Discussion
Discuss About The Greater Level Of Efficiency And Competency.
Leadership is crucial to organisational success by managing the associated employees with more skills and ethical attributes. According to Certo (2018), leadership is an art or method of influencing the employees for performing the assigned tasks much willingly with the greater level of efficiency and competency. With the help of a good leadership process, the organisation becomes capable of strengthening division and achieving the target. An efficient leader is an important factor of motivating the employees to develop their performance level and accomplish the determined goals (Clark, 2017). The potentiality of managing the people within the organisation is needed to be evaluated. This method is quite useful to identify the weakness and strengths. A leader always needs to make self-improvements to guide the followers towards right direction. In this changing business world, the continuous improvement is much essential even. It is important for a leader to develop the effective ethical decision making process to lead the organisation towards success. In fact, it is also necessary to develop relationship for the effective managerial practices. The development of the personality determines the skilled attributes that are necessary for management people within an organisation. Moreover, it ensures the leadership skills and efficiency level that can direct the employees towards achieving their personal and professional goals.
In this study, I have conducted the research on my basic personality. The Big 5 Personality test will be undertaken to identify the leadership attributes and self-potentiality to achieve success. The obtained information from the test results would be evaluated to identify the underlying strengths and weakness. Considering the potential weakness, the study will further formulate the SMART goals to fulfill the gaps.
The leaders often indulge with different decisions within an organisation. In some of the cases the decisions are quite minor that may not affect anyone but their leadership attribute. On the other hand, the other type of decisions may create the largest impact on everyone and anyone under the leadership. According to Goetsch and Davis (2014), leadership is the integral part of the daily expectations operator. It is important for related to ensure that the decisions should be based on ethical parameter that will help in surviving for a longer period of time. The leaders often used for basic decision making styles to create the effective working scenario and enhance the organisational performance. Ethics is the integral part in terms of making organisational decision for every leader. The values of the leaders need to be taken into consideration to understand ethics in decision making process. It is important for the letters to have the unreached ideas about their own morals; she still, associated with the ethical parameter (Shapiro, Stefkovich & Gutierrez, 2014). The solid characterization, transparency, and integrity are the major component of a good leadership. Delgado (2014) mentioned that the leaders need to know that the consistent and transparent ethically based decision help in building the teamwork. An ethical leader needs to keep their promises and treat others with due respect. On the other hand, another most significant characteristic of an article is to keep the associated employees informed about organisational process (Bernstein & Jain, 2014). In fact, it is also necessary to operate within the law for minimising the hardships and helping others to achieve their goals. If the leaders can take these factors into account and keep them into daily practices, it will meet the ethical parameter in a significant way. In some of the cases, it has been observed that the leaders face some considerable ethical dilemma. Hartman, DesJardins and MacDonald, (2014) suggested that when the leaders feel the clashes between two equal important aspects during the decision making process, it creates the ethical dilemma that may affect the decision making system. During such time, it is important to dig deeper into the core values to give clarity in this situation.
The Five Factor Model of Personality
In many of the studies, the personality traits are considered as the qualitative in nature. The five factor personality model on leadership develops the quantitative assessment to understand the efficient leadership traits within the workplace (Vasilagos, Polychroniou & Maroudas, 2017). Especially, in terms of making relevant decisions, these personality traits are quite necessary for the leaders. It generally describes how the major personalities create a fruitful leadership (Zydziunaite & Suominen, 2014). The Five Factor Model of personality provides the broader dimension of the characteristics that define the human personality at the highest level. The five major factors of this model are openness, extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and neuroticism. All of these factors include a cluster of more specific traits that generally correlate together. According to Fitzpatrick, operations & Richards (2018), openness depicts the tendency of being insightful, informative, creative, curious, and having the huge experience. The leader needs to derive the adequate ideas about the situation prior to make any decisions. a creatively thinker will provide more innovative solutions to the imaging conflicts and uncertainties. It is necessary for a leader to maintain the communicational transparency to inform the associated workers about the situation and guide them appropriately.
