BUS660: Contemporary Issues in Organizational Leadership
Karen Ivy
October 7, 2013
Leadership Traits The words leader and leadership often times are confusing to lots of people. A leader is a person while leadership is an action or process a leader performs. The words managers and leaders can be used as a substitute for each other. A manager usually hold an authoritarian position in an organization where they perform leadership skills for managerial purposes. A leader in an organization works as an manager and administrator of tasks in a business. A leader is also responsible for professional output of their subordinates. Leadership is a complicated hum conduct (Anonymous, 2013). It can be considered …show more content…
Previously, leadership trait theory presumed that individuals have specific intrinsic traits and traits associated with leadership. Most individuals thought that having the required traits would help them become the most effective leaders. Studies recently have found out that having specific intrinsic traits does not warrant leadership effectiveness. A promising leader most possess determination, ambition, sincerity, thinking ability, self-assurance and knowledge about the …show more content…
Such a behavior is normally the introvert-extrovert, awareness-instinct, and cognitive-sensing and assessing-discerning personality dynamics. The importance of productive and sensible leadership intelligence is increasing. The intelligence can be distributed in three parts: The logical intelligence, functional intelligence and productive intelligence. Many studies provide that leaders enjoy a greater degree of logical intelligence than the normal public (Hughes, Ginnet & Curphy,