Leadership and teamwork

What to Write About: 1st Paragraph – Heading: MY LEADERSHIP STYLE. You will first write about the information of your Leadership Style. ((( Paternalistic)))) a. what is your Leadership style. ((( Paternalistic)))) b. what are some ideas about it c. do you agree with the style that the computer gave you? Yes, why?No, why? Give an example from your life to prove you are right.((Yes)) 2nd Paragraph – Heading: THEORY X AND Y a. Use McGregor’s Theory X and Y to answer this question: which one X or Y is what you think. b. explain why you think you believe that one. 3rd Paragraph – Heading: WHAT I THINK a. Do you think that your Leadership Style matches your choice of Theory X or Y? b. If YES, why? If NO, why not? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> McGregor’s Theory X & Theory Y Managers. The most publicized concept is McGregor’s thesis that leadership strategies are influenced by a leader’s assumptions about human nature. McGregor summarized two contrasting sets of assumptions made by managers in industry. Theory X managers believe that: Theory Y managers believe that: • The average human being has an inherent dislike of work and will avoid it if possible. • The expenditure of physical and mental effort in work is as natural as play or rest, and the average human being, under proper conditions, learns not only to accept but to seek responsibility. • Because of this human characteristic, most people must be coerced, controlled, directed, or threatened with punishment to get them to put forth adequate effort to achieve organizational objectives. • People will exercise self-direction and self-control to achieve objectives to which they are committed. • The average human being prefers to be directed, wishes to avoid responsibility, has relatively little ambition, and wants security above all else. • The capacity to exercise a relatively high level of imagination, ingenuity, and creativity in the solution of organizational problems is widely, not narrowly, distributed in the population, and the intellectual potentialities of the average human being are only partially utilized under the conditions of modern industrial life Remember . . . usually Theory X matches with Authoritarian Style of Leadership. Theory Y matches with Democratic Style of Leadership. Requirements: Not longer than 200 words