Leadership
Herb Kelleher is making waves in the air. As one of the world's foremost examples of democratic leadership, the co-founder and executive chair of Southwest Airlines is an exemplar for effective leadership behavior. His and his company's business model is firmly committed to imparting a democratic-participative corporate culture that approximates Lewin's definition of democratic leadership more than any other major executive today. Kelleher's leadership style and the leadership traits practiced by all of Southwest's staff regardless of rank, means a high level of employee job satisfaction, an extraordinarily low turnover rate, and a high level of customer satisfaction. The Southwest model might have caused chuckles in the boardrooms of yore, but the airline's model is catching the attention of researchers not only because of the uniquely upbeat and friendly corporate culture but also become of the bottom line. According to Allan Cohen, James atkinson, and Jenny Boone, "no airline has…...

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Works Cited

Boje, David. "The Isles Leadership." The Leadership Box. 7 Dec. 2000. Online at < http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/teaching/338/behaviors.htm>.

Cohen, Allan, Watkinson, James, and Boone, Jenny. "Southwest Airlines CEO grounded in real world." Babson Insight. 28 Mar 2005. Online at <   >.http://searchcio.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid19_gci1071837,00.html 

Simonton, Bennet. "Listening, a Tool for Leadership and Commitment." From Leading People to be Highly Motivated and Committed. <  http://www.bensimonton.com/Listening-leadership-skills.htm >.

Leadership ehavior for Effective Decision Making
Effective decision making in the competitive business environment is closely linked with leadership skills. Managing change in existing organizations can often be extremely difficult, as it requires changing the organizational culture, the very roots that bind its members. This paper analyses the characteristics of a successful leader, illustrated with a practical example. Contrary to popular understanding, there is no unique style of leadership for all situations and the leader needs to be flexible and change his approach depending on case to case basis. The analysis takes into account the various theories on leadership - behavioral, contingency and transformational and evaluates the response of the leader to various situations in a typical organization operating in a fiercely competitive environment.

From the analysis, it is observed that the leader exhibited varying leadership styles and behavior to address and resolve various issues. The leader is found to be democratic,…...

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Bibliography

Bennis, W. (1994) 'Visionary Leadership', in W.Bennis, J.Parikh and R.Lessem (eds) - 'Beyond Leadership: Balancing Economics, Ethics and Ecology', Blackwell: Oxford, pp.32-34

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Legitimate power is the authority that the position contains. Reward power reflects the ability to motivate through rewards -- the position grants control over resources that can be allocated towards rewards. Coercive power reflects the position's authority to punish. Within the category of personal power is informational power, expert power and referent power. Informational power is that which comes from a leader's rational persuasive power and inspirational appeal. Expert power comes from one's knowledge and ability to apply that knowledge to rational persuasion. Referent power reflects the personal appeal of the leader. The seventh type of power is connection power, which reflects the ability of the leader to form coalitions that help to support his or her objectives.
4. People as leaders should not be judged on their social skills alone. There is a degree to which poor social skills can impact one's leadership potential -- for example in inhibiting…...

Leaders are an important aspect to management and business. Leaders are what provide the basis from which subordinates follow. When a leader behaves in a way that provides a bad example to a subordinate or creates a chaotic environment, subordinates will follow suit and behave accordingly. Leadership behavior also lends to creation of a good or bad reputation for the leader.
When a leader treats his or her subordinates badly, that leader builds a bad reputation creating distrust and disharmony among subordinates. Culture also plays an important role in leadership as culture dictates personality. Personality is an important aspect of leadership style cultivation, lending to how a leader will treat his or her subordinates as well as interact with them. Leaders and subordinates are connected through behavior, culture, and personality. These articles highlight that relationship and outcome.

The first article discusses leadership behavior, acceptance of a leader by subordinates, and path-goal theory.…...

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References

Boulton, F. (2011). Contemporary conflict resolution. Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 27(4), 247-249.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13623699.2011.645292 

Chin, J. (2013). Diversity Leadership: Influence of Ethnicity, Gender, and Minority Status. OJL, 02(01), 1-10.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2013.21001 

Ford, J. (2010). Studying Leadership Critically: A Psychosocial Lens on Leadership Identities. Leadership, 6(1), 47-65.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1742715009354235 

Koltko-Rivera, M. (2004). "The Psychology of Worldviews." Review of General Psychology, 8(1), 3-58. Retrieved from  http://integralleadershipreview.com/5395-feature-article-leadership-and-worldview-what-in-the-world-is-a-worldview/

Leadership Behaviors
Follower Outcomes of Leadership Behaviors

Comment by Sabina:

Follower Outcomes of Leadership Behaviors

The founder and current executive chairman of University of Phoenix is John Sperling. He is a very respectable, influential, and powerful leader. John Sperling founded the University of Phoenix by offering classes in his garage. Today University of Phoenix is one of the largest private universities in the country. A great leader is one that is capable of leading the company effectively and increasing follower outcomes. In this paper I will discuss John Sperling and his leadership behaviors and how they influence follower outcomes. I will also discuss some of the follower outcomes that originate from good leaderships.

