PRASANNA'S MBA

  Leadership Traits and Characteristics Photo from Sites.psu.edu Leadership has been a main concern over a long period of time in virtually all parts of the world. People have continuously believed that great leaders are born and don’t need training on how to lead while other schools of thought are convinced that any person can learn how to grow into a leader (George & Sims, 2007). According to George (2007), an individual can decide to learn to become a leader by nurturing applicable traits and characteristics of leadership. The desire to effectively lead an organization, whether it is big or small, into reaching its mission and vision has showed to be one of the highest challenges faced by leaders (Rose, 2007). A successful leader should be talented to bring the best assets to the organization. Great leaders of companies who demonstrate authenticity have been known to continue with the good imaginings of their predecessors with the desire to leave longstanding leg...

  Leadership in Organizations (Critical Writing) Photo credit – pixy.com Leadership in an organization has become an essential for the success of the institute. Therefore leadership is a major cause for the performance of the institute; either to be successful in the administration or be unsuccessful in doing so. Leadership Archetype Questionnaire (LAQ) as a tool, is designed to mold leaders upon eight principles which are, “strategist, change-catalyst, builder, innovator, processor, coach, communicator and transactor” (Kets De Vries, 2010). Efficiency of the leaders is determined by the composition of the team of leaders in terms of individual variances, role and involvement (Belbin, 1996; 2003). Belbin (2003) witnessed this fact about the LAQ and he distinguished nine roles of the leaders which make them to be effective in their functioning. The roles included; shaper, implementer, resource investigator, plant, monitor, evaluator, coordinator, completer and team worker....

  Impact of autocratic leadership style on job performance  Photo from slidemodel.com Authoritarian leadership refers to a leader’s behavior of asserting strong authority and control over subordinates and demanding unquestioned obedience from them (Cheng, 2000). According to the leadership literature (Achua, 2013), leaders who are highly on authoritarian demand their subordinates to achieve best performance among the organizations and make all the important decisions in their team. Authoritarian leadership is prevalent in Latin America, Middle East, and Asia Pacific business organizations (Bass, 2003), which has been receiving increasing attention in recent years (Cummings, 2003). Extensive research has depicted authoritarian leadership as destructive by verifying its negative influence on employee outcomes, such as employee voice behavior (Mohammed, 2018), team identification, and job performance (Achua, 2013). Thus, high authoritarian leadership has often been considered u...