Leadership Behavior Outline

Introduction

After reviewing several peer-reviewed articles and researching leadership behaviors, it is evident a leader must possess great skills to manage an organization’s objectives. The type of leadership behavior has a significant impact on the performance of followers. The most common leadership behavior includes visionary leadership, servant leadership, and transformational leadership. The three have leadership and performance, leadership environment and leadership relationship distinct differences and similarities and are uniquely profitable for follower performance and organizational growth. The type of leadership style used by a leader’s a significant influence on the behavior of followers. Each leadership behavior is defined on the basis of the performance outcome. A leader must portray specific qualities and skills essential for manipulation of the follower’s efforts towards a common objective.

Thesis

Current research and reviews of literature suggests constructive leadership behavior influences leadership and performance, leadership environment, and leadership relationship.

Theme One:

Leadership and Performance

Opening Statement

A servant leader is a leader with a set of unique qualities aimed at enriching the lives the followers while establishing a constructive effort towards achieving an organization’s goal.

Anshar, M. (2017)

Anshar (2017) highlights some of the basic leadership qualities that influence the behavioral performance of followers. According to him, a visionary leader will initiate learning and innovation amongst the followers enhancing their performance.

Huang, J., Wang, L., & Xie, J. (2014)

In his articles, Huang, Wang, and Xie (2014) explores the role of leadership identification and how it impacts reputation and ultimate performance basing on the leader-member exchange and organizational citizenship behavior models. The relationship between leader-member exchange and leadership identification has a significant impact on performance.

Van Dierendonck, D., Stam, D., Boersma, P., De Windt, N., & Alkema, J. (2014)

Leadership qualities are intertwined with basic skills and practices for an individual. According to Van Dierendonck, Stam, Boersma, De Windt, and Alkema there is a significant relationship between a transformational leader and servant leader. The key differences and similarities between two are outlined on the basis of the performance matrix.

Theme Two:

Leadership Environment

Opening Statement

Leadership environment is one of the most important drivers for leadership performance. The leadership environment provides the basis for employee relation and realization of the organization’s objectives.

Anshar, M. (2017)

Anshar (2017) confirms that there is a significant relationship between leadership performance and leadership environment. According to him environmental suitability provides an opportunity for implementation of visionary leadership objectives which are composed of organizational learning and innovative behavior.

Huang, J. et al. (2014)

Huang (2014) notes that the relationship between leadership identification to the leader-member exchange is determined by the organizational environment. The leadership environment provides a robust synergy for leadership performance.

Van Dierendonck et al. (2014)

Servant leadership and transformation leadership are mechanized on the basis of environmental certainty. Each leadership behavior is significantly influenced by the organizational environment.

Theme Three:

Leadership Relationship

Opening Statement

Leadership behavior has distinct similarities and differences. A leadership behavior is defined on the basis of leadership skills and experiences with regard to objective drive for the leadership practices basing on the organization’s values.

Anshar, M. (2017)

Anshar (2017) explores some of the relationships between visionary leadership, learning organization, and innovative behavior. According to him, a visionary leader must exhibit a learning organization and innovative behavior in order to influence the follower’s performance.

Huang, J. et al. (2014)

Leadership identification is one critical leadership practice that helps to measure leadership performance and reputation. For effective identification of a leader, Haung et al. (2014) explores the relationship between leader-member exchange and organization citizenship behavior as the key contributing factors for leadership performance.

Van Dierendonck et al. (2014)

There is distinct relationship between servant leadership and transformational leadership. The two are measured on the basis of significant difference and similarities.

Conclusion

The subject of leadership is a comprehensive topic that generates self-examination and purported evaluation to ascertain the basic concept of quality leadership. Leadership performance can be measured basing on the organization’s objectives and the expected outcome. However, the leadership style has a significant influence on leadership performance and the ultimate outcome.