MANAGEMENT 4: The Impact of Leaders on Their Followers

This report examines the critical role of followers in leadership and management, emphasizing the influence leaders exert on their teams. The analysis explores various leadership styles, including autocratic and democratic approaches, and their respective impacts on follower behavior and engagement. The paper highlights the importance of effective communication and collaboration between leaders and followers, illustrating how these elements can enhance team performance and organizational success. Furthermore, it discusses the application of the leader-follower theory in diverse organizational settings, emphasizing the significance of modeling leadership attributes and fostering a culture of emulation among employees. The report also references key leadership theories and research, providing insights into the evolution of leadership development and its implications for business leaders and educators.

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Consider the role of followers and how they are influenced by managers?
Followers play an imperative role in leadership. For the manager as well as a leader to be
imperative, there has an individual that is not busy creating the new path. It is also found that the
followers could reflect the team leader's uses caused by manifesting the culture
(Nanjundeswaraswamy and Swamy, 2014). From my experience, I found that sometimes a
leader has authority but due to lack of suitable skills they are unable to use their authority
effectively which could negative impact on the followers. I realized that my leader used an
autocratic leadership style but he imposed everything on the followers that make a negative
image of the leader among followers. In addition, it is illustrated that the autocratic leader has the
capability to complete their task to its followers by entailing the power. I also found that this
kind of action failed to manage follower behaviors.
I also observed if a leader is directly communicating with teammates then they would directly
share their opinion with the team leader an make an effective conclusion towards the specific
matter. It is also examined that if the leaders use the democratic leadership style then they would
be able to give equal value to the opinion and views of the participants along with forcing them
to participate in the team freely. This leadership style support to influence the number of people
(Cameron, et al. 2014). From the application of this style the team leader also be able to make an
effective conclusion towards the matter.
It is also examined that the collaboration between leaders as well as followers could empower
both achieve any goal in the least time. The collaboration could make a link between followers
as well as the team leader in meeting the organizational task (Grint, et al. 2016). This act could
enhance the possibility of success. It is examined that collaboration is a procedure wherein two
or more people mutually work on one task with each other in achieving any particular group. It

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would assist to make a positive image that supported to get higher competitive advantages.
I also found that if a team leader, as well as followers, has no collaboration then it demonstrated
that there is a lack leadership power. This team leader could use their power by showing the
collaboration that could be possible by entailing their power. It would support to find one
direction by which a leader could get a higher success.
It is examined that there is a favorable relationship with others. The organization has used
Workplace Leader-follower Theory caused by dealing with the diverse situation (Daft, 2014.
Organizations utilizing the leader-follower management style in the working environment
include a focal character or corporate official. This official models the authority attributes the
association chooses as commendable and shows propensities and activities that laborers serving
in lower the executives positions should endeavor to imitate. The leader-follower management
style hypothesis consolidates the significant topics of a few different speculations (Antonakis and
Day, 2017). Business researchers and analysts concentrating on the investigation of
administration improvement see four significant hypotheses, including the versatile change
hypothesis, the pioneer part trade organization of initiative and the speculations of social
personality and versatile change. The conceivable advancement of a solitary proper initiative
hypothesis permits business pioneers and instructors to investigate the way firms arrange
compelling authority, and give guidance to center administration and other managerial laborers
(Northouse, 2018).

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References
Antonakis, J. and Day, D.V. eds., 2017. The nature of leadership. Sage publications.
Cameron, K.S., Quinn, R.E., DeGraff, J. and Thakor, A.V., 2014. Competing values leadership.
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Daft, R.L., 2014. The leadership experience. Cengage Learning.
Grint, K., Jones, O.S., Holt, C. and Storey, J., 2016. What is leadership. The Routledge
Companion to Leadership, p.3.
Nanjundeswaraswamy, T.S. and Swamy, D.R., 2014. Leadership styles. Advances in
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Northouse, P.G., 2018. Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage publications.