...Leadership and Power Michealah Garska LDR/300 Monday, July 20, 2015 Mari Hadely Leadership and Power Introduction What is power? How does power relate to leadership? What types of power are there, and what do they mean? What is the relationship between power and influence? These are questions that every future leader should ask and give an answer to each of them in order to succeed in a leadership role. Today all of these questions are going to be answered. Describe power and explain how it relates to leadership What does power mean? One of the dictionary definitions of power is the ability or right to control people or things. As stated by Merriam-Webster: 1. The ability or right to control people or things 2. Political control of a country or area 3. A person or organization that has a lot of control and influence over other people or organizations. How power relates to leadership is by giving the leader the tools to influence his or her team members to achieve a common goal(s). When there is any type of leadership there will be power that comes with it being the leader. Leadership is power. The way that the leader uses his or her power depends on the type of person and leadership style the leader uses. Describe the various types of power There are many types of power such as, legitimate power, coercive power, expert power, informational power, reward power, connection power, and referent power. The first type of power is legitimate this is when...
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...head: SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP Successful Leadership: The Aspiration to Inspire Others Heather Shaw Liberty University Abstract This paper addresses many of the behaviors needed to lead others effectively. Leadership is not achieved through an appointed position, but rather, through character traits that inspire others to follow. The variations of leadership power and styles identify key leadership qualities. The fundamental traits of transformational and servant leadership, focus on the empowerment of others. Ethical integrity is the foundation of leadership character, a critical factor of successful leadership abilities. Successful Leadership: The Aspiration to Inspire Others Purpose of Leadership Often, a common misconception made between leaders and managers. There is a significant difference distinguishing management and leadership. Any person has the ability to manage; however, it takes the very nature and character of an individual to lead others. Kirsten Graham published an article Leading with a Purpose: A Case for Soul Leadership in Development and Learning in Organizations, examining the very principles of leadership (2011). Graham (2011) emphasizes a crucial element of leadership stating that leadership is not acquired through processes and abilities, “but the expression of their true nature”. Leaders have a vision to explore opportunities, empowering others to follow in the same passion for success. The role of leadership is crucial to empower...
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...Leadership Approach Happiness R. Brown University of Phoenix LDR/531 Organizational Leadership Brenda Talsma October 22, 2012 An important aspect to any organization or team is leadership and the impact it can have on the success and completion of projects, goals and objectives. Leaders have many different styles in their approach of the leadership role. Some qualities needed to perform successful leadership roles include: respect, confidence, loyalty and obedience. The writer will provide an over-view and some insight of the approach of power-influence leadership. “Power-influence research examining influence processes between leaders and other people” (Yukl, 2010, p.14). Power can be achieved through established relationships between leaders and followers. Individuals must be first willing to work together to achieve objectives and having influence to lead people will help in achieving that. Power is used not only in professional environments but in the personal lives of individuals as well. Power can be attained through ways that include: hard work, money, information, and intelligence. Power can be viewed as neutral and most often power is subject to one’s ethics and point of view. Many people who hold some form of power have been able to develop and retain relationships that have benefited them well in many areas. Politicians are able to develop and retain relationships with the people of their communities and then encourage those community members...
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...Brother Big Sisters or The Bowery Leadership Academy are attempting to enact changes by helping at risk or minority youth and students but in different ways. Before they can be successful there has to be a way of making sure there is a set of steps for them to follow in order to reach this goal. Social change theories are what give social changes the structure or it’s backbone allowing it to make some actual progress to achieve their goals. There has to be a sense of communication between those who are helping and those who are going to be helped. Communication is the active engagement with the participants, helpers, providers and the receivers of any or all the products or effects that the organization or agent of...