John Sperling utilized his skills, his knowledge, his business savvy and his strong leadership skills to create a very successful and profitable organization. "University of Phoenix founder and Chairman John Sperling rewrote the rules for success in the postsecondary marketplace" (External Influencers,…...

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References

Adamson, L. (2010). John Sperling, Apollo Group. Industry News. Retrieved from  http://www.inc.com/magazine/20040401/25sperling.html 

External Influencers (1998). External Influencers. Change. 30 (1) 17-19

Oshagbemi, T. (2008). The impact of personal and organizational variables on the leadership styles of managers. The International Journal of Human Resources Management. 19 (10) 1896-1910.

Team and Leadership Behaviors
Transactional leadership focuses on the outcome of performance. The emphasis on such a type of leadership becomes evident in the leader's ability to establish goals, clarifying who does what when, then administrating over the mechanics of the gears once they're set in motion. The article points to Whitman's range of leadership, from setting goals for profit margins, sales growth, and ultimately, her managing 2,400 employees. Meg Whitman already seems to be more in tune with the elements of transactional leadership as she is very meticulous about data, whether it be customer or otherwise. It is this nuanced management of detail that ends up forming policy and patterns for predictable successes for EBay.

The article begins unraveling the background aura behind the success of EBay, namely the fact that EBay does not have inventory or warehouse costs, the staff is very friendly, and the nature of the vast marketplace…...

Leadership Behavioral Approach
"Leadership is the lifting of people's vision to a higher sight, the raising of their performance to a higher standard, and the building of their personality beyond its normal limitations" (Drucker, 1985). Ability to inspire others in a shared vision is one of the quality features of a leader. Leaders have cleared visions and communicate these visions to their subordinates to enhance corporate values.

The objective of this essay is to review the leadership behaviors and approaches common to the organisation.

The paper compares alternative leadership theories, and assesses the validity and utility of these theories with reference to the behaviors of leaders at Apple Computers.

Finally, the study develops a hypothesis and tests this hypothesis by critically analyzing the critical incident to judge leadership performance.

Leadership behaviours and approaches

Leadership behavior and approach are the combine styles that the leaders use to influence the subordinates to reach organizational objectives. The leadership approach…...

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References

Bass, B., & Bass, R. (2008). The Bass handbook of leadership: Theory, research, and managerial applications. New York, NJ: Free Press.

Clark, N. (2009). Emotional Intelligence & Leadership. University of Southampton

School of Management.

DeRue, D.S., Nahrgang, J.D., Wellman, N., & Humphrey, S.E. (in press). Trait and behavioral theories of leadership: A meta-analytic test of their relative validity. Personnel Psychology.

Leadership and career.
Leadership behaviors

According to Fiedler, the character of the leader determines the ultimate outcome of all forms of decision-making within the organization. Different leaders perceive different situations in different ways: "the key situational factor is the favorableness of the situation from the leader's point-of-view. This factor is determined by leader-member relations, task structure, and position power" (Fielder 1). In other words, whether the followers need direction; the flexibility demanded of the task; and the leader's degree of control over the situation will all influence the methods by which the leader exercises his or her capacity to wield power.

To some extent, I do agree with LPC theory, given that in my own experiences, I have seen many leaders be effective with various personality types. In the case of a workforce which is highly under-motivated (such as a fast food restaurant), a very rigid leader who uses a 'carrot and stick'…...

e. child care and health insurance). As, they can negotiate lower group rates for: the company and offer them as part of the total compensation package that everyone is receiving. (Northouse, 2010, pp. 89 -- 93)
Was urton a charismatic leader in the company at this time? Explain your answer.

