 .Define and discuss leadership.

Leadership is the act of leading a group of people. It is the ability to influence and
guide the people or members in an organization and determines the effectiveness of the
organization by how a leader will influence his group in accomplishing the group’s
objectives. A good leader must possess the qualities of self-confidence, he/she must have
the confidence and trust in himself so that others can trust him in leading the group,
personal integrity, meaning he/she must be honest, upright and honorable. drive, the
motivation and need to carry out tasks, and lastly, foresight, the ability to anticipate what
will happen in the future, he/she has plans and is good at critical thinking.

 Identify the approaches to leadership. And explain how do they differ.

Power Influence approach focuses on how the leader exercises his power by
influencing his people and motivating them in carrying out the tasks while behavior
approach focuses on how a leader behaves, how he interacts with the environment like
being task oriented or people oriented. Trait approach refers to the personal attributes of
the leader, his skills, intelligence, personality, education, credibility and ability while
situational approach emphasizes on how a leader analyzes the situation and how he
responds to it every time he/she is faced with a problem. It depends on which strategies
he/she shall use at the very moment.