Leadership Approaches Reflection Manager utilizes one or more of the three leadership approaches to motivate their employees: situational leadership, transformational leadership, and charismatic leadership. Any of the three methods can be effective if facilitated correctly, however leadership is no longer about just being effective. “Business leaders are being called on to maintain high ethical standards for their own conduct, to unfailingly exhibit ethical behavior, and to hold others in their…
Vince Lombardi What do you think when you hear Ethical and Visionary Leader? I’ll tell you what I think, I think of the legendary football coach Vince Lombardi. Vince Lombardi once said, “You don’t do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time” (Vince Lombardi’s Quotes, 2018). Everyone has their own opinions on who an Ethical leader and Visionary leader is, to me a great leader is someone who builds trust, credibility, and respect for both you and the organization and guide…
administration, an ethical school leader is the epitome of effective schools and one cannot exist without the other because an “effective principal must be an ethical principal” (p. 4). Branson (2014d) adds that “ethicalness is the cornerstone of leadership” and so “if it isn’t ethical, it isn’t leadership” (p. 452). Moreover, critical theorist, Paulo Freire (2014), suggests educators must live and practice ethics everyday; since “ethics defines what must be,” “establishes the…
Leadership Reflection Leadership is one of the most widely talked about subjects and at the same time one of the most elusive and puzzling. I cannot express my lament and hate for this subject ever since I apply to business school at ECU. I am not dismissing leadership is unnecessary but the opposite. In this current chaotic world leadership is imperative to the communities, companies, the military, unions, universities, sports teams, and for the nation. However, we have a hypocritical love/hate…
Part C Transactional leadership According to Burns (2003), transactional and transformational leadership are not mutually exclusive, he considers transactional leadership to be moral. Transactional leadership revisits the leadership exchange theories where a specific legislation favored by the leader constituency will be pushed by him or her in exchange for the votes from constituents. The morality related to transactional behavior is highly effective, usually serves the greater good and is…
Servant Leadership & Virtual Teams Tara McKinney Western Governor’s University Servant Leadership & Virtual Teams There are a great many theories that involve leadership. They vary in scope and in relevance depending on a company’s culture, goals, and human capital. There is an ever-growing population that now work from home, separate from the teams they work with daily. As working virtually becomes more prevalent for companies, leadership styles must be applied to make a geographically…
Essentially, ethical leaders stimulate the conduct of their followers by displaying appropriate behaviors (Bouckenooghe, Zafar, & Raja, 2015). Individuals that possess morals have personal characteristics that include honesty, integrity, and dependability (Bouckenooghe…
Leadership: Finding our Niche Most people think that leadership is something that only those in a supervisory role can do well. However, being a leader is not about a title, it is about the individual putting the needs of others before their own (Linkner, 2014). Are we born with leadership abilities or is this something that we have to learn through experience? While some are born with characteristics of leadership, they still have to develop various skills and abilities to be a…
My Concentration - Leadership My concentration is leadership, the reason why I choose this concentration is project management require a lot of interpersonal and conceptual skills, one of the most important interpersonal skill is leadership, also as I mention before, when I graduated, I want to start my own business or be a manager, therefore, the knowledge of leadership that professors teach me will be very helpful when I start my business. I have taken a lot of leadership courses; such as…
Leadership roles of the FNP/DNP Leadership This reflection will explore the leadership roles of FNP-DNP as related to cultural competency, social justice, health care disparities and ethical decision making. Chism (2016), “Leadership implies accompaniment and compassion, and management implies control through supervision” (p. 66). Zaccagnini and White (2017), categorize five traits of the DNP/FNP leader as follows: Be a role model, create a shared vision, challenge of the status quo, enable…