Choose an effective leader from your current or previous organization

Choose an effective leader from your current or previous organization. Determine the different types of power the leader possessed. Do you believe the leader you identified tends to be use more of a transformational leadership style or a transactional leadership style?

Choose an effective leader from your current or previous organization

1. Firstly, Choose an effective leader from your current or previous organization. Secondly, Determine the different types of power the leader possessed. Thirdly, Do you believe the leader you identified tends to be use more of a transformational leadership style or a transactional leadership style?

2. Explain which influence tactics the leader you identified in #1 used that seemed especially effective.

3. Explain how the leader identified in #1 might further use power and influence tactics to resolve conflicts, improve organizational commitment, or manage job performance.

4. Additionally, Reflect on your own experience with organizational politics within your current or previous organization.

When does political behaviour occur? What can leaders do to help reduce political behaviour?

5 .Identify a situation when you used one of the four decision making styles (e.g., facilitative, etc.). Explain why you used the style you used.

6. Which conflict resolution style (e.g., compromise, etc.) does the leader tend to use? Which style do you tend to use? Under what circumstances does your preferred conflict resolution style tend to work best?

7. Which style of employee discipline (e.g., positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, extinction, or punishment) does your leader tend to use. Explain whether this discipline is the most effective type. Use a peer-reviewed study to support your answer.

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Transformational leadership is a theory of leadership where a leader works with teams to identify needed change, creating a vision to guide the change through inspiration, and executing the change in tandem with committed members of a group; it is an integral part of the Full Range Leadership Model.