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Leadership Vision

Leadership Vision   My vision of leadership   Even though there are specific types of leaders stated in the theory, no such leader performs only one leadership style towards followers. From my perspective, employee is one of the most valuable stakeholders in leader’s viewpoint, thus, employee retention is the most significant ability of the leader. In addition, employees’ job satisfactions and happiness are the key to increase organizational productivity (Harris, Hinds, Manansingh, Rubino, & Morote, 2016). Therefore, servant leadership, which is a practice of being in a relationship with others (Spears, 1996), is a leadership style that I wish to achieve through emphasizing employees and involving them in every possible decision-making, so that the strong relationship is built and eventually be a crucial foundation to improve their performances.   Besides a well-built relationship between a leader and followers, the potential to transform followers by enlarging their ...

Managing Change

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  Managing Change In the organization, the ability to adapt to change at both individual and organizational level could lead to path of success (Mullin, 2016). However, in some people’s perspectives, change may present a degree of uncertainty and unknown, likely to make their life more difficult, and reduce a sense of security in the past. As a result, despite positive outcomes, there are various reasons that people tend to resist to change. Moreover, Crainer (1998) stated that not only followers, but some managers also refuse to accept the necessity of change. Hence, this blog aims to discuss effective approaches that can result in minimal resistance to change. Power and Control   Since each person has different levels of willingness, leaders should understand and approach followers in a proper yet effective way. Power, which is the ability to control people, can be exercised in this situation (Krackhardt, 1990). Etzioni (1975) classified three types of power, which are coerc...

Analysis of Leadership

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Analysis of Leadership   Even though the term of leadership and management are sometimes apparently identical, they are different. Leadership explains the behavior of a person who leads subordinates by influencing with understand, so that they willingly perform the assigned jobs. While management is a process by which a person who strictly follows the procedures to get the jobs done through their followers (Mullin, 2016). However, Mintzberg (2009) argued that we cannot really separate these two behaviors in practice. Therefore, this blog aims to discuss about different approaches in managing the work of followers.   Four main factors that affect leader’s traits include demographic factors, values, abilities and skills, and personalities (Nahavandi, 2015). Demographic factors can be ethnicity, or inborn qualities that are individually distinctive. Values are cultivated from upbringing and stable. While abilities such as creativity, are natural talent and long-lasting, skills ar...

The challenges of managing diverse teams

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The challenges of managing diverse teams   “It is people who are the organization” (Mullins, 2016, p. 2)   Nowadays, in the dynamic business environment, it is essential to understand the organizational behavior, which is related to the understanding of people’s manner. In the organization, despite the same vision and mission, employees come from different societies as well as having diverse backgrounds and attitudes, which are factors that considerably associate with company’s goal (Taras, Steel, & Kirkman, 2011, p. 189). To stand competitive, being specialized is inadequate because it is necessary to work cooperatively in  cross- cultural teams .  Thus, it is significant for managers to supervise members, especially with diverse perspectives, towards achievement and objectives.    However, diversity in workplace sometimes demonstrates downsides. For example, in some organizational agreement, diversity could lead to misunderstanding and cause cultural ...

Leadership and Ethics

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  Leadership and Ethics   It can be easily seen in our broad society that places facilitated by leaders, who equally listen, show trust, and genuinely believe in their companions, reflect in followers’  fulfilled  perspective (Ehrhart & Klein, 2001, p.159). On the other hand, some leaders that normally do not provide moral standards and tends to perform illegal management towards corporations and followers yet commonly exist. Therefore, this blog aims to reveal different leadership actions.   Having said that, one phenomenon of leadership style that has caught interest is called “Ethical Leadership”, as conceptualized by  Brown,   Treviño  and  Harrison  (2005, p.120) that ethical leadership is the behavior using interpersonal communication and incorporated decision-making to demonstrate an appropriate behavior to followers. Aside from ethics, which is widely discussed as a positive component of leadership style (Brown & Mitchell...