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My Leadership Style
Jennifer Baxter
BUS 610
Organizational Behavior
Professor Theodore
February 7, 2011
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Introduction
Leadership is defined by authors Kinicki and Kreitner as a social influence process in which the
leader seeks the voluntary participation of subordinates in an effort to reach organizational goals.
A strong leadership should empower its employees to maximize their abilities, both as
individuals and as group members, in order to maximize employees’ potential for reaching
organizational, as well as personal, goals. Dependent upon which leadership style is utilized;
employee empowerment may come with little resistance or can be more challenging for
management to infuse.
Leadership Style
In the leadership positions I have been in, and based on the different leadership styles presented
by Kinicki and Kreitner (2009), I could be labeled a transactional leader with some
transformational techniques intertwined. Looking back, I feel that had I stayed with the
company, I would have eventually promoted into a higher position and thus given more
opportunity to lead employees with transformational behaviors.
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