Organizational Behaviour Write in your own words. Do Leaders make a difference?

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Organizational Behaviour

Write in your own words.

Do Leaders make a difference?

* Complete the "Do Leaders make a difference?" self-assesment exercise (in the pictures below)

* Interpret your score, then discuss your results in 2 or 3 paragraphs (very important, please follow instructions for a good rate)

Scoring key on pages B-13 and B-14 (in the pictures)

Scoring Keys:

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elf-Assessment: DO LEADERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Purpose This assessment is designed to help you to assess your beliefs about the influence of leaders. Instructions Read each of the statements below and circle the response that best indicates your personal belief about that statement. Then use the scoring key in Appendix B to calculate the results for each leadership dimension. After completing this assessment, be prepared to discuss in class the relevance and level of implicit leadership theory Romance of Leadership Scale Strongly Strongly Agree Neutral DisagreeDisagree To what extent do you agree or disagree that. . . gree 1. Even in an economic recession, a good leader can prevent a company from doing poorly 2. The quallty of leadershlp is the single most Important Influence on how well the organizatlon functions 3. The CEO and executive team have relatively little effect on the company's success or failure 4. Sooner or later, bad leadership at the top will result in declining organizational performance 5. The effect of a company's leaders on organizational performance is fairly weak 6. A company is only as good or as bad as its leaders 7. Even the best leaders can't help an organization very much when the econ- omy is bad or competition is tough 8. It is impossible for an organization to do well when its leaders are average 9. Compared with the economy, competitlon, and other external forces, leaders have only a small Influence on a firm's performance 10. The company's top executives have the power to make or break the organization Source: This instrument is adapted and condensed from B. Schyns. J. R. Meindl, and M. A. Croon. "The Romance of Leadership Scale: Cross-cultural Testing and Refinement." Leadership 3, no. 1 (2007): 2916.

Explanation / Answer

The romance leadership scale results and the scores for each statement are as below.

Total score = 4+4+5+5+4+3+4+4+4+4 = 41

As per the results, my romance of leadership score comes in the range of 38 - 50 and it is above average romance of leadership. I believe on influence of strong leadership on the organization’s success. I believe that leaders can make much difference in the organization that lead to success even though factors like competition, economy and other factors are not favorable.

A good leader can motivate the employees to perform better and the followers always support their leadership in adverse business conditions by extending their work timings and working without any extra benefits. They support the leaders in achieving the organizational goals. The leaders can also come up with strategies that may help the organization to make profit and sometimes small changes implemented by good leaders lead to great achievements. Each and every decision taken by leaders has much impact on the business and the employee performance. Hence I strongly follow good leaders and believe that they can help the organization to achieve success even though all other factors are against it.

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