The Great Person or Propaganda?
The Great Person theory hypothesize that exceptional leaders possess extraordinary qualities and skills – consistent with the trait approach to leadership.
Trait approach to leadership took the perspective that people become leaders, or performs well as leaders, because of their individual characteristics, such as intelligence and charisma.
A good leader is essential in all organization, especially in political party. The recent Cabinet reshuffle had brought much change to the government. Urgently seeking talent: 'I have found some people, but we want the best possible team.' -- PM Lee on his priority, developing a team from whom to draw the next PM and DPMs. developing a team from whom to draw the next PM and DPMs. But how are the candidates for PM and DPM being chosen? What are the criteria for these positions that will affect
Fred Fiedler proposed the contingency model of leadership effectiveness, a theory that predicts that task-oriented leaders will be more successful than relationship-oriented leaders in groups where the situation is either very favorable or very unfavorable for the leader, whereas relationship-oriented leaders will be more successful than task-oriented leaders in groups where the situation is mixed for the leader.
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But the most desirable leader should be good in both relationship and task, is this type of criteria too hard stringent?
Another issue should the selection be more democratic and transparent to the citizen, or it will be the government propaganda selection of the candidate? As a citizen of
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Great person or propaganda- difficult decision to make there actually. I think,it depends on the how we perceive the society. For instance in western countries, whereby people are more open,this might be considered as propaganda. In singapore,a conservative society in my opinion, probably this would be great person theory. Nevertheless, "never mean to discredit our society", as stated.
It is difficult to strike a balance between the two fundamental qualities of a good leader, as we cannot have the best of both worlds in everything we do. Therefore, this search for talented leaders has sparked a global war for talent not only within the government sector but also the private sector. M.M. Lee have said that we need to pay top money for top talent, maybe that’s why our Ministers were one of the highest paid among the political leaders in the world. Nevertheless, whether their high salaries were justifiable is up for one to decide.
My personal opinion is that if the selection for each Minister and MP would require the citizens' vote, it would take forever to form or reform the cabinet.Even if we are allowed to vote for our ministers, there isn't alot of ppl for us to choose from anyway..
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