Essays on Charismatic Leader

Abstract

The paper below is a research analysis on charismatic and transformational leadership in Apple. The paper discusses the two types of leadership traits and includes the study of the charismatic and transformational leadership that applies to the company and how Steve Jobs has lead the company on the principles of leadership and what were the consequences of same. Further, the paper also highlights how leadership can lead to the success or failure of a company and hence the importance of choosing the right leaders who can lead the company in right direction. The multi-tasking and various leadership skills of ...

Introduction

German sociologist Max Weber defined a charismatic leader as someone that espouses extraordinary characteristics and whose vision inspires several others (Avolio & Yammarino, 2002, p. 168). Charismatic leaders are capable of gathering masses in their support and leading major political, religious or social movement. But, such large following can be positive or negative for their opposition and some of them might even take criminal routes to achieve their objectives. In the present world, Barak Obama is a charismatic leader who is seen as a positive charismatic leader. Obama led a major political movement and brought the majority of the nation ...

Before reviewing this book, it’ important to get some things out of the way regarding slavery and its importance as an institution and the impact that it has had on American history. Slavery more than any other single thing has shaped the history of the United States, it has created a divided country one where whites are superior to blacks and all of this was done in the name of creating wealth for one group on the backs of the other. There is a reason why stories like Nat Turner’s are so incredible is because they are the ...

Charismatic leadership in relation to Weber’s theory is the perception of the sub-ordinates that a leader has an attractively inspired gift, which will change their lives extraordinary (Sendjaya, 2015). It is based on the characteristics of the leaders like passion, confidence, and high level ability to influence people. However, these abilities of the leaders sometimes contribute to dysfunctional attitudes, such as high level egoism and self-centralism (Van Wart, 2014). In other words, a leader can be positive charismatic leader or negative charismatic leader. The leader with positive charismatic leadership abilities is oriented to others, whereas the leader with ...

Charismatic leadership approach is a type of leadership that relies on persuasiveness and charm of a leader. It is worth noting that charismatic leaders are mostly driven by commitment and conviction to their cause. There are many leaders in the world that have used charismatic leadership approach. They include Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., as well as Malcolm X just to mention a few. Charismatic leader poses various leadership qualities that drive their unwavering commitment towards changing the lives of many people in a positive way. The paper is streamlined towards analyzing the leadership approach of Martin Luther ...

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power was in a time when Germany was experiencing a grim political and economic condition. The economic depression that hit the world economy during the 1930s had adversely affected the country, that extreme poverty leads the people to near hopelessness. This was in addition to the still fresh and humiliating defeat of the German military in WWI, and historians claimed that the defeat became the fabric that propelled Hitler’s political and military agenda. People were near the brink of helplessness that they believed anyone who convincingly talked about getting them out of their ...

Charismatic and Transformational Leadership

I believe that any charismatic leader should demonstrate that he or she is an open-minded and communicative person. The main message is always being delivered through contestations and speeches, so that a good leader with charisma should be a good orator as well. Charismatic leaders have a feeling of compassion and empathy. A leader can only lead people whom he or she understands and fully support. Followers also would join and believe in only those people who show their feelings and inspire others. It is also important for charismatic leaders to have confidence and a strong belief in the ...

Introduction

Leadership is defined as the ability of an individual to lead and actuate others through his/her actions. A leader can guide individuals, as well as, organizations to follow a certain path. Leaders are responsible for doing right things for selves and with others. They are the ones who set particular direction as well as the vision which not just help them but others too. Leadership is not restricted to organizations, but it has been witnessed in public sectors, politics and even at our houses. The perception that all leaders practice good leadership qualities is not true. It is not ...

Describe three contemporary views of leadership. Which view do you think is the most important? Why?

Leadership is perceived as behavioral, contingency and charismatic (Goertzen). The behavioral theory perceives a leader's personality traits to determine performance as well as other results. The behavior of a leader is the central point in this model of leadership. The situational contingency leadership ties leadership to both traits and behavior. A leader’s traits and their relevance to a particular situation determine the effectiveness of the leader. This leadership model is subject to other factors such as the leader-member relationship between the leader and the members, position and task structure. The charismatic leader is also referred to as the ...

