Leadership Management: Theories, Traits, and Scenario Analysis Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of leadership management, exploring various leadership theories such as trait theory, situational leadership, transformational leadership, and servant leadership. It delves into the identification of personal leadership traits, including self-confidence, trustworthiness, and emotional stability, and analyzes how these traits align with different leadership styles. The report includes a self-assessment of the author's leadership traits and discusses the importance of communication and decision-making skills for effective leadership. Furthermore, it examines leadership scenarios, applying different leadership approaches to address specific challenges, such as managing change and fostering employee engagement. The report also presents a leadership profile, outlining core values and traits, and concludes with a critical reflection on the author's strengths and areas for improvement in leadership. The report references various academic sources to support its analysis and findings.

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Contents
Leadership Management............................................................................................................2
Trait theory.................................................................................................................................2
Situational, transformational and servant leadership.................................................................2
Identify a leader: harmful Power and positive power................................................................3
Leadership Scenario...................................................................................................................3
Leadership profile......................................................................................................................4
Leadership traits chart............................................................................................................4
Critical reflection....................................................................................................................4
References..................................................................................................................................5

Leadership Management
Trait theory
1. Trait theory of leadership gives emphasis on the identification of varied personality
characteristics and traits that directly link to the successful leadership in different situation.
Eagerness to accept responsibility is the first trait that is possessed by me. Self confidence is
another trait possessed by me. I found myself as extremely self-assured. Due to the
confidence in myself, I used to share my elf-belief. It is better to take the responsibility rather
than passing it to other people. Trustworthiness is the first trait that is not possessed by me
due to lack of trust on other members. At the same time, I also do not have trait of
decisiveness that is essential for a person to make decision in order to be effective leader.
Emotional stability is another trait, which I am not able to possess effectively. There are
times when I am not able to control the emotions and avoid overreactions many time (Al
Khajeh, 2018).
2. Contingency approach is one such approach that should be included in the trait theory in
order to become an effective leader. There are certain traits that can be effective in some of
the situation and ineffective in other situations (Wright, 2017).
3. I believe that I still need to work on several approaches in order to become an effective
leader. Among those, communication is the one such aspect where I lack. I feel that I would
be able to become an effective leader by possessing communication skills and some of the
decision-making ability. At the same time, different behavioural approaches are required in
different situations, I still need to work on those in order to not get too emotional where strict
action is required.
Situational, transformational and servant leadership
1. Transformational leadership is characterised by inspiration motivation, charisma,
individual consideration and intellectual stimulation. Idea influence or charisma is the unique
quality that allow transformational leader to be seen as the role model. Transformational
leaders are seen to be driven and passionate to achieve one particular objective. Situational
leadership do not depend on a single vision but tends to lead in such manner, which prove to
be more sensible during a particular situation. Situational leaders also apply different skills in

order to overcome from the obstacles. Transformational leaders also come up with the
different ways for motivating people to complete tasks. As compare to this, situational
leaders give focus in analysing a particular situation that tends to adapt it. As compare to both
the leadership approach, servant leadership directly concerned with the needs to empower
followers. Adaptive or flexible leadership style adjusts as per the current working
environment and needs of the organisation. As per situational leadership, a leader is required
to move from one style to other in order to meet the changing needs of the employees as well
as organisation (Spears & Lawrence, 2016).
2. In order to cope up with the changing and complex environmental condition, it is true that
sometimes one style is effective and other another is effective. Leadership is also dynamic;
the appropriate leadership style is therefore adopted as per the environmental circumstances
(Nawaz & Khan, 2016).
3. I still remember the time when I was doing internship in a workplace. Due to the change, it
is seen that some of the employees were accepting change and others were denying it. In such
a situation, leader used the change management approach by effectively including the entire
team members through a meeting. In this meeting, discussion of changes and its possible
benefits were discussed (Fiaz, Su & Saqib, 2017). This helped in effectively managing the
resistance to change on the part of employees. In this way, I learnt that a situational approach
is required at such situation Meier, 2016).
Identify a leader: harmful Power and positive power
The example of negative leader is the chairperson of CBS named Les Moonves where
it has made the wrong use of its power by sexually assaulting. The reports published on Les
clearly states that he is engaged in several aspects of serious non-consensual sexual
misconduct inside as well as outside of the workplace. It is totally bad as a leader in any
organisation.
As compare to this, Mark Zukerberg has always sued the transformational leadership
style in order to move Facebook to the positive direction. This leadership style always
motivated and encouraged its team members to work effectively. Mark is always seen as the
legitimate power by reminding its employees to stay focused on their job rather than on
payout. At the same time, it also uses reward power effectively by providing stock units to

the employees instead of the individual pay. In addition to this, Mark has also used the
inspirational appeals by including the employees in decision-making.
Leadership Scenario
1. Under this approach, participative leadership approach is effective. It is because when
employees are given the freedom to participate in organisational activities, they tend to learn
different things. At the same time, they also able to learn the ways to perform any specific
task. As per the situation, it is therefore better to ensure the active participative of the
employees.
2. In such a situation, democratic leadership style is more effective as it helps the
employees for feeling valued regarding their performance. This leadership style will also
provide the sense of ownership over their performance and further encourage them to provide
productivity (Eva, Sendjaya, Prajogo, Cavanagh & Robin, 2018).
3. In this situation, democratic leadership style is effective. When it is know that the
employees is innovative, and confidence, it is better to provide them freedom for performing
their duties. This approach will definitely work for ensuring high engagement on the side of
employees. At the same time, person starts feeling confident for his or her work.
4. Under this situation, it is better to use the situational leadership style because this
leadership style will definitely help in responding to the changing situation accordingly. By
working on different positive approaches, it can be possible to increase the morale of staff
(Pidgeon, 2017).
5. Participative leadership approach is most effective approach in this situation. By using
this approach, it is beneficial to invite the inputs from employee’s side on most of the
decisions. Participative approach will encourage the members to provide creative solutions.
This approach will also help in increasing the collaboration rather than competition among
the members (Puni, Agyemang & Asamoah, 2016).
Leadership profile
1. A potential leader is the one who effectively knows how to manage every situation
effectively. As a potential future leader, I would definitely work on managing every situation
effectively by setting out the plan to achieve objectives. As a potential leader, involvement of
employees will also be done.

2. Several leadership theories will be incorporate into the own practice. The first one is
democratic and participative leadership approach where employees will be given the chance
to include in the decision-making and several other activities of the organisation. From the
leadership assignment, I learn that situation leadership is the best approach that assures the
effectiveness of a leader in changing business situations (Hoch, Bommer, Dulebohn & Wu,
2018).
3. Core values as a leader: It is true that core values tend to represent the priorities of a
person. Vision is the major core value used by me as a significant future leader or manager. It
is true that every person wants to know his or efforts. Due to this, leader must provide vision
to their people for maintain purpose of doing work. In addition to this, communication is
another significant core value by listening to the ideas and concerns of the employees.
Leadership traits chart
Traits Self-rating
Self confident 3
Perceptive 4
Persistent 5
Self assured 5
Friendly 4
Sensitive 3
Dependable 5
Empathetic 3
Critical reflection
From the above rating of my leadership traits, I am stronger in some and weaker in
another. I got the higher score in persistent, self-assured, and dependable. I knew I have given
higher rating to these traits because I assure productivity at the time of working on individual
projects. However, I become shy in some situation when I do not feel comfortable. I come to
know that sensitivity is the one such thing where I need to work in order to become a better
leader or manager. It is because there are situations where sensitive nature of a person not
works. Therefore, it is better to develop different behavioural skills required in different
situations.

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