Organizational Leadership Analysis

This essay’s goal is to capture the most important aspects of leadership that is relevant to this author’s journey through this educational process on organizational leadership. This voyage reflects on leadership characteristics associated with learned experiences. The CSU-Global Master of Science in Organizational Leadership (MSOL) course is instrumental in developing the ability to analyze, evaluate, develop, demonstrate, and assess leadership skills. It builds upon skills learned throughout the course of personal experience while giving in-depth knowledge and awareness of current leadership theories that also includes emerging theories that students can add to a leadership toolbag. This author has keyed in on such tools as self-assessment,

The effects of decision-making and leadership styles on relationships and perceived effectiveness in the university development context by Van Loveren, R, 2007, Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Retrieved from http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3855.

Stakeholder Strategies

Stakeholders are the employees, corporate partners, government representatives, and industry regulators. Influencers are not just the corporate executives and upper management, but also the communities the organizations operate in and the investors that have a say on the strategic vision. Charismatic to servant leadership back to the transformational leader theories have the most influence on stakeholders. As such, the transformational leader must be able to get by-in from all stakeholders on the vision to improve the organization.

Shareholders

Shareholders can have a say with proposals, although management can choose to reject these proposals even if shareholders are able gain more than 50 percent of the votes (Paz & Uson, 2015). It is understandable that management has the responsibility to ensure proposals meet certain criteria, but it should also have a responsibility to publish shareholder requests whether a proposal meets the criteria for presentation or not. This will show shareholders not involved in the process that there is a comittment to

If one looks through a lens, you can see that diversity has always been a part of organizations with race, gender, religion, and ethnicity (Van Wart, 2013). Yet many organizations of old did not work across global markets or timelines which has brought a whole new challenge to the forefront as leaders now are forced to deal with language and cultural barriers. Middlehurst (2008) posits that current diversity and cultural challenges involve differentiation, distinctiveness, and personalization that impacts the leader’s ability to apply sensitivity due to inter-cultural complexity. Van Wart (2013) distinguishes the collaborative theory as an effective style that focuses on increasing training, clear guidance, and problem solving that works well with horizontal relationships and self-managed