Leadership
What is leadership? Katie Christy, founder, Active Your Talent writes that “Leadership is the ability to not only understand and utilize your innate talents, but to also effectively leverage the natural strengths of your own team to accomplish the mission. There are no one-size fits all approach, answer key or formula to leadership. Leadership should be humble, authentic expression of your unique personality in pursuit of bettering whatever environment you are in.”
Changes are occurring rapidly. Technological innovation and the world have mixed and mingle like never before. New partnerships are formed and creating more culturally diverse workplaces. Surprises happen every day with social media, consumers, media and other stakeholders. …show more content…
It’s the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society. Sociology’s purpose is to understand how human action and consciousness both shape and are shaped by surrounding social structures. As a leader it is important to know your role and every else’s and be able to perform correctly. Sociologists commonly distinguish two types of leaders, instrumental and expressive. An instrumental leader is a leader whose main focus is to achieve group goals and accomplish group tasks. Often instrumental leaders try to carry out their role even if they alienate other members of the group. The second type is the expressive leader, whose main focus is to maintain and improve the quality of relationships among group members and more generally to ensure group harmony. (Barkan, 2016) Leaders have to be able to identify people in their groups and there emotional behaviors. They have to be able to adapt and work with each different gender. Women and men are very much alike but very much different. Leadership has to do with gender differences in leadership styles. Women are more likely to be democratic leaders, while men are more likely to be authoritarian leaders (Eagly & Carli, 2007). Because of this difference, women leaders sometimes have trouble securing respect from their subordinates and are criticized for being too soft. Yet if they respond with a more masculine, or authoritarian, style, they may be charged with acting too much like a man and be criticized in ways a man would not
What is leadership? Katie Christy, founder, Active Your Talent writes that “Leadership is the ability to not only understand and utilize your innate talents, but to also effectively leverage the natural strengths of your own team to accomplish the mission. There are no one-size fits all approach, answer key or formula to leadership. Leadership should be humble, authentic expression of your unique personality in pursuit of bettering whatever environment you are in.”
Changes are occurring rapidly. Technological innovation and the world have mixed and mingle like never before. New partnerships are formed and creating more culturally diverse workplaces. Surprises happen every day with social media, consumers, media and other stakeholders. …show more content…
It’s the study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society. Sociology’s purpose is to understand how human action and consciousness both shape and are shaped by surrounding social structures. As a leader it is important to know your role and every else’s and be able to perform correctly. Sociologists commonly distinguish two types of leaders, instrumental and expressive. An instrumental leader is a leader whose main focus is to achieve group goals and accomplish group tasks. Often instrumental leaders try to carry out their role even if they alienate other members of the group. The second type is the expressive leader, whose main focus is to maintain and improve the quality of relationships among group members and more generally to ensure group harmony. (Barkan, 2016) Leaders have to be able to identify people in their groups and there emotional behaviors. They have to be able to adapt and work with each different gender. Women and men are very much alike but very much different. Leadership has to do with gender differences in leadership styles. Women are more likely to be democratic leaders, while men are more likely to be authoritarian leaders (Eagly & Carli, 2007). Because of this difference, women leaders sometimes have trouble securing respect from their subordinates and are criticized for being too soft. Yet if they respond with a more masculine, or authoritarian, style, they may be charged with acting too much like a man and be criticized in ways a man would not