Study of a charismatic leader : Martin Luther King

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Management is the whole of techniques that an organization has in order to organize, plan and control all the resources which are implemented for the administration of the entity.

In order to take into account the impact of the time and the type of risk and information on the decision makings of management, it is important to distinguish different managements: strategic management, operational management and audit (or control) management.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the style of leadership of Martin Luther King, one of the most important leaders in racial segregation. In the first part, we will see an overview of the United States in the 50s, and then we will see The American Civil Rights Movement. After that, we will continue with the leader himself, his beliefs and his style of leadership.

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[...] Nevertheless, the first great victory recorded, over the legal register, was by the Supreme court in 1954 of the Brown v. Board of Education, which decided that racial segregation was anti constitutional in the public schools. The following year, the boycott of the buses of Montgomery started following the arrest of Rosa Parks, who refused to leave her seat in a bus, because a white person wanted the seat. In these years, the black population had no rights and the whites were considered as superior. [...]

[...] It is not any more one choice between violence and non-violence in this world; it is a choice between non-violence and non-existence.” Martin Luther King often called upon personal liabilities to develop world peace. For him, the triumph of the good against the evil was inevitable, in spite of the frequent retreats and wars of past history. refuse to accept the cynical concept that nations after nations must descend the militarist staircase towards the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that disarmed truth and unconditional love will actually be enough. [...]

[...] With the great depression of 1929 (with the Black Thursday) and the war, the country knew not many changes and did not improve for 20 years. As a consequence, there was an important lack of housing in cities. American citizens had not the choice to go to the suburbs, and numerous houses were built during these years. It was the first time that we saw a line of production concerning houses. In a general way, about 40 houses could be built in just one day, which is amazing!! At the end of World War II began the Baby boom. [...]

[...] He had an older sister, named Christine King Ferris, and a younger brother Albert Daniel Williams King. He grew up in segregationist America. His first experiment of racial segregation went back to when he was six years of age when two white playmates said to him that they are not allowed any more to play with him. His mother explained to him that it was because they were in the white segregationist schools, but stressed it to be a good thing. [...]

[...] His style of leadership: Relationships Collaboration INFLUENCE Tasks Delegation Direction In this case, I think that Martin Luther King was an influence. He had very good relationships and responsible tasks. The main purpose of this style of leadership was to use his own interpersonal styles and methods to guide individuals or groups to accomplish a specific task. The leader must be able to have an influence and cannot be influenced by other members of the group. By doing this, they must assess the skills, feelings, concerns, and needs of others. [...]