{"id":265,"date":"2021-02-07T21:02:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/?p=265"},"modified":"2021-02-07T21:02:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T05:02:26","slug":"what-are-the-most-important-attributes-of-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/what-are-the-most-important-attributes-of-a-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the most important attributes of a leader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It depends on who is answering. Team activity 2 has shown that every follower has their own perspective and what&#8217;s interesting is that the leaders of our hypothetical leader could have a completely opposite perspective. While reading about different leadership styles, I found an article in which Mishra et al. claims that &#8220;though micromanagement leadership style is considered as a negative way of handling people and has earned a bad reputation, it can yield better positive outcomes if it is exhibited in a right manner in right time&#8221;(2019, p. <span class=\"gray\">2950<\/span>). Of course, this claim is not that shocking once you consider the title of the article &#8220;Micromanagement: An Employers&#8217; Perspective&#8221;.<br \/>\nLooking back on my teenage years and most of my 20&#8217;s, I have defined a great leader by what they don&#8217;t do, rather than what they do. This is likely due to me not having a clearly defined value system yet and working at the bottom of a social hierarchy, where leadership skills are practically non-existent.\u00a0 If I had to answer this question back then, I would have said my top 3 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>does not yell and swear at me<\/li>\n<li>does not micromanage<\/li>\n<li>does not threaten to fire me<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After I graduated from university and entered the field of social work I noticed that transactional leadership was the norm for most entry-level positions. I was content with &#8220;the exchange of rewards contingent on performance&#8221;(Khan, 2017, p.\u00a0<span class=\"gray\">179<\/span>) because it felt like an upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 5 years, I had several managers within the same organization, whose style I would describe as a mixture of adaptive and distributed leadership. They were flexible and delegated most of the decision-making, which I loved from day one.\u00a0 My rankings in activity 2 is a reflection of that experience. Even though I had to compromise somewhat to come to a consensus within our team, our rankings still reflect my experience for the most part. I truly thought it does not get better than that.<\/p>\n<p>Until I read about Value-Based Leadership, which lacks a precise definition but according to O&#8217;Toole &#8220;a true values-based leader is always to act on the behalf of one\u2019s followers&#8221;(2008, p. 7).\u00a0 Now, this is the approach of a leader I would admire, but how realistic is it? Can leaders like this even exist? The needs of employees rarely align 100% with the needs of an organization, which begs the question &#8211; how long will a leader, who always acts on the behalf of followers, last in an organization if he constantly goes against its needs?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">References<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"a0\">Khan,\u00a0N. (2017). Adaptive or transactional leadership in current higher education: A brief comparison.\u00a0<em>The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning<\/em>,\u00a0<em>18<\/em>(3).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.19173\/irrodl.v18i3.3294\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.19173\/irrodl.v18i3.3294<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"a1\">Mishra,\u00a0N., Rajkumar,\u00a0M., &amp; Mishra,\u00a0R. (2019). Micromanagement: An Employers&#8217; Perspective.\u00a0<em>International Journal of Scientific &amp; Technology<\/em>,\u00a0<em>8<\/em>(10), 2949-2952.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijstr.org\/final-print\/oct2019\/Micromanagement-An-Employers-Perspective.pdf\">http:\/\/www.ijstr.org\/final-print\/oct2019\/Micromanagement-An-Employers-Perspective.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"a2\">O&#8217;Toole,\u00a0J. (2008). Notes Toward a Definition of Values-Based Leadership.\u00a0<em>The Journal of Value-Based Leadership<\/em>,\u00a0<em>1<\/em>(1), 1-10.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.valpo.edu\/jvbl\/vol1\/iss1\/10\/\">https:\/\/scholar.valpo.edu\/jvbl\/vol1\/iss1\/10\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It depends on who is answering. Team activity 2 has shown that every follower has their own perspective and what&#8217;s interesting is that the leaders of our hypothetical leader could have a completely opposite perspective. 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