Leadership: Theory & Practice

Leadership: Theory &
Practice

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Concept of Authentic leadership Model.....................................................................................3
Role of Authentic and Transformation leadership......................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is basically an art of inspiring and motivating people within a group or team.
A leader is only person who employ the concept of leadership in its personal life. Leadership is
very important to lead, command, direct or control some member or employees in a team. In
short, a leader or leadership gives great contribution an organizational success.
MAIN BODY
Concept of Authentic leadership Model
Authentic leadership can be defined as the approach of leadership style in which leaders
are talented, self-aware, confident and trans[parent nature. A authentic leader has ability to
motivate loyalty and belief among the employee by keeping transparency in decision-making
process. Authentic leadership has goal to improve employees performance and make them feel
valuable by encouraging for their efforts. These activities support leader to build honest
relationship with followers or employees (Tepper and et.al., 2018). This leadership style plays
essential roles such as inspires group of employee at workplace. Even it supports employee to
learn new skills or tactic which improves their performance. Authentic leadership theory gives
guideline to a leader to improve their qualities which attracts group of employee to perform well.
This model contains five characteristics which helps leader to become effective leader within
company. Authentic leadership theory is basically dependent on four components which is
described below:
Self-Awareness: It is most important characteristic of authentic leadership model which
is interpreted that a leader should have self-awareness quality. It helps leader to understand
team's weakness and strength within workplace. Even it also supports leader to demonstrate own
portrait while performing as leader within company. Self-awareness characteristic helps' leader
to aware about team performance like they perform well r not at workplace (Dong and et.al.,
2017). To influence self-ware characteristic can practice by some tactic such as gathering of
feedbacks from the organization staff, customers and management department. Feedbacks
strategy not only helps to evaluate team performance but also assist to understand employees
behaviour towards their job. Otherwise, there is another tactic which also can help to improve
self-awareness for example self-reflection is good strategy which can help leader to understand
its behaviour within company. Even leader can get feedback about own performance from the
environment that automatically improves their self-awareness. Other the other hand, self-