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...Situational Leadership 3.1 Purpose of the Model 3.2 Leadership Style 3.3 Followers Maturity levels 3.4 Leadership Support 3.5 Regression 3. Situational Leadership and Power 4.6 Types of Power 4.7 Powers Bases 4.8 Uses of Power 4. Advantages of the Situational Leadership Model 5. Conclusions and Recommendations 6. Acknowledgments | Pg 1Pg 1Pg 2Pg 2Pg 2Pg 3Pg 4Pg 4Pg 4Pg 4Pg 5Pg 5Pg 6Pg 7 | 1. INTRODUCTION The name of my organization is Victory Tabernacle Church. I am one of the two associate Pastors to the Bishop who is the CEO of the church. Victory Tabernacle has a membership of around 250 people excluding Children. Our goal is to have a membership of 500 by the end of 2015. The membership addition method used by Victory Tabernacle is each one reach one. However each member falls into a category or group that matches either their age or marital status. Each of these social groups have leaders who help run with the agenda of the organization. In the past there has not really been a specific method, or model of leadership applied to how we select leaders, how the leadership function nor how they perform their tasks not even how they in turn choose their followers. The leaders were simply selected and given leadership positions based on the assumption that they will be able to function in there given area. In this assignment I will be writing a report to my CEO explaining the Situational Leadership model and the...
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...design makes it sociable, unavoidably drawn into a neurological connection whenever we interact with another person. This two-way connection allows us to affect everyone we interact with both physically and mentally. The new science of social intelligence should be thought of in terms of being intelligent not just about our personal and professional relationships, but also in them. Goleman explains that this involves expanding our focus in a way that looks beyond the individual to understand what really occurs when people interact, and to look beyond narrow self-interest to the best interests of others as well. Emotional Economy The realization that one person can trigger an emotion in another person or vice versa represents the powerful mechanism by which feelings are disseminated to others. Goleman classifies this as emotional contagion which is the emphasis of emotional economy. Emotional contagion comes in two forms; low road and high road. The low road is mental circuitry that operates in our subconscious at a very fast rate and tends to involve impulsive decision-making. The high road consists of mental circuitry that operates at the conscious level and is more structured, requires deliberate effort and tends to involve rational decision-making. Rapport Goleman conveys that one of the most basic, but important aspects of relationships involves rapport. He explains that rapport only exists between people and we see it when an interaction with another feels pleasant...
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...Section V – Article 1-6 Power and Influence is the topic for section V, it discussed six of the most important ideas on power and influence. It also defined power as the resource that allows leaders to influence people to do what they would normally not want to do. The first selection from the section is by Niccolo Machiavelli titled, “Is it better to be Loved than to be Feared,” from the book “The Prince”. Machiavelli’s whole idea is that it is better to have both loved and feared but if it’s not possible to have both, then it’s better to be feared because fear is more reliable than love. He proposed that a relationship based on love alone tends to be fickle, short lived, and easily terminated when there is no fear of retribution. While on the other hand, relationships based on fear tends to last longer because individual must be ready to ‘pay the price’ before terminating the relationship. He also made a warning about how leaders have to be careful and not let the fear turn into hatred because hatred usually educes unconcealed behavior in terms of retaliation, undermining, and possibly attempt to overthrow or rebellion. The second article, “The Bases of Social Power,” by John R.P. French Jr. and Bertram Raven discussed about five major bases of power, which are, expert power, referent power, reward power, legitimate power, and coercive power. Leadership and power tends to go hand-in-hand because people follow those that are powerful, the person with power lead while others follow...
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...successful progression of the organization. Effect of Different leadership styles on communication in Starbucks Many leadership styles contribute to the success or failure of an organization. Leadership styles can affect the way that a company functions. Framing is used in all leadership styles so that others will see a situation they way it is seen by a leader. “Framing is a way to use language to manage meaning. It’s a way for leaders to influence how events are seen and understood” (Robbins & Judges, 2007, p. 430). Starbucks finds that it is important for the organization and the people that work within the company as well as the consumers to have an emotional connection to leadership within the organization. With this type connection the leaders value trust and faith between the leader and the ones being led. There are a few leadership styles that can affect a company’s vision and mission. These include transformational leadership, participative, and charismatic. First, “Transformational leaders inspire followers to transcend their own self-interests for the good of the organization and are capable of having a profound and extraordinary effect on their followers” (p. 437). This type of leader is good for communication at Starbucks because the leader focuses not on his or her own gains but on the concerns of the organization and the people within as a whole. As stated by Tomlinson (2009), Starbucks leadership approach is to involve and engage employees and make them feel...
