Leadership In Business | Week Report

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Leadership In Business
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1LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS
Week 1
Leadership affecting the organizational outcome:
Leadership directly affects the success of the organization. Leaders determine the
culture, employee motivation and values of an organization. Leaders usually shape the
strategies of the organizations, which involves the effectiveness and execution of the
organizational strategies (Iqbal, Anwar and Haider 2015). Successful and efficient leaders
influence the team members in order to help them in improving their performance and in turn
enhance the profit of the organization. They also know how to use the minimum resources
provided by the company for generating the maximum outcome. Successful and effective
leaders help the employees to work towards the same goal and objective of the organization.
This encourages and motivates the employees to work harder for a better outcome. Behavior
of the leaders can also help the employees to earn trust and in turn help the organization
grow.
Example: Charismatic leadership of Steve Jobs has made the company Apple tremendously
successful.
Influence of a leader is limited:
John F. Kennedy, as a president was known to manage bigger and more complicated
situations very easily. He was successful in influencing the people around him but he was
always against creating layers in the surrounding, which would promote communication
among the individuals, which would end up in rivals (Nasomboon 2014). He followed the
dictatorial type of leadership, which de-motivated the people around him. His personality was
the combination of affection and a very hard mind. Thus, he is a good example of a leader
who was less influential.

2LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS
Week 2:
Leaders and the attributes:
I was working in an organization in the previous year where my team leader guided
me. He was efficiently executing his roles and responsibilities. As a leader, he had various
attributes that has helped him in motivating and influencing the team members. They are:
 Honesty and integrity: He possessed the supreme quality of unquestionable integrity.
 Confidence: He was an effective leader because he was confident enough to ensure
that the employees follow his command (Yarhi-Milo, Kertzer and Renshon 2018).
 Inspiring and motivating: He has a great skill of motivating and inspiring his
employees to make them work harder.
 Dedicated: He was dedicated and passionate about his job role and conducted it with
strong will and dedication.
 Good communicator: He communicated with every individual employee personally
and tried figuring out their problems, which made his problems in the team easier to
handle (Yarhi-Milo, Kertzer and Renshon 2018).
Leaders like him would feel comfortable where the process of communication within the
organization is very vibrant and where there is vibrant feedback mechanism. Leaders like him
do not feel comfortable in the situations where the work culture is not healthy and there is
communication gap between the leader and the lower level employees.
Leader member exchange theory and its effectiveness:
Leader member exchange theory is relationship-based style of leadership that focuses
mainly on the two-way relationship between the leaders and the followers. In this type of
leadership, leaders communicate and have a good relationship with the subordinates and they