Leadership for Managers

Running head: LEADERSHIP FOR MANAGERS
Leadership for managers
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1LEADERSHIP FOR MANAGERS
The term leadership, when it comes to business, can be defined as the ability of the
management of an organization to set as well as achieve challenging goals, outperform the
competitors, take swift and decisive action and finally provide effective intrinsic as well as
extrinsic motivation to the followers so that an enhancement in the yearly revenue can be
obtained. From time immemorial leadership has been considered as a major subject of research
by the researchers. Several theories are there which are built in order to explain the factors that
regulate effective leadership. According to the behavior theories, the behavior of a leader is the
factor that regulates his or her leadership skill. On the other hand according to the contingency
theories, situation is a major factor on which the decision making ability of a leader depends.
According to Influence theories, the personality of the leader highly influences the effectiveness
of his leadership. Leadership involves 6 major factors namely, influence, intention, personal
responsibility and integrity, change, shared purpose and followers. An efficient leader must have
the quality to influence other to come together around a common vision and be firm in their
beliefs. Along with that an effective leader must be committed to the common good instead of
self interest. The major characteristic that an individual must poses in order to become an
effective leader includes optimism, self confidence, honesty, integrity and drive. While optimism
includes the tendency to the positive sides of any situation and expecting that the ultimate result
of an act will be positive, self confidence helps an leader to develop effective judgmental.
Decision-making and innovate idea presenting capabilities. Honestly of a leader helps him to
remain truthful and also enhance the intrinsic motivation of his followers. Integrity on the other
hand, helps the leader to act keeping accordance to solid ethical principles. Finally, drive helps
an leader to stay motivated which in turn creates a high effort level.

2LEADERSHIP FOR MANAGERS
According to the theory of charismatic leadership, the personality of a leader highly
regulates the effectiveness of his leadership. I personally, agree with the fact that personality of
the leader not only demonstrate his commitment towards the organization but also majorly
influence the followers. As per my opinion, self awareness of a leader can be considered as one
of the most crucial aspect of personality. However, when it comes to me I have evidenced lack of
control over my emotions and attitudes at specific situation. For instance, I remembered a
scenario when I was given the responsibility of a class monitor by our class teacher. While
monitoring the class, I found myself highly uncomfortable while punishing my peers. However,
while this feeling was absence in me whiles nominating other classmates for mischievous acts.
Thus, I noticed that my emotional connection with people does impose high impact on my
leadership. However, according to the theory of leadership, an ideal leader will never me
decision based on personal relationship. Researchers state that the personality of a leader can be
segregated into big five personality dimensions namely, Extroversion, agreeableness,
conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to experience. Extroversion can be defined
as the degree to which a leader is sociable. As a leader, I find myself to be an extrovert leader
since I am highly comfortable in meeting as well as talking to new individual. Extroversion does
impose a positive impact on the leadership since effective communication helps a leader to
understand the specific requirements and thus implements strategies based on the requirements.
Agreeableness on the other ham determines the degree to which a leader is able to get along with
others. Competiveness, forgiveness, compassion, understandability and trustworthiness are some
features of being agreeable leader. When it comes to my degree of agreeableness, in majority of
situation I always demonstrate respect to my peer. However, I lack the ability to help other wth
their personal issues.