Leadership_21century
Discuss the advantage and disadvantage of some common leadership styles and evaluate how modern managers can best implement them to deal with the challenges they face in the 21st century.
The Next Generation Leader
In 21st century, many companies have faced many changes, for example, intergeneration and economy crisis which some might be taken out from the business. These situations are sensed by managers which they have to adapt themselves to overcome many business obstacles. One of the important parts in the company which might be a failure or success of the company is the leader. Therefore, the style of leadership is the essential thing that each leader should have. Authoritative, affiliative, democratic, and coaching styles are the best practical leadership styles that help many leaders to deal with the intergeneration employees in this century and each of them have some positive and negative sides.
Firstly authoritative or autocratic leadership style is the one of effective leadership styles which leader drives people by making clearly their goals to lead their people have the clear visionaries about the organization objectives and also show them how their work fits in the big picture of the company (Goleman,2000:p. 6). Authoritarian leaders give freedom to their people to figure out how they do their goals which are caused by their commitments with the leader (Leadership Masters,2008). Two remarkable advantages from this style are that is turns the situation that their people feel adrift to positive climate in organization, and it also gives people freedom to try new working ways; whereas, it will less effective when the leader has less experience than their people (Goleman,2000:p.6). One of the most successful authoritarian leaders is Alex Ferguson the most successful football coach of Manchester United who had led his team to victory in many matches for several years (Leadership Masters,2008).
If you ask leaders what the most important things in their
The Next Generation Leader
In 21st century, many companies have faced many changes, for example, intergeneration and economy crisis which some might be taken out from the business. These situations are sensed by managers which they have to adapt themselves to overcome many business obstacles. One of the important parts in the company which might be a failure or success of the company is the leader. Therefore, the style of leadership is the essential thing that each leader should have. Authoritative, affiliative, democratic, and coaching styles are the best practical leadership styles that help many leaders to deal with the intergeneration employees in this century and each of them have some positive and negative sides.
Firstly authoritative or autocratic leadership style is the one of effective leadership styles which leader drives people by making clearly their goals to lead their people have the clear visionaries about the organization objectives and also show them how their work fits in the big picture of the company (Goleman,2000:p. 6). Authoritarian leaders give freedom to their people to figure out how they do their goals which are caused by their commitments with the leader (Leadership Masters,2008). Two remarkable advantages from this style are that is turns the situation that their people feel adrift to positive climate in organization, and it also gives people freedom to try new working ways; whereas, it will less effective when the leader has less experience than their people (Goleman,2000:p.6). One of the most successful authoritarian leaders is Alex Ferguson the most successful football coach of Manchester United who had led his team to victory in many matches for several years (Leadership Masters,2008).
If you ask leaders what the most important things in their
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