Leadership

Introduction1

What is leadership?2

Leadership theories3

Trait theory3

Behavior theory3

Situational theory4

Values-based transformational theory4

Leadership styles5

Transactional leadership5

Transformational leadership6

Autocratic Leadership6

Bureaucratic Leadership7

Charismatic Leadership7

Democratic leadership7

Laissez-Faire Leadership8

Task-oriented Leadership8

People-oriented Leadership8

Servant Leadership9

Leadership and five-factor personality model9

Leadership and Power10

Leadership and Coercion11

Leadership and Management11

Conclusion12

References13

Leadership

Introduction

Today all organizations, whether large or small are occupied in a cutthroat business environment. Organizations are competing aggressively with each other. Therefore, every organization requires the accurate kind of leadership to endure (Francis, 2009). Organizations with competent leaders have a tendency to innovate, react to transformations in markets and surroundings, ingeniously attend to challenges, and maintain outstanding performance. Leadership can be seen in terms of personal qualities, leader conduct, communication ways, role associations, disciple opinions, control over disciples, authority on job targets, and impact on organizational customs and culture (Francis, 2009).

Leaders lay down a way for the rest of the people. They facilitate people discern what is ahead of them; they assist people envision what they might accomplish; they persuade and motivate people. With no leadership, any group or team quickly disintegrates into disagreements and quarrels, because people perceive things in diverse manners and incline toward contradictory results (Mills, 2005). Leadership facilitates to point everyone on the similar track and tie the team's endeavors together. The lack of leadership is in the same way striking in its outcomes. Devoid of leadership, an organization progresses at a snail's pace languishes and eventually lose their way (Mills, 2005).

Leadership has more and more turn out to be the center of consideration of management literature and managerial learning in present time, shoving management into its shade. Everyone, it appears, wishes to be a leader instead of a manager (Western, 2008).

What is leadership?

Leadership can be described as the process of persuading others to be aware of and concur about what requires to be accomplished and how to achieve it, and the process of assisting individual and combined endeavors to achieve shared goals (Rowe & Guerrero, 2011). Leadership can also be defined as a process in which an individual persuades a group of people to attain a shared objective (Rowe & Guerrero, 2011). These definitions imply some elements fundamental to the phenomenon of leadership. A number of these elements are as following

Leadership is a process.

Leadership entails persuading others

Leadership comes about in the framework of a group of people

Leadership entails accomplishment of objectives

The objectives are shared by leaders and their disciples and subordinates (Rowe & Guerrero, 2011).

Describing leadership as a process proposes that leadership is not a feature or attribute with which merely some people are bestowed with at birth. It suggests that leadership is a transactional happening that takes place among leaders and their subordinates (Rowe & Guerrero, 2011).

Leadership cannot subsist exclusively in a person alone since, as a minimum, one other person (an adherent or subordinate) is requisite for leadership to be acted out. It is this association linking the individual and the adherent that ascertains leadership (Western, 2008). Critical theorists now infer leadership in a further convoluted manner, which extends the notion of leadership ahead of the individual, increasing span of the ...