week 10

Signature Assignment Instructions

Deliverables:3

Week 9: Written report due on Saturday

Paper:

The past 7 weeks, we learned about Leadership to demonstrate your understanding. The signature assignment will pull together the assignments for each week and you will submit a paper that addresses the following.

You own a consulting firm specializing in the development of organizational leadership. You have been hired by a corporation to help them improve their leadership team by doing the following:

1. Identifying individual leaders by explaining what leadership skills are needed; their traits and ethics, leadership behavior and motivation, influencing power, politics, networking, and negotiation traits leaders possess. (400 words minimum).

2. Developing team leadership by explaining how charismatic and transformational leadership may benefit the organization. (400 words minimum).

3. Explaining the importance of leadership of culture, ethics, and diversity and how to improve this within the organization. (400 words minimum).

The total word count for this paper is 1200 words which is approximately 3.5 pages, double spaced, Times New Roman 12 pt. The cover page and the reference page is extra, so your paper should be a total of 7.5 pages minimum.

Presentation:

**I made all the assignments during the course which I’ve already answers the questions , but the work here is : YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT FOLLOWING THE WORDS NUMBERS THAT IS REQUIRED AND CHECK IF THE ANSWERS EXACTLY ANSWERS THE QUESTION, MAKE CHANGES IF NECESSARY AND ADD MORE INFORMATION TOO IF THE ANSWER IS NOT ANSWERING WHAT THE QUESTIONS REQUIRED.

1. Identifying individual leaders by explaining what leadership skills are needed; their traits and ethics, leadership behavior and motivation, influencing power, politics, networking, and negotiation traits leaders possess. (400 words minimum).

A simple definition of leadership is based on motivating a group of people with ideas that can be communicated to others in certain ways that engaged them to act as leaders and be successful in both personal and professional lives.

According to Lussier and Achua (2016) there are five key elements that describes and qualify effective leadership: Leader – followers, Influence, Organizational Objectives, Change and People. Leaders are expected by any organization or companies to be very strong and also have the ability of communicating well their vision to others or their followers which are groups influenced by leaders, a follower could be a manager or not, leaders and followers has same qualities needed to be effective, so to be a leader is necessary to share ideas to get something accomplished and influence people with it. The ability of influencing is not an easy task, for example a person that has empathy will have more power to influence others, also who has a great communications skill get to achieve the enthusiasm of their followers. Another key element of a leadership is Organizational Objectives that is very important for the leader performance, leaders has to set their goal with purposes to achieve their team effectively. Leadership also has the ability of Change, change people’s idea, mind and status to something different or new and its necessary work on creative strategies that requires confidence to convince their followers. Leadership is about leading and influencing People (another important skill to mention) to accomplish their goal aligning and motivating them, which is a very important element, is the people who follows and achieve the objectives.

Often leaders try to be perfectionist and inspire people with their thoughts and actions, but for this happen they have to follow the three management skills to be very successful. There are three types of management skills that define effective leaders: Technical Skills, Interpersonal skills and Decision-making Skills.

Technical Skills required a leader or managers to have abilities of using a variety of techniques to perform their task and objectives which involve operating software or computer skills, some positions and some types of jobs required technical skills. I believe that technical skills are very important to managers, it help them to analyze and solve internal problems also commanding and controlling the team. Another essential management skill that a leader/manager has to follow to be very successful is Interpersonal Skills which are the skills that have the ability of interact, understand and work effectively with people. These skills help the managers to develop a relationship with employees and motivate them to have better results, I think that soft Skills are very crucial and work effectively to the success of the leader and the team of any organization’s overall. Decision-Making skills are another indispensable skill based in making right decisions that results in a good performance, solving problems and get good opportunities. Managers has to have the ability of being creative and make right changes to better achieve the success of the business (Lussier & Achua, 2016)

To conclude, I believe those leadership skills are very important to all organization be successful, having leaders that set and achieved goals and inspiring others to follow their path in order to motivate and have a nice work atmosphere.

Reference

Lussier, R. N., & Achua, C. F. (2016). Leadership: Theory, Application, & Skill Development (6 ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

2) Developing team leadership by explaining how charismatic and transformational leadership may benefit the organization. (400 words minimum).

