MGT301: Personal Approach to Leadership and Management Report

This report delves into a personal approach to leadership and management, providing a comprehensive analysis grounded in established frameworks and theories. The report examines various leadership models, including team leadership, authoritarian leadership, and situational leadership, as well as leadership styles such as autocratic, democratic, and transactional approaches. It assesses leadership behaviors, supported by real-world examples, and offers critical reflections on the usefulness of leadership qualities based on personal experiences. The report emphasizes key leadership aspects such as vision, organization, innovation, connection, and enjoyment, while also considering the impact of leaders' personal values and ethical codes. It explores decision-making abilities, creativity, empowerment, and accountability. The conclusion highlights the importance of effective communication, adaptability, and fostering a culture of trust and inspiration within a team or organization.

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Personal Approach to Leadership and Management
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Executive summary
The following report makes an analysis of personal approach towards management and leadership. It
is helpful to make emotional connections, setting goals of stretch, clearing the visions.
Communications, developing other people, remaining collaborative taking initiatives and innovative
approach. Great leadership behaviours must involve the reward achievements, encouraging
innovations, making decisions, inspiring people across the, bringing other people, creating trusts and
getting grounded with integrity and ethics. Then, there must be decision making abilities, creativity
and innovations, empowerment and delegations and accountabilities. Next, there should be analysing
of personal approach towards leadership through suitable frameworks. Ultimately the behaviours are
analysed and the analysis must be supported with concrete instances.

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Table of Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................................................3
Framework and theories for leadership.................................................................................................3
Assessment of the behaviours with supporting the evaluation with suitable examples....................6
Critical Reflections on the usefulness of the Leadership Qualities based on personal experiences..7
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................7
References..............................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Leadership can be stated as a method by which a given person can exert an influence over the
others. It is all about inspiring, motivating and directing the given activities so that it can be achieved
in group or even organizational goals (Meuser et al. 2016). Effective leadership is all about
increasing the overall organization ability so that they can meet new challenges. Leaders generally
come up with eight qualities like empowerment, problem solving, transparency, empathy,
innovation, influence, adaptability and lastly communication (Arena and Uhl-Bien 2016).
Leadership is different from management in sense that managers are very much concerned in doing
the given things in right way while leaders are very much concerned in doing the right things.
Leaders that are close to the work can help in making quick decision based on informed decision and
best practices.
In the coming pages of the report, an idea has been provided with respect to leadership by
making use of proper framework and theories. The given frameworks and concepts are mainly used
for analysing the behaviour along with analysis with proper examples.
Framework and theories for leadership
Leadership framework tends to vary from simple to very complex one. The mere focus is all
about development of getting the effective framework for balancing the given thing. There is a right
balance between organization and industries as a result of leader behaviour that can be either less or
much more important (Ford and Harding 2018). There is a need for effective leadership between
both organization and industries as certain elements of leader behaviour. Leadership model can be
stated as a guide which suggests the specific kind of leadership behaviour. It is mainly used in
specific environment or even in given situation. Along with these, it helps in having graphical
representation that requires leadership behaviour. There are mainly three models in it like managerial

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grid, four framework approach, situational leadership. The very first leadership concern is all about
taking task and predicting the leadership outcome (Rottmann, Sacks and Reeve 2015). The four
models are mainly used for guiding leadership in a specific situation. In the below section, four kinds
of leadership behaviour are discussed below like
Team leaders: The leaders generally lead by positive example along with fostering of team
environment so that the team members can easily reach the highest point. It is considered to be
important for both team members and group of people for collaborating and cooperation (Thompson
and Glasø 2015). They mainly focus on reaching that the team members reach the goals effectively.
Authoritarian leaders: Leaders that get this rating are considered to very much task oriented
and are very much hard on their workers. It does not have any kind of allowance for collaboration
(Mendes et al. 2016). This leader tends to display this kind of leadership which have strong
schedule.
Country club leaders: These leaders aim to provide rewards so that they can maintain the
overall leadership and encourage their team members. It is mainly done so that they can easily
accomplish their goals.
Improvised leaders: These leaders make use of delegate and disappearing of management
style (Ruben and Gigliotti 2017). They are not committed to either of the accomplishment of task,
which allows their team to deliver the things as per their wish.
There are mainly five kinds of leadership style like
Autocratic: An autocratic leader comes up with the issue of absolute power and makes use of
dictatorial style of leadership. It is all about directing the given team or group for completing the
given task.

