Sustainable Leadership Reflection Report: MGMT8435

This report provides a reflection on leadership theories, specifically contingency, transformational, and transactional leadership, and their practical application. The author discusses how these theories have influenced their career development, improving organizational performance, understanding diverse individuals, and facilitating learning. The report details the implementation of transformational leadership, emphasizing the importance of employee feedback and setting goals. The author highlights the impact of these leadership practices on their decision-making and creativity, and the ability to motivate team members, concluding that these theories have been instrumental in shaping an effective leadership style. References to relevant literature are included to support the analysis.

Running Head: Sustainable Leadership
Reflection on Sustainable Leadership
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author’s Note

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Leadership can be defined as the ability to guide the employees or others people with
a force of direction that leaves them with a feeling of empowerment and accomplishment.
Hence it is the role of a leader which creates an art of motivating a group of people to act
towards and achieve a common goal (Singh et al., 2016). In a company or organisation the
managerial setting caters to direct the workers and employees with an aim and strategy to
meet the goals of the industry. The aim of the paper is to create a reflective paper on the
basis of my course which I had obtained and is career and job life. The leadership theory had
assisted me to bring forward why certain individuals employee or people are motivated to be
leaders.
Theories and concept of leadership
The theories of leadership that are covered in my course are contingency leadership
theory, transformational leadership theory and transitional theory (Venzor, 2017). With
reference of contingency theory it can be explained that the companies incorporate discipline
of the organisation behavior the area of the theory assist in understanding the employees. The
theory is specified on the situational factors which affect the direct relationship between the
dependent and independent variable in the organizational behavior. This is however suitable
for my career growth because this is the best way to structure my business and solve the
employee grievances. I feel that leadership and motivation are just two variables of many
independent variables of contingency theory (Fiedler, 2015). On the other hand in case of
transformational leadership I feel that the leaders work in team and this is the most important
attribute where the leader should work along with the members. As an employee it has
facilitated me create a vision and guide the other employees and be an inspiration hence it
assist in creating a vision for the company (Berkovich, 2016). However I feel that the
transactional leadership theory carets the idea where the managers allow its employee to get
something in return of their hard work. We need to understand that the workers are not self
motivated and they require be motivating and monitoring in order to complete the given task
on time.
Implementation of leadership style
The leadership theories like contingency leadership theory, transformational
leadership theory and transitional theory had a huge affect on my career growth as it had
improved my organizational performance, understanding the culture and various people and

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lastly was facilitated to learn. The transformational leadership approach has been mostly
pretentious in me because it had made me learn about collecting feedback from the
employees, made me more focused in establishing the efficiency and procedure and cater to
have more concern on the existing rules of the company (Deinert et al., 2015). Implementing
this theory had made me learn to set goals and direct the employees towards the objective of
the company and made me more patient to listen to the employee grievances or innovative
ideas and implemented them as a change in the managerial activities.
Impact of leadership practice in job life and career
The impact of the above mentioned leadership theories had associated me to improve
my decision making ability and my creativity skills. These changes were easily recognized
within me because the theories have facilitated me to achieve short terms organisation goals.
It had allowed me to motivate the rest of the team members and also engaged them in earning
rewards and monetary benefits if they have successfully achieved their goals. Hence it can be
concluded by stating that the leadership theory had made it easier for me be an inspiration
and follow an effective leadership style.

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Reference
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Transformational leadership sub-dimensions and their link to leaders' personality and
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Fiedler, F. R. E. D. (2015). Contingency theory of leadership. Organizational Behavior 1:
Essential Theories of Motivation and Leadership, 232, 01-2015.
Singh, S. K., Burgess, T. F., Heap, J., Zaabi, M. S. A. S. A., Ahmad, K. Z., & Hossan, C.
(2016). Authentic leadership, work engagement and organizational citizenship
behaviors in petroleum company. International Journal of Productivity and
Performance Management.
Venzor, A. (2017). Strategies to improving corporation X: Practical application of Abilene
paradox theory of Jerry B. Harvey and leadership theory of W. Edwards
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