Psychology of Leadership
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Introduction to LEADERSHIP
Delsa Christian
Indiana Wesleyan University
Introduction to Leadership
Professor Aaron Metzcar
August 23, 2021
Definition of Leadership
Social process for influencing others
Empower others
Directing others towards a common objective
Social influence process
Benefitting others
Leadership entails the social process for influencing others. Leadership is the process through which individuals determine a goal, influence others or groups towards the identified mission or objective (The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 2021). Best leaders do not tell people what to do; instead, they empower others and show them how it is done. Leadership development varies in diverse organizational settings (Northouse, 2015). Leadership entails directing others towards a common objective using original and borrowed ideas to communicate to others effectively. Therefore, leadership is a social influence process seeking to maximize others' efforts for the common good. Leadership focuses on benefitting others based on the biblical context. From the spiritual aspect, the bible states, "I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth" (Acts 13:47, NIV).
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Leadership Requirements
Leadership entails strong belief in oneself and personal ideas before introducing them to the external parties. Leaders are bound to make hard choices; leadership entails self-sacrifice to improve others or the followers (Gleeson, 2016). A great leader should earn the team's respect by showing reciprocal respect, empathy, and care for followers. Empathy allows the leader to touch the individual's emotions and connect with his teams (Gleeson, 2016). Gleeson (2016) notes that more excellent leadership entails knowing the team and people as the key to success, articulating a clear vision, and pushing teams to the best.
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Strong belief in oneself and personal ideas
Earn the team's respect
Touch the individual's emotions
Knowing the team
Articulating a clear vision
Pushing teams to the best
How Leadership is Different from Management
Leadership is a subset of management
Leadership steers vision and motivation
Management states the procedures
Leadership provides change and direction
Management gives order and consistency
Leadership is a subset of management, but they are both essential for organizational performance. There are key distinguishing factors that draw boundaries between leadership and management. Liphadzi et al. (2017) note that leadership steers vision and motivation within the teams, and management states the procedures for executing tasks. As a result, leadership provides change and direction, and management gives order and consistency. As leadership entails building teams and coalitions for executing the organizational mission, management entails establishing rules and procedures for achieving the goals (Liphadzi et al., 2017). Therefore, leadership must move hand in hand with management to achieve organizational goals.
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Helpful Leadership Theory: Transformational Leadership Theory
Leaders work with groups, teams, or followers
They detect the need for change
Create a vision to guide motivation
Influence to keep the members committed
Idealized influence
Intellectual simulation
Inspirational motivation
Individualized or personal considerations
The transformational leadership theory holds that leaders work with groups, teams, or followers beyond their underlying interests to detect the need for change, create a vision to guide motivation and influence to keep the members committed (Moradi Korejan & Shahbazi, 2016). Moradi Korejan and Shahbazi (2016) note that transformational leadership theory's key dimensions include idealized influence, intellectual simulation, inspirational motivation, and individualized or personal considerations. Idealized influence entails showing power and competence, raising respect, instilling a sense of honor and pride, and sacrificing personal gratification. Inspirational motivation entails optimism and encouraging teams. Besides, intellectual stimulation ensures promoting innovation, problem-solving, and suitability of solutions. Personal consideration incorporates guidance and training, incorporating people's different needs, developing others' capabilities, and teamwork (Moradi Korejan & Shahbazi, 2016).
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Key Leadership Principles: Potential
The ability to inspire others
Create an enabling environment where greatness emerges
Self-confidence
Capabilities
Advancements
Perfect leadership entails the ability to inspire others to attain joint objectives. The emerging philosophy from this principle is that the role of a leader is not to instill greatness into people; greatness exists in everyone, but the leaders' task is to create an enabling environment where greatness emerges. It shows leadership is about self-confidence, capabilities, and advancements to achieve the desired goal.
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Purpose
The mission the team members share
Make a difference beyond personal interests
Inform the core organizational values
Collective action
Inspiring mission
Creating a culture of customer obsession
Sharing objectives
Purpose represents the mission the team members share and working towards a common goal. Purpose in leadership entails the desire to make a difference beyond personal interests (By, 2021). The purpose should inform the core organizational values rather than focusing on a specific section of the team members. Therefore, leadership demonstrates collective action resulting from mutual, discursive, and evolving patterns. Purpose entails an inspiring mission, create a culture of customer obsession, and sharing objectives.
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People
Building relationships
Promoting a community culture
Leadership encourages diversity
The creation of teams
Defining multiculturalism and diversity
Enhance cultural competence
Inclusiveness and promote intersectionality
The people construct an integral part of leadership; leadership entails building relationships with the employees while promoting a work culture. Incorporating people in leadership encourages diversity and the creation of teams. Outstanding leadership entails defining multiculturalism and diversity to enhance cultural competence, inclusiveness and promote intersectionality in the teams (Chin et al., 2016).
