Mgt 521 - Leadership and Your Career

Leadership and your career

MGT 521

Leadership and Your Career

        Leadership is the capability to motivate employees to willingly engage in organizational goals.  Manager and leader terms are one and the same where leaders perform with certainty and managers act conscientiously. Leaders have vision and is about coping with change (Kinicki & Williams, 2015). Leadership is a multifaceted phenomenon including the followers, the leader, and the circumstances. A few leadership researchers have concentrated on the behaviors, personality, physical traits, of the leader; while others have researched the connections amongst followers and leaders. While others have researched how characteristics of the situation have an emotional impact on how leaders perform. A few have lengthened the last view so far as to imply that there is no such thing as leadership; arguments erupt that organizational triumphs and failures frequently develop deceitfully attributing it to the leader, but then the circumstances may have a far greater influence on how the organization performs than does any person, together with the leader.

    The assertiveness of an individual influences his leadership conduct in organization. Some of the most important attitudes for the organization’s accomplishments are those of its leaders, since a leader’s mannerisms, behaviors and attitudes perform a significant part in determining what an employee’s attitude will be, such as their work contentment and organizational dedication. Still there are as numerous differences amongst leaders as there are amongst other people, and many diverse types of leadership can be successful. Diverse leaders perform in different techniques depending on their individual dissimilarities as well as their followers’ necessities and the situation of the organization.

        Leaders are made as well as born using the example of General Electric (GE) and how they made training available to its managers to instill skills needed for leadership.  GE recognized that leadership skills for its managers are vital for supporting the business. Steve Jobs, an inspirational and innovational leader, and the late CEO of Apple, Inc. instructed Tim Cooks to develop into the effective leader needed for the sustainability of the Apple, Inc. Some of the different styles to comprehend leadership are: trait approach, behavioral approach, situational approach, transformational leadership approach and leader-member exchange model etc.  All approaches have a distinctive importance in the area of organizational leadership. The contingency leadership philosophy is discussed with its usage in the business organization.

Transformational Leadership Approach

        Transformational leadership transforms employees to pursue organizational goals over self-interests using inspirational motivation, idealized, influence, individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation (Kinicki & Williams, 2015).

Transformational Leaders are influenced by two factors:
1. Individual characteristics. These leaders have personalities that have a tendency to be more extroverted, agreeable, proactive, and open to change than non-transformational leaders.