Organizational Behavior for Leadership as well as Personality

Question: Discuss about theOrganizational Behavior for Leadership as well as Personality. Answer: Colbert, A. E., Barrick, M. R., Bradley, B. H. (2014). Personality and leadership composition in top management teams: Implications for organizational effectiveness.Personnel Psychology,67(2), 351-387. The authors used direct measures to measure the leadership as well as personality attributes among the top management teams of organizations. The authors of the article belong to the University of Iowa, Texas University and University of Oklahoma. The article is intended for the organizations and the senior management of the firm. The implications of these two parameters has been assessed on the overall organizational effectiveness. Results have shown that there was interconnection between the conscientiousness and organization. There were also cross linkages between the conscientiousness of CEO and the various attributes of transformational leadership. This article focused on the fact that it is important to understand the various attributes of leadership that leads to effective organizations. The results show that that transformational leadership of the top management directly affected the commitment level of the followers. This article topic defined the bibliography topic in measuring the outcomes of the leadership process in organization. It also defines that fact that the organization is able to function when there is coalition of leaders rather than a single leader. The study was conducted on the vice presidents, CEO, senior executives across United States. The leadership role of the senior management would also help in better financial performance. Zwingmann, I., Wegge, J., Wolf, S., Rudolf, M., Schmidt, M., Richter, P. (2014). Is transformational leadership healthy for employees? A multilevel analysis in 16 nations.German Journal of Human Resource Management,28(1-2), 24-51. The article on health aspects of the transformational leadership showed critical aspects of the leadership. The study explored the effects of the transformational and laissez-faire leadership in approximately 16 countries with 11,117 teams, who belong to an international company. The study measured the perception of the employees (regarding their supervisors leadership behavior) and its impact on the employees individual health. One of the most critical features of effective leadership is better perceived health among the employees. Thus is because of the fact that the employees have better work satisfaction in the environment of good transformational leadership. The journal differed from the earlier article in the fact that the earlier one discussed the outcome of the effective leadership while this article focused on the one of the core characteristics of leadership. There was augmentation effect on the employees which was evident in all six countries. This study was relevant to the bibliography topic as it identified one of the core features of the leadership attributes- leadership enhances the health of the employees. This is due to the fact that having a clear vision of the leaders would also help the employees to receive right rewards and recognition. This would also help the employees to get good health. Laureani, A., Antony, J. (2017). Leadership characteristics for Lean Six Sigma.Total Quality Management Business Excellence,28(3-4), 405-426. The author Allesandro Laureani and Jiju Antony presented the article on leadership characteristics for lean six sigma on Total Quality Management and Business Excellence. This article established the relationship between lean six sigma and leadership in the various organizations. The article identified that the leadership is one of the critical success factor for successful implementation of the lean six sigma in the organization. This article used the research on the qualitative analysis by performing semi-structured questionnaires that focused on the participants views regarding the inter relationship between the success levels displayed in six sigma and the leadership attributes. This article is different from the previous article as it identified one of the deployment in the organization and how the characteristics of leadership affects the same. The article focused on ten features of leadership namely consistent, targeted, communicative, inspirational, flexible, leading by example, able to build, clearly define the roles to others. This is the way this article fulfilled the requirement of the bibliography topic. Crossan, M. M., Byrne, A., Seijts, G. H., Reno, M., Monzani, L., Gandz, J. (2017). Toward a framework of leader character in organizations.Journal of Management Studies. The article on the Toward a framework of leader character in organizations written by Crossan identifies the fact that there are several shades of the leader character. There are several phases such as multi method approach, three phase and the engaged scholarship epistemology. This article is related to the bibliography topic in such a way that the leadership is closely connected with the interpersonal focus and the traditional competency. However, the article failed to mention clearly about the different characteristics of the leaders in organization. It throwed light on the different virtues connected with leadership such as ethical leadership, ethical decision making, judgement and others. There are evidences that the study would deal with the leader character which is embedded in the broad domain of leadership. Babiak, J., Bajcar, B., Nosal, C. S. (2017). Heterogeneity of Leadership Styles as Behavioral Units: The Role of Personality in Searching for Leadership Profiles. InAdvances in Human Factors, Business Management, Training and Education(pp. 107-120). Springer International Publishing. The article focused on the different heterogenous approaches of the leadership and the close relation of the personality with the leadership profile. This study has used cluster analysis to explore different heterogenous leadership styles. The findings reveal that there are several differences in the leadership profiles and all leadership styles are not same. The different leaders have different personality traits. The authors opine that there can be natural leaders who have personality traits such as task oriented, active, conscientiousness and sociable. The article is unique and different from the others since it defines particular personality dimensions of the leaders, which shapes their behavior and characteristics. This article also collated wide range of leadership traits which are found in the real leaders. This article helped in better understanding of the bibliography topic and helped in understanding of the effective leadership characteristics. References Babiak, J., Bajcar, B., Nosal, C. S. (2017). Heterogeneity of Leadership Styles as Behavioral Units: The Role of Personality in Searching for Leadership Profiles. InAdvances in Human Factors, Business Management, Training and Education(pp. 107-120). Springer International Publishing. Colbert, A. E., Barrick, M. R., Bradley, B. H. (2014). Personality and leadership composition in top management teams: Implications for organizational effectiveness.Personnel Psychology,67(2), 351-387. Crossan, M. M., Byrne, A., Seijts, G. H., Reno, M., Monzani, L., Gandz, J. (2017). Toward a framework of leader character in organizations.Journal of Management Studies. Laureani, A., Antony, J. (2017). Leadership characteristics for Lean Six Sigma.Total Quality Management Business Excellence,28(3-4), 405-426. Zwingmann, I., Wegge, J., Wolf, S., Rudolf, M., Schmidt, M., Richter, P. (2014). Is transformational leadership healthy for employees? A multilevel analysis in 16 nations.German Journal of Human Resource Management,28(1-2), 24-51.