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Democratic: This particular leadership style just because leaders are completely involved in
the group of activities (Roussel, Thomas and Ratcliffe 2015). This type of leaders mainly take away
roles involved in decision-making responsibility.
Laissez-faire: Leaders aims to provide substantial freedom and complete independence to the
required team members (Meuser et al. 2016). They are generally not present as the members leave
and are not able to complete their work and decision making.
Transactional: Transactional leadership aim to follow complete system of rewards and
proper exchange of relationship between both leaders and members.
Transformational: Transformational leaders make use of visionary approach, which is
needed for motivating both team members and employees.
Effective leader is mainly checked by the human needs so that the given framework need to
converge with similarities. There are mainly five key aspects of leadership model like
Voice: There are mainly five important aspects like visionary, result, inspirational, results
and target they want to have. It is mainly advocated for both team, organization and lastly strong
communication.
Organize: There are mainly five important aspects that is task oriented, high oriented and
strong solver of problem. It is all about managing time and given projects.
Innovate: In this, there are five major aspects like stimulation of new ideas, focusing on
continuous improvement.
Connect: There are main five important section that is emphatic, developing other, correcting
performance sensitivity, responding to feedback, well cooperate.

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Enjoy: There are mainly five important aspects like managing stress, maintaining balance of
work-life and modelling, models based on good health and safety.
Fig 1: “5 key leadership behaviours”
Source: (Roussel, Thomas and Ratcliffe 2015, pp.25-46.)
Assessment of the behaviours with supporting the evaluation with suitable examples
The leaders are able to use the power for the benefit or it can also bring disadvantages at the
same time. The personal values of the leaders and the ethical codes are vital determinants. This is
regarding how leaders can perform different sources of available power. For instance, the concerns

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of leadership faced by the plane accident at Andes Mountain can be considered. The plane has been
moving towards Chile. It can also be seen as the taking of leadership under critical and dynamic
situations. Though it can be seen as the extreme and distant instance that has never been helpful in
daily leadership. Moreover, this has been clear that there have been problems to deal with people.
All of them have distinct personalities, along with motives and values. It is under the effort for
accomplishing the aim under the face of the adversity that has never been uncommon. It must also be
reminded that the sills in this type of situation have been essential across the situations.
Critical Reflections on the usefulness of the Leadership Qualities based on personal
experiences
The reflections that would be presented in this particular section is dependent on the
experiences that I have gathered from my personal experiences and all the behaviours that I have
myself. I would like to focus on all of the factors based on the theory of leadership and management
and the ways by which the leadership qualities have been proven to be having a positive or negative
effect at a particular situation.
With the experiences that I have gathered so far about the theory and the practical application
of the theories in real-life situation, I have understood the factor that the influence of the leadership
factors is dependent on whether the subordinates are willing to trust the leader. I know that a leader
is not appointed and is chosen by the employees within the organization based upon their mutual
respect and faith. I also have come through the fact that this has been extremely visible that the
visible display of the dedications towards the leaderships gathered has been essentially helpful in
making it easier to point out the leader and establish a team amidst the presence of different
employees within the organization. I have also come across the factor that a leader can develop their
vision and make the team understand the same by enabling them to understand the same with the

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utilization of various images and symbols while communicating with them. I believe that effective
communication while innovating the processes to communicate is the best way possible to express
the way to effectively transfer the thought of the individual leader to the people in the organization.
I have also faced several situations where the older issues might be able to be removed with
the help of the newest techniques in leadership. I have also found that in extremely complex
situations, there might be the occurrences of the cases where people found it hard to tolerate the
development of a particular project or the operations within the organization, which is best handled
by the implementation of a proper leadership. I believe that a leader is the only capable being
between the employees within the organization that has the possibility of making it easier for every
people within the organization perceive any situation in the same way even if the people have
different perspectives. I also believe that as a leader, it is also essential to be providing focus on the
individual employees and their concerns as well. I would also want to reflect how much positive
effect does the compassionate behaviour of a leader exerts on the employees. I believe that the
people would want to have a compassionate leader who would not only want to make sure that the
work is being done at the right time, but also focuses on the genuine problems that each of them
have been facing during the course of the work. The compassionate behaviour can elaborate the
requirements of the leader to be adapting to all the relevant changes and at the same time must be
ready to provide training to the employees if they face any problems while attempting to solve any
issue out of their expertise. This is also helpful to foster the environment of continued growth.
Moreover, leaders must practice effective learning. Lastly, effective skills of communications are the
key to create trust with teammates and get to buy into the vision. Ultimately, the leaders must be
cultivating a vision of inspiration. This is to inspire and motivate people to perform the best task and
pursue goals and projects, enabling them to grow.

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Conclusion
From the above pages, the point can be concluded that this report is all about leadership by
making use of framework and theories. The given frameworks and concepts are provided along with
analysis of behaviour and support. Leadership can be stated as a process by which other can be
influenced so that they can understand and agree to the needs. It is all about facilitating the
individual and required efforts so that they can accomplish the overall shared objectives. The key
part of leadership that is found that person that affect the behaviour of other people and getting the
things in proper ways. Effective leadership can easily make use of different kind of powers so that
particular outcome can be achieved. Some of the given power bases come up from the organization
while others are developed personally. Successful leaders come up with capability of driving overall
creativity and productivity along with improvement of bottom-line.

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