Personality Traits A leadership style may become an extension of a leader's personality. If an individual is outgoing and assertive, he may prefer to communicate directly with subordinates through face-to-face interaction or confrontation, either on a group or individual basis. If he is more reserved, he might choose to lead by example or rely on written communication. Rather than addressing a group as a whole, the reserved leader is probably more comfortable meeting with subordinates on a one-on-one basis to provide individual direction.…
To be able to understand what factors influence the choice of leadership style or behaviour, firstly I needed to understand that there are various styles of management and leadership and that there are differences between management and leadership.…
Understanding Leadership Styles There are a number of factors that will influence the style of leadership a leader may choose, such as:…
The leadership styles of the United States Presidents can make them effective or it can limit their effectiveness. The effectiveness of the President has direct effect on the American people. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy were two leaders that had major influences in the mid-20th century. Both men played a key role in the United States involvement in Vietnam. The experiences, styles of leading, and characteristics of both President’s Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy intensified the level of involvement the United States had in the Vietnam experience. Even though the leadership styles may have differed, the two leaders refused to let communism spread (Moss, 2010).…
Diversity Diversity in management is a major task. There are many aspects related to diversity, such as: culture, religion, and gender, just to name a few. It is important to remember that different people have different values and morals. Treating each person as an individual may be a difficult task for some managers. For managers who hire, hiring people with different backgrounds can enhance the team’s performance by introducing different perspectives and ideas. The planning process includes identifying how to integrate these ‘different’ people into the team. Ensuring the necessary resources are available to train and develop personnel based on their experience and education is a big part of organizing. Leading a team of diverse individuals can be quite interesting. Each person must be empowered and motivated to come to work and perform at his or her best. Controlling and monitoring each individual’s performance and how each person relates to others is mandatory for the team to be cohesive.…
Describe the factors that will influence your choice of leadership styles or behaviors in workplace situations.…
Factors that can influence an individual’s choice of leadership in any given situation are many and varied. An individual is likely to have a primary leadership style which they are most comfortable with using. Often the primary leadership style is that which most suits their innate personality traits. For example, someone who is outgoing and assertive may prefer a more face-to-face communicative leadership style.…
According to models built of Bass et al (1998) on leadership, Thus, leaders feel that the best way to conduct their job is to practice different style whichever suits the best to the situation. thus a leader may use transactional leadership style, autocratic leadership style, laissez faire leadership style, participative leadership style, transformational leadership style etc. while practicing the style of autocratic leadership style, the leader would make all the decisions by himself, build strict guidelines which is to be followed by all the employees, having centralized power and authority etc. the leader using bureaucratic leadership style would have strict guidelines for everything while and would want all the activities to go as per the guidelines and may be lacking in flexibility and creativity in operations. A leader practicing charismatic style of leadership or transformational leadership style would be constantly offering inspiration and enthusiasm to its employees and gain high level of commitment from the employees towards the jobs and roles of the organization. A leader using participative style of leadership would be continuously engaging employees to discuss and participate in decision making in taking actions for long term and short term while using their suggestions to form the policies and in building the strategies of the future. A leader who…
Leadership Styles in Professional Nursing Introduction Different leadership styles, carried out by nurse leaders, have been implemented into the professional nursing practice with the intention of ensuring positive outcomes in the health care system. The most common leadership styles found in the study were affiliate and coaching, meaning most managers strive to create harmonious and friendly atmospheres to prevent rifts among staff and try to encourage their staff’s long term development (Kenmore, 2008). Other leadership styles include directive, visionary, pace setting, and participative. More experienced nurse managers have come to incorporate a majority of leadership styles into their practice. These two leadership styles are used in professional nursing practices everywhere regardless of its history of proving to create failure along with success.…
Having a diverse workforce in an organization open new ways for problem solving and can supply multiple solutions to problems in service and sourcing and allocating resources (Greenberg 2005). A diverse workforce has people from different background having different ideas, beliefs and thinking. In order to run a business successfully people are needed with those differences including skills and experiences since people are the most important assets of an Organization. Workers with diverse backgrounds also bring unique experiences and perceptions to the groups and work teams which strengthen team productivity and responsiveness to changing condition. According to Ingram, each employee in a diverse workplace also poses a unique strength and weakness derived from their culture in addition to their individuality. Therefore, when managed properly diversity in the workplace can leverage the strengths and balance the weakness of each worker improving the performance of each employee and…
In companies or corporations the global landscape now reflects diversity in the employees found in the workplace. Employees come from different backgrounds, geographic or global areas, ethnic and cultural origins, and have unique skills and talents. Individuals must work together and merge skills and manage diversity effectively in the workplace. Our thoughts, actions, and very beliefs are shaped by our culture. These things are ingrained and remain unshakeable until, faced with someone who is of another faith or belief system with a different way of doing things than individuals are familiar with. Cultural diversity is to be embraced, studied, and applied, if an organization is to succeed with stated goals. In the workplace, diversity must be established or the organization can find forward progress at achieving stated goals barred.…
Understanding Leadership Styles 1.1 Describe the factors that will influence the choice of 1.2 Explain why these leadership styles or behaviours are likely to have a positive or negative effect on individual and group behaviour.…
Leadership styles: is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing and motivating people. The website seek has conducted a survey for many employees around Australia to found out about the average leadership styles of most managers for most jobs. Most Managers are not what most employees want. The survey shows that most managers are “all talk no action” meaning that managers don’t keep their word for example if employees have suggestion on managers may listen but may take a while to actually do something about it.…
8600-308 Understanding Leadership Styles AC1.1 The factors that would influence my choice of leadership styles would consist of defining the objective, identifying the task this is important as the team require to be informed clearly of the task in hand. I need to be knowledgeable and experienced in my role as Banking Services Team Leader to enable me to organise and plan the task and to take responsibility for my team and the outcome.…
Understanding Leadership Styles Section 1 AC1.1 Describe the factors that will influence the choice of leadership styles or behaviour in workplace situations.…