Trait Theory of Leadership management

management

Contents
Trait Theory of leadership.....................................................................................................................3
Situational, transformational and servant leadership...........................................................................3
Identify a leader....................................................................................................................................4
Leadership Scenarios.............................................................................................................................5
Personal leadership...............................................................................................................................6

Trait Theory of leadership
This theory is based on particular traits of a leader and he can be either successful or
unsuccessful. The theory utilises the information in order to evaluate the position in the
organisation and to assess how well leader understands their identity and how they affect the
organisation. There are some core traits identified in this theory such as achievement drive,
honesty and integrity, self-confidence and emotional maturity (Spears, 2018). Among all the
three important traits, my personality has honesty, integrity, and achievement drive. For
example- at my workplace, I do my work with whole honesty without cheating the
subordinates and the client and I delegate the service to the client for which they have paid.
Whereas, I lack self-confidence for instance- when I was in college, while presenting PPT in
front of my batch, I could not perform as per my expectation due to lack of self-confidence.
While identifying all the traits in the trait theory, it is seen that this theory lacks the skill of
negotiation in its characteristics. This trait is important in leadership as negotiation plays an
important in building relationships. Negotiation is important in daily interactions such as
negotiating for sales, lease, legal contracts, and service delivery. When leaders are good
negotiators then they contribute crucially to the business success. For example- negotiation
can be very helpful in resolving the conflicts, as the main purpose of negotiation is to result in
mutual benefits (Spears, 2018).
I think I cannot be a good leader as my personality has honesty and achievement drive but at
the same time, I do not have self-confidence. Self-confidence is important in a leader as if I
am not able to do the things confidently how would I encourage my team members.
Situational, transformational and servant leadership
Under the situational leadership, there are four important traits of leadership named as
directing, supporting, coaching, and delegating. Due to increase in dynamic business