A GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AGENDA AND THEORY Overview This assignme

A GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AGENDA AND THEORY

Overview

This assignment provides an opportunity for you to analyze relevant leadership concerns for an increasingly global future and commit to an emerging leadership theory that is appropriate to guide enactment of your leadership agenda. Be aware that Gardner\'s five minds is not a theory but a model. Emerging theories include relational leadership, Theory U, contingency theory, and path-goal theory.

What you create in this assignment is the starting point for the Leadership Development Plan, which is due in Unit 5. Remember that the plan is about you, your career, your organization, and your industry. If your company or industry is local or national only, think of how it might impact or be impacted by the global environment. The work you completed in the discussions in Units 1 and 2 should have prepared you to write this assignment.

Activity Instructions

In this paper, complete the following:

Provide context by defining the shaping and driving forces that impact the development of your new leadership agenda. This should include your awareness of the global impact of your company or your chosen field and its welcoming of a global diversity of ideas and leadership. It should also include what \"minds\" you most need to develop.

Think about how your agenda compares to the predominant leadership model in your field. Examples of contemporary leadership agendas might include \"might makes right,\" \"Americans know better,\" and \"partnering makes a better product.\" Evaluate the strength of your own agenda in comparison to other possible agendas. Provide the rationale for one of the emerging leadership theories as a guide for your leadership agenda.

The completed paper should be 4–5 pages (excluding cover and reference pages). You also need to utilize citations and reference from a minimum of four credible sources.

Solution

Leadership construct has confounded researchers for over a century. Yet it is perhaps the most critical aspect of human activity. leadership is easily recognized but most difficult to put into words. The numerous hues leadership reflects with the varying contexts that is applied to makes it impossible to concisely describe this phenomenon.

Leadership is necessary to deliver beyond the call of duty and thus goes much beyond the boundaries of systems and good management. It brings to the fore group goals and lays out a collective vision acceptable to the team of followers to tread on. The leader then becomes the coordinator, facilitator to garner resources, coordinate with the team and resolve conflicts as and when these arise to attain their common objectives.

Leadership style research shows though needs a context. While the dispositional characteristics of the leaders (which vary) impact the outcomes, these are tempered by the context in which it is aligned. Leaders are thus adept at reading the environment, context and align accordingly and modify their styles to address these factors (individual traits do not change but their behavior is adapted to the context in which they role play).

Right from the days of Fiedler\'s research on the regression analysis of odd 150 attributes and the context to see the applicable leadership style (this research had very limited success) to all the following theories of transactional, transfromational, path goal theory have found it frustratingly difficult to address precisely what leadership is. Contemporary research has added some what to this field by way of application of leadership styles across cultures. Cultures are the building blocks of perceptions and how we behave. These are different from culture to culture to some extent. Hence applicability to leadership styles would be tempered accordingly. Leaders inherently adapt to the context and thus would mould their behavior and thus the outcomes too accordingly.

However complex the construct of leadership may appear to us, it is extremely vital for emerging leaders in their field of work to recognize the impact of such role playing on society as awhole - be it industry politics or any chosen field.