leadership abilities of a person,
these are essentially, self- confidence, extroversion, adaptability and adeptness. Secondly, the
Contingency Theory also talks about the qualities of the leader, and states that the abilities of
the leaders to understand and balance between the behavior, context and needs, paly an
important role in managing the leadership within the organizational context. Thirdly, the
situational theory of leadership depicts upon the fact that it is important for the leaders to
understand the context and further take actions that will properly account the situations.
Lastly, the management theories illustrates that the leadership skills refer to the ability of the
leaders to manage, supervise and organize the group behavior and group performance
(Landis, Hill & Harvey, 2014). Therefore, every leader must know about these theories and
must abide by the guidelines.