IntroductionExamples of solid leadership can be found in many places. I greatly admire the people in my life who have shown an extraordinary aptitude for creating influence. From our small town pastor to my favorite elementary teacher, I have sought to catalyze the same kind of positive change I found in these role models with others around me seeking a source of leadership. Until completing this course, however, I did not have the theoretical knowledge to apply proven leadership methods in my projects. The purpose of this overview will be an attempt to overlay the leadership research paradigms gathered during my time in this course onto my personal leadership and management philosophies. Humanity's Perspective People deserve to be treated fairly and justly. As a result of this belief, a strong sense of ethics is a major implication in my overall leadership philosophy. It is imperative that leaders engage with followers and help them resolve personal issues regarding conflicting values (Burns, 1978). To bring a follower to a higher level of functioning, it is the leader's responsibility to help followers evaluate their own ideals of equality, freedom, justice, and others. In my opinion, ethics is the central feature of the process of being a leader. Management Philosophy As a manager, success is often measured by the achievement of organizational tasks. However, another element of managerial success that can be more difficult to quantify (but no less vital) is how the leader takes care of the people in the organization who are trying to achieve his or her goals. Measuring interest in production along with interest in people was the product... center of the paper... Sage.Jung, CG (1923). Psychological types. New York: Harcourt Brace. Kogler-Hill, S. E. (2007). Team leadership. In P. G. Northouse (Ed.), Leadership: Theory and practice (4th ed., pp. 207–236). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Kuhnert, K. W., & Lewis, P. (1987). Transactional and transformational leadership: constructive/evolutionary analysis. Academy of Management Review, 12(4), 648–657. Larson, C. E., & LaFasto, F. M. J. (1989). Teamwork: What Must Go Right/What Can Go Wrong.Newbury Park, CA: Sage.Levi, D. (2011). Group dynamics for teams. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.Luthans, F., & Avolio, B.J. (2003). Authentic leadership development. In K. S. Cameron, J. E. Parker, G. M. (1990). Team players and teamwork. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Senge, P. M. (1990). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. New York: Double Day.
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