David Oleman What Makes A Leader Summary

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Paternalistic managers as the name insinuates focus more attention to the social needs and views of their employees. Superiors are interested in how happy workforces feel and in many ways they act as a father figures. They refer to employees over issues and listen to their feedback or opinions. The managers make the actual decisions within the best interests of the workers as they believe the workforce still need direction and in this way it is somewhat of an autocratic approach. The style is closely linked with Mayo's Human Relation view of motivation and also the social needs of Maslow. An example of a democratic leader would be John. F. Kennedy, Kennedy admittedly exhibited a mixture of democratic as well as paternalistic leadership styles. In an academic journal by David Oleman entitled ‘What Makes a Leader’ Oleman discusses the importance of emotional intelligence when being a leader, emotional intelligence is often a key aspect of those who associate with the paternalistic leadership style, he outlined 5 components of emotional intelligence at work. Those being self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and finally social skill. Within the article Oleman discusses specifically that figures are beginning to display that there is a link between the emotional intelligence of a business’s leaders and the success of a business. …show more content…

In an article on Forbes.com the top 10 qualities for being a ‘great’ leader are as follows… Honesty, Delegation, Communication, Confidence, Commitment, Positive Attitude, Creativity, Intuition, Inspire, Approach. All of these different qualities sound extremely desirable but is it really the case that any single person who exhibits these qualities can qualify as a