¶ … Authentic Leadership Questionnaire measures leadership capacity across four different areas. These are self-awareness, internalized moral perspective, balanced processing, and relational transparency. The first of these is about a person's capacity to know their own strengths and weaknesses but also includes things like "emotional intelligence" in which you know how to understand others and how they react to your leadership style. Internalized moral-perspective is about ethical decision-making and ethical behavior, which seems slightly irrelevant in the context of business leadership. Balanced processing is a more difficult concept because it is about evaluating information during decision-making, and about wise decision-making skills. Finally relational transparency is about being clear about one's own goals and motivations, which again sounds like it may be irrelevant to the concept of business leadership. Relational transparency may be useful for a public high school principal trying to deal with her unionized underlings, but it is hardly a characteristic to which a successful professional poker player would aspire, and needless to say working on Wall Street is a lot more like playing poker professionally than it is like being a high school principal. My results on this inventory were 15 for self-awareness, 12 for internalized moral perspective, 14 balanced processing, and 13 for relational transparency. This is probably pretty accurate as a reflection of my own approach as well as a reflection of my attitude toward the utility of this assessment. The chief reason why I would consider the theory of Authentic Leadership to offer limited utility is its focus on rather traditional and hidebound concepts of integrity, honesty, and so forth. The idea here is that Authentic Leadership establishes a leader's legitimacy through honest dealings with subordinates and "leading by example" in areas like ethics. Are we supposed to believe then that Vladimir Putin is somehow a substandard leader? Putin has managed to hold onto the top leadership position in an extremely competitive capitalist environment for over a decade, and honesty and integrity and "leading by example" presumably have nothing to do with his success. Donald Trump is currently the front-runner in the race for a presidential nomination, and he is most famous for going on television to insult his subordinates and tell them unceremoniously...
Both Trump and Putin demonstrate that leadership can succeed just as easily with a strict regimen of grandiose self-promotion and ruthless mendacity. Any leadership theory that cannot account for the success of these men is hardly useful in discussing leadership.
However this philosophy has been proved to be wrong. Besides a few traits like intuition and sensing, all the leadership traits involve our conscious decisions and behaviors. A person can adopt any leadership and decision making style to be effective and productive based on the work environment and the people he is working with. Here are some recommendations for the self-improvement with respect to leadership and decision making: The leader
Leadership Styles Among Male and Female Principal It is the intention of this research to study the leadership and cognitive styles of teachers and instructors of both genders within the educational system and their preference for types of leadership in a principal of that institution. The research will include teachers and educators from all levels of the educational system from grade school to high school. The study will also include teachers and
Leadership Styles As the behavior of the leader, so is the behavior of the follower." This colloquial proverb can be seen in families. Angry parents tend to raise angry children. Similarly patient, and understanding parents who also know how to set boundaries tend to raise balanced, patient children. This observation can also be applied to the business environment. This study is concerned with behavior of workers within an organization, or company,
Leadership and Change Management Consider a change that has been recently introduced in your organization. Using relevant change and leadership theories, critically analyze the benefits and problems that introduction of this change has brought. TO WHAT EXTENT HAS LEADERSHIP CONTRIBUTED TO THE RESULTS OF THIS PROCESS? RasgGas is a joint venture gas company between Qatar Petroleum, the State of Qatar's national oil and gas company (majority stakeholder), and ExxonMobil, an American Integrated
Leadership: The concept of leadership is an issue that has elicited considerable debate in the recent past to an extent that there is an extensive body of research and literature that addresses the issue. Some of the most common issues in the wide range of literature on this issue include scientific investigation, fiction, and biographies (Truckenbrodt, 2000, p.233). This concept has generated such concerns because leadership influences politics, academics, organizations,
Role of Leadership in the Healthcare Setting: Qualitative Study of Nurse "On-the-Job" Satisfaction As Correlated With Supervisor Leadership Style Leadership style is perceived to be an important factor in hiring, retention, and job satisfaction for nursing staff in healthcare facilities. Modern healthcare organizations may have issues with retention of nursing staff that may be ameliorated via appropriate leadership styles that enhance staff satisfaction. This study aimed to explore the impact of nursing supervisor leadership
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