Effective Leadership Styles

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The paper relates that effective leadership is considered by many modern business analysts to be among the most significant predictors of the success or failure of any given business venture. The paper then discusses the three main types of leadership; transactional, transformational and charismatic leadership.

Outline:
Introduction - Leadership Styles
Transactional Leadership
Transformational Leadership
Charismatic Leadership

From the Paper:

"According to evolutionary anthropologists and psychologists, human beings evolved a predisposition toward group cooperation long before recorded history. Whether as nomadic tribes, hunter-gatherers, or agriculturalists, group cooperation and the joint effort of many enabled every individual to achieve a safer, healthier, and more prosperous existence than would ever have been possible alone. The phenomenon of eadership in one form or another almost certainly arose naturally, because human societies always exhibit group dynamics substantially based social hierarchies and on the relative authority of those highest in social status over those lower in social status (Gerrig & Zimbardo 2005)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Bass, M. (1997) Does the Transactional/Transformational Leadership Transcend Organizational and Motivational Boundaries. American Psychologist, 52.
• Bass, B., Steidlmeier, P. (1999) Ethics, Character, and Authentic Transformational Leadership Behavior. Leadership Quarterly, 10.
• Conger, J.A., Kanungo, R.N. (1998) Charismatic leadership in Organizations. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
• Covey, S. R. (1991) Principle-Centered Leadership. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Daft, R. (2005) Management 7th Edition. Mason: Thomson South Western.

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