A charismatic leadership is based on the ability of a leader to behave and communicate in a manner that reaches the followers and makes them emotional, motivated, and inspired to act in a certain way. The leader does not rely on external authority or power but uses personality and charm to give examples to his or her followers. Charisma may be useful in leadership, but it is not wholly essential when other qualities like integrity are lacking. Characteristics of the charismatic leaders may be difficult to identify, but some of them are simple to notice based on the organization ...

TRANSFORMATIONAL V. TRANSACTIONAL:

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS COM221-18 Technical Report Writing Abstract

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List of Figures and Tables 4 Introduction 5 Methodology 7 Results of the Study 9 I. Charisma and the Transformational Leader 9 II. Transactional Management-By-Exception 10 III. Distinctive Behavioral Traits: Emotion v. Non-Emotion 11 IV. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation 12 V. Poor Attitude at Work 13

Discussion of Results 15

I. Significance of the Charismatic Personality Trait 15 II. Management-by-Exception Unsuccessful with Employee Motivation 15 III. Distinctive Behavioral Traits 16 IV. Significance of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Identification 16 V. Poor Attitude at Work 17 Concluding Remarks and Final Recommendation 18

Appendix A 20

Appendix B 22 Glossary 23 ...

A cherished dream and desirable goal for many people is to become a real leader. Leadership does not necessarily imply control of a huge company, public or political party. Leadership is an attitude and the way of thinking that allows a person to achieve success in various fields (Adair 19). The position of the leader even in a small professional group at work will definitely bring bonuses in the form of experience, new motivation, increase the credibility and, as a consequence, promotion and increasing revenue. At last, it will bring the opportunity to develop the leadership skills effectively and ...

Leadership Styles

Successful organizations differ from unsuccessful because they have a more dynamic and effective leadership. The words ‘leadership’ and ‘leader’ are synonymous to the words ‘management’ and ‘manager’. However, the nature of leadership can be better understood when compared with the management. Being a manager and being a leader in the organization - it is not the same thing. Manager, first of all, uses and relies on official power base and sources of its supply. Leadership is based more on the process of social influence. This process is much more complex, requiring a high level of interdependence of their participants. So, what are the ...

Leadership Strategies for a Changing World

Charismatic Leadership When looking at some of history’s greatest leaders, whether in politics or business, one characteristic that typifies the vast majority of them is that they are charismatic. Charming, graceful, some of the best leaders provide a sense of excitement and attraction that helps to gather followers and maintain a sense of momentum about the work that they are doing. To that end, the following focus paper explores charismatic leadership as a concrete, quantifiable leadership style, and my own assessment of the charismatic qualities of my leadership will be examined in light of the theory itself.

Charismatic leadership ...

The leadership all over the globe is the influence of the person to accomplish their objectives. This memorandum is written to discuss the factors of the effectiveness of leadership. Further, this memo discusses how different country’s cultures effects the leadership principles.

Concept Of Leadership

Leadership requires a number of abilities and willpower in a person to accomplish its desired goals. A good leader is required to have a habit of conducting a continuous process of self-study, training, and gaining experiences. It is the ability of a person through which it could gather workers in to theta. A person is not a leader since birth ...

Impact of Technology on the Military

Impact of Technology on the Military The American civil war was fought from 1861 to 1865 in many different locations around the USA. Approximately, six hundred thousand soldiers died in the war. In that war between the Union and confederacy, it was the union states that won the battle. The secession of the southern states was due to the differences in ideologies between the slave and free states (Lovelace, 1997). The major forms of weapons used during the American civil war were smoothbore cannons, rifled cannons; crude forms of grenades, and ironclads were also used for naval battles. ...

Leadership can be perceived as the process through which an individual influences the fashion in which a group of persons is carrying out a specific task. The individual who is central to this process is known as a leader. There is a broad range of traits which a leader should bear for him or her to be effective in leadership. For the purposes of this paper, this discussion shall majorly concentrate on the trait of charisma as a leadership strategy (Elearn, 2007). All leaders ought to be charismatic, as it is a great feature in progressive leaders. This is because it is one of the most ...

Impact of Technology on the Military

The American civil war was fought from 1861 to 1865 in many different locations around the USA. Approximately, six hundred thousand soldiers died in the war. In that war between the Union and confederacy, it was the union states that won the battle. The secession of the southern states was due to the differences in ideologies between the slave and free states. The major forms of weapons used during the American civil war were smoothbore cannons, rifled cannons; crude forms of grenades and ironclads were also used for naval battles. The cold war conflict in Korea started in ...

