Leadership: A Critical Perspective

This essay explores various leadership styles, including transformational, contingency, charismatic, and situational leadership. It evaluates their characteristics and effectiveness, emphasizing the importance of adaptability and motivation in leadership roles. The author reflects on personal insights gained from analyzing these styles and advocates for transformational leadership as a preferred approach for fostering growth and development in individuals and organizations.

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Leadership A Critical Perspective
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1. Four Areas In Leadership
Leadership is fundamentally a craft of completing the stuff through others. As indicated by
Northouse (2015) leadership is a craft of leading an association, gathering or people. So as to do
self-examination, there are many key areas. Of these, four key areas of leadership have been
examined. These key areas are the sign to effectively usage of the leadership abilities.
Transformational – As indicated by Avolio and Yammarino (2013), this style of leadership
encourages keeping in mind the end goal to move the subordinates to locate the best and the
proficient method for moving towards the foreordained objectives.
Contingency - As indicated by Daft (2014), contingency leadership style comprise of organizing
beforehand for any potential overcoming.
Charismatic – As indicated by Mumford and Strange (2013), this essentially comprise of the
quality to catch the attention of or persuade an individual to get the stuff done.
Situational - As indicated by McCleskey (2014), in this style, it has been portrayed that the
thriving leaders have to be the ones who is having the aptitude to face the situation.
Evaluating the leaders incorporate looking for the nearness of these qualities. The insinuation
of these attributes will bring about a fruitful leader.
2. Results Of The Relevant Self-Assessments
A leader can be named as one who regulates and guides others in an association, a group, or a
political body like a state or nation. The personality of leadership is conceived with the inherent
will and constancy to impact others towards a shared objective.

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Transformational - This leadership style is more motivational than some other leadership
style and the transformational leaders indicate satisfactory competency for drawing in supporters.
The leaders under this style reliably work towards empowering the kindred team individuals for
accomplishing momentous and exceptional outcomes.
Contingency - This specific leadership style incorporates the forecast of the person's
behavioral result later on for a specific circumstance. The contingency leadership style
demonstrates the competency of the leaders under this style, in adjusting the point of view for
present and in addition future circumstances.
Charismatic – Charisma is the ability to rouse devotees to similarly as to considering the
aggregate focus as their own objective, and is one key quality that interfaces prominent leaders
all through time.
Situational - The situational leadership style uncovered the characteristics of the leaders who
are sufficiently effective to alter themselves with the adherents' advancement level. This specific
leadership style is adaptable and versatile, since the leaders falling under this style have versatile
nature for any sort of circumstances.
3. Results, Insights And Conclusions
Leaders are individuals who can help make choices and openings – who can help light up
issues and choices, who can produce resolve and coalitions, who can persuade others and give a
fantasy of the possible results and certification of an unrivaled affiliation, or a predominant
gathering. Leaders have those crucial qualities of irresistible confidence, shocking great
confidence and genuine idealism that empower them to attract and initiate others to grasp asking
for assignments these people never anytime envisioned they would endeavor. Essentially, leaders

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empower and help free others. They redesign the possible results for circumstance – both for
people and affiliations. They interface with followers to such an extent those immense quantities
of the supporters advance toward getting to be leaders in their own specific right. Extraordinary
leaders, frequently, have been get-it-all-together, broken-field sprinters. They have been
generalists. Tomorrow's leaders will presumably have begun life as readied specialists
(Nahavandi, 2016).
4. Discussion
In these leadership learning journals, I analyzed and evaluated the different forms of
leadership and then assessed them to find out what I am required to adopt. Judging from the
analysis and the reactions regarding the different forms of leadership, I have understood that
transformational leadership is the best option for me. Transformational leadership I suggested by
scholars too as the right choice, along with some implementation plans to follow and adapt this
form. What I have understood from this overall discussion is that the holistic approach of
leadership would help any organization in steering themselves in the right direction. The same is
applicable on an individual plane, whence an individual is incited and motivated to grow and
develop into a true leader - someone who is more interested in creating jobs and new openings
instead of pure money-making.

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Reference List
Avolio, B. J., & Yammarino, F. J. (Eds.). (2013). Introduction to, and overview of,
transformational and charismatic leadership. In Transformational and Charismatic
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Daft, R. L. (2014). The leadership experience. Cengage Learning.
McCleskey, J. A. (2014). Situational, transformational, and transactional leadership and
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Mumford, M. D., & Strange, J. M. (2013). Vision and mental models: The case of charismatic
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Ahead 10th Anniversary Edition (pp. 125-158). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Nahavandi, A. (2016). The Art and Science of Leadership -Global Edition. Pearson.
Northouse, P. G. (2015). Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage publications.