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...Introduction One of the topics that exist since ancient times are leadership, national culture and organizational culture because every nation and country have their culture and need their leaders. Some of the leaders are better than others and because of this reason they manage to govern their countries better and to win advantage for them. Like every country the companies all over the world have their organizational cultures and their leaders. Every company is trying to shape its organizational culture striving to reach its personal goals and because some are better than others they have better products and bigger market shares. The first purpose of this paper is to present the old organizational culture, the old values and leadership style of Ford and how they affected the performance of the company. The second goal of the paper is to show why the need for change came in Ford and how they managed to implement this change into practice. Organisational culture, Leadership and Leadership Style – Definitions One of the possible definitions for organisational culture that exists is as follow: Organisational culture is “the set of shared values, beliefs and norms that influences the way employees think, feel and behave toward each other and toward people outside the organization” (George and Jones, 2012). One of the aspects which are considered in this paper and which is aspect of organisational culture is organizational structure. It can be described as “the pattern of...
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...The first statement that I like about this chapter and I find to be true regarding many aspects of life is “appearances can be deceiving.” Chapter 13 discusses power and its contrast to leadership. The reading further talks about the five bases of power and the dependence of power in relationships. The chapter also identifies the nine power and influence tactics along with their contingencies and the connection between sexual harassment and the abuse of power. Lastly the section emphasizes on the causes and consequences of political power and whether political action is ethical. The difference between power and leadership is power doesn’t require goal compatibility, merely dependence as where leadership does require some congruence between the goals of the leader and those being led. Despite how some may feel about power or leadership neither are bad. If you represent the bases of power that you will most likely fall into one of these categories: coercive, formal, legitimate, expert, or referent. The most important aspect of power is that it is a function of dependence. Chapter 14 topics are about conflict and the differences between traditional, interactionist, and managed-conflict views. The chapter also discussed the conflict process while defining negotiation and applying the five steps of the negotiation process. Conflict is defined as the process begins when one party perceives another party has or is about to negatively affect something the first party cares about....
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...THEORY TO PRACTICE LITERATURE REVIEW A PAPER SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE NURS 5013 – THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF NURSING BY HARSHAL THOMAS, BSN, RN HOUSTON, TEXAS March 3, 2014 DeMonica Junious, PhD, RN, CNE INTRODUCTION This paper is a systematic presentation of nursing theories based on literature review. The purpose of this paper is to describe how nursing theories are applied in administrative practice. It will help to generate further nursing knowledge. Nursing theory can help patients, managers and other healthcare professionals to recognize the unique contribution that nurses make to the healthcare service. The First stage is introducing the paper. The Second stage is the body of paper which consists of six different articles from pages three to eight. Each article starts with brief description about the study following with concise review of the selected theory. About who formulated the theory and also describes the components of the theory. The middle part of the article states the reasons for using the specific theory by the author. Also describing how the theory was used and illustrates the results of the study. The article ends with explaining how that particular theory can be used in my own nursing administrative practice. The Last stage is summarizing the paper and listing the references in alphabetical order. ...
