LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS

Leadership in Organizations

Leadership in Organizations

Introduction

Leadership skills are not best learned in a classroom or workplace. It is possible to acquire leadership skills from personalities already having traits of leading people in natural behaviour. The capacity to become a leader is present among all individuals, but each person has a basic skill that can improve through training or practice. The difference between a leader and a manager is that the manager is one who directs others in the pursuit of ends by means of use selected by third party. Leaders are the one who idealize design and begins with an assumption that the relevant institution and organization they work in need a replacement of views and generation of new ideologies (Anderson, 2007).

Leadership

Leadership involves the motivation of employees and members to perform normal expectations for meeting the organisation's mission and for achieving organisational goals. It inspires staff and members to put aside personal interest and work for the best interest of the organization and to have confidence in their ability to achieve the “extraordinary” challenges before them (Ashmos, 2000). A leader has a major influence on the employees' behaviour and the people who follow him/her. It is a style of leadership that can be defined as a form of leadership that can create a valuable change in an organization by just motivating and encouraging the followers or the members of the team. This kind of a leader has a focus on making others to assist one another, it makes them create harmony in the organization and also encourage them to take care of the organization as a whole. It is the leader who motivates and improves the performance and morale of its followers (Cardona, 2000).

Roles of Leader

Leaders play significant roles for achieving the objectives of an organisation. For achieving the objectives leader guides the subordinated that play an active role together with the leader that is to focus on the conduct and behaviour of others, on the environmental factors and their mediating judgments (Avolio & Bass, 1987). Examples of this approach:

The leader meets with internal and external environmental needs that affect the behaviours of subordinate to control their behaviour.

The leader looks for individual factors that govern the behaviour of subordinates.

The leader jointly with the subordinates tries to find ways to control individual behaviour to produce mutually reinforcing and beneficial acts for the results of the organisation.

With these approaches, the leaders and subordinates regulate relations based on cooperation, and consciously try to change the behaviour of each other, giving and taking the desired reward (Bycio and Hackett, 2005, pp. 468). A leader while create the followers must be very cautious in establishing personal integrity and their trust which is a vital part of the leadership style. So, the leaders should focus on their method of leading the employees and as well as implementing the vision which will guide the organisation in meeting the objectives (Avolio, 1999).

Impact of Leadership on Organisation

Organisations must have leadership that is strong, committed, ...