1. Of all the examples of leaders that you read about in this and other books, which leader (in your humble opinion) had the best leadership style (and one that you would either follow or emulate). Please explain.
2. How is it that an unethical leader can gain control over his/her followers and assert radical negative changes to the organization? 3. How do leadership styles affect decision making in an organization? Does the size of the organization make a difference?
4. How does team leadership differ from traditional leadership with the organization?
5. How can team leaders and members use the team leadership model to help make decisions?
6. What cultural considerations must be considered when leaders are in a multicultural environment? What does it take for a leader to be a true multicultural leader?
7. Do you feel that there are differences in leadership styles based upon gender? Why or why not?
8. What advantages do you see in the situational leadership approach? What determines the leader’s style (or behavior)?
9. In examining the various leadership models, what is the leader's role in ensuring that the team is functioning at the highest level? 10. Why are conceptual management skills more important to upper management than to supervisory level managers?
11. What must occur by the follower for servant leadership to take place? Why would the concept of servant leadership work better at an organization such as Wal-Mart?
12. In what types of situations would peer group coaching be effective? Explain.
13. What do we mean by organizational culture? Give an example of what organization has the most successful organizational culture.
14. Can the charismatic leadership style be learned, or is it ingrained in our DNA? Explain.
15. How do leaders use communication to influence and persuade others?
16. In order to survive in the 21st century, what is the best way for leaders to adapt?
17. Give an example where the authoritarian leadership style would be most effective.
18. Give an example where the laissez-faire leadership style would be most effective
19. Do you feel that it is a leader's responsibility to help people find meaning in their work? Explain.
20. Most large organizations have used transformational leaders to institute the necessary changes that the organization needs to adapt in order to survive. What makes transformation leadership so successful?
1. Of all the examples of leaders that you read about in this and other books, which leader (in your humble opinion) had the best leadership style (and one that you would either follow or emulate). Please explain.
From the very beginning of my studies I have been following Jeff
bezos as an inspirational leader for acquiring his qualities as
well as to learn analyse the technique of his leadership.
Jeff bezos is one of the most influential personalities in the international business industry. Jeff bezos has been very successful in creating a perfect structure for his work style to understand and improve the situation according to the market and moving his company to a positive state.
Some of the main qualities of Jeff bezos in terms of business
marketing are as follows :-
Strategic thinking
Jeff bezon has always focus on having a specific backbone for the company. By showing emotional intelligence in his leadership and implementing changes in the organisation while keeping the employees as the most important part of the organisation which is very beneficial for showing ethics and leadership skills towards your organisation and set an example. By setting up company culture against the social Cohesion and commitment towards your organisation has been his main strategic opinion for the organisational success. Inventing and thinking out of the box has always been a part of that jeff bezos thinking. Delivering innovative ideas in the company structure as well as thinking about the company in an international scale has always been very beneficial for Jeff bezos to stay competitive and to improve the overall market situation for Amazon.
Business development
Developing business by implementing new ideas and expanding the business to the countries where Amazon was not present is one of the main strategic opportunities which were being implemented by Jeff bezos. By showing meaningful leadership and setting up standards and delivery of the goods and services in this is specific industry has been very successfully implemented by Jeff bezos buy successfully priority customer care service and implementation of Definitely increase the overall implementation of studying the specific terms.
Influencing others
Influencing others by showing transitional as well as emotional leadership is always been a part of jeff bezos leadership structure. By being ethical towards the organisation and putting the employees on the top overall effectiveness of the services being provided by Amazon towards the customer and keeping in eye on this is specific issue has always shown his sensibility towards the organisation. This practices have influenced others to be more motivated and to be more ethical towards their employees as well as the workplace which is very influencing from Jeff bezos.
Change management
Change management inside the organisation is essential. Jeff bezos is very well known for thinking out of the box and implementing changes into delivery as well as other sections of the organisation. Jeff bezos is also responsible for maintaining changes into many structures of the Amazon which proved to be very beneficial for the specific market segment.
Effective communication
Is strategy of maintaining quality communication inside your organisation while creating an ethical workplace and putting up new strategies as well as technological implementations to increase the level of communication in the organisation is the best approach is which is used by Jeff bezos. My priorities in the customer care service and implementing a very large customer care service base with proper training and implementation of a training program effectiveness of the communication towards the customer as well as inter organisation communication has also increased by a very large scale.
2. How is it that an unethical leader can gain control over his/her
followers and assert radical negative changes to the
organization?
Unethical leader of any specific organisation uses power currencies to deal with any specific situation to his followers. This kind of influence is usually based on fear and using the power of authority in the organisation. This type of approach directly reduces the level of involvement of the employees as well as the efforts of the employees in any specific task. This is specific kind of our currency is reduces the overall level of dedication from the employee's side and heavily affects the organisation in a negative manner.
3. How do leadership styles affect decision making in an organization? Does the size of the organization make a difference?
Different leadership styles have different kind of decision
making process. Some of the leadership styles uses authoritarian
where other leadership styles use transitional decision making
processes which changes the holder decision making process inside
the organisation.
Definitely size of the organisation changes the decision making
process as most of the processes are affected by the number of
people being affected by a single decision. The kind of impact is
assessed which changes the decision making process in the
respective environment.
4. How does team leadership differ from traditional leadership with the organization?
Team leadership take the whole team as a single entity and makes the decision on the basis of betterment of all the people involved in any specific process which is the code difference from the traditional leadership approach. Traditional leadership approach Looks for individual performance improvement a rather than looking at the bigger aspect of choosing and driving the change according to the team spirit. This type of approach is the core difference between the team oriented leadership approach as well as the traditional leadership approach in any condition.
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