Leadership Qualities of Martin Luther King Jr.

The assignment discusses the leadership qualities of Martin Luther King Jr., including his passion, optimism, and loyalty. It highlights how he continued to fight for equal rights despite numerous arrests and attacks on himself and his family members. The analysis provides insights into King's leadership style and traits that are still considered effective in present times.

Essay:- Leadership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The essay describes the qualities and traits that must are possessed by Martin luther king
who is a successful business women in Australia. The essay present him as an effective leader with
describing his characteristic and leadership style. In this the personality, styles, traits, creativity,
handling the situation and ethical consideration by him as a leader are explained.
MAIN BODY
Leadership style:
In this essay the leadership style and traits possessed by Martin luther king who was
born in 1929 in Atlanta. He is one of the main influential person of America who was a baptist
minister. He was the most conspicuous and eloquent person of that era. His leadership style can
still be seen deep rooted in his speeches and till data he is omnipresent inspiration la speaker.
Transformational leader:
Martin luther king was absolutely the champion of Afracian Americans who inspired them to
find a way and to fight for it to oppose the oppression of whites using non violence call to arms.
The leadership style of Martin luther king are not limited to a certain limit but he has a vast
scope of the influential personality as well the have the traits of effective democratic leader. His
leadership styles are sometimes critizised but with clarity and intelligence and advocacy have a
nationwide impact (Garrow, 2015). He made her path to oppose the traditional practises of white
operation to people from other community.
As a successful leader he presented many of the skills and trials of a successful as well as
effective leader. One of the quality he possesses as a leader is that he do not fear in making big
modification and alteration and taking risk to change. His “ I Have a Dream” speech was delivered
during the march on Washington where he called for an end to racism”. This shows that Martin
luther king is courages and highly confidence when he takes any decision (5 Martin Luther King Jr
Leadership Style Axioms, 2018). Moreover, he possesses a view that incremental adaption do not
lead to the goals and objectives what you decide to attain.
He possesses the best quality of situation analysis as to make the nation an influential power in the
world he clearly state the requirement of alternation of government as well as making the human
right accessible to all those living in same nation belong to difference race and religion.
Influential Leadership style
Idealized Influence is when a leader serves as a role model who not only walks the walk but
also walks the talk and Martin Luther King was greatly admired because of this. He was very
powerful and used the same to influence the believers. He possessed strong verbal and perpetual
ability and his reasoning capacity makes him a better leader till now. In all the process one of the

outstanding quality of Martin luthere established his qualities as motivates, inspirational and
confident (The Traits of a Leader, 2018). Moreover, he carried out his work passionately with
effective evidences that this practice was a routine before bringing an end to the recismc and
discrimination practices in America. This shows the qualities of influential and motivational
leadership style in Martin luthere having strong impact on the public to bring in a nationwide
change.
One of the quality that be seen in Martin luthere was his ethical conduct and consideration
while practising is plans and delivering the speeches. Martin luthere was a strong and forceful
person but also with quite scene of humour (Reddick, 2018). He was very constructive in his
thoughts and working processes. With given the ideas on national developments with constitutional
rights and advancements of the same for people, delivered a future perspective about the next
generation and stated out the agenda not likely driven by any other politic or legal pressure. He is
an unabashed Champion of the that era as he clearly determined the fact and stated them to public
as reaching to point of confluences over access of the basic human right to live in America specially
for African American facing racial discrimination. Each of the above mentioned factors is related
with quaslties of nfluenticial leader (Miller, 201). This clearly states that Martin luther king was a
leader with influential power leading and directing the path of the nation to a better worlds with an
effective and enhancing national democracy making a greater position in the world.
Traits Model of Martin luther king:
Martin luther king has been awarded as most powerful directors in Australia with a
shareholder value of $66 billion. Her personality and leadership traits can be defined as:
 Strong communication: This is a personality trait of Martin luther king that is always
remains motivated the people and society to fight for their basis human rights. He always
wears a dynamic personality and presents his views and thoughts in his speeches. He is often
considers as a dynamic person but this quality makes him outstandi. A leader who speaks
and communicate often engages more time in thinking about the future plans related with
motivating peole to ot make a way in society where they are not so welcomed
 Integrity: Martin Luther king is still considers the one of the best leaders of the ear as he
demonstrated many traits of a successful leader. One of the quality possessed by King was
he was always honest in his acts and never lied about anything in his speeches. He always
fought for the rights of the people who were facing racial discrimination.
 Passionate and commitments: He was a quite a passionate person as well a leader. This is
stated because whenever is endeavour a plan he makes sure that the same must be achieved
in time with full effectiveness leading the plans of getting effective human rights to live to a
greater level of success.

 Extraversion: this is considered as the one of the best personality trait of person and King
possessed the same. He had a good sense of humar and empathy for the people facing
racism. He used to enjoy being with people, was participating in social gathering and was
full of energy.
 Courageous: he believed in bringing change as he leads the nation to bring in the change
and make other believe that it is possible with gaining the effective knowledge and
enhancement of technologies (Wolfram and et.al., 2016). This trail of leadership make one
of the unique personality in the nation and at the global platform as well.
 Creative and innovative: he is person with innovative and creative idea which lead the
African American people to procure a good position in the America with their basic human
rights with making their position strong.
 Positive: King was a person with full of positive energy. He always was motivated and with
same energy motivates people to fight for their rights which are given to them under the
constitution. He also was determined to not let what others did, said or called him or any of
his family sway his judgement in his fight for equal rights.
 Optimism: the famous words of Martin was Only in darkness can you see the start, such
was his aura. He always has an optimist approach to all the problems and was of the view
that a person can win a fight with non violence. He sticks to the same and motivated people
to get their basis human rights legally.
This can be stared Martin Luther king possessed great passion and was so motivate all the
time that he never gave upon on his fight for the equal right for everyone and tries to end the
segregation for all he American specially for African American (Clayton, 2018). He showed loyalty
by continuing to fight for his beliefs even after numerous arrests and attacks on himself, his family
members and followers during the marches and speeches he made in many cities. He always had
the same level of energy to achieve his goal as he fought for the same for so long time with same
integrity and diligence.
CONCLUSION
With this it can be concluded that Martin Luther king was one of the exception leader of
his time and his leadership quality, style and traits are still considered by the leaders in present time
to be adopted in their behaviour. He demonstrated many leadership qualities during his fight for the
equal rights over a long time.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Clayton, M. H., 2018. Martin Luther King, Jr., A Selected Bibliography. Journal of the
Interdenominational Theological Center. 4(2). p.3.
Garrow, D. J., 2015. Bearing the cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the southern Christian
leadership conference. Open Road Media.
Miller, J. H., 2016. Empowering Communities: Ella Baker’s Decentralized Leadership Style and
Conversational Eloquence. Southern Communication Journal. 81(3). pp.156-167.
Reddick, L. D., 2018. Crusader Without Violence: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
NewSouth Books.
Wolfram, W and et.al., 2016. The Significance of Linguistic Variation in the Speeches of Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. American speech. 91(3). pp.269-300.
Online
5 Martin Luther King Jr Leadership Style Axioms . 2018. [Online]. Available through
:<http://www.josephchris.com/5-martin-luther-king-jr-leadership-style-axioms>.
The Traits of a Leader. 2018. [Online]. Available through
:<https://sites.psu.edu/leadership/2016/10/23/the-traits-of-a-leader-dr-martin-luther-king-jr/>.