Application of Leadership Theories: Trait vs. Behavioral Approach

This essay provides a comprehensive analysis of trait and behavioral theories of leadership, exploring their characteristics, applications, and benefits within organizational contexts. The trait theory focuses on identifying specific traits that differentiate leaders from non-leaders, such as intelligence, extroversion, and self-efficacy, and its role in mobilizing individuals towards organizational vision. The behavioral theory, on the other hand, emphasizes the skills and styles exhibited by successful leaders, evaluating patterns and incorporating the impact of rewards and punishments on behavior. The essay further discusses the application of these theories in personal leadership contexts, highlighting how trait theory aids in differentiating leaders and focusing on key attributes, while behavioral theory helps in focusing on leader behavior and achieving quick results through practical application. The benefits of both theories are outlined, with trait theory providing a benchmark for identifying leaders and behavioral theory supporting the idea that leadership can be learned through development and experience. The essay concludes with a list of references used to support the analysis.

LEADING BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION
Part B

THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP
Trait theory of leadership
 Trait theory characteristics of effective leaders who
trait to the employees for improving their performance.
 Trait theory shows significant positive relationship
between leadership and management.
 Personality traits include intelligence, extroversion,
self-efficiency etc.
 This theory also identifies the link of individual
between different situation and task.

CONTINUED…
Behavioural theory of leadership
 Behavioural theory consist of skills and styles which are
differ from trait.
 In this type of leadership, it evaluates what successful leaders
did and identifies the pattern that indicates different
leadership styles.
 Behavioural theory incorporates perception, which takes
effect of reward and punishment on changing behaviour
 However, it can be critically evaluated that people learn the
practices and behaviours does not mean they will able to
enact the theory properly.

APPLICATION OF LEADERSHIP
THEORIES TO OWN LEADERSHIP
CONTEXT
Trait theory
 Trait theory helps me for supporting ability to mobilize it
towards the vision of the organization.
 This approach helps me to differentiate leaders from non-leaders.
 Trait theory focuses on personality, demographic characteristics,
task competence and interpersonal attributes.
 This theory gives constructive information about leadership to
me.
 I also evaluate the information by using this theory.
 It helps to me for enhancing the performance of the organization.

CONTINUED…
Behavioural theory
 Behavioural theory help to me for focusing on behavior of leaders.
 This theory is easy to put into practices so that it is easily understand by
me, so that I get result quickly.
 This theory show the leaders behave to their performance.
 I have choose this leadership style for right thing applying in each
situation.
 It emphasize to me for determining short-term goals, Standards rules and
procedures.
 This is helps to me in my organization because there problems are simple
and clearly defined.

BENEFITS OF TRAIT THEORY TO SELF
 Trait theory lie in manager ability to
observable behaviours and their objective
criteria.
 This theory builds premises to the leaders.
 Trait theory provides benchmark for
identifying leaders.

BENEFITS OF BEHAVIOURAL THEORY TO
SELF
 Behavioural theory support the idea that
leadership can be learned through
development and experience.
 It helps to identify the behaviour of the
managers towards the performance of
employees.

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