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Neocharismatic Leadership: The Hunger Project

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The last of six nonprofits that I analyzed is The Hunger Project which humanitarian organization throughout the world with actions that take hunger issues to a holistic impact. The common miss conception of The Hunger Project it that they send meals to these countries (The, 2015). This is not the case The Hunger Project is a three pillared action that focuses on building communities by one, empowering women to be keep change agents, two, mobilizing entire communities to be self-reliant and three, preparing local population to engage in government (The, 2015). The Hunger Project would be described as a leadership theory called neocharismatic leadership. Neocharismatic leadership vision that gives the followers a sense of purpose and meaning (Winkler, 2010, p.31). The basic approach to this leadership theory is that with a new sense of purpose the individuals in these regions and countries will effectively build and sustain their own communities while treating everyone in the society with respect and a feeling of purpose. As you can see the main goal for The Hunger …show more content…
Asa Skogstrom Feldt is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Hunger Project and joined the staff in 2004 as the country director for Sweden and In 2012 she was given the position as CEO (The, 2015). By the information and research conducted in this analysis Feldt has the traits of a Democratic leader. A democratic leader ultimately makes the final decisions but they do so in a highly creative and team sense with high satisfaction (Leadership Styles, 2015, p.2). Feldt most resembles this leadership style because she had previously worked on committee boards with The Hunger Project and IKEA (The, 2015). This leadership style is extremely group oriented but can also cause the organization to be ineffective when quick decisions need to be

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