Leadership: Theories and Challenges

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Leadership

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Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................... 2
Culture and Organizational leadership..............................................................................2
Trait theory............................................................................................................ 2
Situational Leadership............................................................................................... 3
Transformational Leadership....................................................................................... 3
Transactional Leadership........................................................................................... 3
Follower as Leaders.................................................................................................. 4
Distributive Leadership............................................................................................. 4
Macro and Micro Challenges.......................................................................................... 4
Micro Factors......................................................................................................... 4
Macro Factors......................................................................................................... 6
Leadership Management............................................................................................... 7
Coaching and Talent Management................................................................................7
Training and Development and its Role in Leadership........................................................8
Belbin Team Roles................................................................................................... 8
Conclusions............................................................................................................... 8
Bibliography........................................................................................................... 9

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Introduction
Leadership is the ability of individual or group of individuals who can influence others, guide
followers to actively participate in organizations. Leadership involves in making effective
and sound decisions that creates and articulates a clear visions in achieving goals that provide
followers to think and apply necessary tools to apply these knowledge. Leaders help
themselves and influence others to do things in an easy manner and with the abilities to do
something more talent and with required skills. It empowers the strengths and focus on
influencing other to motivate and learn new techniques. Studies of leadership have introduced
the different theories that involve functions, behaviour, traits, situational interactions, values
and intelligence among others. The following attributes comes with the more interacting
powers of intelligence, courage and discipline to complete the work on time. The report is
focus on the attributes and principle issues which are faced by an organization in respect to
influencing, leading, managing and development of talent. The management skills which
enhance the knowledge of managers to nurture the talent effectively and there are various
which will practice the organisation to adapt the leadership styles.
Culture and Organizational leadership
There are various styles and relevant theories of leadership in an organisation that brings
smooth functioning of the environment in the structure of the organisations. Different types
of leadership style are to be focussed like trait, situational, transactional, transformational,
followers as leaders and distributive leadership that influences the practice in the organisation
structure. There is visionary leadership that influences the path and in this there are clear
visions to the particular approach which is globally associated. The visionary leaders are not
grandiose as the main aim and visions left the footprints to the uncertainty and cloudy vision
of the dreamer. Corporate leadership culture influences to the beliefs that determine
employee management and employees are more towards to interact and handle the outside
business transactions.
This is implied and develops the organically with over time, cumulative traits of the company
that hires. The benefits of the strong corporate culture are more powerful and create to
manage the development in the organisation structures. Relation leadership influences the
relations that are to be built globally and internationally. They are most in respect to
confidences and never betray a conversation in private. They practice for empathy through
their deliberately enquiry. System leadership enhances the contributions that system wants to
appear in the organisation structure. Reflective leadership also have dimensions of leadership
to observe and re-create the functioning of the organisations (Reeves, 2019). Theories are
being applied to the various forms and situations in the structure of the organisation. The
demands of leadership are almost invariable that exceeds the demands and capacity of single
person to meet the required demands in hand. Some of them are stated below to clear the best
theory approaches in the structure of the organisations.
Trait theory- This is often referred to as best way so see as leadership traits and early
leadership studies that are focus on trying to identify that qualities are traits are being
processed in leaders. The typical qualities which are found in trait leaders are intelligence,

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motivation of the leadership, honesty and integrity, self-confidence and sociability. The
Emotional stability of a leader should be known to the actions and that should be biased and
know how to control anger. There are recently researchers that are included as emotional
intelligence and extroversions ( Kanodia & Sacher, 2019). The criticism of the trait
approach is that there is no evidence about the degree of various traits because people have
various traits with different degrees. The test for the measurements is being introduced and
no conclusions can be drawn from these. There are no indications to the comparative
importance of different traits that are present. There are no uniform lists of traits that can
define authors to be list of traits.
Situational Leadership – This is a leadership style that is focussed on when the leaders or
managers of the organisations have a quality of adjusting nature to the situations that that fits
the development level of followers. It is timeliness and more repeatable framework that
enhances the framework for leaders to match with behaviours and groups that they will
attempt to influence in the functions (Situational Leadership Pro & Cons, 2019). It is
based on the main relationship between followers and leaders that serves the framework to
adapt the situations on the performance readiness. This theory suggests that leaders can be in
any situation that has to deal and react to such situations in the present. These theories have a
large criticism as no single theory of leadership is best to treat in every situation and has
positive impact. The leaders are more cognitive ability that can transform in order to adapt
and implement different leadership styles that depends on the situations. The theories
evaluate a model of behavioural that divides the visions, tasks and motivated groups or the
followers (SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP®, 2019).
Transformational Leadership – This tells about the leadership style that creates high
performances workforce that has increased importance in all the departments, divisions and
other hierarchies in the organization as a whole. These leaders are more subjective top their
visions, daring and risk takers in the structure of the organisations. The charismatic appeal
defines the traits of the personality as this only cant makes leaders more innovative to the
organisation. The qualities define the transformational leaders to think in intellectual
stimulations, inspirational motivations, individual considerations and idealised influences of
the qualities that are found in transformational leaders. The main criticism of this theory
states the leaders use techniques of impression management and tends to lend itself to amoral
side of self-promotion by leaders. The theory is difficult to understand the behaviour of the
people and followers might always get manipulated by leaders and that results in chances that
they may be loose more rather than gaining.
Transactional Leadership – It is a style of leadership that promotes the leader in compliance
by the followers through rewards and punishments. The theory motivates the leaders for short
period of time and the main features lies in positive and negative reinforcements. The
characteristics of leadership are practical resistance to change in the atmosphere, extrinsic
motivation, discourage independent thinking, passive thinking and more towards directive
behaviours that emphasis on corporate structure. There is self-interest that emphasise on
motivation of transactional leader and he is one of appealing to all the interest of the
employee (10 Transactional Leadership Characteristics, 2019). The criticism of this