TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP Leadership, which is a social phenomenon, is influenced by change, like all other social phenomena. It is known today that conventional leadership approach is not sufficient for managing change effectively. Therefore, it has become inevitable that an understanding of leadership that is based on change should be formed, and thus studies on leadership has put forward “transformational leadership”. Due to its innovative and people oriented nature, transformational leadership is regarded
In today’s world leadership skills have big role in successfully leading the professional and personal life. The most important skill among leadership skills is one’s ability to lead himself/herself. If we study about the most success full and glorified leaders in the world, then we will find a common quality among them. The quality of self-leadership. They were able to successfully lead and manage themselves prior to lead a team. Because of the advancements in studies and availability of scholarly
levels of job-related stress experienced by organizational members (Brockner et al., 1992; Champy, 1995). Job-related stress is de®ned as an uncomfortable and undesirable feeling experienced by an individual `who is required to deviate from normal or self-desired functioning in the work place as the result of opportunities, constraints, or demands relating to potentially important work- related outcomes' (Parker and DeCotiis, 1983, p. 165). Job-related stress has been linked to failing individu al healt
contents Description Page No. 1. Introduction 3 2. Analysis 4 2.1. Cultural Dimensions at the workplace 2.2. The correlation between the diverse factors and the employees’ differences in the diverse workplace 2.2.1. Individualism-Collectivism 2.2.2. Power Distance 2.2.3. Handling the culture differences and differences mitigation 2.3. The role of leadership for the purpose of managing such differences 2.4. Employees’ motivation with diverse employees 2.5. Motivation Concept 2.6. Herzbergs and Maslow’s
(2015), entrepreneurial leadership is discussed as an extraordinary style of leadership that can be exist in an enterprise or organization with any size, type, or age. Moreover, people should recognize that entrepreneurs can combine with leadership functions such as providing vision, innovation or creativity to the development of a new strategy product or service (Fernald et al., 2005). In his important investigation of the relationship between entrepreneurship and leadership, Fernald et al. (2005)
Rural areas often need to be self-sufficient due to distance and lack of resources. It was mentioned by the interviewee that self-sufficiency is a characteristic in itself that sows the seeds of leadership from a very young age in leaders that are born and brought up in rural areas. Proactive was considered as a trait by two of the candidates. The characteristics of being proactive had started to show up from school age. This is then carried on into adult life and which, when opportunity arises
2.5.1. Selected financial data 11 2.5.1.1. Results of operations 12 3. Literature review 14 3.1. Leadership theories 17 3.1.1. The Great man theory 17 3.1.2. Trait theory 17 3.1.3. Behavioral theories 18 3.1.4. Contingency theories 18 3.1.5. Situational theories 18 3.2. Leadership styles 20 3.2.1. Transformational leadership 20 3.2.1.1. Dimensions and attributes of transformational leadership 22 3.2.2. Transactional
LEADERSHIP APPROACHES AND TYPES 1 Introduction: Leadership is the one of the world's oldest absorption. The understanding of leadership has appeared strongly in everyone past life. Determined stories have been told through generation about leader's capability, intention and imperfection, leader's rights and advantage and the leader's duties and responsibility (Bass, 1990). 1.1 Concepts of Leadership: Leadership is a process by which a person impacts others to fulfill an objective and directs the
our self. To find out who we are it means knowing our eccentricities and idiosyncrasies, what we like and what not, our tolerances and inhibitions. As well as our strengths, weaknesses, passions, fears, desires, and dreams. Our personality, values, attitudes, and emotions reflect our philosophy in life and leadership style. To be an effective leader, you must know yourself first. Self-assessment helps us identify things we need to improve. In this paper, I will discuss who I am, the leadership style
In leadership literature leaders are generally defined as “. . . individuals who significantly influence the thoughts, behaviors, and/or feelings of others” (Gardner and Laskin, 1995, p. 6). The primary focus, then, is on an individual who will direct or influence a group of followers. But in a global multicultural economy where interaction is between managers from various cultures and perspectives, this leader–follower model may be outdated. Global leadership might better be thought of as “a process