Leadership Philosophy Assessment Report for MGT702 - Semester 2, Uni

This report presents an assessment of leadership philosophies, drawing on both academic and non-academic sources. It explores key concepts such as situational leadership, ethical leadership, and strategic leadership. The report examines influence tactics, the importance of organizational change, and the connection between leadership and organizational culture. It includes a review of articles and case studies, including discussions with a brother and analysis of works like 'The Alchemist' and Australian cricket ball-tampering. The report highlights the significance of decision-making, team effectiveness, and the impact of leadership on organizational development. This report is designed to enhance understanding of various leadership styles and their practical implications, providing a comprehensive overview of the subject matter for students.

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ASSESSMENT TASK 3:
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Table of Contents
Summary..........................................................................................................................................3
Academic Sources.......................................................................................................................3
Non-Academic Sources...............................................................................................................4
Conversation with my brother.....................................................................................................4
The Alchemist; Paulo Coelho (Alrashed-Alsaleh.ComWebpage, 2019).....................................5
Influence on Leadership Philosophy...............................................................................................6
Academic Sources.......................................................................................................................6
Non-Academic Sources...............................................................................................................8
Conversation with my brother.....................................................................................................8
The Alchemist; Paulo Coelho (Alrashed-Alsaleh.ComWebpage, 2019).....................................8
Complex Leadership Issue...............................................................................................................9
Reflection.........................................................................................................................................9
Reference List................................................................................................................................13
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Summary
Academic Sources
Aarons, G.A., Ehrhart, M.G., Farahnak, L.R. and Hurlburt, M.S., 2015. Leadership and
organizational change for implementation (LOCI): a randomized mixed method pilot study of
a leadership and organization development intervention for evidence-based practice
implementation. Implementation Science, 10(1), p.11.
In this study, the learning outcome was gaining knowledge about the leadership strategy and
implementation of the same. The paper has discussed situational leadership and the edges of the
factor in case of its implication in organizational development. The literary work so analyzed has
discussed more the fact to identify the effect of the same in case of strategic consequence. The
authors had taken into account all the practical reports acquired for the study to complete the
same. The results have helped to identify the need for leadership in the development of an
organization.
Lynch, B., 2015. Partnering for performance in situational leadership: a person-centred
leadership approach. International Practice Development Journal, 5.
Through this article, it was understood that situational leadership mainly provides its approach in
the nursing sectors. Besides, the article informed about the performance of the situational leader
could be drawn a significant matter. Furthermore, I had realized that the intervention of good
situational leadership could emphasize its followers' development.
Avery, G.C. and Ryan, J., 2002. Applying situational leadership in Australia. Journal of
Management Development, 21(4), pp.242-262.
This article informed regarding the situational leadership as well as the related practice in the
context of an Australian organization. Similarly, this article expressed the critical components
related to situational leadership in the health care sectors as well as residential care institutions
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(Avery and Ryan, 2002). I had realized that the implementation of guidance in the organizational
context consisted of a viable strategy while supporting the same.
Shannon, E.A., 2015. Health LEADS Australia: implementation and integration into theory
and practice. Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 10(1), p.56.
This article had reviewed the Situational Leadership implementation, development, and its aspect
through the National Health Leadership Framework. The model known as LEADS Australia,
influenced by the Canadian Leadstowards a caring ecological approach. In a sense, the
Australian model of significant stakeholder engagement got collaborated through this situational
leadership consensual process.
Ehrich, L.C., Harris, J., Klenowski, V., Smeed, J. and Spina, N., 2015. The centrality of
ethical leadership. Journal of Educational Administration, 53(2), pp.197-214.
This article provides an argument regarding ethical leadership as imperative. This article selected
the school context in order to increase the performance driven accountability. The proposed
argument was all about to shed light on the perception of the school principals in which they
utilized the ethical leadership as well as the related ethical data usage.
Fransen, K., Haslam, S.A., Mallett, C.J., Steffens, N.K., Peters, K. and Boen, F., 2017. Is
perceived athlete leadership quality related to team effectiveness? A comparison of three
professional sports teams. Journal of science and medicine in sport, 20(8), pp.800-806.
