What are the key strengths and weaknesses of the supportive‚ directive‚ and participative styles of leadership? Substantiate your response. The key strengths of participative leadership style are increased productivity and job satisfaction. When employees are afforded an opportunity to be involved in the organization’s decision making process‚ they are likely to develop a strong sense of commitment to the organization as well as increase their performance. Job satisfaction is another key strength
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Every leader uses their own unique style and strategy when leading. The leadership role requires an individual to have the skills needed to lead a group of people. These skills include the ability to identify a problem and being able to initiate steps that lead to a solution. A leader adopts a leadership style to influence the behavior of people around him. These leadership styles can be categorized based on people and situations. The behavioral approach is comprised with different several theories
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Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26‚ 1875 to a Swiss Pastor and his wife‚ in Kesswil‚ Switzerland. He was raised in Basel and attended school in Klein-Huningen. As a young boy Carl was fascinated by language‚ literature and archeology but was not really interested in school. He eventually enrolled and continued his education at the Humanistisches Gymnasium in Basel‚ and excelled at Latin. Because of his father’s faith‚ Jung developed a keen interest in religious history‚ but settled on the study
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Styles - what makes Donald Trump successful in almost every business he was in? Was it his given wealth? His bizarre appetite for power and wealth? Was he a born business leader? Or did he just got luck? Accordingly to academia communities‚ there are certain common leadership styles among profiled leaders. In this para‚ we will attempt to match his recorded releases with the common leadership styles. ‘Command’ style is suggested to be his dominant leadership style among the other
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Leadership Style Leadership refers to a person who guides or directs a group of individuals (dictionary.com‚ 2012). Lewin (1939) suggests that leadership style refers to the characteristic behaviors of a leader when directing‚ motivating‚ guiding and managing a group of people. Listed below are a few of the most prominent leadership styles: Laissez –Faire (Delegative); Participative (Democratic); Authoritarian (Autocratic); Transformational and Transactional. The purpose of this paper is to report
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P.‘t Hart.‚ A. McConell and T. Preston. (2010). Leadership style‚ crisis response and blame management: The case of hurricane Katrina. The Journal of Public Administration‚ 88(3)‚ 706-725 In this paper I have summarized the article and offer comments on where additional research would assist in further understanding of the issue. The authors of this article used retrospective review which uses existing data and researches. Leadership style and crisis management have always been the main
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Leadership Styles Case Study The type of leadership practiced at the NCF was‚ transactional leadership. “In Transactional leaders are focused on creating a bargain for individual interests who eventually go their separate ways‚ rather than the mutual effort of people who are interested in collective interests and have a common purpose” (Manning‚ 2003‚ p. 50). The leader at the NCF engages the employees to comply with the values regarding dual relationship by bargaining with them using something
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An analysis of flexible leadership style Name: Shi Baoyuan Student ID: 20121367 Email: frank_ais@yahoo.co.nz Word Count: 2029 Executive Summary Flexible leadership style is a vital for leaders to manage the company that a leader needs to possess this model to cope with the changeable company activities. A leader who utilizes the flexible leadership style will provide a suitable working surrounding to his (her) subordinates‚ and make them working in positive emotion; hence‚ the subordinates
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these factors influence beliefs‚ emotions‚ behavior and success. It is imperative for companies to be aware of cultural differences in order to be successful. Managers should explore how culture affects leadership styles and practices. There are many cultural value concepts that influence leadership style. In Hofsted’s ground breaking cultural study he defined four different dimensions of culture‚ one of them being Power Distance. “Power distance refers to the extent that power differences are accepted
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1. Discuss the leadership style and the effectiveness of these leadership appoarch. Consolidated Diesel Company (CDC) was formed in 1980 as a join venture between the Cummins Engine Company and the J.I. Case Company. It was the fifth largest industrial investment made in the state of North California at that time. The company manufactured diesel engine. The mission of Consolidated Diesel Company is to be the world- class producer the engine. To achieve this mission‚ CDC finds and develops its
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