Leadership in Business Assignment 2022

LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS
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INTRODUCTION
Reflective writing is one of the means used extensively by academicians as well as the
students to look back into their experiences and shared learning to foster critical thinking and
making the analysis of the past for future development. Such kind of learning not only helps
us in moving towards critical authentic learning, but helps in developing personal behaviour
and learning skills (Shum, Sándor, Goldsmith, & McWilliams, 2017). My understanding
of leadership learned during my unit have encouraged me to pen down my thoughts on
leadership theories and frameworks alongside analysing my own behaviour from theoretical
perspectives. I can say that after the completion of my unit and analysis made of per-
reviewed articles, my personal definition of leadership has changed completely. Previously, I
used to believe that the leader is born with special qualities which they foster with time and
utilize when given an opportunity. However, now I believe that leaders can be made through
effective training and education. This reflective essay will reflect upon my past experiences,
examined from academic lenses and how my own perspective towards leadership changed
with time.
ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
Authors and theorists define leadership as an individual ability developed out of
mission and vision to accomplish desired goals. While Ali (2012) defines leadership as “a
complex phenomenon that touches on many other important personal, social and
organizational processes” (p. 76), Madanchian, Hussein, Noordin, & Taherdoost (2017) says
that effective leadership holds special attributes showing particular behavior or leadership
style. Such leaders create an atmosphere in the workplace which proves to be the best for the
sake of organizational purposes by using their personal skills and abilities. Even, my personal
experience while I worked in my previous firm reveals that effective leaders look upon
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several aspects of leadership approach by creating an organizational culture where every
individual is considered as a valuable asset. In the company I worked in previously, I
followed various approaches of leadership control while managing one of the group works
given to me by my supervisor in the office. For example, I organized group meetings with the
technical and legal department to take advice on critical matters whereas acted as a mentor
for the human resources section. Thus, it can be said that I showed myself more like a
situational leader at that time.
Ghazzawi, Shoughari, & Osta (2017) claims that “After the emergence of the trait-
based leadership, situational leadership appeared as a reaction to it”. Theoretically, situational
leadership framework merges both supportive and directive dimensions where each
dimension can be applied appropriately to any given situation. Leaders following the
situational leadership approach have to consider their employee's perception towards work by
analyzing their commitment level to achieve the desired goal. Being a situational leader
means I have to change the supportiveness degree towards the direction and vice versa
according to the situation and the level of motivation required. Since the situational
leadership approach requires understanding various kind of leadership behavior, it is
significant for me to learn another kind of leadership approach precisely to foster my
situational leadership approach in the future. Since my personal view towards leadership is
more inclined towards transformational leadership, I will analyze one of my previous
experience where I tried being a transformational leader, however, could not gain much
success due to it.
Fundamentally, I like working in teams rather working in isolation since childhood. In
one of the group projects where I worked with my classmates proved to be most inspirational
for me as I learned about my behavior that was unknown to me previously. Since I was given
the charge to monitor and lead my team, I showed no considerations for failure and followed
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