Leadership Qualities

Term Paper # 99327

Business
Business > Management

This paper discusses leadership qualities as they relate to organizational improvement and team management.

1,432 words () | 3 sources | MLA | 2007 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper explores leadership qualities in general. The paper then offers several personal observations and experiences regarding leadership within a production environment. The paper discusses team leadership, composition and motivational strategies.

From the Paper:

"Several years ago the most successful CEOs were the models for effective team management and leadership upon which most business circles and academic programs built their leadership models. Yet, after the endless scandals beginning with Enron organizational management is realizing that these role models for effective leadership within an organization are not necessarily the most ideal in regards to effective team management and strategic vision: "Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, is often used as a model of business leadership. Welch's excessive focus on immediate business objectives prevented him from leading through a broader and more humane moral horizon."(Thompson, 2004, para.1). As it turns out, such short-term, performance based objectives, while accomplishing the immediate task at hand, rarely return positive results in the long term."

Sample of Sources Used:

May, Gary L. "Group Dynamics for Teams." The Journal of Business Communication 40/3(2003): 241+.
Muir, Clive. "Learning Soft Skills at Work: An Interview with Annalee Luhman." Business Communication Quarterly 67/1(2004): 95+.
Phillip Thompson. "The Stunted Vocation: An Analysis of Jack Welch's Vision of Business Leadership." Review of Business, 25(2004): 24.