Yes, urton was a charismatic leader. The reason why, is because he would utilize strategies that went above and beyond what traditional leaders were using to motivate employees. This is important, because his ability to use this technique helped him to be able to receive greater concessions out of employees in comparison with other carriers. At the same time, he was given greater amounts of flexibility in making adjustments to: the kinds tasks employees were able to do and their schedules. This gave urton the ability to adapt to changes that were taking place inside the industry. As, this allowed him to…...

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Bibliography

Butler, D. (2000). Business Planning. Oxford: Butterworth.

Harris, J. (2002). Organizational Behavior. Binghamton, NY: West Publishing Company

Nelson, D. (2007). Understanding Organizational Behavior. Mason, OH: Thomason

Northouse, P. (2010). Leadership. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.

Leadeship Style Inventoy
Leadeship cises have been bewing since the past centuy. Evidently, the latest global economic lapses of financial makets aised a highe need fo an effective leadeship than it had been befoe. These cises led to a call fo contempoay oganizations to scutinize o assess the leadeship potential among thei employees and new ecuitments. Following the cuent changes in oganizational ules and business games, as well as andomly emeging competitions, the most fundamental pioity fo businesses and/o oganizations is to ascetain new leadeship potentials, develop them, and find the most appopiate ways to gow them. This pape theeby ecommends the need fo developing authentic and visionay leades by utilizing the "Leadeship Style Inventoy (LSI)" and matching the leadeship esults obtained, with distinguished job equiements. It futhe majos on the use of Kiesey Tempeament Sote and DiSC assessment as tools of evaluation, used in detemining an individual's leadeship competence and…...

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references of cooperative extension faculty. Mexico: New Mexico StateUniversity.

Howell, R.E., Michael, J.A., & Wong, S.K. (1993). Leadership development in extension.

Journal of Extension, 31(1), 27-46.

Nahavandi, A. (2000).The art and science of leadership, 2nd Edition. Upper SaddleRiver, NJ:

Prentice Hall.

Leadership Path Goal Theory
The Boy Scouts" using the "path- goal theory

Leadership theories

Path Goal Theory

Explain how the theory works and include an example

Explain the effect of power and influence that leaders have on followers in the organization

Are the followers receptive?

Would you recommend another strategy?

Transformational Leadership

Transactional Leadership

Evaluate the role of transformational and transformational leadership in the organization

Effectiveness of transformational and transactional leadership in the organization

Examples

Assess the traits and characteristics of an effective team leader within the organization

Explain how the leadership supports vision, mission, and strategy in the organization

If you were the leader in the organization, what would you change and why?

Conclusion

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Introduction:

The leadership theories are different in their relevance and approach, however, the importance of effective leadership cannot be undermined in operations of a successful organization. The boy scouts and other military organizations also deploy various leadership and management practices in order to motivate their members. It further leads them for successful operations…...

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References:

Bolman, L.G., & Deal, T.E. (2011). Reframing organizations: Artistry, choice and leadership. USA: Jossey-Bass.

Samson, D., & Daft, R.L. (2009). Fundamentals of management. Australia: Cengage Learning.

Winkler, I. (2010). Contemporary leadership theories. USA: Springer.

Leadership
I have grown fond of Mr. Joe Scott because of his ability to inspire his followers to do more than they would have expected to do. He has the capability of engaging his staff's commitment in a context of shared values and vision. He is capable of aligning the interests of the organization and its members. Those who have worked closely with him attest to his ability to inspire and motivate those who are working directly under him. He is capable is inspiring change because he's idealized influence, individual consideration, intellectual stimulation, and inspiration. He can maximize mutual interest and restrain in the process of exercising his power. His leadership style broadens and elevates the interest of the follower (Mind Tools, 2013). This ends up generating awareness and motivation towards the purpose and mission of the organization. His leadership traits bring the group purpose above individual needs for the attainment…...

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References List

Mind Tools (2013). Leadership Styles: Choosing the Right Style for the Situation. Retrieved from  http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_84.htm 

Murray, A. (2013). Leadership Styles.  http://guides.wsj.com/management/developing-a-leadership-style/how-to-develop-a-leadership-style/

After presenting group members with the concrete, tangible evidence of the club's usefulness to the surrounding community, it would then behoove Mario to clarify his goal of the present meeting by broaching the subject that the Club should continue after graduation. The best way of formally presenting this idea (which had been previously alluded to in the meeting via the introductory phase and the power point presentation) would be to initially express it in the form of a question -- which would ideally get an affirmative response from group members after the comprehensive review of the club's accomplishments and the specific involvement of group members in those accomplishments -- which Mario should then write on a whiteboard to serve as the goal of the present meeting.
Lastly, Mario's agenda should include a couple of relatively low-maintenance projects that could yield a high degree of tangibility that would allow the club…...

