Leadership
Ivy 5B6
The issue of leadership is more focused on now by organizations because of many challenges facing bussiness environments. Therefore, leaders have to adapt to these changes. Adaptive leadership refers to the ability to lead staff towards commom goals in such changing situations. To do this, leaders need certain abilities and these have been explored in a number of academic articles.
Three recent texts (Useem 2010; Cappelli et al. 2010; Ladkin and Weber 2011) have discussed the different characteristics of successful leaders. Useem gives a reflection though comparing business leadership to military leadership in military trainings while the reports on empirical studies by Cappelli et al. and Ladkin & Weber focus on the different types of successful leaders from a local perspective in India and in Hong Kong respectively. A main common point of all three texts is that certain characteristics of leaders lead to the success in leadership. This review compares these articles in relation to communication skills, the ability to make effective decisions and to motive staff to finish missions.
In these three articles, all the authors maintain that communication skills are essential for leaders because effective communications can influence achieving the common mission of organizations. Useem recommends that when they convey tasks to staff, leaders should express clearly in order to avoid misunderstanding (p.5). Like Useem, Ladkin & Weber note that exact transinformation is significant. In addition, they highlight the importance of leaders’ EQ. EQ means emotional quotient that is the ability to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, which is mostly compared to IQ(Intelligent Quotient). For instance, if workers have bad EQ, they would not have good communication with others. As a result, they cannot get on well at work even they have good IQ which helped them to get their job (p.281). In contrast, Cappelli et al. focus on empowering though
The issue of leadership is more focused on now by organizations because of many challenges facing bussiness environments. Therefore, leaders have to adapt to these changes. Adaptive leadership refers to the ability to lead staff towards commom goals in such changing situations. To do this, leaders need certain abilities and these have been explored in a number of academic articles.
Three recent texts (Useem 2010; Cappelli et al. 2010; Ladkin and Weber 2011) have discussed the different characteristics of successful leaders. Useem gives a reflection though comparing business leadership to military leadership in military trainings while the reports on empirical studies by Cappelli et al. and Ladkin & Weber focus on the different types of successful leaders from a local perspective in India and in Hong Kong respectively. A main common point of all three texts is that certain characteristics of leaders lead to the success in leadership. This review compares these articles in relation to communication skills, the ability to make effective decisions and to motive staff to finish missions.
In these three articles, all the authors maintain that communication skills are essential for leaders because effective communications can influence achieving the common mission of organizations. Useem recommends that when they convey tasks to staff, leaders should express clearly in order to avoid misunderstanding (p.5). Like Useem, Ladkin & Weber note that exact transinformation is significant. In addition, they highlight the importance of leaders’ EQ. EQ means emotional quotient that is the ability to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, which is mostly compared to IQ(Intelligent Quotient). For instance, if workers have bad EQ, they would not have good communication with others. As a result, they cannot get on well at work even they have good IQ which helped them to get their job (p.281). In contrast, Cappelli et al. focus on empowering though