Leadership in an Organizational Setting

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Leadership in an Organizational Setting
Leadership encompasses the ability to and influence other individuals to contribute
towards the success of a business (McShane & Von Glinow, 2010). The leaders determine the
organisation’s culture and change. Organization culture refers to the values and beliefs of the
staff; it determines the employee’s performance and attitude (Tsai, 2011).It is a set of shared
assumptions that guide businesses by defining defiant behaviors and characteristics for different
situations. Organization culture will affect employees whether individuals or in groups interact
with each other and also with customers, suppliers and even the stakeholders. The type of
leadership and their administration strategy has a great impact on the performance of the
business. Leaders can be grouped into authentic and transformation administrators. Leadership
can be learnt
or sometimes inherited from parents to children. Characteristics of effective leadership include
the strong leadership which involves leaders who have clear communication skills. True
leadership plan ahead and see the future of the organization and lastly, productive leadership are
the leaders who are true and empathize with employees or whoever they are leading.. This essay
discusses the role of leadership in organizational culture and change. It also demonstrates why
authentic leadership is more important than ever and how authentic leadership and
transformation techniques can be used to solve problems.
The Role of Leadership on Organisational Culture and Change
The role of leaders in regard to the culture of the business can be determined by looking
into the style approach, that is, how the administrators manage their subordinates (Northouse,
2013). Effective leaders create a proper atmosphere in the company and thereby earning the trust
of their subordinates. Good leaders are trusted to make the best decisions for the organization. To

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achieve high morale of the workers, good leaders emphasize on proper communication methods
and prevention measures to ethical dilemmas. Ethical issues in the workplace environment are
greatly influenced by the type of leadership (Chekwa, Ouhirra, Thomas, & Chukwuanu, 2014).
On the other hand, effective leadership exhibits the ability to cope with change. The business
world sees leaders as visionaries who can motivate and influence others to make the best
decisions possible. Similarly, a leader is responsible for ensuring that the firm achieves its goals.
Therefore, careful selection of methods and employees, nurturing and encouragement are critical
to achieving business success in the current dynamic business world.
The power of the leaders also has a significant influence on the organization culture and
change. Leaders have the ability to reward, coerce, and refer other people. Therefore, an
organization’s culture might change to be the one that acknowledges and rewards good
performance of its employees (Elsmore, 2017). Similarly, a leader may emphasize on good
customer relationship by implementing strict laws that protect customers and punish employees
that do not attend to the customers accordingly. Having such policies might make the employees
attend to customers with the right attitude and in time and therefore making the organization a
business with good customer relationship management.
Finally, leadership ethics determines an organizational culture and change. Good leaders
can insist on morality such as respect for other people’s opinions and property. Muenjohn,
(2012) indicates this would result in the right communication techniques that would, in turn, lead
to teamwork and hence organizational success. For example, a leader may insist on
acknowledging their subordinates’ positions when introducing them. This would lead to
employees feeling they are valued. Therefore, other workers would emulate the same, making it
the culture of the firm.