Question

Leadership and Motivation : Answer the bold in essay format

Describe what guides your decision making

List five words that people use to describe your leadership style

Explain how you will motivate people

Describe how you will delegate task

Analyze how you will continually evaluate your leadership effectiveness

Determine what you will look like as a great leader

Summarize common workplace conflicts

Describe how you will delegate task

Analyze how you will continually evaluate your leadership effectiveness

Describe the approach you will take when conflict arises

Compare your top two personal styles for managing conflict with other styles outline behaviors you expect from your team

Design a plan to handle any anticipated conflicts in the workplace

Answer 1

There are certain values that guide my decision making. These are in the form of code of conduct, ethics ,social responsibility, morality and beliefs that form the basis of my decisions and govern my choices.

Only after taking into consideration these values , i shape my choices , these values might be, social welfare, ethical behaviour, compassion , loyalty , trust keeping, promises fulfillment. I am a man of word, so whatever i declare or condemn is done as i have said.

Moreover my decisions are based on critical thinking , analyses and evaluation of alternatives.

I moreover am an opinionated person, i consider all those people whom the decision is going to affect , thus i consult them for their suggestions before taking the final decision.

Talking about my leadership behaviour , there are five substitute words that people use to describe my leadership style and they are :

Democratic

Discretionary

Accountable

Responsive

Charismatic

I use reinforcements to motivate people. I believe positive reinforcement such as offering rewards, recognition, bonus , offs etc are best used criteria to motivate people. Moreover i influence people through establishing performance comparison charts, that describe the status of each employee , thus used to drive their efforts towards more efficiency.

The best way to delegate task is to distribute responsibility as well as accountability associated with a project or an activity to the lower levels which in turn also helps to build future managers. The lower level staff or subordinates should be given the control over resources so that they will be able to efficiently perform tasks.

For evaluating the leadership effectiveness i will first of all continuously encourage feedback from my followers about how contended and comfortable they feel with my leadership style and decision making criteria. This feedback will show me my strengths and weaknesses and will provide me the scope for improvement. Leadership effectiveness will further be determined with the outcome achieved and through comparing the standards set with the actual results obtained for achieving the desired position. This deviations found between the standards and actual outcome will be corrected through taking certain measures.

To look like a great leader i will have to attain confidence and trust of my followers. I will be able to govern and drive the actions of my leaders towards a unified goal to accomplish the ultimate objective. I should respect the opinions of my followers and provide them initiative to encourage creativity in work. I will be a Democratic leader , providing my followers right of expression through involving them in decision making and being transparent with them.

The common work place conflicts refers to a situation where employee might not be in agreement with each other due to the varied personal interests, differences in opinions. They might not agree with one another and thus mutual consent will not be possible , thus delaying the decision.

Moreover the work place conflict can also be described as work place diversity , as employee are from different origins and have different beliefs, work culture, behaviours, attitudes and decision making , thus they might not cope up with each other.

(Already explained) delegating tasks.

(Already explained) leadership effectiveness

The approach that i will use when conflict arises:

1) to establish meetings , conferences and seminars where employees will be asked to communicate with each other, ,discuss various issues, and this develop understanding of each other.

2) sensitivity training: This will ensure that employees know each other better and develop a perception about each other, eliminate all the misunderstandings and misconception etc.

3) Encouraging Cross team work. : this will enhance coordination and cooperation between employees and will provide a scope to increase integration of tasks.

Comparison between Sensitivity training and conferences which will be attended voluntarily.

I will personally suggest sensitivity training while my employees suggest a voluntary attended conferences which will be attended by those who wish to.

Thus the main underlying belief behind sensitivity training will be to attend the session , mandatory to be participated by all and where the employees will discuss and expose themselves with the others to reflect on their behaviour and attitude that they expect from others which in turn will help to clear misunderstandings. Conferences are more like a formal procedure where a particular code od conduct needs to be followed restricting the sharing of facts , while sensitivity training is more of an informal training to develop understanding.

plan to handle anticipated conflicts:.

identify the problem area

determine the root cause behind it

try to eliminate the root cause

develop strategy

offer solution

recieve feedback

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