This article had criticized leadership quality based on team effectiveness. Besides, this article
showed a comparison between the three professional sports teams. The researchers had argued
regarding leadership as a significant determinant while it comes to team effectiveness. Thus, this
article represented the extension in which the leadership quality was found in the context of an
athlete as well as an efficient elite sports team.
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Non-Academic Sources
Conversation with my brother
Decision taking ability of the leader in a given situation, and the importance of the same has been
analyzed with personal experience. It was explained that for building a better leadership strategy,
it is essential to enhance one's sone's decision making capability. With the practical experience
and examination of the same, it was understood that decision-making ability plays a vital role in
the implementation of good leadership.
The Alchemist; Paulo Coelho (Alrashed-Alsaleh.ComWebpage, 2019)
With the experience so acquired with the book, it was identified that a good leader should
possess some skills and qualities. Decision making quality is one of the most critical skills to be
owned by a good leader. The benefits of decision-making ability have been analyzed in the
papers, and thus, the result was identified.
Australian Cricket Ball-Tampering: A Failure of Leadership AND Followership
This article criticized Team Shared and Leadership. The Australian Cricket Team has gone
through a worst leadership and followership with a massive failure. Considering the case of ball-
tampering, this article presented the most cheated example of spontaneous sport. According to
Steve Smith, Team Shared and Leadership were highlighted at the time of decision making. This
article concluded that, at any stage, any member from the Australian Cricket Team requires to
follow the accountability of leadership. Besides, the ''Followership'' also needs to provide the
collective agreement with an acceptable strategy. Through this case study, I came to realize that
mediocre Team shared and leadership might lead to the massive failure in any consequences.
Inspiring ''Leadership Journeys'' with Julia Gillard, Australian PM (2010-2013)
This video (https://youtu.be/Y3XW7NytKRE) informed me about inspirational leadership.
Besides, I went through the leadership journey series with Julia Gillard, who was the former
Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013. During this video, I gathered, aiming for
gathering the senior female leaders in Brussels. I came to understand that; there was quite an
easier slipper while a woman does the controversial policies. Furthermore, I realized that the
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depth of the journey of women political leaders in which they moved to the tears and considered
as not coping. The inspiring side that I found in this video was to win over the questions raised
by family. For example, I marked out the issue that after having children, how a woman political
could manage the time focusing her energy on politics. Thus I have understood the inspirational
leadership as well as the inspirational personality.
Influence on Leadership Philosophy
Academic Sources
Aarons, G.A., Ehrhart, M.G., Farahnak, L.R. and Hurlburt, M.S., 2015. Leadership and
organizational change for implementation (LOCI): a randomized mixed method pilot study of
a leadership and organization development intervention for evidence-based practice
implementation. Implementation Science, 10(1), p.11.
According to Aarons, Ehrhart, Farahnak, and Hurlburt, the implementation of leadership in an
organization for its innovation in business is an important part. A healthy organizational
development can be achieved with good leadership being practiced in the organization (Aarons
et al., 2015). In this paper, the author has analyzed quantitative and qualitative reports and
discussed the subject of leadership strategy. Leadership for the organizational change was the
main focus of this paper. The author has identified further need for studies on the importance of
implementation of guidance in corporate strategies.
Lynch, B., 2015. Partnering for performance in situational leadership: a person-centred
leadership approach. International Practice Development Journal, 5.
In the paper written by Lynch, Situational leadership, and the impact of the same have been
discussed. In this paper, authorization of the leadership approach in nursing homes has been
considered (Lynch, 2015). The performance of a situational leader on its application for the
nursing students draws a matter of importance in the nursing institutions. This paper has
analyzed that the implication of good leadership emphasizes on the development of the
followers.
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Avery, G.C. and Ryan, J., 2002. Applying situational leadership in Australia. Journal of
Management Development, 21(4), pp.242-262.
