Org Behavior: Cover various theories of leadership (MGMT311: Week #6 Essay)

Leadership essay
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Introduction
This paper will review the course content and will cover various theories of leadership. It will address any connection between leadership and inherited individual traits. It will also discuss leadership styles and how they apply to different situations and circumstances.
Transformation theory has been discussed as the most relevant to most businesses in the current society and various reasons have been advanced to support its relevance.
Is everyone cut out to be a leader?
Various theories have been put in place to explain the concept of leadership on whether an individual is born a leader or not. Trait theory postulates that certain inherited qualities such as personality and cognitive traits are what yield into an effective leader.
However, skills theory disapproves any connectivity between inheritated qualities and effective leadership but rather argues that learned skills, developed skills and acquired knowledge are key determinants of leadership performance.
Does it make sense to change a person's leadership style or the situation?
It makes great sense to change leadership style with the situation to fit different situations and circumstances in life. This has been advanced by theories such as situational theory.
Fred Fiedler would recommend for changing leadership styles with the situation one finds himself in. He attaches leadership to relationships with the followers and tasks to be done. This requires engaging in relationship building with ones followers to win their loyalty as well exercising power depending with the varying circumstances of work to achieve your goals.
Accordingly, for a leader to be effective the leader must have the ability to change and adjust his style to suit different situations. This is because different situations call for different styles of leadership.
Transformational leadership
In my working experience, I have worked with transformational leaders.
These leaders used soft tactics to influence their followers such as persuasions, consultations, inspirational and personal appeals which helped in developing workers commitment, (chap 14, p 326).
They engaged followers in most aspects of operation through effective communication channels they put in place as well incorporated the input of workers in decision making processes hence giving them a sense of ownership in the business process and operations, (chapter 12).
They created a connection with workers by enhancing their motivation and morality which translated into improved working relations.
They were also attentive to the needs and motives of workers under them in an attempt to help them realize their maximum potential. They were effective listeners of their followers and they gained trust and respect from their followers.
They nurture creativity in their followers by stim...