Graduate Student Success: Literature Review on Leadership Styles

This literature review explores the crucial role of leadership, particularly in motivating young individuals, such as soldiers, and fostering pride in their roles. The review synthesizes findings from multiple sources, including articles by Maurer et al. (2017) and Schroth (2019), to examine the impact of leadership styles, generation gaps, and organizational behavior. It highlights the need for adaptive leadership approaches in response to changing economic and cultural landscapes, emphasizing interpersonal communication, innovation, and practical application over purely theoretical models. The analysis concludes that effective leadership is essential across all facets of life, from personal decisions to professional management, and suggests further research to explore diverse leadership perceptions and evolving leadership theories. The review also addresses the limitations of the study, such as the focus on a specific group, and proposes future studies to broaden the understanding of leadership dynamics. Key themes include the significance of leadership models, the impact of generational differences, and the importance of adapting leadership styles to meet the needs of a changing workforce.

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Literature Review
The research question: As leader what can we do to motivate these young soldiers and
have them take pride in the uniform they represent?
With reference to the study on leadership styles and development, the research
question have been developed implying to the analysis of given references that adhere to the
topic and exemplifies the need of organizational leadership.
The central theme of the literature sources being analyzed for the research revolves
around the significance of leadership in life. It is not only about life that people adhere to
certain unchanged circumstances but also making decisions at every step of life. The paper
written by Maurer, Hartnell & Lippstreu (2017) discusses about the significance of model
leadership in motivating the error free operations and decisions in management. The youth is
addressed to have the most vulnerable source of indulging in to multiple tasks and tends to
deviate from their central motive. Hence, creating a leadership model that enhances the
capability of concentration on objective fulfilling is necessary. On the other hand, the article
written by Schroth (2019) sheds light on the generation gap and its impact on labor market.
The pattern of behavior is analyzed to have specified characteristics that gives rise to
different emergent consequences.
Leadership is more about understanding and responding to occurring events in life
rather than following set of stated theories. With days passing, change in the economic
conditions of the market is bringing change in the behavior of youth that is creating a
suggestion of adapting flexible leadership styles (Appelbaum et al. 2015). With reference to
different leadership styles and theories stated, management can differentiate the personality
of the leader and predict their next step. However, the world is getting adaptive to unique
leadership stories that seems to have no relevance with stated facts (Storey, 2016).

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The impact of generation change, change in culture, change in environment and
change in time is certainly creating huge differences in human perception (Yahaya &
Ebrahim, 2016). The thought process vary from person to person and each instances
witnessed about management refers to a new style. Interpersonal communication,
development of mind, enhanced thoughts and innovation is the new source of the new
generation. It believes more in practicality than theoretical approach. Hence, with
development as well as variation of human perception, consequent impact is created on
management styles, needs and theories of a person in leading a situation or an organization
(Komives, 2016).
As far as the conclusion is concerned, according to the analyzed literary sources, it is
evident that leadership has imposed highest significant need in every perspective of life.
Personal to professional, long-term decision making to urgency management, leadership
skills finds its use in every sphere of human life. The thesis has been conducted on a specified
group of people and is not bound of limitations for new perceptions. Hence, the contradiction
arises here to analyses the perception of rest of the individual group of leaders for predicting
a different side of the story and new theories to be evolved.

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Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 90(4), 481-507.
Schroth, H. (2019). Are You Ready for Gen Z in the Workplace?. California Management
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