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Leadership to kill Mocking Bird

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LEADERSHIP: TO KILL A MOCKING BIRDINTRODUCTION“Leadership is a practical skill to lead the individuals or team. This involves establishment ofclear vision and sharing the same vision with other members of the team and also provide them withproper information, method and knowledge. Leadership is an important process which givesinfluence and direction to others. (you put this paragraph as direct quote in the beginning using thetextbook, now u remove the author totally, pls explain your integrity)The leader of a team focuses on all needed things which are required to accomplish the goaland also influence other members to put in effort to achieve the organization objective (Bosma,2007). Many aspects of leadership have been involved in the movie, “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Thismovie deals with the serious issues of racial inequality, rape and leadership practices. Thedescription of characters is defined below. But this paper will only deal with leadership practices. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Atticus plays the role of the leader. In relation to the characters, thereport has mainly focuses on identifying the main leaders as well as his followers. Other than theabove main focus, emphasis has also been given on is addressing the traits possessed by thefollowers’ behaviours as well as the leaders. The leadership style will also be evaluated andcomments will be made on their effectiveness. Then the leadership/follower traits as well asqualities will be applied on workplace scenario of medical sales executive who is providing servicesto clinics doctors. The report at the end will conclude with differentiating between show andreality.LEADERSHIP IN MOVIE “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”The team leader mainly focuses on all things which are required to accomplish the goals andalso influence other team members to put the effort to achieve the organization objectives. In themovie, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Atticus possesses qualities such as moral, strong, courageous.Since he is a lawyer, he holds a prominent place in the community. He stood in defence of TomRobinson, an African American. He stood for what is right on a moral ground and also takes a standto defend Tom, who is a black man. The fight put his life as well as that of his children in danger
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but still he did not move away from his principles. These principles can be considered as part ofleadership. Atticus failed in the fight for the equality of African Americans because he had no one tosupport him in the battle of racism except his son and daughter. He also single-handedly stoodagainst the legal system for Tom who did not commit any crime. He single-handedly fought forwhat he thought was right, hence he is a leader (Schein, 2010).FOLLOWERS IDENTIFIED IN THIS MOVIE AS WELL AS THEIR BEHAVIOURIn the movie, the followers of Atticus are his own children, Scout and Jem as well as theconvict, Tom. Scout is the girl who is the narrator in the movie. She is an intelligent tomboy. Scoutis violent but believes in the goodness of people. Jem is Scout’s brother who is a typical Americanboy. Jem has acted as a close companion and protector of Scout throughout the movie. Tom is thefollower as Atticus represented himself as his lawyer. Tom is a black man accused of rape. He is animportant symbol of innocence that has been destroyed by evil of racism. These characters are the true followers of Atticus which has been clearly identified by theirroles and behaviour. They follow all the instructions of Atticus and also are against racism(Champoux, 2010). They further stood in support of their leader cum father during hard times. A follower possessesan important trait of being able to communicate as well as understand the leader. The same trait isshown by Jem and Scout. Atticus is a white American but still had a concern for Tom. This act of Atticus really touchedTom.CHARACTERISTICS DISPLAYED BY ATTICUS AS A LEADER WITH EVIDENCE This theory was defined in the 1930s. The theory argues that a leader should possess a set ofwell-defined attributes and traits to be an effective leader. In the movie, Atticus has shown the manycharacteristics and traits of an effective leader such as integrity, determination, risk taker, decisionmaking and righteousness (Bush, 2011). These are further described in detail in the belowmentioned paragraphs. A leader must be righteous in his virtues – Every leader is required to have one importanttrait of being righteous (Gardner and Laskin, 2011). He should have the quality ofsupporting what is right and what is wrong. Atticus proved himself as a leader in this areaof being righteous. Atticus has been serving the community as a lawyer and has been equalto all races. This quality is the reason he took the rape case of Tom and tried to stand for himtill the end. He also made an attempt to influence the minds of the younger generation aboutthe concept of what was right on racism. Effective leaders are empathetic – Atticus was an empathetic leader. It is shown in the
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following scenes. Atticus once said during the movie at 02:02:22 that you can never reallyunderstand a person until you climb into his skin and take a walk around. Another incidentto prove the empathy of Atticus is found in 01:45:46 when Bob Ewell spat on Atticuss faceafter the trial. Effective leaders lead by example- Atticus single-handedly handled the children. He taughthis children how to differentiate between right and wrong. He set his own personal examplein this scenario, and also gave enough independence to Jem and Scout to make their owndecisions (Chhokar and et.all., 2013). However, Atticus warned the children whenever hefelt that they were going too far in their games and excursions. It was because of thesequalities that Atticus was able to gain respect from his children. Atticus has this virtue as a leader. This is because he took on Tom’s case which nobody elsewanted to take. Miss Maudie, one of the movie characters even told Jem in 01:40:31 thatthere are some men who are born to do unpleasant jobs, and that his father was one of them.Doing the undesirable jobs is an important virtue of a leader so as to earn respect. This isclear as Atticus received many taunts and threats for doing the job of representing Tom inthe court but he still did itA leader should be Sharp- People already judged Tom as a criminal but Atticus was the onlyone who perceived that Tom was innocent. The quality of sharp perception was in Atticus(Gopee and Galloway, 2013).A great leader is courageous- Atticus was also taking the risk of defending the black manand for doing this he put his family at risk. A great leader always takes the right risks at theright time (Kouzes and Posner, 2006). Atticus shows the physical courage in this story. Hepossessed the moral courage which includes the strength to stick with Tom and do the rightthing, even when everyone else were disagreeing. This is a quality of a good leader. Determination is an essential virtue of a leader Atticus was determined to put in all hisefforts to defend Tom. Nobody wanted to defend a black man but Atticus took a stand andalso was determined to do it. This is a quality of leader who knows that the right thing has tobe done (Kouzes and Posner, 2006). Respect – Respect is that trait of a leader that is earned by being a good person or doingsoothing highly admirable. In this regard, Atticus was worthy of respect. This is as all thecitizens of Maycomb looked to Atticus and saw him as a respectable person. He furtherearned the respect of his children by being a caring and loving father. Moreover, he was theonly member of Maycomb who defended a Negro (Gardner and Laskin, 2011). He thusdisplayed respect in the eyes of other people. Atticus further taught his children as to howthey can pay respect to other people. For example, Scout first learned to respect Atticus then
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