MNG03217 The Positive Leader
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LEADING AND MANAGING PEOPLELEADING AND MANAGING PEOPLEName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor note:
Leadership is the art of leading and directing people from the front, and takingresponsibilities for cumulative success or failure of a group (Antonakis and Day 2017). Everygroup in social context needs a leader who would lead and guide the rest of them. In theprimitive ages, the medieval group of men also had their own group leaders (Beck andCowan 2014). Any social group, be it familial, political, commercial or any other possiblesituation where there is a group, there must be a leader or a group of leaders. The person whois having good leadership qualities are usually chosen as the group leader by the rest of thegroup members and stakeholders (Kutten 2015). Leadership qualities include beingcharismatic, decisive, inclusive and responsible. Leadership skills and possibilities can be abroad area of research. In this essay, a personal leadership model is provided along withdiscussion about the major areas of leadership. Throughout the essay, most important traits ofleadership and the core values will be analysed and understood.The main organising ideas that drive my leadership are ethics, credibility andmulticultural vision. There are various areas of leadership that can be considered tounderstand the possibilities in developing leadership models. Some of these are philosophy,multiculturalism, ethics, teamwork, psychology and power (Northouse 2015). In my case themost important aspect and idea that acts as the driving force is leadership ethics. Ethicsmeans the desirable and ideal thoughts and morals that are considered good by the largersection of the society (Yardibi 2014). A leader is in charge of leading a large number ofpeople all of whom have some interest in being part of that group. Therefore, a leader has tobe equal towards every member of the group and not be partial towards any. An ethical leadermust have certain traits, which proves his or her ethical highness (Grandy and Sliwa 2017).The leader has to think about serving and respecting others and not exploit the position hehas. My leadership model would give maximum importance to ethics. Credibility is theauthenticity that a leader shows in terms of dealing with people . The leaders who are
credible and dignified do not insult and humiliate the followers even if there is a mistakecommitted; rather he or she corrects the mistake by personal example. In addition, credibilityis the quality of being transparent and honest without motives that are hidden and driven bypersonal cause. The last but not the least factor that I will include as an integral part of myleadership model is multicultural values. A leader has to take everyone along and lead themfrom the front. People having cultural biases cannot become a popular leader. A wide varietyof people from different nationalities, regions, religions, cultures, genders, sexualorientations, and thought processes can be in a group and has to be lead by the leader withouthaving bias.The most important traits, skills and tasks of an effective leader can be summedup in the following paragraph. The most important factor that drives a leader is vision andto see what the followers cannot. Without a visionary capability of looking at things indynamic perspective, leadership cannot be given. The philosophical principle of leadershipalso falls under the category of being visionary. A visionary leader must have clearphilosophical standing. A leader without a philosophy is like an automobile without fuel. Theleader must aim to achieve something god for the larger part of the society and not just forhimself or his followers. Another important factor that I consider necessary in a leader isadaptability, which makes the leader a better manager of groups and teams, also a personwith better abilities to handle multicultural traits (Choi, Tran and Park 2015). The leader hasto work with a various number and types of people. It is important for him to have the abilityto adapt in different situations and be comfortable with different kinds of people.Multiculturalismand teamworkdepend on adaptability. The leader has to have high integrityas well.Integrity gives rise to credibility and ethical behaviour. Because there is nothing tohide, a person with integrity is never fearful, and being courageous is an impeccable qualityof leadership. Interpersonal relationship building ability is another very important
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