Situational Leadership and Personal Values
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Situational Leadership and Personal Values
Northouse (2018) describes the Situational Approach to leadership as a style encouraging leaders to change their style to accommodate the demands of a given situation. Kouzes and Posner (2017) explain that “In order to Set the Example, you need to: live the shared values and teach others to model the values” (Kouzes & Posner, 2017, p. 73). In this question you will explore the possible contradiction of situational leadership and setting an example.
Can leaders be situational and still be true to their values? Please provide some examples, either from a personal perspective or from the contemporary leadership community. Also support your comments with academically credible sources.
References
Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: Theory and practice (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2017). The leadership challenge: How to make extraordinary things happen in organizations (6th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Wiley.
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Application of situational leadership in an organization accommodates maintenance of the leader’s values. The basis of the argument is because in use of situational leadership, there is an assessment of the nature of the employee involved in the performance of the task. A leader whose personal values are commitment and time consciousness will be required to assess the environment within which an employee fails to deliver an assignment in time (Bruno, & Lay, 2008). The leader considers the characteristics of the employees in previous responsibilities. Also, personal values aren’t isolated (Kouzes, & Posner, 2017)…
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