Terracog Leadership Paper

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- Power and influence

We learned how to influence in relation to boss, peers and subordinates in this section. There may have positive or negative effects depend on the sources of the power which can be identified as positional power source and personal power source. In positional power sources, it includes legitimate, reward and coercive power. In personal power sources, it includes referent, expert and information power.

Personally, the given case of “Thomas Green” can be analyzed in different perspectives. For example, McDonald as the Vice President lacks of the basic leadership competencies, such as having strong ethics & safety competence as well as connection & belonging. Furthermore, Green, as a new team number, should respect office policy and try best to involve into the team work. For me, using personal power to influence subordinates is quite helpful for my current work, especially by encouraging and motivating the team.

- Organization & corporate culture

Before to judge that whether a CEO’s character can form, influent and even change a company’s culture, we have to understand what exactly corporate culture is. Culture is the self-sustaining pattern of behavior that determines how things are done. Then I did two surveys to investigate the personal characteristics as well as assess my suitable organizational culture.

- Result of personal characteristics

The test result is shown in the exhibit below. Through the big 5 personality trait test, I got relatively high score of Neuroticism which characterized by anxious, unhappy, and prone to negative emotion. My score on conscientiousness is relatively low which may lead to the characters of disorganized and careless.

- Result of organization culture assessment

My current company’s dominant corporate cultures are market & hierarchy, which is result oriented and strong structured place. However, based on the test, my preferred corporate cultures are clan and adhocracy, as I am looking for a working place with sharing and dynamic & freedom. The result of preferred corporate culture may also relate to my personality which is given above. A friendly & more sharing but less structured & less pressure atmospheres may avoid the disadvantages of Neuroticism.

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Well-recognized my personalities as well as the preferred corporate culture are critical for my future career development. More important, the process to fit or align the employees’ personality with the corporate culture is being ignored or paid less attention by both HR and employers. Unfortunately, mismatch and misalignment may not only block personal development but also influence company’s reputation and bottom line.

- Summary

In the course of LEAD 2, we are stepping toward to the leadership trip from individual process to the team and organization. From the course and cases analysis, we had learned that 6 different leadership style, situational leadership, developing the efficient & productive team, power and influence of leadership. Finally, through the personality test and corporate culture assessment, we are able to know “who we are” and “where we are” better than before. These results will guide to understand not only our current team and corporate culture but also our future career planning and development.