What is Leadership?



Abstract

Leadership is the set of capabilities that an individual has to influence the minds of people or a group of people, making their teams work enthusiastically in achieving goals and objectives. It is also understood as the ability to take initiative, manage, hold, promote, encourage, motivate and evaluate a group or team. In business administration leadership is the exercise of executive activity in a project to perform their tasks effectively and efficiently. Whether personal or institutional, leadership plays an important role for leading the team to success keeping in view the ethical considerations of the business. What is Leadership?

Introduction

A leader is a person who helps people to take responsibility in achieving a common goal in a group synergy. Whether you are a boss, a parent, a coach, a politician, or you held any other positions you function to the forefront, you have a guiding role to assume. In fact, an effective leader must know how to get people to excel in order to obtain maximum results with minimal supervision (Nahavandi, 2006). Therefore, this paper aims to analyze the leadership qualities and effectiveness for a managers and how they can exercise their leadership skills considering the ethical grounds of the business.

How leader deal with the situation?

One of the difficulties situations facing the business world is how to combine theory with practice. In modern world leaders are faced with difficult challenges and among them the most important challenge is of ethics of doing business, whose difficulty is much greater. This is undoubtedly one of the major challenges: how to balance ethical theory with ethical business practice (Adair, 2005). The reason is because we want to be coherent and consistent with what we think and what we do. To do this, we have to deal with four concepts principles: leadership, management, ethics and person.

Difference between Leading and Managing

The definition and use of term leadership is often contradictory with the term management. In fact leading is not managing, as most leaders do not respond to their function or exercise leadership (Northouse, 2007). There are many organizations managed excellently, but poorly led. Manage everyday tasks well, but wonder if they are really necessary or advisable. Managers on the one hand work to ensure that their employees do exactly what they did yesterday. Their aim is only that employees should do their work more quickly and more cheaply (Cavaleri, et.al, 2005).

Managers view their employees as a resource often in order to achieve the defined objectives or surpass even better. Leaders know on the other side to know exactly their goal, however, understand that they do not reach their destination, without giving their employees the right tools at hand to make a difference and change (Nahavandi, 2006).

Is the CEO trying to lead or manage this change initiative?

As the individual modes of reasoning managers are unobservable by nature and they had to invent a device in which managers could reveal their cognitive process and thus give the observers the opportunity to propose a ...