According to Avery and Ryan, situational leadership and practice of the same in the Australian
organization has kept a notable impact. This paper has described the critical components of
situational leadership in nursing homes and residential care institutions (Avery and Ryan, 2002).
As a result of this study, the author has concluded that the implementation of leadership in the
organizational context is a viable strategy to support the same. Situational leadership has been
analyzed as a helpful strategy for organizational development. This paper has particularly
focused on the application and effects of situational leadership in the Australian organization.
Shannon, E.A., 2015. Health LEADS Australia: implementation and integration into theory
and practice. Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 10(1), p.56.
This article had criticized the situational leadership by raising concerns regarding its framework
fidelity. The fragmented dangers that are associated with situational leadership, the report
incorporated it through the proposed framework. For example, this article contributed to the
extensive relationship mapping of the Australian Health LEADS domain towards the mainstream
leadership theory. Furthermore, I come to understand that situational leadership can be aspected
by the policy community in order to provide the base of further work.
Ehrich, L.C., Harris, J., Klenowski, V., Smeed, J. and Spina, N., 2015. The centrality of
ethical leadership. Journal of Educational Administration, 53(2), pp.197-214.
Ethical leadership was criticized in this article. The ethics were utilized while having a central
consideration regarding the way to lead the school. Through this article, I have realized that the
ethical leadership framework proved as relevant in order to interpret the significant practices.
Thus, I have considered this article as a contribution to the moral leadership areas. For example,
the discussion regarding the ethical leadership practices of the school principal in the current
climate was driven through data usage.
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Fransen, K., Haslam, S.A., Mallett, C.J., Steffens, N.K., Peters, K. and Boen, F., 2017. Is
perceived athlete leadership quality related to team effectiveness? A comparison of three
professional sports teams. Journal of science and medicine in sport, 20(8), pp.800-806.
Team effectiveness was highlighted in this article. For example, the article considered the
professional football team during the ongoing preparation for the Australian session 2016.
Throughout this article, I had realized that athletes share strong team effectiveness with high
commitment. Besides, this article had considered highly effective when it came to team
effectiveness. I also came to understand that team effectiveness requires the well developed
empirical-based leadership in which it would flourish in the forthcoming days.
Non-Academic Sources
Conversation with my brother
My brother and I often discuss the political and social scenario in the present scenario of the
world. He is a news reporter, and he always enlightens me with new information regarding the
political problems going on in the world. He has further guided me in taking leadership decisions
in relation to the social and political context of the present time.
The Alchemist; Paulo Coelho (Alrashed-Alsaleh.ComWebpage, 2019)
This book has enlightened me with the necessity of leadership and independent decision-making
ability. With the knowledge I gained from this book, I was able to learn more about decision-
making ability based on situational needs and the importance of the same. In my growing
leadership knowledge, I understood the necessity of the right decisions in a given situation.
Australian Cricket Ball-Tampering: A Failure of Leadership AND Followership
Through this case, I come to understand that recent ball-tampering incident in Australia, the
Cricket Team of Australia, had experienced a lack of ''Team Shared and Leadership'' that lead
them with the massive failure from the grace. For example, this case was striking because of
being premeditated. Considering this fact, I had realized that Stive Smith prioritized the
leadership group that was consisted of the captain, senior players, vice-captain, as well as the
related coaching staff. Secondly, I had understood that at the time of decision making, it was
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quite inconceivable that the squad majority did not become cautious of the plan. Hence, this ball
tempering case carried out the example pf poor followership as well as the Team Shared and
Leadership.
Inspiring ''Leadership Journeys'' with Julia Gillard, Australian PM (2010-2013)
This case was informed me regarding the inspirational leadership in which the leadership journey
of Australian PM Julia Gillard was provided (2010-2013). Through this video
(https://youtu.be/Y3XW7NytKRE), I went through an inspiring conversation of Julia Gillard that
aims to connect the senior female leaders in Brussels. Besides, this video represented the
personal journey of Julia Gillard while she was serving in a high position. This video informed
me that female political leaders face critical challenges. For example, Julia Gillard provided the
example of an angry political male who can be an injustice. However, it comes to a female to
become hysterical. Furthermore, for me, this video carried out an example of inspirational
leadership.
