The Approaches of Leadership

The approaches of leadership can be classified as four types: trait, activity based, contingency, and style. Considering to the condition of Han Tang Company, contingency could be the most effective approach, which encourages leaders to adapt behavior to the specific and changing variables that might face in Gansu province. Specifically, some personal characteristics are important for being a good manager: like aggressiveness, self-assurance, intelligence, adaptability, interpersonal skills, administrative ability etc. are desirable.

Based on such good attributes and skills, the leader's style of leading can affect the motivation, efficiency and effectiveness of the followers obviously. Therefore, democratic style is a more suitable and valid leadership style as the decision-making is decentralized in the Han Tang Company. This style draws on people's knowledge and skills, and creates a group commitment to the resulting goals. Especially for thirty working teams in Gansu province, each team has to make decisions separately in most conditions, it turns out more important to encourage staff to share their thoughts. In this way, managers can get some new and creative ideas that allow for more flexibility to changing customer demands. Plus this kind of leadership style creates an ideal environment for collaborative problem-solving in addition to decision-making.

However, in order to be more effective in this position, the communication should be open, which means everyone needs to feel comfortable enough to put their ideas on the table. The democratic leadership style thrives when all the considerations are laid out for everyone to examine. And I will make sure that everything is on-topic at each meeting. Through this kind of leadership style, I believe that this Gansu branch of Han Tang Company can realize the objectives and be successful.