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References

Northouse, G. (2007). Leadership Theory And Practice. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc.

Rowe, W.G. (2007). Cases In Leadership. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications

Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)
The Leadership Practices Inventory relies on Kouzes and Posner's work and on what they called The Five Practices, that is challenging the process, inspiring a shared vision, enabling others to act modeling the way and encouraging the heart. Following these five practices, they developed the LPI, an instrument that would help determine leadership practices and capabilities for a person.

The LPI starts with a Five Practices Data Summary, however, I prefer to evaluate and thoroughly discuss each of the practices in part and the scores I have obtained here, compared with the average of all LPI observers rating and use an analytic summary for each case in part. I will leave the leadership behaviors ranking for the very end.

Model the way

In this practice, you have obtained three 10s, one 9, one 8 and one 7 (on a scale ranging from 1 to 10, with 1 being equivalent to…...

He projects a persona of trustworthiness, likability and brilliance that even his harshest critics admire. But a multiplicity of goals does not always make for a sense of coherent mission, and this sense of mission is required to sustain as well as initiate major changes. One of Obama's most-admired historical figures was Abraham Lincoln and: "Lincoln united his followers with a 'corporate mission' of preserving the Union and abolishing slavery, and this objective became more firm and resolute with the onslaught of the Civil War" (Lewis 2009). Of course, Lincoln had the advantage of having a single crisis to deal with -- Obama has many, spanning from healthcare, to the environment, to the financial crisis, to two wars. Creating a coherent philosophy to unite his ambitious, compassionate social objectives and the need for strong action on terror is no easy feat.
As a leader, Obama's greatest strength is his ability…...

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References

Finn, Christine & Sarah Baxter. (2008, November 23). Long-range love of Obama's absent mother. The Times. Retrieved July 11, 2010 at  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5213328.ece 

Lebovitch, Marge. (2010, February 29). Missing element in Obama's ties with GOP leaders.

Retrieved July 11, 2010 at  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/us/politics/25chemistry.html?scp=1&sq=Obama%20personality&st=cse 

Lander, Mark. (2010, June 24). Short, tense deliberation, then a general is gone.

Here are some potential essay topics to consider:

1. A comparative analysis of transformational and transactional leadership styles and their impact on job satisfaction among employees
2. The role of transformational leadership in enhancing job satisfaction and employee motivation
3. The effectiveness of transactional leadership in improving job satisfaction and organizational performance
4. A case study on how a company utilized both transformational and transactional leadership styles to enhance job satisfaction among its employees
5. The importance of balancing transformational and transactional leadership behaviors to maximize job satisfaction in the workplace
6. Exploring the relationship between leadership styles and job satisfaction in different industries or organizations
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Transformational and Transactional Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction

1. The Impact of Transformational Leadership Style on Employee Job Satisfaction: A Comparative Study

This topic investigates the relationship between transformational leadership style and job satisfaction among employees. It examines the effects of transformational leaders' characteristics, such as charisma, inspiration, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration, on employee job satisfaction levels. The study compares the outcomes with those of employees under transactional leadership styles to determine the differential impact of each style.

2. The Moderating Role of Organizational Culture in the Relationship between Transactional Leadership and Job Satisfaction

This essay explores how organizational culture moderates the relationship....

Psychological Safety at Work: Essay Topics

Psychological safety in the workplace refers to an environment where individuals feel comfortable taking risks, expressing their thoughts and ideas, and challenging the status quo without fear of negative consequences. It plays a crucial role in fostering innovation, creativity, and open communication within organizations. Here are several essay topics that explore different aspects of psychological safety at work:

1. The Impact of Psychological Safety on Team Performance:
- Examine the relationship between psychological safety and team cohesion, collaboration, and outcomes.
- Analyze how creating a psychologically safe environment can enhance communication, reduce conflict, and improve problem-solving.

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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the concept of responsible leadership and its impact on organizational outcomes. Responsible leadership is defined as a leadership approach that emphasizes ethical decision-making, social responsibility, and sustainability. This type of leadership is characterized by a focus on creating value for all stakeholders, including employees, customers, communities, and the environment. Numerous studies have highlighted the positive impact of responsible leadership behavior on organizational performance. One key finding is that responsible leaders are more likely to foster a culture of trust and ethical behavior within their organizations. This can lead to higher....