Charismatic leaders have the ability to inspire and build confidence with a clear vision. Charisma is a peculiarity connected between leaders and followers that have characteristics of great personality to attract and influence people. Charismatic leaders use their communication and emotional style to persuade and gain admiration of followers who often develop emotional sensitivity and a strong sense of trust with the leader. The effects of charismatic leaders on followers are based on leaders “right” vision, their positiveness and the way leaders share it has an impact on followers, they simply developed self-confidence and self- efficacy while they work to perform leader’s sight.

Charisma is not always used to do great and positive inspire way, there is differentiating between positive and negative charisma which can identify in the values and terms of the leader. Based on this both ways positive and negative charisma, there are two types of leaders which are identified as the Socialized Charismatic leader (SCL) and the Personalized charismatic leader (PCL). Socialized Charismatic leader is characterized by leaders with empowerment personality which involves leaders promoting their growth and inspiring their followers to do the same as their ideal using charisma to benefit others. On the other hand, Personalized Charismatic leader or negative leader is based on narcissistic personality characterized by strong power of their needs who uses charisma for personal benefits (Lussier & Achua, 2016).

Followers are inspired by actions and performances of leaders those actions can take positive or negative ways of follower’s behavior. The SCL expects to have positive effects on their followers reinforce consistency behavior which combine with the mission of the organization, by observing leaders self- confidence and self- efficacy followers tend to develop it as well and work same way as their leader vision, so when this happen it motivates followers and creates comfortable atmosphere with productivity and better quality of work. Personalized or negative charismatic leaders use their charisma and power based on dominance that cause authoritarianism behavior which affect negatively their followers. Decisions of the leaders are based on self-interest using their power to self-manage goals only when it supports their own needs.

Personalized leader’s traits have significantly association with followers’ actions, the leader’s personality, characteristics and persuasive power can directly affect followers’ behaviors, they tend to embrace leader’s subordination and also have personalized feelings of obedience and devotion which can cause personal disapproval, several detriments between their followers. In contrast, socialized charismatic impacts on raise follower’s motivation and facilitations to achieve the goal of the organization. To sum up, the charismatic leaders is an example of identification for followers, their work, responsibilities and behavior effects on followers’ perceptions that build a positive image consistent with the values of the leader’s vision. Furthermore, Charismatic leaders have the abilities of empowerment expressing confidence and optimism at a high level, that way they set personal examples which help Set out traits and actions coinciding with the vision and goals that they support.

Reference

Lussier, R. N., & Achua, C. F. (2016). Leadership: Theory, Application, & Skill Development (6 ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.

3) Explaining the importance of leadership of culture, ethics, and diversity and how to improve this within the organization. (400 words minimum).

Globalization of the economies and integration has created a great need for diversity. Diversity has been perceived as strength to the organization and every business entity is looking for ways implementing diversity management in its workplace. However, even if diversity is a source of strength to the organization, there are numerous challenges associated with diversity. In this discussion, the advantages and disadvantages of diversity are addressed.

There are numerous benefits of embracing diversity. First, it creates an opportunity for the organization to tap a wider pool of the talents and skills which are used to propel the organization to another level. Second, it creates an opportunity to integrate and combine together different ideas which help to improve the quality of the decisions that are made and also to promote innovation. Third, diversity brings employees together and promotes cordial interpersonal relationships among the employees which leads to increases in productivity because employees work to achieve shared common objective. Fourth, diversity creates avenues for employees to build their trust, creates senses of the inclusion and belonging which motivates and inspires employees resulting to increased job satisfaction and ultimately resulting to increase in output.

Even though there are numerous advantages of diversity, managers do face challenges in managing diversity. Some of the potential challenges of diversity are: it may be costly because management is required to run training programs to equip employees with interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence skills that would help employees to relate with one another; there could be increased cases of the intergroup conflict and resistance because of the difference in the values, beliefs and ideas among the employees and finally, there could be incidences of communication barriers and discrimination (Inegbedion et al…,2020). However, even if there are demerits of diversity, management must look for ways to handle them and support diversity.

References

Inegbedion, H., Sunday, E., Asaleye, A., Lawal, A., & Adebanji, A. (2020). Managing Diversity for Organizational Efficiency. SAGE Open, 10(1), 2158244019900173.