Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Style, Situational, and Skills Approach of Leaders

I wanted to go off of the chapters involving style, situational, and skills approach and look at different leaders of our past that were ethical and unethical and see if there were any differences between them.
First, let's look at Martin Luther King, Jr. When looking at the skills model, motivation was the key to his individual attribute. He had the dream that inspired everybody. He also was great with problem-solving skills and social judgement skills. He was able to get all these people to work with him and follow him to pursue his dream.
When looking at the styles approach, I believe he was very relationship oriented. This means he had much concern for the people. Finally, the situational approach played a part in Martin Luther King Jr. leadership. When looking at the four leadership styles, i believe he was mostly using the coaching style. He was a very supportive person, however directed people with his speeches on the direction people need to go.

Now let's look at a unethical leader, for example Rod Blagojevich. As former governor of Illinois, he had some struggles in his position that led to his departure, as well as many court trials. He might have been a knowledgeable guy, but his problem-solving skills were weak some would say, as well as his social judgement skills which I believe were horrible. This led him to a horrible leadership outcome of, pretty much no good outcome whatsoever. He seemed to only care about himself, as you can imagine with this case of him selling the seat that Obama once had to get money, so he wasn't very concerned for the people.

I think there is a big difference between ethical and unethical leaders in society. These are just two examples, but you can clearly see the main difference is between the concern for people. I think most unethical leaders are only concerned about themselves, whereas ethical leaders are looking to achieve great things not only for themselves, but for society or a group of people.

2 comments:

  1. I agree with you Brad there is a lot solid information you have for both Rod Blagojevich and Martin Luther King Jr. which makes them both ethical and unethical leaders. Also someone like Nelson Mandela was a great ethical leader that had great social judgement skills and was very relationship oriented just like Martin Luther King Jr.

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  2. Informative post!!!Situational leadership refers to when the leader or manager of an organization must adjust his style to fit the development level of the followers he is trying to influence. Thanks for the share with us.

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