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...to answer the problem statement: How do national cultures influence leadership styles? To give an answer to this question, this thesis is divided into three parts: leadership, national culture and the connection between them. The conclusion of this thesis is based on analytical and exploratory research. The first part, on leadership, focuses on mainly two types of leadership: transactional and transformational leadership. Transactional leadership is mainly based on the transaction between leaders and their followers. Bass described four components of transactional leadership: Contingent reward, Active management by exception, Passive management by exception and Laissez-Faire leadership (1997). Transformational leadership focuses mainly on inspiring and stimulating the followers. Transformational leadership contains also four components: Idealized influence (Charisma), Inspirational motivation, Intellectual stimulation and Individualized consideration. The second part focuses on different studies on national culture: Hofstede (1983), Schwartz (1990) and Inglehart (1997). Each study has different values and dimensions, both all three studies show some similarities. The first similar dimension contains: Hofstede’s Power distance, Schwartz’ Hierarchy versus Egalitarianism and Inglehart’s Survival and measures the degree to which the people in a national culture accept and expect the unequal distribution of power. The second similar dimension contains: Hofstede’s Individualism, Schwartz’...
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...Male-Female power differences at work: A comparison of supervisor and policymakers. Sociological Inquiry, 64(1), 37-55. This article spoke of the positions of power between men and women, and how policymakers and supervisors distribute that power to men and women. In the work place, when considering for advancement, employers have undefined criteria such as personality characteristics and potential managerial qualities. These standards become the cause of inequality in authority and power at work place. Jobs that are available for women have low wages and also less authority. Similar research studies have shown similar points, in that inequality is found at the workplace because of such gender based characteristics. Even though women were shown to be more educated, they do not follow the same status. The researcher in this study used methodology to find these inequalities at the work place. The study consisted of four data points to test and used 531 women and 619 men for this data. The author collected data for power in wage labor, employment, sample characteristics and occupation by education. The results showed that men achieve higher positions and also showed they have a higher chance at a supervisory level and more authority than women. In the workplace, gender is a major part of determining positions of power. Also, it shows that education is more important to get supervisor positions, which is less effective for women. This study demonstrates the inequality between men and...
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...Week 3: Leadership and Power Paper LDR/300 The Prime Minister’s Powerful Better Half Mini Case Ho Ching, the wife Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore’s current prime minister and son of a founding father of the country, is the Chief Executive Officer at Temasek Holdings; who according to the text, “was ranked 18th of Asia Most Powerful Business People and 24th of Forbes World's Most Powerful Women” (Hughes, Ginnett, Curphy, 2009). While this demonstrates the power capacity of Ho Ching as a leader; it does not establish the level of influence that she commands or her skills to apply influential tactics necessary to be able to modify followers’ attitudes and behaviors in the desired direction. In order to determine whether Ho Ching is an influential and competent leader or simply a positional leader; one must review and establish what are the sources of power that she possess, as well as her individual characteristics, and her capacity to apply the influence tactics to change the attitudes, values and behaviors of others. Ho Ching is a Stanford-educated electrical engineer, this in itself already demonstrates that Ho Ching is an intelligent individual, and intelligence is a commonly used characteristic to describe potential leaders. Furthermore, according to Nahavandi (2009), “It is clear that the complex task of leading requires a person with cognitive ability to remember, collect, and integrate information, analyze problems, develop solutions, and evaluate...
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...group plays a necessary role. An outstanding leader should not only possess special traits but also have to apply suitable leadership theory. As the society develop, the leadership theory is changing continually. The primary theories such as the great man theory and trait theories insisted that leaders are born with specific traits, latterly the theory such as the behavioral approach stressed that leadership could be learned.（Northouse 2012） After those theories modern approaches appeared. Compared with the older theories the modern approaches focused increasingly on the relationship between leaders and followers but not just about the leaders’ traits. And another obvious change is the communication method verifying from one way (top down) to a two way interaction between leaders and followers, so that subordinates could propose their own suggestions and ideas. This report is mainly about a sandwich factory operates in the Greater London area, and established by Kirsty Flower in 2005. The management team are all mid-twenties, females and have no experience about company management. (Case Study: Week 5)The purpose of this essay is to outline modern approaches which have been used in the leadership of Kirsty and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of Kirsty’s leadership. There are three modern leadership theories which have been applied in the leadership of Kirsty. The first one is path-goal theory. According to Northouse (2012), path-goal theory is mainly regarding that how...
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