Course Name Assignment: Positive Leadership Article Review

This assignment analyzes the concept of positive leadership, with a specific focus on servant leadership as a means of fostering employee engagement. The paper begins by differentiating between various leadership styles, including transformational, authentic, and ethical leadership, highlighting their respective strengths and weaknesses in the modern workplace. It then delves into the principles of servant leadership, emphasizing its emphasis on leader-follower interaction and the prioritization of serving employees to increase engagement. The report references a journal article to support the argument, examining the role of servant leadership in creating a positive work environment. The assignment fulfills the criteria of critically reviewing a chosen journal article and summarizing its key arguments and supporting evidence within a single paragraph, demonstrating an understanding of leadership theories and their practical applications.

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Title: The Positive Leader
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For being a positive leader, there is a need to understand different types of leadership
style. The transformational leaders approach persuades the followers by using their vision
and feeling. But the transformational leadership mostly overlaps with the authentic
leadership. The authentic leadership is built around morals and has a main goal of building
honest followers. The ethical leadership involves interpersonal and personal actions that are
conducted with appropriate behavior, to build positive relationships amongst people. In the
current working environment these different leadership are not that effective. According to
Kenton, servant leadership can be explained as the leadership philosophy the main aim is to
achieve authority over the employee with regular interaction. In this type of relationship,
there is no space for power. This is different from any traditional leadership, as the main goal
of the leader is to serve, with this approach of serving employee engagement can be increased
in the organization (De Clercq et al., 2014).

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References
De Clercq, D., Bouckenooghe, D., Raja, U. and Matsyborska, G. (2014). Servant Leadership
and Work Engagement: The Contingency Effects of Leader-Follower Social
Capital. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 25(2), pp.183-212.