The next factor is conscientiousness, which ensures the tendency of showing responsible attitude, self discipline, acting dutifully, and having a clear in for achievement. A skilled leader needs to have a clear vision of the aims and goals. It is important to develop I planned behaviour rather than the spontaneous one. Making a clear plan and strengthening the vision helper later to achieve success by maintaining the cohesiveness among the team members. On the other hand, Caruso, Fleming & Spector (2014) explained that extraversion personality provides the knowledge about the high level of energy and positive emotions of the later. It is important for related to become a sociable to build up effective relationship with the others. The employees need to feel the comfortable level to communicate with the leaders that will help them to present their concerns without any hesitation. Therefore, the leaders need to be positive towards the associated workers and show the sense of empathy while communicating with them and understanding their demands.
The next type of personality is agreeableness that ensures the tendency to become much compassionate, cooperative, and trustworthy; rather than being antagonistic and suspicious towards others. In terms of building teamwork and relationships with the other employees, a leader always needs to gather the positive trait that generates the scenes of Reliability among others (McCleskey, 2014). It develops the transparent relationship and high level of motivation for achieving the organisational goals. It has been observed that this type of leadership trait does not include the decision making process in an efficient way. The next trait is neuroticism, which is a way of assessing the impact of leadership traits by aligning with the concept of emotional intelligence (Vasilagos, Polychroniou & Maroudas, 2017). This emotional intelligence, as discussed previously, refers to the capability of controlling, perceiving, and evaluating emotions. There is a possibility of strengthening the emotional intelligence by learning new skills and innovativeness. Development of these personality traits would be much helpful to become a strengthened leader and develop the effective decision making scenario within the organisation. During this decision making process, the leader gathers around the entire team and explain the situation more precisely. The team discusses together and makes the decision by voting as per their preferences. It creates the high level of reliability among the workers and the leaders to make the collaborative approach towards achieving the organisational goals. Leadership is considered as the integral part of the daily organisational functionalities. It is important for related to ensure that the decisions should be based on ethical parameter that will help in surviving for a longer period of time. In fact, it is observable that an ethical leader needs to keep their promises and treat others with due respect. On the other hand, another most significant characteristic of an article is to keep the associated employees informed about organisational process. Self regulation, self awareness, empathy, motivation, and social skills are the major characteristics of building the emotional intelligence of a leader. An ethical leader needs to derive the enriched knowledge about their capability and skills.
Conclusion
One of the major responsibilities of the leader is team building. According to Fitzpatrick, Shete & Richards (2018), team building is much complex and fragile in nature, but quite necessary to perform the complicated functionalities. It is to be indicated that a strong and successful team needs to have some mutual understanding and respect for the other members. It is noticeable that the involvement of the leader motivates the employees to feel engaged and value. However, a democratic leader needs to be cautious about the situation where the quick decisions are needed to be made. The leaders pay the vital role to build confidence among the team members to achieve the larger cool with an effective way. It is important to appoint an assertive leader to take the charge of team building. It is notable that the leaders are quite necessary to build a stronger team. In some of the cases, it is a quite difficult task, which involves the willingness for making hard decisions that are many realistic and high standards. Shapiro, Stefkovich & Gutierrez, (2014) suggested that the leaders need to take the responsibility for the emerging shortcomings of the team for improving the result. It is not able that an effective team building generally depends on mutual trust and understanding. The leaders accordingly need to take the active participation in developing effective team and leading them towards success. The consultation with the team members helps in providing the necessary feedbacks and improves their personality trait to become more skilled for achieving the predetermined goals.
Through Big Five Inventory I have explored myself in a new and interesting way which I would never had done if I did not undergo this particular process. I had a deep understanding of who I am or what my strengths and weaknesses are but big five diagnosis has helped me to gain an all-encompassing view of my characters and features. This test is mainly focussed on the five most important facets of my character and with 44 simple questions I am able to evaluate my psychological traits in a perfect manner. In getting the best result out of this diagnostic tool, I need to select one of the given five options truly that matches with my character for each of the question. First of all, I strongly disagree with the fact that I am talkative but it is also true that I do not tend to fall out with others on a trivial matter. I disagree little with the facts that in a slightly cynical and find faults on others which make me selfish and moody. I do not have much creativity of my own and do not come up with innovative and original ideas though I am very curious about many different things. In some of the sections I feel to be more passive like analyzing my effort to do a thorough job, handling my stress and feature like carelessness and relaxation at the time of stress. I do not always full very energetic and enthusiastic about doing things but I am a reliable worker and a deep thinker. On the contrary I disagree a little that I have perseverance until the task is finished. Despite the fact that I have an assertive personality and value aesthetic and artistic influences, I tend to be lazy and inhibited. I have a forgiving nature and considerate to almost everyone. I am not very unorganized person hence do not follow the planned ways. I do things efficiently with great support from the others.
