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leadership strategies - an essay
- The workplace has always been an ever-challenging environment in which different strategies for leadership and success have been tested.
- Leaders are supposed to make the most out of their business and account for their workers’ productivity and well-being.
- As regards this matter, both texts present very different leadership styles.
- According to the ‘Affiliative Style’, worker’s morale is placed over productivity.
- In contrast, the ‘Pacesetting style’ focuses only on the rentability of the worker’s production.
- The first text puts forward the implication of adopting an ‘Affiliative style’, in which leaders are in charge of providing a harmonic setting to develop the required professional activity.
- In return, loyalty from the workers is expected.
- However, because leaders trust workers so much that the even do not support them with sound advice, productivity may end up compromised.
- Certainly, this approach sounds like the ideal methodology to implement in companies, but I believe it stands little chance to succeed in such a competitive world, where drops in productivity are not allowed, as they would drive businesses to their bankrupt.
- At the other end of the spectrum, the ‘Pacesetting style’ fixes clear objectives and leaders take an exigent role, demanding employees to make their best regardless their mental wellbeing.
- Presumably, this strategy attempts to yield the highest possible productivity.
- Notwithstanding, workers’ morale often will get undermined, fact that is further pronounced considering that workers can be easily replaced if they underperform.
- This leadership style should be forbidden by law, in my opinion.
- Unfortunately, there is so much current need for entry-level position jobs that this is the method that most young people undergo, and endure lest they will never get enough experience to promote.
- Personally, I think that these two styles are to opposite between them.
- Thus, none of them is prone to achieve businesses goals with guarantees.
- Albeit a proper mixture of both styles should get the best of both worlds and hopefully we will see it in the forthcoming future.
- poliglotaD
November 2017
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