"Personalistic Leadership"

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This paper explains that, in "personalistic leadership", it is vital that leaders/managers and team members be flexible, able to adapt to changes, and able to adopt standards that guide them in accomplishing the tasks of team building and management. The author points out that the development of new organizational management principles, such as TQM, or Total Quality Management, led to the development of an employee-driven management method, which centers on employee relations and organization, rather than focusing on the management or company's wants and needs. The paper stresses that strategies to motivate a team include using appropriate leadership and management skills that consider both the employer's and employees' welfare and allow members to actively participate in the decision making processes of management.

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"These dichotomies of personalities in the MBTI test reflect two facets of member personality: task-oriented and emotional. Task-oriented members are those who think first before acting on a particular task (introvert), is practical and plans concretely (sensing), uses rational judgment, and acts according to plan (judging). The emotionally-oriented member, on the other hand, looks at his/her "external world" when going through the process of decision-making (extrovert), creates plans based on abstract ideas (intuitive), uses "gut feel" as basis for judging, and acts immediately on situations and problems as presented to him/her (perceiving). These primary personality types are the prevalent types of member personality in today's business environment."

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