Contemporary Perspectives on Leadership: Styles, Ethics, and Cross-Cultural Competencies

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12-13-2018

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Leadership styles.............................................................................................................................4
Cross-cultural leadership and decision making...............................................................................8
Cross-cultural leader’s competencies..........................................................................................8
Challenges in cross-cultural leadership.......................................................................................9
Leadership ethics.............................................................................................................................9
Various traits of ethical leadership are:.....................................................................................10
Ethical decision making.............................................................................................................11
Leadership training program..........................................................................................................11
My learning through a leadership training program..................................................................12
Leadership training benefits......................................................................................................12
Self-development tools and its effectiveness.................................................................................14
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................16
References......................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction
The leader is considered, as a head who is responsible for a group of people that is his or her
team. There are various leaders like a political leader, or an executive in an organization. In this
report, the discussion included on the leader in an organization, more specifically the leadership
will be understood with the help of my learning as a leader of a project, within the organization.
Leaders are responsible for their act of action and their team as well. They are responsible for
creating a vision for them and their team to set a direction to work. Moreover, they use
management skills to help people in accomplishing their respective task with the more effective
and efficient way (Hill, 2016).
Leadership is a very vital aspect to study, which has been researched on a large scale in past by a
number of researchers. From the leadership theories, some believe that leaders are born, which
means leadership traits are inherent and cannot be developed. On the other hand, some theorist
believes that the leadership qualities can be adapted with practice and experience. There are
various self-development tools, techniques, and training program that can be helpful in
enhancing leadership skills, and develop better competencies to become a successful leader,
which will be discussed in the report further (Davis, et al., 2016).
A leader is someone who is managing and taking decision for a team, and while taking a
decision, the aspect he considers is important, which leads the report to study ethical leadership
and cross-cultural leadership. The most important aspect is leadership style, which reflects in an
individual practice as a leader, for this the various leadership style; moreover, my leadership
style in the organization will be discussed in the report. Leadership plays important role in the

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success of a project or a company, it is the leader, who brings innovation, set a clear direction,
and makes others understand that as well (D’Innocenzo, 2016).
Leadership styles
Leadership styles are characteristics behavior of an individual while motivating, directing,
guiding, and management of the team. In the organization, some people seem to be an effective
leadership style and the way they apply leadership in the organization. I believed that I was a
great and successful leader while leading the last project in the organization. The leadership style
I have is “transformational leadership style.” Some of the various leadership styles are as
follows:
1. Authoritarian leadership - This type of leadership style usually follows a hierarchy, which
means the top leaders take a decision, and inform team members and subordinates. This
is a bit restrictive or rigid way of performing leadership in an organization (O'Neil,
2014)
2. Democratic leadership – this is the most common and popular leadership style.
According to this style, a leader discusses everything with his team and take the
suggestion, before making any decision, it can be said that the team collectively take a
decision, and with mutual understanding.
3. Laissez-faire leadership – this style includes delegating authority to the subordinates,
which means the decision power is given in hands of subordinate to take quick decision
making and increase the speed of the process of work.