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This 5 page paper considers how poor leadership can be cyclic leading to more poor management due to the way it will impact on the situation. The paper considers how this occurs and how transformational management may be out into place in these circumstances. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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of skills and personality traits are all apparent. Peter Drucker offers an insight to leadership in the late twentieth century and their required qualities. He states that a leader can
not be defined by present personality types, a theory which was at loggerheads to scientific management techniques. The main trait, he believes, is that a leader has followers, sets examples,
has responsibilities and therefore will get results (Drucker in Hesselbeinet al, 1997). He further goes on to recognise that a leader will usually submit themselves to a mirror test, continually
judging themselves, asking is the person they see in the mirror every morning the person they want to be (Drucker in Hesselbeinet al, 1997). Charles Handy, another recognised management Guru
cites the short-sightedness of todays management, with a constant preoccupation with the enrichment of the shareholders (Hesselbeinet al, 1997). He argues that whilst businesses dont have a greater goal or
cause then it will not see any remarkable leaders, with management remaining in mediocrity (Hesselbeinet al, 1997). In looking at a situation where there is a weak leader, such as
the head of a pharmaceutical department, where there are no strong management skills such as people management, and the personal skills are also missing then two main features of effective
leadership are missing. Yuki (1989, quoted in Longest et al, 2000) states that leadership is a mixture of the many models, with the quality influenced by the leadership skills,
personality traits and also the situational variables, being reflective and also influencing the leadership success. Therefore, it may be argued that where only one element is missing, others may be
compensating. For example, a leader with poor skills may employee those with the correct supervisors that compensate the weaknesses. However, in the situation outlined with the pharmacist there is also
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