Theories Trait The trait theory states that leaders have certain innate traits that enable them to lead, such as assertiveness, dependability, persistence and adaptability. ("Trait Theory", 2017) Behavioural Behavioural theories of leadership focus on the study of specific behaviours of a leader. For theorists, behaviour is the best predictor of his leadership influences and as a result, is the best determinant of leadership success. ("Behavioural Theories of Leadership", 2017) Contingency Contingency
Leadership is an essential component to ensure the achievement of an organization. There are many concepts related leadership is created by the researchers to explain the leadership. However, there is no specific theories or model can perfectly describe the leadership as the concept towards leadership keep on changing over the time. Therefore, the leadership can be classified into four different approaches, which are trait approach, behaviour approach, power-influence approach and contingency approach
In today’s contemporary world leadership behavior is considered the foundation of motivating employees that result in an organization being successful. According to (Mullins 2013 pg 369) leadership can be defined as “a relationship through which one person influences the behaviour or actions of other people”. Leaders should also possess the fortitude to inspire employees to high performance. According to (Robbins and Judge 2011 pg 204) motivation is defined as “the process that account for an individual’s
INFLUENCE OF LEADERSHIP VALUES COMMUNICATION ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF STUDENTS IN SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ETI-OSA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, LAGOS STATE CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF STUDY Communicating leadership values transcends the goals of learners to attain a purpose that redirects the student’s skills. Also, communication improves knowledge, induces virtues, enhances the cultural orientation of the students and structures their dispositions. Often, this leads to increased student-centred
3. The defensive strategy related to decrease the effort of an organization. 5.8 What are the 5 competitive strategies according to Porter? Explain each briefly. 1. Cost-leadership: keep cost and low prices to below of competitors and focus on wide markets. 2. Differentiation: provide unique and superior and focus on wide markets. 3. Cost-focus: keep cost and low prices and focus on narrow markets. 4. Focused-differentiation: provide unique and superior value and focus on narrow markets. 5.9 What
2010:596). There has been a long debate as to how leadership can make a difference in an organisation based on the organisational performance. This is an interesting topic to discuss as many factors can contribute to organisational performance. The purpose of this essay is to clarify the difference that a leadership can have on organisational performance by discussing the different theories of leadership - e.g. Power and Influence or the Contingency theory - and the outcome it can have on organisational
2.2.2.1 The growing literature on total quality management stresses the importance of TQM to organizational performance and has repeatedly stressed the lack of leadership support for the failure of many TQM initiatives. Some investigators have examined the implemen-tation of total quality management and its impact on organizational performance (e.g. Douglas & Judge, 2001; Jayaram et al., 1999), with both sets of researchers identifying strong positive relationships between the implementation of total
Leadership ‘Leadership is the process of influencing the activities of an individual or a group in efforts toward goal achievement in a given situation’ Hersey and Blanchard (1988). For my research on leadership I will be focusing on; - Expectancy Theory - The Path-Goal Theory of Leadership - Locus of Control Framework Expectancy Theory: I will begin with expectancy theory as this displays the sequence of key factors which motivate individuals in the workplace. To be an effective leader I must be
realm of leadership there are many theories that have been put forward which try to explain how or why someone is a great leader. Early leadership theories focused on what qualities distinguished between leaders and followers, while subsequent theories looked at other variables such as situational factors and skill levels. I will be going through the main contributions of each of the following theories in the following order. • Trait theories • Behavioural theories • Contingency theories • Charismatic
The purpose of this paper is to understand leadership and the path-goal theory of leadership and few others leadership style and how are these theory are supposed to used appropriately. Leadership is the process of influencing others to achieve group or organisational goals . Therefore, a leader’s behaviours is important to an organisation because the achievement of organisational goals mostly depends on a leader and their leadership behaviour(Mc William, Alan 2010) . A leader must deal directly