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Leadership Theory - Assignment

   

Added on  2020-05-28

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“A leader is one who knows the way, shows the way and goes the way”Leadership is not about the great explorers or CEOs of big companies while leaders are mainly responsible for guiding and leading people at middle and small levels for managing their work. Agood leader needs to adopt certain strategies which could help its subordinates to know the best path to walk on, to get the clear understanding in relevance to the path through which expected outcomes could be accomplished. The most important is leader should be present with its subordinates in every situation and in the middle of task to guide them if they face any obstacle or glitch in the process. This builds up the confidence amongst the subordinates as well as it also helps the organization to acquire desired outcomes in an effective manner. Leadership is a wide approach which is categorised into three areas such as trait-based, situational and behavioural approach. With the help of these three approaches, leadership term could easily be evaluated and understood (Aaker & Joachimsthaler, 2012).Trait based approach This theory focuses on individual leader and their perceptions. It also determines the personal values shared by great leaders. Following are certain traits which an individual can adopt and learn in order to increase its efficiency with passing time:Enterprising spirit: These are a set of characteristics which imitate the high level of efforts. High commands for attainment, aspiration, persistence, energy, etc. are certain elements of enterprising spirit (Allio, 2012).

Loyalty: Loyalty is the honesty towards work and towards the teammates by leader. Thisbuilds up the confidence level of the leader as well as of its teammates on each other. This trait helps them to increase their efficiency in terms of accomplishment of the tasks.Integrity: It could be measured by an individual’s actions and words. Leader should be on his words because the leader who promises but does not accomplish the same is not considered as a good leader (Bel, 2010).Self-confidence: This is the most crucial quality of a good leader as it helps the leader totackle the obstacles raised during accomplishment of the task. Leader with self-confidence is sufficient enough to motivate its employees in terms of accomplish the desired targets.Knowledge: Leader should be knowledgeable enough about the company, industry and technical matters in which he works. This type of knowledge helps the leaders to spread awareness amongst its teammates as well as it is an essential tool in terms of increasing the organizational efficiency (Bolman & Deal, 2014).Above mentioned traits have significant impact over the leadership approach as well as these elements prove that a leader with above traits fulfils such requirements i.e. ‘knows the way’, ‘goes the way’ and ‘shows the way’ (Drori & Honig, 2013).Behavioural approachThis approach focuses on the actual performance of a leader rather focusing on the internal traits and capabilities of a leader. Following are three crucial categories of leadership behaviour:Task performance behaviour: These are the efforts put by the leader and its teammatesin attainment of the organizational goals and the objectives. Under this category,

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