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3-5 page Paper
For this assignment, you should focus on the reading material from this weeks readings.
The breakdown of your paper should be as follows:
Introduction:
BRIEFLY Tell me why it is important to understand What a Leader Is, The Leader as a Visionary, The Leader as a Problem Solver and a Leader as a Team Builder Also, construct your introduction from the requirements that you select below)
Body of your paper: (3-5 Pages total in length)-Your thoughts should be supported with terms from our text and library research-I want you to use this research paper with the goal of using our reading material and OUTSIDE SOURCES to show me your understanding of the material from weeks 1-5 in our readings.
Each of these sections should be about one page in length:
The student will discuss each of the following section in a minimum of one page per section: (Use our text and the library to support your response.
• What is a leader? What is a manager?
What were the most interesting parts that you will be able to apply to a work environment? Why?
• What does it mean when we talk about the “Leader as a Visionary”? Again, use our week 1-5 readings and outside sources.
• What does it mean when we talk about the “Leader as a Problem-Solver”? Again, use our week 1-5 readings and outside sources.
• What does it mean when we talk about the “Leader as a Team-Builder”? Again, our readings and outside sources.
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS
Leadership in Organizations
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Institution
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What is a leader? What is a manager?
A leader can be defined as a person who commands or rather leads an organization, group
or even a country. Different institutions depend on leadership in order for them to achieve their
set goals and objectives. Leaders coordinate various activities in their institutions hence ensuring
there is a flow of the activities. Leaders influence their juniors hence being able to transform
them effectively. Through exercising their powers, leaders are able to control and coordinate the
activities of their juniors in an institution. Different styles of leadership styles are applied by
leaders while running their organizations. Democratic style of leadership, transformational and
translation style of leadership are some of the major styles applied by leaders while leading their
organizations. Effective leadership of an institution or rather organizations contribute
significantly to its improved performance in the market as well as boosting its competitiveness in
the industry.
A manager, on the other hand, can be defined as a person who is tasked with the
responsibility of administering or rather controlling an organization. Managers act as leaders in
organizations since they steer the activities of the organizations in the industry. Effective
management of an organization leads to its improved productivity as well as competitiveness in
the industry. Managers like leaders should possess different traits and skills in order to make
them effective in their operations. The major skills that a manager should have included;
effective communication, problem-solving skills, decision-making skills, analytical skills, and
good team building skills (Bolman & Deal, 2017). These traits and skills make leaders as well as
managers successful in their leadership activities. Leaders are managers in their institutions but
not all managers are leaders. This means that a person can be promoted in an organization to the
managerial position but fail terribly since they do not possess leadership skills. Holding a
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leadership position makes one responsible for making quality decisions as well as solving
different challenges that a firm faces in the industry.
What were the most interesting parts that you will be able to apply to a work environment?
Why?
In a work environment, leadership is applied in coordinating and controlling various
activities in the workplace. In an organization setting, leadership is exercised by managing the
organization. Managers promote the good performance of a firm through directing and
supervising junior workers to perform their tasks effectively and efficiently. This way, a firm is
able to achieve its set goals and objectives in the industry. In a work environment, leaders
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