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A paper which looks at the leadership style of Margaret Thatcher with specific reference to economic and social policies, monetarism and the conflict with the unions. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of the time but also, of course, because Thatcher was the first female Prime Minister in Britain, and a particularly high-profile one. We therefore have to consider whether her leadership
style owes more to ideology or to gender, and how closely it might be compared to similar styles in male politicians. Hooper-Box (2004), for example,
comments that there are certain types of leadership which are regarded as typically female: she cites Anita Roddick as describing such feminine principles as "caring; making intuitive decisions; not getting
hung up on hierarchy" (Roddick, cited in Hooper-Box, 2004, PG). Whilst these principles obviously worked extremely well for Roddicks corporate style, they do not bear much resemblance to those espoused
by Thatcher. George (2004) accounts for this by stating that the essential quality of a leader is authenticity: in other words, each leader has their
own innate style which is then built on, and one leader could not successfully imitate the style of another. Whilst this is true up to a point - it is
certainly the case that Thatcher relied strongly on a personality cult, whereas John Major found it impossible - it is also the case that leadership is a deliberate construct. If
one studies television broadcasts of Thatcher over the years, for instance, the point at which she underwent voice training so that she would lose her natural shrillness and sound more
authoritative, is quite apparent. Here, the innate characteristics of the individual were deliberately replaced with artificial ones more suited to an autocrat leader-figure. Thatcher
herself stated that she saw leadership as a combination of personal conviction and the ability to communicate, although she did not specify the particular forms of communication which she had
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