- Explain fully the five practices of exemplary leadership as discussed in your text, and give a concrete example of each as it might apply to an actual leadership situation
Since leadership largely diverts from personal life to behavior, observable skills and abilities are needed for the leaders. The leader should be able to model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the processes, enable others to act and encourage the heart.
The leader should be able to do exemplary things within the organization in order to ensure and witness success within the organization. In order to keep the company determinations awake, the leaders recognize individual contributions towards organizational success. The rewards scooped from battle successes are shared with all members in the reward for their individual efforts as the leaders celebrate the accomplishment and through this the people have heroic feelings.
Enabling others to act
Good leadership fosters collaboration and built in team work spirit. Others are also actively involved in the organization process. The leaders make efforts of understanding the mutual respect that is instrumental in sustaining extra efforts. In many cases, the leaders make greater strides in creating conducive environments of dignity and humanity and full trust. The leaders widely strengthen their mates thus the feeling of utmost capability and power.
Inspiration of a shared vision
Exemplary leadership practice involves the act of having the passionate belief of creating a difference within the organization by exhibiting future oriented characteristics and construction of unique and ideal structures of the organization at a future date. Through persuasion and visionary characteristics, the people within the organization are sure of future organizational; possibilities.
Challenging the process
Leadership involves the search for opportunities in the verge of changing the status quo. Innovation becomes a central issue in the light of creating changes and improvements within the organization. Through this, risk taking is a process in order to check for possible mistakes and failures so as to enable the understanding of inevitable disappointments as just opportunities for change and learning.
Model the way
Leaders come up with guiding principles on the manner of treating the organizational workers and the better means of pursuing the goals. This involves the creation of standards of excellence and setting role models to be followed by others. Leaders are able to set tentative goals that enable achievement of smaller objectives but with an aim towards the major organizational goal. It involves giving of proper directions whenever individuals are unsure of which positions to take.
- In class, we discussed ten characteristics of servant leadership, list and explain five (5) of these
Servant leadership is characteristic of varied aspects such as:
Reflection
Self reflection is one dominant characteristic than is able to rebirth the innate confidence of the leaders in the concept of dealing with the customers and fellow staff. This involves the step of attempting to understand the features of a servant leader and the influence on the relationships within the organizations.
Listening
This is the foundation of servant leadership. It wholly involves the right attitude that an individual has in the verge of sending a message and the genuinely nature of an interested individual to hear their views.
Empathy
Empathy involves the personal, professional, collegial, supervisory and resource expectations among others. The professional expectations are greatly concerned with the professional aims and goals that one is ready and willing to accomplish, the expected learning outcome from the profession and the professional job advantages.
Collegial expectations are pegged on the expectations from colleagues within the organizations in order to achieve success in the organizations.
Conceptualization
This involves having the bigger image and picture of an organization in order to achieve prosperity within the organization. Conceptualization is key in achieving innovations and improvement of organizational firms.
Stewardship
Stewardship largely involves the art of being accountable and sharing control of an organization. Accountability enhances proper responsibility and care of organizational property and processes.
- Some folks argue that servant leadership is particularly well suited to leadership needed in government positions. Construct an argument in favor of this position; that is, tell me why this might be so. As a part of your argument, be sure to address the question of whether the government is or is not a democracy, would it make a difference?
Servant leadership is instrumental in governments since it has a lot of effectiveness. Government leadership requires visionary individuals who are able to foresee the future situations within the work profile so that innovations are realized boosting development at all levels. The nature of conceptualization is key in ensuring that future plans are made and actually achieved.
Stewardship which is a concept in servant leadership calls for accountability and control of organizational programs and processes is important in carrying out government duties since it largely advocates for individual accountability and responsibility.
The kind of government should be democratic whereby the sharing of information and decision is widespread among the organizational workers. Individual autonomy in leadership requires a democratic space for the exercise of freedom.
- Explain and give an example of the two types of leaders we discussed in class.
There are two types of leaders recognized in organizations based on their decision making processes thus a democratic and autocratic leaders.
