...An Evaluation of Leadership Style, Process and Procedure of Simon Cowell The Founder and CEO of SYCO Student Name Instructor’s Name Course Date INTRODUCTION The concept of leadership is a relevant subject in 20th century and the early years of the 21st century (Northouse, 2004). Leadership can be described as a way of social control that sees a person getting the support and aid of others on completing a specific task (Adair, 2005). Thus, effective leadership is the ability to effectively incorporate and exploit existing resources within an organization for the accomplishment of the goals and objectives of such organization (Northouse, 2004). The issue of leadership continues to be a famous concept. Despite the fact that lots has been written about leadership, the importance of leadership has not diminished. According to Cohen (2009), “leadership always matters and continues to be more matter as time goes on”. This report considers the leadership style of Simon Cowell, the CEO and founder of SYCO, as a transformational leader that has tremendous impact on organisational change of the company. The report reviews leadership theories and concepts such as traits, styles and skills. The report clearly follows the chronological development of leadership theories and focus on Simon Cowell as a leader, the leadership environment and the leadership relationship. This report also explores possible links between theories and Simon Cowell’s leadership. It takes a holistic...
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...Leadership Style Bret Jacobsen Western Governors University Leadership Style A1. & A2. Style and Philosophy Impact/Evaluation: The practicum site administrator most often utilizes a transformational leadership approach, where she likes to be out among the stakeholders, including parents, teachers and scholar’s, providing a hands on methodology to leadership while being involved with those she works with. The site administrator sets the example, by modeling what she expects others to do. Additionally, the administrator likes to put coworkers into a position where they feel confident and comfortable solving their own problems and solutions without being micromanaged, which creates ownership. Her door is always open and she is willing to help if needed, but prefers to let stakeholders be professional and do what needs to be done. According to Smith (2017), a transformational leader creates an empowering culture that includes, values, shared vision, intrinsic needs and covenants. The principal rarely becomes authoritative in her leadership approach, but has had to use it on occasion when direction was necessary. In my opinion, you seem to get a much better outcome when stakeholders are given time to reflect and come up with their own solutions or ways to accomplish a certain task, which empowers the individual, and brings about...
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...ADVANTAGES and DISADVANTAGES of SOME COMMON LEADERSHIP STYLES and EVALUATION OF HOW TO IMPLEMENT THEM BEST in the 21st CENTURY Name:Lei Jie Student Number:139105483 Tutor Name: Nathan Lomax Word Count:982 WORDS Module Number:MODULE LE2023 As international companies become more and more powerful, their leaders are faced with the responsibility for their survival and development. Being aware of different leadership styles could help them to make the right decisions. This essay looks at three common leadership styles, evaluates their strengths and weaknesses and examines how they may be implemented in the 21st century workplace. Although it may be difficult to classify people under specific headings, having awareness of different styles could be a benefit to managers. One leadership style identified by Goleman (2000) is the coercive style. This kind of leadership is synonymous with dictatorship, where only one person presides with absolute authority over the followers or workers(“Autocratic Leadership Style,” n.d.). The coercive leadership style is most often associated with negative leaders. People with coercive traits, a means of control, often give compulsory orders and need absolute obedience, or severe punishment is awaiting. It might inhibit the organization’s flexibility and weaken employees’ incentive. Employees’ under long-term emotional domination would feel depressed and stressful. However, today, autocratic leadership, used correctly, remains distinctly effective...
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...Behavior is critical to organizations. Benefits of self-evaluation/self- assessment as it relates to leaders today. Leadership is all about people. Effective leaders have strong ability to create a compelling vision and lead people to the achievements of goals. Irrespective of whether you are an experienced leader or new and feeling uneasy in a leadership role, one of the key knowledge one should possess is knowledge of self. Leaders are influential. This fact makes the understanding of how exactly the leader effects his followers a vital part for the leader’s and organization success. Knowing oneself is the first step to such understanding. Numerous studies on leadership attributes, be it personality traits, skills or knowledge provide us with a rich coverage of what makes a good leader. Leaders must be visionary, charismatic, curious, creative, competent, empathetic, courageous, have good communication skills and exhibit common sense (Lee Iacocca’s 9C’s), relentless in execution, intellectually and emotionally intelligent. There is hardly anyone that can get the highest scores in all the dimensions. That is where the self-awareness takes the prime part. Self-assessment and evaluation are the exercises that can increase leader’s self-awareness in different areas, from values and personal style to impact on others and own strengths and limitations. Let’s consider some of the areas for self-assessment and evaluation benefits for the leader. Authenticity There were more...
