Reflection of task 9

This week we have worked on different types of leadership. First of all we read some documents about it because we needed to know them as much as possible in order to choose the one that we wanted to defend on Friday. It was a hard task because all of them have their pros and cons.

Firstly, we focused on Authoritarian Leadership which is based on strict rules and control. We thought it was interesting to take this severe type to defend how sometimes it is necessary. Nowadays, parents and grandparents are always complaining about the lack of discipline in teenagers. It is a reasonable argument because we can hear disasters caused by teenagers in the news. An example is the group of Granadan boys that were as bored as to set fire to a vagabond that was sleeping on a bench. These types of experiences make us think about if these teenagers had had a severe education during their childhood wouldn’t have thought on it because they learnt they have to be quiet and not to think weird ideas.

However, we couldn’t stop focusing on how this lack of freedom can make children unhappy and hate the school. By this way, we thought on Transformational Leadership because if children were taught in a moral way, learning respect to others, the situation of the burnt vagabond wouldn’t have happened.

Learning in love and harmony looks fabulous, as great that we think it is even utopian because it is extremely difficult that all children have the same values. At the end, we are all different and we have a different moral.

Then, we just had two options: Transactional and Participative Leaderships. It was really difficult to choose one because we found them very similar.

In the Participative, the leader was as other workers so that they can cooperate and do their best. We thought it was great but without a real leader a conflictive or diverse school can’t work because you need one person that decides and if something doesn’t work you should change it. That’s the reason why we thought that the reward and punishment system from Transactional leaders was the best option. It is a mixture of the last three because with punishment you get the control that you need and with rewards you can motivate teachers. Moreover, we can also teach morality and critical thinking so they can be ready to decide what is good or wrong.