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Playbook
Creating a playbook
Execute excellence
Promote the capability of the teams
Defining few priorities
Promoting continuous learning and experimentation
Innovation and change
Allocating resources to the impactful priorities
In a rapidly changing environment, leadership entails creating a playbook to execute excellence and promote the capability of the teams. It involves defining few priorities, promoting continuous learning and experimentation through innovation and change, and allocating resources to the impactful priorities.
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Pay-It-Forward
A leader is a teacher
Social responsibility to build long-term value
Investing in customers, teams, and communities
Steering mentorship
Motivation
Encouraging the teams towards teamwork
A leader is a teacher with a social responsibility to build long-term value by investing in customers, teams, and communities. Critical factors for leadership are steering mentorship, motivation, and encouraging the teams towards teamwork.
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Key Practices in Effective Leadership: Model the Way
The way people should be treated
Ways to pursue goals
Establishing a vision
Standards of excellence
Leading by example
Leaders generate opportunities for winning
Leaders point out tenets regarding the way people should be treated and ways to pursue goals. Modeling the way entails establishing a vision, standards of excellence, and leading by example (followership). Through a clear definition of goals, leaders generate opportunities for winning.
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Inspiring a Common Vision
Envisioning the future
Generating the ideal image of the desire outcomes
The passion and self-belief
Persuasion
Leaders enlist others into their desire goal
Promote teamwork and cooperation
Effective leadership entails envisioning the future and generating the ideal image of the desire outcomes. Influential leaders have the passion and self-belief that they can create a difference. Through their persuasion, leaders enlist others into their desire goal to promote teamwork and cooperation.
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Challenging the Process
Leaders pursue new opportunities
Challenge the status quo
Steering innovation
Leaders set short-term goals
Influential leaders disentangle bureaucracy
Leaders pursue new opportunities to challenge the status quo. This process entails steering innovation to improve the organization and establish new ways of executing tasks. Besides, as change threatens to overwhelm people in the organization, leaders set short-term goals to work towards the long-term objectives. Influential leaders disentangle bureaucracy when it hinders action and takes risks, which involves disappointments, successes, and opportunities to learn.
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Enabling Others or Motivation
Influential leaders steer collaboration and encourage team spirit by actively engaging others. Additionally, leaders steer mutual respect to earn honor, create a trustworthy atmosphere and value human dignity. Leaders are bound to make others powerful and capable of performing the underlying function or duties by encouraging them to take challenges to achieve goals or learn.
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Collaboration and encourage team spirit
Leaders steer mutual respect to earn honor
Create a trustworthy atmosphere
Value human dignity
Make others powerful and capable
Encouraging the Heart
Achieving the organizational goals entails hard work and collective participation from all participants. Therefore, to keep the teams alive and determined, a leader must acknowledge individuals' contributions to notable success. Recognizing the success of the teams cultivates a spirit of work and teamwork towards the organizational goal. This concept relates to the biblical verse, "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up" (Galatians 6:7, NIV). Demonstrating leadership by encouraging heart entails the inspiration to remain persistent and committed towards the desired goals.
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Hard work and collective participation
Keep the teams alive and determined
Acknowledge individuals' contributions
Cultivates a spirit of work and teamwork
Persistent and committed towards the desired goals
The Essence of this Information
Encouragement to establish common goals
Envision the desired outcomes
Maximize efficiency
Framework for teamwork and coordination
Steer employee confidence and cooperation
Promoting diversity and sharing resources
Following this information will be a central source for encouragement to establish common goals and envision the desired outcomes. By adhering to this information, it will be possible to maximize efficiency by understanding individual and team roles and achieving organizational goals. This information matters for it provides a framework for teamwork and coordination to steer employee confidence and cooperation. Besides, this presentation is a salient avenue for promoting diversity and sharing resources for a common goal.
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References
By, R. T. (2021). Leadership: In pursuit of purpose. Journal of Change Management, 21(1), 30-44. https://doi.org/10.1080/14697017.2021.1861698
Chin, J. L., Desormeaux, L., & Sawyer, K. (2016). Making way for paradigms of diversity leadership. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, 68(1), 49-71. https://doi.org/10.1037/cpb0000051
Discover the five practices of exemplary leadership. (2021). Leadership Challenge. https://www.leadershipchallenge.com/Research/Five-Practices.aspx#:~:text
Gleeson, B. (2016, November 29). 10 Unique Perspectives On What Makes A Great Leader. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brentgleeson/2016/11/09/10-unique-perspectives-on-what-makes-a-great-leader/?sh=774c844b5dd1
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Liphadzi, M., Aigbavboa, C., & Thwala, W. (2017). A theoretical perspective on the difference between leadership and management. Procedia Engineering, 196, 478-482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.07.227
Moradi Korejan, M., & Shahbazi, H. (2016). An analysis of the transformational leadership theory. Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, 8(3), 452. https://doi.org/10.4314/jfas.v8i3s.192
Northouse, P. G. (2015). Leadership: Theory and practice. SAGE Publications.
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). (2021, January 26). Developing organizational leaders. SHRM. https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/toolkits/pages/developingorganizationalleaders.aspx
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