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...paced loan agency Title Max, as a manager of lending and collections. The managing environment I personally exercise is the participate management style, according to Lin (2013), participative leadership is the most common form practiced in the corporate world and within the political scene. This type of leadership favors decisions made by a group, the team and subordinates all take part in the decisions for the office I work in. The reason I use this model most of the time is this style allows the team involvement and enhances the moral because each team member has the opportunity to have input within the organization This also gives my team the opportunity to feel as if their opinion does matter, thus it enhances the rewards system and growth to their own self-esteem grows with their participation; thus, triggers job satisfaction. There are faults in this system however; according to Lin (2013), participate leadership can fail if the employees are not experienced or do not have the knowledge base necessary to make formal decisions. This is also the reason I use transformation and visionary styles within my leadership style. Visionary leadership is being able to see what the future may hold, such as forecasting. Lewis, Packard, and Lewis (2007). Forecasting is widely used in retail; I have incorporated this into my management style in order to accurately forecast the organizations...
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...The candidate provides a reasonable description, with limited detail, of the organization and its objective(s). The candidate provides a reasonable description, with adequate detail, of the organization and its objective(s). The candidate provides a reasonable description, with substantial detail, of the organization and its objective(s). A2. Leadership Practices The candidate does not provide a reasonable description of 3 leadership practices of the primary leader of the organization. The candidate provides a reasonable description of 1–2 leadership practices of the primary leader of the organization. The candidate provides a reasonable description, with limited detail, of 3 leadership practices of the primary leader of the organization. The candidate provides a reasonable description, with adequate detail, of 3 leadership practices of the primary leader of the organization. The candidate provides a reasonable description, with substantial detail, of 3 leadership practices of the primary leader of the organization. A3. Effects of Current Leadership The candidate does not provide a logical discussion of how the current leadership has affected organizational culture. The...
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...and its objective(s). | The candidate provides a reasonable description, with limited detail, of the organization and its objective(s). | The candidate provides a reasonable description, with adequate detail, of the organization and its objective(s). | The candidate provides a reasonable description, with substantial detail, of the organization and its objective(s). | | A2. Leadership Practices | The candidate does not provide a reasonable description of 3 leadership practices of the primary leader of the organization. | The candidate provides a reasonable description of 1–2 leadership practices of the primary leader of the organization. | The candidate provides a reasonable description, with limited detail, of 3 leadership practices of the primary leader of the organization. | The candidate provides a reasonable description, with adequate detail, of 3 leadership practices of the primary leader of the organization. | The candidate provides a reasonable description, with substantial detail, of 3 leadership practices of the primary leader of the organization. | | A3. Effects of Current Leadership | The candidate...
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...Leadership Styles Introduction: In my assignment I will be writing about all of the different styles of leadership, what is good about them and what is bad about them, I will be comparing them with each other and I will be evaluating how effective they are for a leader in the public services. P1: Authoritarian: It is a direct style where the leader tells the team members what they need to do. This is a task orientated style of leadership, it is a good style of leadership because it gets the job done quickly, this is good because it gets the job done quickly and effectively, it allows members of the group to focus on performing specific tasks without worrying about making complex decisions, this allows the team members to become good at a certain role and they can then specialize in that role all the way through their service. The downsides to this style of leadership is that people can abuse this leadership style and become dictatorial and this can lead to dis-agreements within the team and sometimes it can lead to team members resenting the leader and not following his/hers instructions, this is bad because it means that the team wont work efficiently together meaning that they wont get the job done as quickly or at all, another downside is that the leader wont be able to find a very creative or effective way of completing a task, this is bad because the task might require an obscure way of completing it but the leader may not be able to think of a way to complete it....