Complex Leadership Issue
Over the past few years, I am working in an Australian organization in which I have experienced
some complex leadership problems. In my working days, I come to understand that poor
leadership could seriously lead to my affected employment ethics. Besides, I have realized that
the leadership problem can harm my retention as well as the de-motivation in which the
organization's less productivity gets exposed. As a result, I had marked out that, at some point,
50% of employees of our organization in their lives left the job because of the manager. In the
current paper, I would share my leadership philosophy, creativity, critical thinking, innovation,
and reflective thinking, respectively.
Reflection
Considering the aforementioned scenario, I examined the things that were most significant to me
while being a leader. However, I realized leadership as an extended term in which the process
could not be posses, whereby I would generalize the leadership for everybody. Thus, I put a
question to myself what can be the leadership philosophical of this vision. Besides, I was looking
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for the factors that can be comprised of a leader. After that, what I identified is the philosophy of
leadership is more than just having followers. Besides, it is not achieved through a few
principles. As per my organization's consequences, I have taken an account to be my significant
beliefs as well as the way of viewing the leadership by incorporating my core principles. For me,
leadership is all about to get the appraised people those keep up the vision of what they are
doing. I think, as a result, it would set up the roadmap and the criteria to succeed. Based on my
organizational leadership issues, I have realized that I went through the process in which I
outlined my manager’s leadership issues. For instance, I have identified some philosophy that is
as follows:
 Creating the appropriate working environment
 Understanding and listening to your people
 Developing your people
 Then treat them in a proper way
I am optimistic that these aforementioned philosophies would indeed lead to success as these are
cannot be overemphasized.
Eventually, I come to understand that leadership issues carry out the role in which a person is
enhanced step by step. In order to have this leadership, hence, my manager requires me to act in
specific ways. On that, I also realized that throughout my organization, a great approach is
needed in which my co-workers and I would be adequately leaded. One thinks I want to mention,
in this 21st century, if anybody wants to become a good leader, he or she must be a great critical
thinker. As per my understating, hence, I would always prioritize the attribute of leadership. Let
me further expand the way my manager needs to think critically. Concerning this fact, I have
identified some factors such as assumptions of the questions, adopting the various kinds of
perspectives, and considering potentiality, respectively. I have understood an additional aspect of
critical thinking for the recent days is managing the ambiguity. The leadership issue that I
mentioned earlier, hence, requires getting comfortable with the working environments, operation
in which the changing found as constant, and the rapid decisions are made. It is noteworthy that
in the world of uncertain growth, we all need sharp critical thinkers; those can be sized up the
mentioned consequences. I am optimistic that my mentioned essential fact of thinking would
realize the potentiality and would seizing the opportunities through prompted decision making.
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During my career, I got few opportunities to hire an adequate employee. Hence, I think that I
came to know the skills of creativity are always prioritized with a high value. In this 21st century,
I frequently overlooked the exposing benefits related to the arts that were fostered by creative
skills. Besides, I come to understand that this creativity can be considered as leadership traits in
which I not to be missed any of the opportunities related to these skills development. Personally,
I have found a connection between the excellent leadership action as well as the related arts
education. Hence, in my organization, while I started to face the tough challenges from the law
standpoint, I always had sought out the imaginative and innovative co-workers. I have found
them as the ones who were enthusiastic about having brainstorming solutions. However, I have
not found any such skills in my managerial activities. Hence, I think it might be for this fact I nd
other 50% co-workers decided to leave the organization.
The word ''Innovation'' is seen to be expressed as an individual for broad utilization in the
present days. As earlier I mentioned my workplace leadership issues; hence, I think business
innovation is a collaborative affair in which the unique ideas get developed and implemented,
respectively. I have experienced that in my organization, the process innovation involves the
employees with several expertise. Concerning this fact, I come to understand that the notion of
innovative people does not exist actually. I have also realized that innovation is the most
appropriate way only that can lead to an accelerating company in accordance with the pace of
change. Considering my manager, I have pointed out a lack of innovating thinking in him.
