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MAN 4143 - Importance of Leadership in the Organization

   

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MAN 4143 - Importance of Leadership in the Organization_1

LEADERSHIP2LeadershipLeadership is viewed differently by different people globally and occurs under different circumstances. Individual have been part of leadership in some way. Leadership is the ability to lead. Leadership can be inborne as well as acquired through practice. For example, it could be political related, community, religious or organizational leadership. Despite its ubiquity, leadership plays an important role in all aspects of today’s society.Research exploring about leadership has been discussed by theorist and practitioners in the past decades. In fact, writers have in their lifetime been striving to identify characteristics of what good leadership is. By late 1960s, it evidently became clear that no exclusive leadership style for all situations was available. There are historical definitions of leadership as well as theories. Older theories are addressed by three level model which include Public, Private and Personal leadership. Scouller (2011), referred Public leadership as the simultaneous actions that leaders take to influence a group of people and Private leadership as dealing with individual separately due to their diverse characteristics, while Personal leadership as the overall behavior of a leader. According to Gachter et all., (2012), in order to reach an ultimate goal, a leader works closely and alongside those they lead. Therefore, in the following paragraphs, I will discuss various areas pertaining to leadership in an organization.In regard to companies, leadership is determined by culture and goals that are set by an organization. Organization offer different leadership styles depending on tasks allocated to different departments and their needs; Autocratic, Participative, Transactional and Transformational. However, to understand how effective leadership is achieved, the problems in an organization have implications and must be addressed through training.
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