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leadership. Transformational leadership directs their focus to the followers and how they can transform their performance and help them reach their fullest potential. There are many factors that make up transformational leadership. This style encourages followers to emulate them because they see the leader as a strong role model. It inspires followers through motivation by communicating high expectations and this leads to followers being a part of the shared vision that the leader has for the…

would enable them to relate well with followers. Followers feel motivated by inspiring leaders. Inspiring leaders instill the spirit of teamwork to the followers by working with them whenever necessary. Thus, good leadership is highly determined by the both the leadership style and relationship between leaders and followers. Various leadership styles are popular in the contemporary times, but only a few enhance team performance between leaders and their followers (Torrington et al. 2011). In the…

attributed to its leaders. Leadership theory has covered many areas such as trait theories and behavior theories. In many cases the researchers have focused on what a leader should be or should do in order to gain and maintain the support of the followers. Books have been written and training classes developed with the intent of teaching individuals how to be leaders. Millions of dollars have been spent on attending these classes with mixed results. Antidotal evidence indicates that many…

What is leadership? Leadership can be traced back millions of years; one could postulate that the first forms of life on earth showed forms of leadership. For instance, Insects show leader ship behaviors with their foraging skills, as do birds with flocking. Thus, people from ancient times to now have tried to explain where leadership is derived. Consequently, there are seven theories that have been composed to explain leadership, great person, trait, behavioral, situational, contingency,…

leader and follower will be positive; but having the majority of them as positive experiences, will lay the foundation for both to have an overall good leader and follower interaction. Furthermore, as exchanges between both parties increase so do the qualities of the relationship and the roles, influences and interests, all of which will benefit the organization and those vested in the organization. In addition, when investing in a special or personal relationship with all followers, there…

one's culture. “Servant leadership is based on the premise that leaders who are best able to motivate followers are those who focus least on satisfying their own personal needs and most on prioritizing the fulfillment of followers’ needs. Leaders who are more concerned about others than themselves are humble, and their humility stimulates strong relationships with followers and encourages followers to become fully engaged in their work” (Liden et al., 2014, p. 1434). Furthermore, “servant…

welcome, over 900 people occupied an idealistic socialist community in the jungles of Guyana called Jonestown. In November 1978, the entire population had perished. What was the purpose of Jonestown and what influences did Jim Jones have on his followers? As the People's Temple grew during the 1960s, Jones became obsessed with the idea of Marxism and he started to preach about an imminent nuclear apocalypse during the Cold War. He gave a date on which the 'apocalypse' would occur, July 15th…

Nowadays, the world is chaos and competitive because of war and terrorism. Peace builders and great leaders are needed to maintain peace in the world and guide followers to the right direction. Leadership and peacebuilding is a great course which provides information about leadership style, leadership skill and peace builder. The course helps students understand the basic characteristics and personalities of each leadership style. Transformational, servant, adaptive and authentic is the four…

easy to distinguish between the leader and the followers. Many of the followers fall under the spell of the leader. If the leader is good his/her charisma will have the followers eating out of the palm of his/her palm. After this hypnotic proposition takes effect, the followers become engrossed in the leader. After the initial meeting or get together and all is said and done the followers are on the same train as the leader. This gives the followers something to strive for and believe in.…

Engaging others to work with the leader. Effective leadership in a complex and ambiguous world environment where authority structures are less dominant and organisational boundaries are more fluid requires leaders to be able to build effective and productive relationships with a range of people. The more diffuse nature of power and authority means that leaders are more likely to have to develop the quality of relationships as a means of influencing others. This essay examines how this aspect of…