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A 16 page paper. The stimulus question for this essay is: Do leadership theories help organizations to develop effective leadership? To address the question, the writer begins with a description and examples of bad leaders and defines the term organizational effectiveness. The rest of the essay focuses on leadership theories that have resulted in greater organizational success. These include the leader-member exchange theory of leadership, charismatic leadership, transformational leadership and transactional leadership. The writer cites research that demonstrates the effect on organizational performance. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
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"In the description of organizations, no word is more often used that leadership, and perhaps no word is used with such varied meanings. Leadership is sometimes used as if
it were an attribute of personality, sometimes as if it were a characteristic of certain positions, and sometime as an attribute of behavior" (p. 574). Leadership most definitely has
an effect on organizational leadership. The question can really be answered very quickly and easily by looking at what happens when there are bad leaders in an organization. Barbara Kellerman,
a lecturer in public policy and research director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Universitys John F. Kennedy School of Government, wrote a book entitled Bad Leadership (Randall,
2004). In this text, Kellerman the term leader is typically associated with good but because someone has the title of leader does not necessarily make that person a good leader
(Randall, 2004). Kellerman identifies seven categories of bad leadership, which are: "incompetent, rigid, intemperate, callous, corrupt, insular, and evil" (Randall, 2004, p. 19). But, Kellerman goes further, she identifies individuals
who exemplify each of these seven categories (Randall, 2004). For example, Marion Berry, Jr, Mayor of Washington, D.C. was intemperate; Chainsaw" Al Dunlap was callous; Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic
was evil and President Clinton was insular (Randall, 2004). Clinton was so identified because "he did nothing to stop the massacres in Rwanda" (Randall, 2004, p. 19). There are
more. Mary Meeker exemplifies rigid because she was a brilliant trader but refused to see the writing on the wall when the tech market plummeted (Randall, 2004). And, how about
Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee for almost 20 years, classified as incompetent (Randall, 2004). Or, William Aramony from the United Way of America, and Andrew Fastow,
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