Introduction to Business Management
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Introduction to Business Management
TABLE OF CONTENT
Table of content 1
Introduction 2
ANSWER 1 a) 3
MEANING OF CHARISMA 3
CHARISMATIC LEADER=EFFECTIVE LEADER 3
ANSWER 1 b) 5
CHARISMA AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP 5
DIFFERENCES OF CHARISMATIC LEADER AND TRANFORMATIONAL LEADER 5
FOLLOWERS OF CHARISMATIC LEADER AND TRANSFORMATIONAL 6
ANSWER 1 c) 7
FLEXIBLE 7
TIME ARRANGEMENT 7
THEORY HENRY DAVID THOREAU 7
EXAMPLE OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU 8
EXAMPLE OF THEORY MAJOR GENENAL AUBREY "RED" NEWMAN (FOLLOW ME, 1981) 8
Reference 9
INTRODUCTION
The topic discussed below is concerned mainly with leadership. Leadership plays a vital role in a company and its influence all the workers who are under their leadership. Leadership can influence their followers to achieve goal based on their internal character and external appearances. The types of leadership are autocratic, democratic, charismatic, transformational and laissez-faire. Charismatic leader can also be categorized into 5 types, there are socialize charismatic, personalized charismatic, office-holder charismatic, personal charismatic and divine charismatic. Charismatic leader is different with transformational leader although some characteristic are similar. An effective leader is also a flexible leader if they know how to change.
ANSWER 1 A)
MEANING OF CHARISMA
Charisma means a power to inspire others people to devote to him or her as a leader. From the religion point of view, charisma is the power or gift that awarded by god and it is an aptitude. Charisma can mean personal attractiveness which can influence others through your beauty, appearance, talent, behaviors, aptitude and wisdom. Charisma is the ability to creating a self image which is very powerful that a large group of people are naturally drawn to you and respect you.
Charisma is the divinely conferred gift or power, a spiritual power or personal quality that gives individual influence or authority over large number of people and the special virtue of an officer ,function, position that confers or though to confer on the person holding it an unusual ability for leadership, worthiness of veneration or the like. (http://www.dictionary .com)
Charisma is appeal, magnetism, presence, leadership ability. (www.english–test.net/gre/vocabulary/meanings/15/gre-words.php)
CHARISMATIC LEADER=EFFECTIVE LEADER
Yes, an individual who are not charismatic can also be an effective leader. They can practice assiduously in their work to be an effective leader. An effective leader possesses full ability to influence others to accomplish the objective and direct the organization become more cohesive and coherent. It is not necessary for an individual to be charismatic in order to be an effective leader; he or she can be an effective leader if they practice the following characteristics.
Self awareness of a leader and what will be their duties in his period of leadership and having the ability to control his strengths and weaknesses.
Clarify of speech whenever a leader is talking to audiences, they should be straight forward to the point of speech that they are giving to the audience. It will make the leader able to convince the audience.
Keen intellect is vital to a leader for being able to read people minds and see what they needs or aspect and try to implement them. It is important to consider for people feeling and think from the standpoint of the followers and customer.
Ability to relate people of all kinds such as poor or rich and try to give them all things they expect to get from an effective leader. They are good in socialize with people and has the good communication skills.
Job relevant knowledge, an effective leader must have a high degree of knowledge about company industry, they should have good source by reading books, news or magazine