Week 7 capstone assignment

Leadership Theory

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Meghdoot Housing Agency operates in India and its main objective is to build low cost houses that can be bought or rented by low income earners in India. This agency is geared towards working together with the society in ensuring that the under-served population in the society receive some quality housing. The agency makes very serious decisions on the quality of the houses being constructed for their clients. The leadership issue arises at this point of ensuring that the clients receive quality housing, the leadership theory applied in this case by the various individuals at different management levels should ensure that the agency maintains the right standard and image in terms of the services they are providing. The most appropriate leadership theory that can be applied in this case is behavioral Theory (Sengupta & Shaw, 2017).

The company has a mission of serving the low income earners in the society and they are actually committed to give them good quality houses so when the behavior of the personnel is questionable at the various leadership position, things may not work out well. Behavioral theory of leadership focuses not on the traits or the inborn traits of an individual, instead this theory focuses on the what an individual is able to deliver on the particular responsibility that he/she has been signed (Northouse, 2018). This theory is built on an assumption that leaders are actually made because the behaviors of an individual can be adjusted to fit in a given status.

Behavioral theory will ensure that the leader is in a position to adjust to the various qualities depending on the clients who are being served. According to this theory, the leadership qualities are actually learnt and not inherent, in this case the leader will be able to study the various clients and have some clear understanding of what they really what, not from their inherited qualities but by what they have learnt from the field. This is what will make sure the service delivery is at its best and the agency mission is obtained.

References

Sengupta, U., & Shaw, A. (Eds.). (2017). Trends and Issues in Housing in Asia: Coming off an Age. Taylor & Francis.

Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage publications.