Choose two different business leaders. One business leader must be Australian and the other from another country and one leader must be female and the other leader a male.

Analyse how and why the leadership styles, personality traits and influence tactics of your chosen business leaders are effective or not - in their business, by answering Tasks 1 to 6 below:

1. Introduce the background, personality traits and attributes of each leader and their specific field(s) of business.
2. Identify each leaders relevant sources of position power and/or personal power. Do they aim to empower others and if so, how?

1. Analyse whether your chosen leaders are more People-oriented or more Task-oriented? Use Blake and Moutons Leadership Grid.

1. Describe each of your chosen leaders relevant leadership style(s) and influence tactics. Identify if they use different leadership styles in different situations.

1. In Topic 5, three different leadership theories/models are explained:

• Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership theory/model
• Robert Houses Path-Goal Leadership theory/model
• Vroom-Jago Leader-Participation decision-making theory/model. Explain briefly which of these 3 leadership theory/models best describe your chosen leaders interactions with their followers.

1. Rate the emotional intelligence (ability to manage ourselves and our relationships with others) of each chosen leader on the Likert scale below, and justify (explain with reasons) your rating:

1 = Very low ability

2 = Moderately low ability

3 = Slightly low ability

4 = Neutral

5 = Slightly high ability

6 = Moderately high ability

7 = Very high ability

1. References (Harvard)