People, Culture and Contemporary Leadership: Theories, Styles and Personal Experience

RUNNING HEAD: PEOPLE, CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY LEADERSHIP
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People, Culture and Contemporary Leadership
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Theories...........................................................................................................................................2
Discussion on Class activities..........................................................................................................3
Personal Experience.........................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7

People, Culture and Contemporary Leadership
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Introduction
Leadership is a complex process that include inducing, influencing, motivating others in order to
achieve the goals (Northouse, 2018). This reflective journal aims to understand the concept of
leadership and its impact on the people, culture and organization. Leaders in the organization can
use various types of leadership styles that depend on the situation and their personality traits in
order to meet the goals of the organization (Antonakis and Day, 2017). This reflective essay
includes reflection on all the materials that are used in the class to give insight about the concept
of leadership in the organization. Further, leadership theories, styles and by analyzing personal
experience, some key developments about me are discussed. In this reflection I discussed about
the type of leadership style that I possess and accordingly changes that I have to do in order to be
an efficient and effective leader. The main aim of this reflection is to clearly define my
perception, perspective and view on the concept of leadership.
Theories
Leadership is not limited to businesses or organizations it can be seen in all the areas or in
professional and personal life. The leadership related topics that I studied are leadership
succession, leadership behavior, characteristics or traits of leader and leadership styles. From the
study material I understood and defining leadership as the process of motivating, reporting and
inspiring others to perform better for achievement of objectives and goals. The theories of
leadership are trait theory, behavioral theory and situational theory (Blomme et.al, 2015).
Trait theory is defined as the traits or characteristics of a person or individual that best fit to be a
leader. In my view, traits that are to be there in leaders is long term vision, effectiveness in