Reflection on People, Culture, and Leadership in MBA401

This assignment comprises a student's reflective journals for the MBA401 course, focusing on People, Culture, and Contemporary Leadership. The reflections cover key aspects such as recruitment and selection, strategic leadership styles, and the implementation of leadership skills for the future. The student analyzes their own leadership abilities, identifies areas for development, and discusses the application of leadership theories like situational, trait, and transactional leadership. The journals incorporate insights from lectures, psychometric tests, and online resources, including videos and articles. The student reflects on their strengths, weaknesses, and strategies for improvement, aiming to become a more effective leader. The assignment demonstrates the application of course concepts to personal leadership development and future career goals.

Running Head: PEOPLE CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY LEADERSHIP
People Culture and Contemporary Leadership
Name of the Student:
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Introduction
In order to control and manage certain activities pertaining within the team, it is an
important part to develop the potential of becoming an effective and qualitative leader in the
organization. The respective study generally gives more emphasis under the part of identifying
and evaluating the internal leadership abilities along with the system of self-awareness enhanced
by me in order to analyze and understand the key leadership skills in me. This can help in the
part of identifying the key requirement area which requires advanced development in the part of
leadership function associated with me. Under this respective part, I have attended the lecture
class during week 6 which helped me in understanding the strength and weakness related to my
side under the area of becoming an effective leader for the future.
The other most interesting part is related to the conduct of psychometric test which
helped to evaluate the key development strategies which has to adopted by me being a leader in
order to gain better and adaptive output in the future. Clear understandings from week 8 and
week 12 sessions are also added to the study with a clear mode of self-reflection is performed for
the same.
Reflection on Recruitment and Selection
Selecting and recruitment process is completely concerned with the function of
choosing, attracting and identifying the most suitable individuals in the part of meeting the
requirements of human resource associated with the respective organization. According to
the functional aspects that are associated with the operational prospective of an organization
within their internal environment, under this respective part several process that are related to
recruitment and selection function in the organization generally play a crucial role under all

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aspects. I believe that every organization basically give more emphasis in these particular part
for the purpose of gaining more talented employees in order to undertake their operational
activities in the current and future. Thus, being a student, according to me in order to remain
more sustainable and competitive in the upcoming times it is important to consider several major
factors related to selection and recruitment in order to demonstrate an effective and stable
performance from my part in the future.
I am currently pursuing my Master of Administration form University of Waterloo,
Canada where we become part of several lecture speech which are based on placement talks,
individual assessment activities and many other. After attending a guest lecture session related
to key expectation of employers in the current times from the side of candidates, I came to
understand attending an interview and getting selected with an organization is not regarded
as the most important part required to be developed by the individual to sustain in the future.
Apart from these there are many other key segments which the employers generally expect from
the candidates during the time of conducting an interview session for the selection purpose with
an organization.
As per the lecture speech conducted in our campus, it was fully related to the recruitment
and selection process which exist within the internal environment of the organization in the
current times. I realized that to get selected with a well-advanced organization, during the time of
attending an interview first of all it is important for me have clear knowledge and idea about
the respective company where I am planning to work with. On the other hand, interviewers in
the current times basically look for candidates with effective soft skills and talent. It is
important for me to work on building these respective qualities within my part to enhance myself
more effective and competitive for the upcoming times.

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Reflection on Strategic Leadership Style
As compared to several aspects that are related to the function of strategic leadership
style, it is completely related to the function of involving others within the organization in the
part of making decisions on a voluntary basis. believe that the best leadership style which will
best fit for me while performing in an organization is based on strategic leadership style. As
I have strong and adaptive mode of emotional stability it will be better platform for me to
encourage the team members through offering better rewards and incentive programs which will
be a strong part from my side in building and developing strong mode of competitive advantage
through achieving the goals and objectives while performing with a team on all aspects.
Some of the major organizational factors which will assist and guide me in the area of
becoming an effective leader is based on the function of developing and maintaining strong
mode positive skills, understand the actual need and responsibilities which is required to be
implemented while performing in a team along with developing strong mode of decision and
adaptive problem solving skills to resolve any mode of issues caused within the team and the
team members. I believe, I have that internal capability within myself to undertake the respective
process in an expected and successful manner.
The most interesting part regarding the identification of my potential of being selecting
the respective leadership style is completely associated with the psychometric test which was
conducted by my campus. I came to understand that I have a strong mode of strategic
leadership quality in me where certain factors that are associated with the emotional stability
and dominance power enhanced from my part is more effective to adapt strong and adaptive

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performance in the future while performing in an organization in the future. After identifying the
strength factor, there were also certain limitation identified, which required more advanced
improvement for the upcoming times both for my career growth and behavioral prospective. The
most important area which required more development form my part was associated with the
function of maintain strong mode of communication with the team members while performing
in a team along with building and developing certain factors related to my social boldness.
It was understandable that I required to develop the confidence factor in me where it was
mandatory to give more emphasis under the area of developing certain factors that are associated
with the system of my problem-solving skills. I hope if I implement and consider these
respective segments to operate successfully in the future there is no doubt regarding the part
that I can remain more effective and advance form the side of being a leader while performing
with an organization in the future.
Reflection on Implementation of Leadership skills for future and three major
actions required to be adopted
Some of the major mode of initiative required to adopted by me in the part of developing
the leadership skill quality in me is to first give more emphasis under the area of practicing
adaptive mode of discipline, where it is understandable that the first and foremost quality
required to be adopted by the leader is to maintain discipline function within the team in order to
achieve better outcome in their operation for the future (Holmberg, Larsson and Bäckström
2016). Effective leader required strong mode of problem solving skill in the part of
resolving any mode of issue caused within the team and among the team members where it is
important for me keep continuous learning through developing innovative mode of

