Leadership Style Group Work

Question: Discuss about the Leadership Style Group Work. Answer: Introduction Leadership can be defined as a quality of behaviour of a group of people or an individual whereby they guide the people or the activities of the people in organizing efforts. In this case, the following leaders are going to be used in the analysis (Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Steve Jobs). It is considered vital to learn the impact of leadership styles indicated by the above leaders in order to develop individual approach on leadership, this will make one a productive and effective leader. I consider that the above three leaders are known to offer the best in leadership hence able to influence their people to the best. For example, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader from India whose leading concept was based on situational leadership concepts and ideology (John and Taylor, 2014). According to situational leadership theory, leaders in this type of category are viewed as changing their leadership tactics based on the level of task ahead of them. This type of leadership can be attained by using participatory style whereby ideas are shared among followers. This leadership style also allow delegation of duties (Shriberg, A, Shriberg and Lloyd, 2002). According to Herrmann and Felfe (2014), Mahatma Gandhis leadership was full of selling style-all the decisions taken by the leader are explained to others and lastly he used telling style-specific concerns are shared to specific individuals while undertaking their chores and responsibilities (Preston, 2012). The other leader is Steve Jobs. He is considered as a transformational leader. Under this type of leadership he was able to use creativity and innovation amid his employees at Apple to drive his leadership style (Suanj and Jakopec, 2012). In addition he used rewarding system to attain the best performance among his employees or followers. Lastly, Martin Luther King was a transformational leader that incorporated charismatic and inspirational values to manage his followers. The key ideology behind this type of leadership is to foster motivation to create or boost performance. It can be deduced that leaders such as the ones discussed above used several leadership style, hence their success in leadership (Preston, 2012) Individual Feedback There is nothing good like undertaking a task in a group. We were able to integrate the course materials as well as come with better understanding of the assignment because of the efforts that each member of the group contributed. It is also evident that the group was split into further groups, this made efforts towards undertaking the task an easy one. I was given a task to undertake in the group. This is one of the added advantage that come with group work. I can deduce that there were various merits related to group work which I was part of. The below are example of the merits: All the work that was done individually was evaluated by other members of the group, as a result, the group was attained the best results ever. During the group was an added advantage in several ways such as timely delivery of the assignment done and that the work did meet the needs and the demands expected. I consider that group work was the best thing that ever happened in my academic life. I was able to understand all the coursework as well as undertake our group work assignment as a team. Lastly, I conclude that if it were not of the teamwork sprit vested in us, we could not have completed the assignment on time, not to say even doing it better than we did as a team. On the other hand, team accountability was key towards the success of the process, therefore, I consider that for an effective group work, all team members should be aggressive towards undertaking their roles as well did. References Herrmann, D. and Felfe, J., 2014. Effects of leadership style, creativity technique and personal initiative on employee creativity. British Journal of Management, 25(2), pp.209-227. John, M.C. and Taylor, J.W., 2014. Leadership style, school climate, and the institutional commitment of teachers. In International Forum Journal (Vol. 1, No. 2). Preston, T., 2012. The president and his inner circle: Leadership style and the advisory process in foreign policy making. Columbia University Press. Shriberg, A., Shriberg, D.L. and Lloyd, C., 2002. Practicing leadership: Principles and applications. Suanj, Z. and Jakopec, A., 2012. Fairness perceptions and job satisfaction as mediators of the relationship between leadership style and organizational commitment. Psihologijske teme, 21(3), pp.509-526.