Media influence

What is leadership? Leadership is defined as an ability to take control of a group, or an organization. A leader is a role that many people want because of all the power and glory it possesses. However, not everyone could be a good leader. This idea is present in the novel One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. The story took place inside an asylum in the 60s, Chief Bromden, the narrator of the story, retelling a story about McMurphy- a new patient who had a very questionable past- turns the…

Based on what I learned during Module 3: Self-Improvement, I feel the inspirational section of Transformational Leadership (TL) is this most important concept. Of everything we talked about, this concept immediately struck me as something that I’ve seen my peers perform well and something that I could improve upon. For a long time, I have found my efforts to inspire my subordinates, peers and supervisors have been hit or miss. According to the Self Assessment of Leadership Behavior my overall…

Getting others to do the things you want them to do is all in the way you influence them. Influence is defined as “changing someone’s behavior” (Rykrsmith, 2011, para. 2). As seen in the video, there are tactics that can be used to influence people which include reciprocity, scarcity, authority, consistency, liking, and consensus. Out of the six influence tactics, the authority and consensus tactics stand out the most in my workplace. Of course, authority is used everywhere. Authority is…

What makes a person to become a leader or a follower? Alejandro Ines, a college student at Porterville College, writes about how anybody could be a leader and a follower, in his essay, called “Follower or Leader?” Ines introduced a book we read in class, called, “The Sunflower,” by Simon Wiesenthal, an author and a Jew who survived the Holocaust. Ines thesis was, “The life of the typical leaders and followers is composed of many intellectuals, such as mentoring, motivation, and obedience.”…

excuse their immoral behavior. As stated in The Leadership Challenge, “Trust is a strong, significant predictor of employee satisfaction, the quality of communication, honest sharing of information, acceptance of change, acceptance of the leader’s influence, and team organizational performance.” It goes on to state, “Trust is also linked to profitability. High-trust organization have been show to outperform low-trust organizations by 286 percent.” (Kouzes & Posner, 2012) That being said, Ms.…

Leadership can create an environment of trust, loyalty, and drive success or it can cause a lack of productivity, mistrust, and a mass exodus from an organization. The main difference between these two scenarios is the effectiveness of the leadership. The role of leaders should have a positive effect on the organization. Because of this, assessing how well administration is doing is necessary. There is no right or wrong way to measure a leaders capabilities. However, Voyage uses several methods…

What is a dance leader? A dance leader is responsible for learning the dance and teaching them to the other club members. They adjust the dance if the moves are deemed inappropriate and/or too hard for majority of the club members. A dance leader is aware that there will be more practices that they have to do compared to a regular club member. They also have characteristics of a leader: listens well, cooperative, determined, willing, and reflective, and most importantly not selfish and cares…

Uses and gratification studies came into effect when mass media researchers became interested in how or why audiences were engaging with different forms of media (Wimmer & Dominick, 1994). The earliest recognised uses and gratifications studies were those of Herzog (1941) and Berelson (1945). Both Herzog and Berelson were interested by what engaging with certain mediums meant for individuals. They studied at a much deeper level than previous studies. Early uses and gratifications studies would…

Leadership Assessment According to the Leadership Assessment, my Leadership Style is Participative. I am a Democratic leader with an aptitude for Consulting. The mediums to those of us who fall under this Leadership Style are selling, reasoning, persuading, and consulting. We tend to build plans through participation and then I, the Leader, make the final decision. I feel it is important to have your subordinates communicate and contribute in planning, it puts everybody’s current situation on…

Social influences by the majority is believed to be a basic human need in order to feel connected to the world and accepted by it. Novelist, Doris Lessing, gives her opinions on the topic with her work, “Group Minds,” in which she challenges those who have the knowledge of how humans can be influenced and teach it in schools, so that it may better the current lives of western society. It’s commonly said, “knowledge is power,” but Lessing is expressing her opinions on the topic in a similar way…