Leadership for Managers: Reflection of the Learnings

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Leadership For Managers
Reflection of the Learnings

Leadership for Managers
Table of Contents
Task 1. (Chapter 1 & 2).......................................................................................................2
Chapters 8 & 9: Leaders as relationship builders................................................................4
References.........................................................................................................................6
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Leadership for Managers
Task 1. (Chapter 1 & 2)
Leadership actually a great deal of work which is done either by the leader or the managers of
the organization (Bass, 2000). The chapter 1 and 2 gives the insight of the disciplines, ethical
codes and other ingredients which are included in leadership. In my opinion, a leader should
have the intention of leading the groups or the followers. He should be able to follows his
responsibilities and integrity wisely. He should also be able to amend the changes which he
or she is required to make. A leader also always supports his followers in his achievements
and he also needs to have a good influence on the followers and also on other people. The
styles of leadership are now changing due to the changing times. A few decades ago, the
firms used to order the employees about their work which is to be done or they just let them
know about the changes which were required to be done (Hao, 2015). But now days, the
organizations do keep all the employees in the decisions and their ideas are also taken and
supported in case of they are liked by the firm or the managers. With the help of the mutual
understanding, the decisions are taken. Now days there are also the managers who are who
are pushed to work as leaders and they are also expected to have the qualities that the leaders
possess. This is so because they should be able to lead and manage both at the same time. In
the earlier times, people used to follow a person as their leader if they were rich or even if
when that person had some of the followers but now days a leader has to just follow all the
duties and the required capabilities to become a leader.
In chapter 2, I learnt about the characteristics which are really significant in the leadership
style involving features like intelligence which is able to differ from people to people and
integrity which is spread and talked about the person. A leader is also generally always
motivated and have the self confidence in himself for leading. I also learnt that there are
different leadership styles. It is usually very significant of choosing at least one leadership
style for a firm to follow according to the culture that firm possess. Every leadership has its
pros and cons. There are some of the following leadership styles which is discussed in the
chapter.
1. Autocratic Leadership: In this type of leadership style, the leader has all the authority to take
the decisions. Such leaders do not ever ask for help in any of the decisions (S, 2014).
2. Democratic Leadership: This is the kind of leadership which is absolutely opposite to the
autocratic leadership. This leadership allows the leaders for asking for advices or help in
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