Democratic leader
The democratic leader is one who consults the work mates and subordinates in decision making processes thus possess the following characteristics:
They are generally concerned with maintaining group effectiveness as with completing the task to be done.
They encourage members in their groups to express their ideas and feelings, because they believe that such a climate leads to greater creativity and commitment.
If they encounter resistance or conflicts, they allow them to surface and they seek the help of these groups in removing the resistance or resolving the conflicts.
They encourage joint decision-making as well as shared goal-setting.
They rarely set policies without explaining the reasons, and proposing them to their groups, when they can, for suggestions and criticism. They believe that responsibility for getting a job done depends as much on the group as upon themselves. They try to have this attitude shared by all group members.
Autocratic leader
An autocratic leader is power centered and does not consult others in the decision making process. The autocratic leader has the following characteristics:
The leader is generally strong-willed, domineering, and to some extent, aggressive.
They must have their own way, which for them, seems the only way.
The leaders look upon subordinates more as functionaries than as persons, and the best subordinates, in their estimation, follows directions without questions
The leaders are not ready to listen to views and suggestions of others in case they are of different opinions.
Autocratic leaders do not encourage equal relationships with underlings. As a rule they do not allow themselves to get close to employees. They do not like to see employees get close to one another, for such cliques, as authoritarian leaders perceive them, might endanger their authority.
- Explain and give an example of the three leadership styles we discussed in class.
The method or style used by a leader is of great influence to the effectiveness and the organizational goal achievements.
Autocratic leadership
Autocratic leadership is also the authoritative leadership model. The authoritarian leader has more often absolute powers thus becomes a dictator. A lot of power is wielded over the subordinates since the leader is in a position to use rewards, praise and fear of absolute criticisms and subsequent punishment. Power is centered on the leader who also forms and interprets the rules as he wishes. The leaders do not consult in times of decision making. The rules within such organizations are very harsh and employees are closely supervised and controlled.
Democratic leadership
This is also referred to as participative leadership. In this case, all members are fully involved in decision making processes on all matters concerning the organization thus more cooperation from the employees and subordinates. A democratic leader is chosen through a popular election or rather appointed based on ability and qualifications. The democratic leader recognizes the fact his followers are capable of making good decisions and suggestions based on the followers training and experiences. Hence he allows workers to participate in decision making. It is therefore assumed that workers will support decisions that they have helped to make and that consequently this will lead to the achievement of organizational goals.
Leissez Feire leadership style
This is also referred to as a free rein style. In this case of leadership, the leader does not provide external motivation as is the case with autocratic or democratic leadership styles but instead workers is left to 'motivate them based on their needs, wants, and desires. They are given a goal and left mostly up to their own to achieve it, using their ingenuity.
- Explain fully each of the four models of ethical decision making as discussed in class, and give an example of each
The Realm-individual Process-Situation model of ethical decision making
This is commonly applied by the physical therapists and physical therapists assistants when they are in conflicting situations of abiding to the professional ethical standards or the values of the confronting scenarios. It basically concerns the balance of checking on what is morally right, what is professionally right and the ultimate morality of the scene to the individual process.
The Policies Legal Universal Self decision making model
This is a traditional model in decision making that is based on the current theories and understanding of both the decision making process and ethics. It is a simple and straightforward that its understanding could be integrated in each thought process of the organizational employees. At this point, every employee is accorded the opportunity to make decisions in the course of discharging organizational duties since no organization functions effectively when the employees are less empowered in decision making. Every decision made is given a test against the organizational goals and policies as well as whatever the employee considers right or rather wrong.
DECIDE decision making model
This model is important for key decision making by the Health Care managers. Decide is an acronym for define the problem, establish the criteria, consider all the alternatives, identify the best alternatives, develop and implement a plan of action and evaluating/monitoring the solutions and feedbacks.
This is an intended model applied when aiming at improving the skills applied in decisions so as to enhance their effectiveness. There does not exist a magic or rather quick fix to decision making since it demands wider skills in understanding. By using this model, the managers become well equipped to perform viable actions in various situations that require decisions to be executed.
