Leadership Styles: Trait Theory, Situational, Transformational, and Servant Leadership

INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
Leadership styles
Name:

TRAIT THEORY:
1. From among several traits under the trait theory I possesses:
a) Achievement drive- In many situations I have found myself putting higher level
of effort to build and retain teams and also I carry higher ambitions as compared
to my colleagues.
b) Honesty and integrity- I am a person honest towards my firm and my
responsibilities. I totally understand the value of coordination and integration
amongst several departments within the firm.
For example: Because once I felt that a model made for accomplishment of
specific task was unsound, I announced that I would take tough decisions needed
to reinstate the model. Because of the integrity, I attained the trust of my
teammates. They all came together, gave their utter best efforts and the results
were commendable.
c) Leadership motivation- I am a leader with intense desire to attain common goals
and I also tend to motivate my team for the same (Bonnici, 2016).
2. A trait that I possess within but which is not a part of trait theory is “Respect for team
members.” I believe in the fact that every single person desires respect and that everyone
has a right to attain the same in the workplace. I thus encourage my teammates to express
their opinions and ideas so that they feel belongingness and part of the task.
3. I feel that I could be a good leader in the future as I carry most of the traits of being a
successful leader. Other than few facts like handling teammates emotionally, solving

their personal issues, I feel myself as a very good leader. Rather than focusing on the
factors in the workplace, I tend to adjust my style according the abilities that my
followers carry. I as a leader follow a specific style based on my follower’s maturity
level.
SITUATIONAL, TRANSFORMATIONAL, AND SERVANT LEADERSHIP
1. Explanation:
a) Situation leadership- means a leadership in which the manager or leader of any
firm adjusts his/her style of leading to fit in the development level of his
teammates.
b) Transformational leadership- the leader helps and guides his staffs, gets
engaged with the team, inspires them as well as motives them towards their
personal and also organizational development
c) Servant leadership- such leader is a “servant” first. This type of leaders focus on
other’s needs and especially emphasizes on his team members demands and
requirements before he considers his own (Daft & Lane, 2015).
2. I don not feel that any leadership style is better than the other. Rather I feel that all
leadership styles are amazing in their own way and that one needs to understand when
and how to implement these styles in differing situations. Like, both servant as well as
transformational leaders works to build more leaders like themselves. While
transformational leader carries an ethical dimension, altruistic facet of servant leader is

also unmatched. Though all the styles have their own differences from each other yet
they even tend to compliment each other.
3. My experience with servant leadership style started at a church, with a priest. He was
an active Christian his entire life, and said that he has personally been on both the sides of
this leadership. While he was youth, people around him invested in his life to build him
as a Godly leader. People still put some efforts for depicting me as a servant leader. This
made him turn, into a servant leader. This father at church doesn’t yet considers himself a
faultless servant leader, and says that he is yet far away from attaining the style, but keeps
on investing into others life and aims that one day people will repeat this procedure and
says that this is what a pure servant leadership means.
IDENTIFY A LEADER
Negative user- prime minister of Slovakia pardoned himself for kidnapping the son of
the president. When the president died soon after the incident, Meciar temporarily
attained position of both president as well as prime minister he misused his post and
issued presidential pardons for himself.
Positive user- Nelson Mandela was actually a gifted visionary and an immensely
creative leader. He was extremely strategic leader and till date several leaders
aspire to be like him. Notwithstanding punitive prison life, he always mustered
energy for challenging his keepers (Glanz, 2017).