BUS 508: Contemporary Business Dr. Michael Hines Assignment #1: Entrepreneurial Leadership Submitted by: Aythea L. Jackson Week #3 April 20‚ 2012 (1) Analyze and discuss the founding leader(s)‚ leadership style‚ and major business principles of a profit-oriented entrepreneurial approach in which the primary goal is to provide a product or service to consumers and to make a profit. Dropcam has a cloud-based Wi-Fi based video monitoring service that integrates with almost any device.
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REFLECTIVE REVIEW – M3.10 INTRODUCTION TO LEADERSHIP Leadership Styles The factors that could influence my leadership style are: • The type of situation • Individuals • Time • Importance • Pressure from Above • Organisational culture • Geographical area • My Attitude Managerial influence from above could also influence my managerial style. If the organisational culture is one of autocracy I may well adopt the same stance to fit in with the organisational
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MANAGEMENT and LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS Introduction Leadership can be defined as a process by which one individual influences others toward the attainment of a group or organizational goals. There are three points about the definition of leadership that should be emphasized. First‚ leadership is a social influence process. Leadership cannot exist without a leader and one or more followers. Second‚ leadership elicits voluntary action on the part of the followers. The voluntary nature of
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Most common Leadership Types are: - Autocratic leadership. - Bureaucratic leadership. - Charismatic leadership. - Democratic leadership or participative leadership. - Laissez-faire leadership. - People-oriented leadership or relations-oriented leadership. - Servant leadership. - Task-oriented leadership. - Transactional leadership. - Transformational leadership. Autocratic Leadership Autocratic leadership is an extreme form of transactional leadership‚ where a leader exerts high levels
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оf considerable importance. The present study examines the leadership styles and behaviours of Asian and Western Manager. U.S and European manager have attained thе status оf cultural heroes‚ and this kind оf status managers do not enjoy in most Asian countries. This research will help the author to find out the role of leadership in success of organization.Thе main purpose оf this research is tо find out different styles оf leadership in Asian organisations.This paper seek to discover wether the
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MODULE 6 Leadership 1) What is meant by Leadership?/ Define leadership. (2 marks) “Leadership is the ability of a manager to induce subordinates to work with confidence and zeal”. - Koontz and O’Donnell Leadership is interpersonal influence exercised in a situation & directed through communication process‚ towards the attainment of a specific goal or goals. According to Peter Drucker‚ leadership is not making friends and influencing people i.e
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(Rogers‚ 2012). Moreover‚ the several leadership styles that we have discussed in class can either complement or diminish the standards of practice. These styles include autocratic‚ democratic‚ laissez-faire‚ and participative. However‚ this paper will focus on the democratic style which I have identified as my own leadership style. Personal Leadership Style To begin‚ there are many personal characteristics that have led me to identify with the democratic leadership style. A democratic leader is one
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MATCHING LEADERSHIP TO A SITUATION Leadership Styles Choosing the Right Style for the Situation From Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill to Martin Luther King and Steve Jobs‚ there can seem to be as many ways to lead people as there are leaders. Fortunately‚ businesspeople and psychologists have developed useful‚ simple ways to describe the main styles of leadership. By understanding these styles and their impact‚ you can develop your own approach to leadership and become a more effective
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Promoting Servant Leadership in the Youth Defining Leading and Leadership Leading is defined as: 1. Influencing others to take action toward specific goal. 2. Guiding and directing on a course‚ and as serving as a channel. A leader is someone who has commanding influence. Leadership is defined as: 1. It is the process of influencing and directing activities of members toward goal accomplishment. 2. It is about ordinary people who care. People who care enough to get extra ordinary
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TRANSACTIONAL & TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP Burns Theory of Transformational & Transactional Leadership The idea of transformational leadership between leaders and followers was first developed by James McGregor Burns in 1978. He distinguishes between leaders who are‚ or attempt to be ethical and moral‚ and "power wielders‚" who are not. In an essay 20 years later‚ Burns returns to this idea‚ arguing that: - Transactional leaders‚ through their transactions‚ make use of "modal values
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