Leadership Style of Excela School Head

Question: Analyse the leadership style of your Head of school (primary) and determine whether he/she is a laissez-faire, autocratic, democratic or situational leader? Answer: Introduction: The paper focuses on the leadership style of the school head of Excela school of Technology, and compares the leadership style with various forms of leadership. This is determined through analyzing the personal traits, cooperative works and certain instances which indicates the type of leadership the head follows. The details are analyzed on the basis of the characteristics, the role and the functions he performs on daily as well as situational basis. The study also highlights on how they focus on the impact created on the subordinates, his staffs, his students along with external public of the organization. Leadership Definition: A process by which a person influences and enlists the support and aid of others in order to fulfill a common objective is known as leadership (Bonnici, 2011). A leader is one who makes people follow him by directing and guiding them to reach a common goal. There are various theories of leadership and they are improvised even now. Functions of a leader: A leader is responsible for creating rules and policies of his respective Organization. One of the significant roles of a leader is to plan out the goals for his organization (Sorrels, 2011). Like for the head of Excela Institute the Head of the school must set the rules for everyone, even for himself in this perspective he also has to lay down the target of his organization, for him it would be the prosperity of the Institute in every aspect. A leader plans the short term and long term goals. The leader has to make plans for his organizational as a whole so that they could implement it and reach their goal (Hiriyappa, 2009). For the head of Excela he needs to set plans for expanding his institute so that more and more pupil takes admission and the reputation of the school academically increases. A leader executes his plans for achieving his goals. Drawing plans and setting goals has been an integral part of a leader. The head of Excela has to execute his plans which he had set for his subordinates, his staffs, his employees, his students so that to bring success to his objectives (Stoll Temperly, 2009). A leader is the representative of the external group. The leader has to consider his functions as a representative of his organization in order to maintain a good relationship with the external public (Morgeson, DeRue Karam, 2010). The external public is the goodwill of an organization. In case of Excela the head has to maintain a good relation with the guardians of the students so that they can assure by admitting their students in the Institution they have made an appropriate choice (Peterson, 2013). A leader handles the relationship of internal group. In case of any dispute for any kind of resentment the leader holds the authority to look into the matter and act according to the requirement of situation (Green McCann, 2011). He cannot be bias or else he would lose the trust of his followers. A leader looks after the punishment and reward system and motivates everyone. The head of Excela institute finally approves the people who are to be rewarded; he inspires and motivates everyone with his speech and encouragement (Rowold, 2008). The head of the institute represents the Organization, he is the face whom everyone rely and his every action and reaction is marked as a feature that a school head should posses. About the Head of Excela Institute: Age: 62 years Functions: Delegate duties among his staff Punctuality and regularity Leads a big Institute Head a Staff population of 73 people Communicative and enjoys staff events. Types of Leadership styles: Autocratic: this type of leadership is also known as authoritarian style which is characterized by the controlling every decision, ordering the mass and make the mass do according to his sense of justice (McMahon, 2010). Laissez-faire: this kind of leadership makes the group members have right to participate in every decision making process. This type of leadership agrees to give full freedom to the followers (Lunenburg Ornstein, 2010). Democratic: this style had been a part of theories of human resource in participative management (Akif Moh'd Futa, 2013). It is a very collegial open form of leadership style where there is a free flowing of discussion. Situational: developed by Professor Paul Hersey and Kent Blanchard this form fundamentally states that successful leaders change their style of management according to the required circumstances (Nohria Khurana, 2010). The Head of Excelas democratic style of management: The head of Excela Institute follows a more democratic style of leadership. There are certain characteristics of the head which indicates his style more related to democratic form of leadership. Responsibility Distribution: The head of Excela distributes the tasks according to the capability of his staff. He delegates their duties and democratically divides the responsibility in order to facilitate the decision making participation. There are daily meetings held before assembly where the head looks after the staff members job of conducting the assembly, the responsibility for announcement and revising the routine to assign necessary task to his members. Empowering his members: The Head empowers his members by motivating, providing book references for subjects where his staff faces problems. There are many teachers who share their difficulties with the Head and the head being an excellent manager provides them full guidance. He conducts seminars, Symposium and parent-teacher meetings where the staff can empower his knowledge and confront the parents suggestion on improving their skills. Helping in decision making process of the group: This function starts with the head of Excela approves a decision like Conducting technological exhibition where students will participate. Generally the staff comes up with the idea of conducting social or cultural activities where he provides his suggestion and agrees with his members. In case of people not supporting any idea he applies the process of voting where everyone votes for a notion and the majority supporting stands out as the winner. Conclusion: There had been several opinions about this form of leadership that is this style is adopted so that followers have a good rapport with the leaders and can gain their support. Though the decision making process is followed yet due to too much time consumption the Head had to force his decision upon his members. 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