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...2012 MG-346 Term Paper Gender Differences In Managerial Style A Study was conducted to assess whether there were gender differences in perceived effectiveness of management skills. Gender differences were found (by gender) on the set of management skills that I studied for this class they were communicating, coaching and developing, and time management. It was not surprising that females reported higher perceived effectiveness then men in the communicating skills. Females are more likely than males to indicate that they use an interactive style of management called transformational leadership. This leadership style was found to be correlated with lots of management skills associated with success. After doing lots of research I have found that females receive more developmental opportunities than their male colleagues. Through the early 1990’s, a growing body of research emerged that there were no gender differences in gender differences(Rosener , 1990). Although the work of Rosener have shaken lots of studies to find out if gender really play a part in your work place, they all have difference in opinion. Given the number of studies that have been done on this subject everyone has came up with different findings. Gender differences in such styles such as leadership and management it is important to emphasize that the research results may not provide enough evidence of gender differences in actual leadership behaviour and management effectiveness. Rather, the study provides...
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...The Impact of leadership Styles on Quality Management in Health care Effective and strong leadership is one of, if not the most important and critical component for any organization’s success, particularly in health care facilities. Leadership also plays a major role in enhancing an organization’s competitiveness as confirmed by various academics (Rowe, 2001; Riaz & Haider, 2010). Many argue and suggest that there is a connection between an organization’s leadership style and its ability to implement and manage quality initiatives. That being said, researchers still encounter difficulties when assessing the effect of leadership styles on healthcare quality management, as most of the available theories were developed outside of healthcare setting. This paper aims to present an evaluation and a review of published scholarly articles discussing three styles of leadership and their association with quality management initiatives. The three leadership styles chosen for this evaluation are: Transformational leadership, servant leadership, and situational leadership. The paper will also describe my current leadership style, then compare it to the transformational model, and finally outline the changes I need to implement in order to incorporate its key characteristics into my own style. Research Summaries In the first article titled “Knowledge Management as a Mediator for the Efficacy of Transformational Leadership and Quality Management Initiatives in U.S. Health Care”...
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...| Organizations and Behavior | A Theoretical Perspective | Muhammad Ariful Islam 01-Aug-12 | Contents Introduction 3 1. Understanding of Different Approaches to Management and Leadership 3 1.1 Comparison of Effectiveness of different leadership styles in different organizations 3 1.1.1 Autocratic Leadership Style 3 1.1.2 Democratic or Participative Leadership Style 4 1.1.3 Free Rein Leadership Style 4 Table: 1 5 1. 2 The Best Suited Leadership Style in this Scenario 5 1. 3. How Organisational Theory Supports the Practice of Management 5 1.3.1 Classical Theory 5 1.3.2 Neoclassical Theory 6 1.3.3 Contemporary Theory 6 1.4. An Evaluation of Different Approaches to Management Used by Different Organizations 6 1.5. Organisations that Adopt Different Approaches of Management 8 2. Understanding of the Ways of Using Motivational Theories in Organisations 8 2.1 The Impact of Different Leadership Style on Motivation in the Periods of Organizational Change 8 2.2 An Effective Leadership Style Can Help to Achieve Organisational Objectives 8 2.3 Comparison of the Application of Different Motivational Theories within the Workplace 9 2.4 ‘Motivation can Increase Employee’s Performance’- A Justification with Argument 9 2.5 The Usefulness of a Motivation Theory for Managers 9 3. Understanding of the Mechanisms for Developing Effective Teamwork in Organisations 10 3.1 The Nature of Groups and Group Behaviour Within Organisations 10 ...
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...Report on THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP STYLE ON MOTIVATION IN WORK ORGANIZATIONS Submitted to: Lorin Walker, Manager and Gary Hart, Instructor for OB 689R Submitted by: Leonard Winegar April 20, 1977 i ABSTRACT This report is an evaluation of leadership style as it affects motivation and productivity in work organizations. The terms pertinent to this work are first defined. Historical and current theories are then presented and discussed. Theory understanding and implementation are essential to increase motivation in the organization. Data from leadership style studies is presented showing that situational determinants, traits, and wide style range are essential to promote motivation and effective leadership. There is no single "narrow" leadership style for all occasions rather the whole leader is needed for optimum productivity. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT...................................................................................................................................i TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................................................ii I. INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................1 II. LEADERS DEFINED...............................................................................................................2 Leadership and Leadership Style Illuminated...........................................