In the five dimensions, I have scored 29 in the extraversion facet, which relates my high societal energy and high enthusiasm to learn and act upon. I have high positive and outgoing nature which is quite accepted in accomplishing my future goals. I am quite active to fulfill my plans into action without much forcing others but managing them to support what is necessary.
As mentioned before, I am quite agreeable and considerate of the others. In this section I have scored quite well such as 31. These features have made me least arguing and demanding. For this reason, I can easily socialize with others and bring them into my opinion. This is also a good trait for managing employees in an organisation. For being an empathetic leader, it is important to be compliant and polite so that the employees show respect to me and abide by my choice without much contradiction.
In the next fact I have score 27 which is not very acceptable. I am not very dutiful and orderly which can affect my profession negatively. Despite the fact that I feel enthusiasm in completing the work but not very achievement striving. I often feel lazy to work which is not very rare for a human being but not always acceptable for a manager. I am much comfortable with the routine works rather trying g new methods of accomplishing a task.
I have scored vary low in the emotional stability factor. I am slightly tensed and get depressed which has reflected in my personal life as well as professional aspect. I am moderately irritable and shy person which affect in my communication with others. Despite the fact that I am quire sociable person but cannot communicate easily when it comes to communication with business persons and customers. I have a medium confident in myself which is reflected in the professional communication.
As I have mentioned before, that the innovative quality is lacking in me but I have curiosity to know all the aspects of a task. I value the aesthetic and artistic feature which can be helpful to get some new ideas improve my innovative qualities to be implemented in the organisation. In addition to this, I have variety of interest which can effectively help me to have new experiences for improving the communication and basement quality in me. I do not have much excitable nature which is much in need for being an effective leader to motivate the employees in the organisation.
The answers of the questions highlight that I need to make improvements in socializing with people. The development of the collaborative and cohesive approaches while performing the workplace functionalities. management, in order to manage the team, it is also necessary to develop the collaboration and transparent communication with the team mates. As I examined my personality trait, I have identified that I need to make improvements in my communication skills to create the team collaboration. I can take help from my managers and the colleagues to gather feedback regarding my team involvement. The focus of developing this attribute is necessary for managing the team work. Moreover, it is also necessary to identify the ethical leadership skills for achieving the business goals. I believe that if I communicate more, it will be much helpful for me to maintain the collaborative work functions as well as make me more transparent in making any specific organisational decisions. I can take this approach for next 2 months within which I shall make the improvements. On the other hand, I can conduct the survey among the team mates to judge my communication and interpersonal relationship traits. It will help me to measure my personality traits and improve the leadership quality.
I have established the SMART goals in completing this plan of developing the communication and transparency skills. This plan is specific because it has the clear purpose of developing the team building, greater interpersonal skills, and communicational transparency. It is measurable because I can measure the feedbacks from the subordinates to identify the area of progress. It is attainable because I can start communicating more and develop my interpersonal skills for the betterment of team building. It is realistic because this purpose can be achieved in real time. Finally, this is time bound because I have set the target for two months within which I shall make this improvement and check the progress report.
Conclusion
The decision making process of the leader is crucial to business success. The study develops the clear understanding regarding the personality of the leaders in terms of managing people and making the effective organisational decisions. It is notable that the decisions should be based on ethical parameter that will help in surviving for a longer period of time. The leaders often used for basic decision making styles to create the effective working scenario and enhance the organisational performance. The big five personality test is conducted to evaluate the weaknesses and strengths within me. I have observed that I need to me more involved with the team activities in order to develop the team collaboration and skilled decision making process. A skilled leader needs to have a clear vision of the aims and goals. It is important to develop I planned behaviour rather than the spontaneous one. Making a clear plan and strengthening the vision helper later to achieve success by maintaining the cohesiveness among the team members. I developed a plan to improve my interpersonal skills and communicational transparency for the betterment of team building skills. Development of the SMART approaches will be helpful for me to achieve the purpose.
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