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situational awareness for the purpose of working under any situation pertaining within the
organization while performing with a team in the future.
Some of the three actions required initiatives required to be developed by me in order to
develop my leadership skills in the future are mentioned as follows
 Adopt strong and innovative of listening skills, this can be a more beneficial factor
required to be developed by me in the future (Herman 2016). Being a leader,
Understanding and actively listening to certain suggestions and feedback measures can
play a demonstrative part in team building and development while performing with an
organization in the future.
 It is important for me to maintain better mode of situational awareness for the purpose
of understanding and operating as per the situations through the process of implementing
strong problem-solving skills.
 As I have a strong mode of emotional ability in me, it will be an easier to inspire others
through introducing adaptive motivational factors which can be strong part according
to me while working under any complex situation in the future.
Reflective Writing Part
Application of Leadership Theories in Organization (Situational Theory,
Trait Theory, Transactional theory)
According to me I have a clear knowledge about the part that, in the current times
leaders mostly engage their members associated with the respective team in numerous activities
in order to ensure that the team members may gather sone effective mode of practical experience
and along with this organizational goals and objectives will be easily achieved in a fun manner.

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Accordingly, I believe the same idea can be easily applied in the area of management and talent
hunting process were this respective idea demonstrated from my side was appreciated most of
the times form the side of my lecturer.
Some of the theories which can be discussed and elaborated under this respective part is
based on situational theory, trait theory, transactional and transformational leadership
function. According to me I believe situational theory is the best part which can be effectively
applied. It states that according to the situation demand, it is important for the leaders to remain
more firm in the part of getting the respective task completed from their team members in a
qualitative manner. In the class discussion I learned that several factors that are related to the
system of uncontrolled and unlimited informality can negatively affect the potential of the
employees, thus it is an important which is required to be considered while performing with a
team in an organization.
Apart form this respective part, I learned that being a leader of a respective organization
it is important for them to maintain and keep a strong balance in maintaining better relationship
with the team members along with keeping their status of being a leader in a well-defined
manner. The particular session also gave clear idea about the system of servant and leaders
members exchange leadership, where this respective part is likely used by the human resource
departments related to multinational organizations for the part of conducting recruitment
process. The most innovative part of the respective leadership function is that, they actively
listen to the opinions of the team members before incorporating any changes within the
organization. This is considered to be one of the most interesting part according to me in this
learning where this function along with increasing the motivation of the employees, also can be

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an adaptive tool for growth and success of the organization in the future as per the theories
associated with contemporary leadership.
Online Resources
Under this respective part, the online resources provided was a better platform where I
was able to understand and evaluate certain factors that are associated with the function of
leadership skill and traits. Several online resources provided to me such as textbook, links,
videos and podcast through which I was able to analyze various major functional aspects that
are related to leadership function from which I was able to understand the my qualities of being
an effective leader along with adopting certain strategies to adopt improvement measures on
required areas. Journal articles related to online basis has given me a clear insight under the area
of gaining knowledge regarding numerous functional aspects associated with leadership.
On the other hand, the resources used offered me with multidimensional perspective
based on various information provided in classroom and other online lectures. Several videos
which were related to people, culture and leadership by Mark Zuckerberg, Angela Markel
were the best part of learning platform. Apart from these books which were related to leadership
functioning such as “Be More Pirate: or how to take on the world and Win” by Sam Conniff
Allende had been a strong knowledge making part for me.
Psychometric Testing
psychometric test on a complete basis helped under the area of selecting the most suitable
and appropriate mode of leadership and decision-making style which will best fit for me to
operate in the future. I was able to understand several positive and negative factors which were

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related to my internal perspective which helped in the area of developing and building a strong
qualitative leader in me.
In class Activities such as discussions, cognitive exercises, individual and group activities
Leadership is generally identified as an aspect of professional and personal development
attributes which enhanced me in the part of improving certain innovative qualities through my
own class exposures Being a student in the part of course work, I generally better and effective
part of involvement under various activities such as sports, experience related to cross culture
and internship along with many other. I was also a part of numerous voluntary activities which
allowed to pass through various impacts associated with the system of leadership function.
Through this respective part, I was able to understand and evaluate the actual leadership style
and quality related to my part. My passion towards academic projects allowed be actively to
come in terms with several traits associated with leadership. As a student of academic filed I
believe my potential has completely evolves and boosted up after actively participating in many
discussion and cognitive related activities.
Assessment Feedback
Through several performance which is actually undertook under numerous leadership
dimensions are generally more likely in the part of inculcating feedback which advance further
practicability. As I was basically a part of several activities which were related to sports,
voluntary discussions, meetings, project configuration and many other, there are many varieties
of feed backs which I received under this respective part. Every field performance was

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effectively maintained such that adaptive outcomes will be possibly yielded and developed in
terns of several learnings related to leadership. Being a part of joint sports team has helped me
in gaining adaptive feedback through which I was able to understand the actual leadership skill
and quality pertaining within my internal prospective. This can be an innovative platform which
will guide me in the part of implementing an effective leadership quality in future both in my
personal life and in the external environment.
Conclusion
It can be concluded that this respective essay demonstrated form my side helped me
under the area of identifying and improving certain factors that are associated with my leadership
abilities and skills. Through the respective essay I was successful in the part of exceling the
positive and negative aspects that are related to leadership which will help me in the future to
apply the same while performing with an organization. It has been an adaptive platform me to
adopt certain improvement measures to become an effective and potential leader in the future.

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