Leadership reflection

Leadership traits

Situational leader

This leadership theory states that a leader should be able to adjust to the needs of the organization and behaviors that arise in the course of accomplishing organizational goals. This type of leaders should be able to change fast enough to adopt to the changes in external environment as performance is measured through actions of the leaders (Situational Leadership, 2019). When a leader realizes a problem in the organization, he should be ready and able to influence his followers to change to resolve the problem.

Contingency leader

Leadership cannot depend on only a single style of leadership. A good leader should be flexible enough to mix all styles of leadership and be able to align the theory with the scenario at hand. Though one leadership style may work best at one point, it may fail to work in another situation. Fiedler believed that a leader should apply all the leadership styles but use each one of them whenever a situation occurs (Martin, 2019). However, the efficiency of a leader’s style in a given scenario is dependent on the type of job being done, authority of the leader and his relationship with employees (Martin, 2019).

Path-goal leader

This theory was developed by Evans in the early 1970’s. Evans argued that the behavior of a leader determines how his followers behave and work towards attaining their organizational goals. Evans acknowledged direction, support, achievement-orientation besides participation and stated that the behavior of a leader would align with the type of task at hand (Martin, 2019).

From the above discussed leadership theories, all the three align with the vision. The vision is to become a worlds firstfood center. This requires a leader who change with changing times in the food industry. The second of the vision to provision of healthy food for people. Health preference and concerns are ever changing and thus the leader should collaborate, adopt and make decisions depending on the current times of the food industry (Martin, 2019).

Inspiring a shared vision

Communication is significant to every organization’s success. In any leadership style being used in an organization, the leaders should be able to communicate effectively, and in an open way to enable understanding of the vision, targets and mission of the organization (Nayab, 2018,). In ranking, participative leader is leading where inputs of all teams is considered in communicating the vision. A visionary leader motivates employees towards a common vision. A transformational leader creates a common vision, communicates it and suggest ways of attaining the vision. A contingency leader promotes a shared vision through allowing contributions from teams, aligning behaviors to work towards a common goal (Nayab, 2018). Path-goal and situational leaders communicate the vision of the organization, align the needs of the individuals and leaders to create a common goal and strategies of attaining the vision.

A vision can be developed through aligning the mission of the organization with the desires of the leaders and employees to promote the greater good for the organization and the society.

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