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...Cultural Context in Yahoo – How it Contributed to the Lack of Growth and Direction 3 3. How could Yahoo Turn Around their Business? 4 3.A. Cultural-Excellence Approach 4 i. A Bias for Action 4 ii. Closeness To the Customer 4 iii. Autonomy and Entrepreneurship 5 iv. Productivity Through People 5 v. Hands-on Management 5 vi. Stick to the Knitting 5 vii. Simple Form, Lean Staff 5 viii. Simultaneous Loose-tight Organisation 5 3.B. Organizational Learning 6 4. Recommended HR and Leadership Practices 7 4.A. Human Resource Practices 7 i. Fair Evaluation System of Employees 7 ii. Open House Discussions and Feedback Mechanism 7 iii. 360 degree Performance Management Feedback System 8 iv. Attract, Recruit and Retain the Right People 8 4.B. Leadership Practices 9 i. Participative Leadership Style 9 ii. Transactional Leadership Style 10 iii. Transformational Leadership Style 10 5. Potential Sources of Resistance Among Yahoo Employees 11 6. Conclusion 11 7. References 12 1. Introduction i. Company Profile & Main Issues For nearly ten years, Yahoo has delivered Web services to millions of people daily, and in the process made billions of dollars. As the history off Yahoo unfolded and experienced a phenomenal climb to success, Yahoo creators and shareholders were confident in their goldmine that would undoubtedly bring a consistent flow of success (Hock 2005, 33). But...
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...Issues in Instructional Design and Technology Chapter 10 – Evaluation in Instructional Design: Question: How could an entrepreneur use the CIPP model to develop a business plan? Describe each of the four components and translate the steps to its utility in the private sector of Evaluation Models. Stufflebeam’s CIPP Evaluation Models Context Evaluation | Input Evaluation | Process Evaluation | Product Evaluation | Assessment of the environment in which an innovation or program will be used , to determine the need and objectives for the innovation to identify the factors in the environment that will impact the success of its use. The analysis is frequently called a needs assessment, and it is used in making program planning decision. | Evaluation questions are raised about the resources that will be used to develop and conduct the innovation/program. What people, funds, space and equipment will be available for the project ? Will these be sufficient to produce the desired results? | This correspond closelyTo formative evaluation. Process evaluation is used to examine the ways in which an innovation program is being develop, the way it is implemented, and the initial effectiveness, and effectiveness after revisions. Data are collected to inform the project leader about the status of the project. | Focuses on the success of the innovation/program in producing the desired outcomes. Product evaluation includes measuring the outcome variables specified in the program...
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...Task Two: Leadership Practices analysis Task Two: Leadership Practices analysis C200 Managing Organizations and Leading People C200 Managing Organizations and Leading People Table of Contents Section A1 | Leadership Style and Practices | | A1 A1a | Seven Habits Profile Seven Habits Profile and Reflection | | Section A2 | Evaluation of Leadership Practices | | A2a A2b A2c A2d | Leadership Strengths Leadership Weaknesses Theory Based Changes to Maximize Success SMART Goals | | Section B | Works Cited | | B1 | Reference Page | | February 5th 2016 Managing Organizations and Leading People TASK TWO: LEADERSHIPAND PRACTICES ANALYSIS A1. Leadership Style and Practices – Seven Habits Profile A1a. Seven Habits Profile Reflection In this paper I will reflect on my own leadership practices, starting with the results of my Seven Habits profile. Upon first viewing the results of the seven habits profile, the lowest scores caught my attention first. I saw that section 5, putting things first, was the lowest score at 10 points. I agree with the the seven habits profile, this is my biggest weakness when evaluated on the seven habits criteria. I can admit that sometimes I get lost in my work and forget about the things that really matter and the bigger picture. An article in People Management says that people who follow this habit well “recognize that not doing everything is okay. Evaluate...
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