Leadership Essay 1
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4.4_Reflection_Action_Worksheet.pdf
INTRODUCTION 102 TO LEADERSHIP 4.4 REFLECTION AND ACTION WORKSHEET
Leadership Styles
Reflection
1. As you reflect on the assumptions of Theory X and Theory Y, how would you describe your own philosophy of leadership? I would describe myself as being fair, supportive, and excellent communication
2. Of the three styles of leadership (authoritarian, democratic, and laissez-faire), what style comes easiest for you? Describe how people respond to you when you use this style. The style comes easiest for me is authoritarian because it fit perfectly for my life. People respond to my style the way I finished the work when ever they told me to do. And they know I am very smart when it comes to work.
3. One of the aspects of democratic leadership is to help subordinates take responsibility for themselves. How do you assess your own ability to help others help themselves? I would allows employees to establish goals.
Action
1. If you were to try to strengthen your philosophy of leadership, what kinds of changes would you have to make in your assumptions about human nature and work? A leader should always be strong in making decision. Should take decisions on time. To strengthen my philosophy of leadership, I would like to change my sociability nature because it will make me think more at times to take a right decision.
2. As you look at your results on the Leadership Styles Questionnaire, what scores would you like to change? What would you have to do to make those changes? The score I would change is “In general, it is best to leave followers alone”. These scores are the one I would like to change among my leadership questionnaire styles results. I would like to change these scores because it makes me laissez-faire for leadership, this why I want to change it.
3. List three specific activities you could use to improve your leadership style. The three specific I want to improve more about my leadership style is making decision free environment, allow each and every individual to take responsibility, and give equal rights in decision making
4. If you make these changes, what impact will this have on others? This change makes me a more perfect democracy leader because these people will enjoy working in such kind of environment as in general every one like to work under democratic leaders