In the movie "Gladiator," Maximus goes through many different roles. Through it all, he remains a leader, although in different incarnations. At the time of this quote, Maximus is ascending the ranks of gladiator fame. Still in the Zanzibar province, he slaughters his way through four other gladiators in casual fashion. To a man of Maximus' martial skill, honed in the Legions, the vaudevillian fight style of the gladiator is no challenge to his compact, efficient technique. At the end of the fight, in a show of disgust, Maximus hurls his gladius at the VIP box of the arena, and then ...

Introduction

The caudillos of 19th-century Latin American history played an important part in the shaping and molding of Latin America into a state led by charismatic leaders who were able to assert their own considerable will over the people and enact social and governmental change. In the 19th century, the more iconic caudillos such as Simon Bolivar and Porfirio Diaz exerted tremendous energy and willpower to ensure that they shaped their respective countries in the ways they wanted. Even so, more modern revolutionary figures, even in their zeal to overthrow the classist politics of the caudillo, exerted a tremendous and earnest desire ...

Abstract

The outcome of any situation, incident or event depends upon how the person faces them by using experience, skill, and trouble-shooting approach. The success of any business or organization is determined by the effective leadership. Leadership is a multi-dimensional concept. The paper focuses on the thorough discussion of leadership. The paper highlights the effective leadership qualities of Oprah Winfrey, one of the most influential personalities of our time. The paper starts with explaining a brief biography of Oprah Winfrey. The biography highlights Oprah's professional aspects rather than the personal aspects of her life. Among these aspects, her educational achievements, career achievement ...

Abstract

The present paper delineates mainly the two types of leadership styles; one the charismatic leadership style and the other situational leadership style. While the charismatic leadership style is based on the personal charisma of the leader, the situational leadership style is based on the perception of the situation. The charismatic leadership despite inspiring in its appeal is not a participatory style of leadership. This style of leadership is hard to be sustained and does not promote participation and involvement of all. A situational leader changes his style as per the demand of the situation and involves the participation of the ...

The Company

Overview The Body Shop is a successful chain of cosmetics shops, based in the United Kingdom, and founded in 1976. The company has shown remarkable growth, with revenues increasing from £2 million to £28 million in just 4 years from 1983 to 1987. The rapid growth was accomplished largely by franchising. By almost any measure, the first 15 years of the company’s existence must be considered one of the most successful in business history.

Key economic and technical background

The company was founded on a mixture of ethical principles and savvy business insight. The founder realized 2 important facts: - First, traditional cosmetics ...

Charismatic leadership is considered as the leadership resting on the characteristics such as devotion to extraordinary sanctity, commendable character, heroism, normative orders and patterns that are designed and revealed by an individual (Miller, Vandome & McBrewster, 2010). Leaders become involve in the peculiar behaviors and thus display considerable expertise. The situations and circumstances of crisis and other realities lead to creation of an atmosphere that is favorable for the charismatic leadership emergence. The followers however react to such unexpected behaviors and actions as a member of the situations context and help in attributing charisma to leader. The charismatic traits include trust, ...

Tacitus has heaped praises on Agricola, his father in law. He describes his stint as the governor of the ancient Roman Britain very vividly. Agricola assumed leadership position at a time when the leadership was tainted by corruption, misuse of public resources, and abuse to fundamental rights of the citizens. It is however worth noting that despite this negative trend, Agricola remained a true leader who stood against all odds to provide quality leadership that was aimed at improving the livelihoods of his subjects.

Roman has rich history and this has been the case since the times of Tacitus. Agricola will ...

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Following is a question and answer article discussing the influential leadership of Ursula Burns and how she manages a multinational corporation Xerox. Her inspirations and her way of working are described in the answers to the questions that follow.

Q. In your opinion is Ursula Burns more of a charismatic leader, transformational leader, or both?

A. Ursula Burns, CEO Xerox, is listed as the 14th most powerful woman in the Forbes survey for 2013 and also the first African American CEO. In the Forbes profile dedicated to Ms. Burns, Forbes describes how Ursula Burns has acted as a transforming figure for Xerox’s image from a mere photocopier and carbon copy solutions company to a brand in documentation and IT ...

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Dr. Frank Abstract The United States of America has been led by numerous leaders with varying leadership and management qualities since attaining independence in 1778. The current American President Barrack Hussein Obama goes down in history as the first African American to become the American president since its establishment by the founding fathers. Obama has drawn a lot of controversies especially with his gay rights advocacy as well as snubbing his motherland Kenya during his African tour. George Walker Bush was the 44th president of the United States of America and Obama’s predecessor. Bush is the ...