Besides, I have observed that he was generally disappointed while stimulating his innovation
(Masud Khokhar, 2017). On that note, I have considered the innovation as team support in which
the effort of the individual becomes evaluated. I have realized that my manager required
unleashing my talents along with the harness for producing astounding solutions. In a sense, I
have understood that an effective leader builds some fundamental organizational capacity for
ensuring the innovative schedule of the organization. The factors such as creative abrasion,
original resolution, and creative agility; hence, my manager required to utilize it thoroughly.
The consequence I shared generally focused on the dynamic changes in my manager’s leadership
capacity as well as the workplace environment. It also highlighted the issues regarding adequate
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motivation among the employees. As a result, this leadership issue created the potentiality of
working absenteeism. Hence for the managerial perspective, some progressive discussion needs
to be involved. Besides, at the organizational level, the manager needs to go through the
adequate changing implementation in which our organization would meet the several engaging
methods. Furthermore, I have realized that the managerial department also requires ensuring the
changes through free form workloads. I want, in my organization, there would be commensurate
remuneration in order to act as the extrinsic motivations among the employees. I felt that my
manager required understanding every employee's personality as well as the behavioral
perspective while going through the process of increment. As a manager, hence he also requires
to develop an interactive character to accommodate the opinion of different employees he
handles regularly. I am optimistic that through my thinking perspective, my manager can take an
initial step to resolve his leadership issues.
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Reference List
Aarons, G.A., Ehrhart, M.G., Farahnak, L.R. and Hurlburt, M.S., 2015. Leadership and
organizational change for implementation (LOCI): a randomized mixed method pilot study of a
leadership and organization development intervention for evidence-based practice
implementation. Implementation Science, 10(1), p.11.
Alrashed-Alsaleh.Com (Webpage, 2019)
https://www.alrashed-alsaleh.com/uploads/posts/0a3b13b476ac67bbf142c769830c1d6b.pdf
Avery, G.C. and Ryan, J., 2002. Applying situational leadership in Australia. Journal of
Management Development, 21(4), pp.242-262.
Ehrich, L.C., Harris, J., Klenowski, V., Smeed, J. and Spina, N., 2015. The centrality of ethical
leadership. Journal of Educational Administration, 53(2), pp.197-214.
Fransen, K., Haslam, S.A., Mallett, C.J., Steffens, N.K., Peters, K. and Boen, F., 2017. Is
perceived athlete leadership quality related to team effectiveness? A comparison of three
professional sports teams. Journal of science and medicine in sport, 20(8), pp.800-806.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2016.11.024
inspirationaldevelopment.com. (2018). Australian Cricket Ball-Tampering: A Failure of
Leadership AND Followership - inspirationaldevelopment.com. [online] Available at:
https://www.inspirationaldevelopment.com/australian-cricket-ball-tampering-a-failure-of-
leadership-and-followership/ [Accessed 19 Oct. 2019].
Lynch, B., 2015. Partnering for performance in situational leadership: a person-centred
leadership approach. International Practice Development Journal, 5.
Masud Khokhar. (2017). Creative leadership – qualities and attributes. [online] Available at:
http://masudk.com/2017/02/16/creative-leadership-qualities-and-attributes/ [Accessed 19 Oct.
2019].
Shannon, E.A., 2015. Health LEADS Australia: implementation and integration into theory and
practice. Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 10(1), p.56.
Women Political Leaders Global Forum. (2017). Inspiring 'Leadership Journeys' with Julia
Gillard, Australian PM (2010-2013) - Women Political Leaders Global Forum. [online]
Available at: https://www.womenpoliticalleaders.org/inspiring-leadership-journeys-julia-
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gillard-former-australias-prime-minister/ [Accessed 19 Oct. 2019].
https://youtu.be/Y3XW7NytKRE
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