Influence peddling

Contingency theory of leadership considers their supporters as one of the situational factors that leaders need to manipulate in order to achieve specific outcome (Uhl-Bien et al., 2013). This theory signifies that whether ethical or unethical, leaders influence their followers. Using their own convincing skills as an asset, leaders are successful in making followers work their own way. Unethical leadership thus impacts the organization. sometimes It is difficult for followers to distinguish…

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision possessed by an individual into reality. Leaders are those who empowers other, give other people the chance they want, give them multiple opportunities to reveal their potential. This definition of mine includes ‘others’ and empowerment is a good thing, as it has a positive connotation. Leadership has nothing to do with one’s position in a hierarchy or with seniority; leadership is the ability which can be seen in a regular student of college or…

Introduction This study deals with the area of social psychology and the topic of conformity. Conformity is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behaviour in order to fit in with a group. Myers stated in (1999), An active form of social influence is Compliance which is when an individual changes his or her behaviour in response to an explicit or implicit request made by another person. There have been many experiments in psychology investigating conformity and group…

Outside influences can cause people to respond differently when they are first introduced. Many outside influences change the way Rukmani and her family lived. The weather was a outside influence that changed how Rukmani acted, and how her family was able to work. Kunthi was an outside influence that changed how Rukmani acted by her becoming more protective. Kenny is another due to his help with Rukmani and Ira’s capability to have kids, and sickness in her family. The tannery is one outside…

Social Psychology is the study of how people influence others behavior, beliefs and attitudes. The influence people may have can initially be for both the good and the bad. Social psychology helps us to better understand why we sometimes help and present ourselves heroically in the presence of others. We are also able to better understand why we show our worst sides, cave to group pressure, and many others. Social psychology is extremely important for the reason being that we humans are highly…

The leadership used by such a small law firm, which may only have a few partners, differs by context. Though the ‘Ledbetter Law Firm’ does not have a manager partner, I will give a theoretical example of what kind of leadership is used within a firm like ‘Ledbetter Law Firm’ and apply it to a position like a manager partner. In my example, the law firm would expect my leadership for the manager partner position to include a multitude of leadership facets. Firstly, a managing partner should…

Social control “refers to the ways in which people’s thoughts, feelings, appearance, and behavior are regulated in social systems” (Crossman).The textbook describes four types of social control, belief, involvement, attachment, and commitment. Beliefs like always being kind and standing up for yourself has taught me to not fight with others but not agree to things that I do not want to do, keeping me from partaking in questionable activities. My involvement in activities like color guard in…

Power and social influence play roles in defining and sanctioning deviant behavior based on the intensity of each. Social influence can be characterized as structures placed in society to shape and mold rules and regulations to fit a societies unique social mold. Power of that social influence is the force of it; like a cookie cutter (social influence) on a rolled out piece of dough. Once placed on the batter, if it’s not pushed down much it won’t change batter into a cookie, whereas when…

• Leadership is the process of influencing people to act and/or think in a specific way by means of providing: direction, purpose, and motivation. • I chose to define leadership in such a way for several reason. First off, the definition states that leadership is a process because it requires the leader to take action. Therefore, I believe that a laissez faire style of leadership would not constitute as leadership, because the leader is not taking action. Next, the leader takes action by…

Leadership plays a big role in military and civilian organizations. Being a leader can be summed up by taking action needed to accomplish a task. The responsibility of a leader is taken care of whoever they are leading to accomplish a task. Some people may view leadership as making an impact on someone professionally and personally. Diversity among these two organizations are filled with people from different backgrounds and ethical groups, beliefs values all these factors come together.…