The level of influence and skillfulness of a leader determine the success of an organization (Palshikar, n.d.). A good leader has control over the organization’s structure and also represents the organization’s culture. Moreover, good leaders have the capability of increasing an organization’s level of productivity. There are many different leadership styles, such as autocratic, democratic, delegative, traditional, transactional, transformational, and charismatic (Palshikar, n.d.). While the transformational leadership style is similar to the charismatic leadership style, this paper focuses on charismatic leadership. In particular, this paper discusses the definition and process of charismatic leadership, as well as ...

Introduction

“I Have Dream,” is a common phrase associated with Martin Luther Junior who was An American Civil Activists, religious leader and a charismatic leader. Martin delivered this impressive speech on 28th August 1963 at Lincoln Memorial. The speech aimed at ending racism, promote equality, safeguard rights of oppressed minorities in United States and reinforce civil rights legislation. More than 250,000 people drawn from all walks of lifestyles attended the event, but Negros and civil right supporters formed the majority part of the audience. The speech created a platform for the development of civil rights movement and legislation in United States. In ...

The cutting of trees did affect wildlife populations adversely. This was common in west of Appalachians. Trees do provide a natural habitat for wildlife. The wildlife population did decline. Wildlife populations do thrive in natural settings. The settlement of people in the forests led to decline in bear and deer populations. There was a disappearance of Bisson in the area of the Mississippi (east). The decline was as a result of clearance of 1850, 100, 000, 000 acres of the forest. The climate and environment suffer greatly due to deforestation. Soil erosion is common and major problem. The water tables in ...

The movie, The Apostle, touches the very heart of classical American Pentecostalism, a form of charismatic Christianity. Robert Duvall plays a Pentecostal Pastor in the south. His character, Buddy, was a snap shot of a deeply passionate and religious spiritual leader. The name of the movie, “The Apostle,” speaks of Buddy’s obvious and strong gift of leadership. Although Buddy’s leadership is important, the most prominent characteristic depicted was his strong passions. The plot is quite racy. And although it has elements of horror and extreme violence it still carries the ability to touch and relate to viewers that believe as Buddy does. ...

Arguably, there are many types of leadership in the world. Charismatic leadership is one of the types of leadership, which bases its leadership ideologies and ability to behave and communicate in techniques that followers receive on an emotional, and basic way, in order to motivate and inspire. In most cases, it is complex to identify charismatic leadership, but scholars believe that the ability to communicate powerfully could be one of the characteristics of charismatic leadership. According to Weber, charismatic leadership rests on devotion of exceptional heroism, sanctity, as well as exemplary character that individual possesses. In fact, such character ...

Compare and Contrast Transformational and Charismatic Leadership

Abstract A leader is important as she helps the group in achieving its shared objective. It binds the group together and influences people to accomplish the shared goals. But, a leader may take different styles of leadership depending upon their personality and the situation. Transformational and charismatic leadership styles have been successful drivers in mobilising and influencing people. The paper attempts to understand the transformational and charismatic leadership styles and discuss the similarities and differences between them. The paper concludes that charisma is the key similarity between these leadership styles. But, they starkly differ in their basic focus, development ...

Charisma is an important aspect of managers. This character is important in motivating the employees. Charismatic leaders feel that they are likely to achieve their goals regardless of the situations they are facing. The confidence that they always have in their activities acts as a motivation to other employees who struggle to follow their actions (Belasen, 54). The charismatic feature of a managers helps to remove the fears that the employees may have regarding the achievement of the organizational goals. Many charismatic leaders have people who ever inspired them in their lives. They therefore give stories to their employees showing ...

Question1. Comment on "Most leaders develop a high exchange relationship with a small number of trusted subordinates who function as assistants, lieutenants or advisers."

Leader, for a long time have been regarded as distinct group of people who are different from their subordinates, assistants or rather advisers. However, from the psychological point of view, leaders have all features of human nature such as social and psychological characteristics. Consequently, most of the leaders, despite their level or class can still relate friendly and cordially with their subordinates. However, this kind of relationship depends on how free the leader is to a certain subordinate or lieutenant (Bass & Riggio, 2006 p 134). Some workers or subordinates are free to interact and joke with their bosses. In such ...