majority leader

Examples of majority leader in the following topics:

• Party Leadership in the House

  • The current House Majority Leader is Republican Kevin McCarthy, while the current House Minority Leader is Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
  • The Speaker in the United States, by tradition, is the head of the majority party in the House of Representatives, outranking the Majority Leader.
  • The Minority Leader of the House serves as floor leader of the opposition party and is the counterpart to the Majority Leader.
  • Unlike the Majority Leader, the Minority Leader is on the ballot for Speaker of the House when Congress convenes.
  • The Minority Leader usually meets with the Majority Leader and the Speaker to discuss agreements on controversial issues.

• Party Leadership in the Senate

  • Each party is led by a floor leader who directs the legislative agenda of his caucus in the Senate, and who is augmented by an Assistant Leader or Whip, and several other officials who work together to manage the floor schedule of legislation, enforce party discipline, oversee efforts to elect new Senators, and maintain party unity.
  • The titular, non-partisan leaders of the Senate itself are the Vice President of the United States, who serves as President of the Senate, and the President pro tempore, the most senior member of the majority who theoretically presides in the absence of the Vice President.
  • Since January 3, 2007, the Democratic Party has constituted a majority in the Senate.
  • The Senate Majority Leader is Harry Reid (Nevada) and serves as leader of the Senate Democratic Conference and manages the legislative business of the Senate.
  • Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) is the Senate Minority Leader and Jon Kyl (Arizona) is the Senate Minority Whip.

• The Clinton Administration Moves Right

  • The clear leader of the so-called revolution was Republican congressman Newt Gingrich, who became Speaker of the House as a result of the victory .
  • Prior to this, Republicans had not held the majority of governorships since 1972.
  • In addition, this was the first time in 50 years that the GOP controlled a majority of state legislatures.
  • When the 104th United States Congress convened in January 1995, House Republicans voted former Minority Whip Newt Gingrich – the chief architect of their victory and author of the "Contract with America" – Speaker of the House, while the new senatorial Republican majority chose Bob Dole, previously Minority Leader, as Majority Leader.
  • Republicans also won a majority of state governorships and State Legislatures.

• Emotional Leadership

  • The leader may or may not have formal authority.
  • A leader's mood or emotions have an effect on the group in three major ways:
  • Leaders can influence followers through the mechanism of "emotional contagion."
  • Groups with leaders in a positive mood have more positive feelings toward each other than groups with leaders who convey the opposite.
  • Many observers identify President Obama as a good example of an emotional leader.

• Managers as Leaders of Change

  • The anti-change leader - A leader embracing this style seeks to avoid change as much as possible.
  • No need to change in any major way."
  • The rational leader - This leader focuses on how to constrain and control change with logical planning and clearly defined steps.
  • The panacea leader - The panacea leader believes that the way to respond to pressure for change is to communicate and motivate.
  • The bolt-on leader - This leader strives to regain control of a changing situation by attaching (bolting on) change management techniques to ad-hoc projects that are created in response to pressure for change.

• Four Theories of Leadership

  • For a number of years, researchers have examined leadership to discover how successful leaders are created.
  • These findings also show that individuals emerge as leaders across a variety of situations and tasks.
  • Stogdill and Mann found that while some traits were common across a number of studies, the overall evidence suggested that persons who are leaders in one situation may not necessarily be leaders in other situations.
  • He identified three relevant aspects of the situation: the quality of the leader's relationships with others, how well structured their tasks were, and the leader's amount of formal authority.
  • The four major components of the theory, which cover the full range of essential qualities of a good leader, are:

• Opinion Leaders

  • We often look to opinion leaders for help in our consumer decisions.
  • As such, opinion leaders can shape how a product is viewed.
  • Opinion leaders are particularly useful in marketing.
  • In marketing, celebrities are often used as opinion leaders.
  • Celebrities are opinion leaders for the products or services they promote.

• Congressional Campaign Committees

  • Emanuel led the Democratic Party's effort to capture the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2006 elections.
  • For the 2012 election cycle, Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appointed congressman Steve Israel to serve as the committee's chair.
  • It is a registered 527 group, and its current slogan is "Building a Lasting Majority."
  • Republican Leader John Boehner and the seven other elected leaders of the Republican Conference of the House of Representatives serve as ex-officio members of the NRCC's executive committee.
  • Identify the roles and responsibilities of the Congressional Campaign Committees for both major parties

• Leading Teams

  • Certain leadership competencies help people become effective leaders; successful team leaders follow planning and implementation processes.
  • The members of Bob's team think that he is a great team leader.
  • There is often a balancing act that the leader must manage between being a leader and a member while ensuring the goal is clear and obtainable.
  • The leader works with the team membership.
  • Therefore, an effective team leader must be both a component to the team and also a leader to manage the team's progress.

• Transactional Versus Transformational Leaders

  • Transactional leaders are concerned about the status quo, while transformational leaders are more change-oriented.
  • Transactional leaders focuses on the role of supervision, organization, and group performance.
  • Transactional leaders are task- and outcome-oriented.
  • Transactional leaders work within existing an organizational culture, while transformational leaders emphasize new ideas and thereby "transform" organizational culture.
  • Differentiate between transactional leaders and transformational leaders in a full-range approach, particularly from a behavioral perspective