The Importance of Leadership in Organizational Environment

This essay explores the significance of leadership in the organizational environment, highlighting how effective leaders can drive growth and development, provide opportunities for advancement, and create a positive business atmosphere. It examines examples of successful leadership from around the world and emphasizes the importance of responsible leadership to avoid negative consequences. The essay concludes by emphasizing the importance of leadership in achieving success and promoting positive change within organizations.

LEADING STRATEGIC
DECISION MAKING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
ESSAY.............................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Today. Leadership is an important aspect to take any organisation further. It is important
for an organisation to have an effective leader in order to achieve growth and success. The below
essay explores the positive characteristics and strengths of leadership. The report neglects the
negative impacts which dysfunctional leadership might have on its employees, organisation or on
the wider society.
MAIN BODY
ESSAY
Leadership is seen as an important aspect in the era of globalization. It is difficult for an
organisation in 21st century to achieve growth without having effective leadership. The quality of
leadership determines how far any organisation will go and how effective it will be in achieving
its set goals.
As per the views of Vishnubhakat (2016) good leadership allows the organisation to grow
its business and achieve further growth and success. It is important for the organisation to
develop itself in such ways that it gains competition advantage and stand apart in provision of
product and services. In order to do that it is important for the leadership to have effective
qualities and characteristics that can ensure the overall growth and development of the
organisation, its business and its employees. These characteristics are also known as positive
characteristics of the leadership. They include honesty, ability to delegate, ability to
communicate, sense of humor, confidence, commitment, positive attitude, creativity, an ability to
inspire, and intuition.
According to Rai (2016), honesty is one of the effective qualities because without
honesty an organisation cannot go further. The characteristic of honesty ensures strong bond of
respect and freedom between the employees and the leader of an organisation. However, ()
argued that honesty can take the organisation further yet the leaders which are honest but do not
hold any potential to operate the business successfully do not qualify as effective leaders.
As per the views of Kesan (2016), the ability to delegate is one of the most important
strengths of a leadership. It is important that the leadership of an organisation ensures effective
delegation of tasks to its employees in order to achieve set growth and advantage. (), investigated
that the Steve Jobs is known as one of the most effective leaders in the history of the world
because of his ability to delegate the tasks to the right people properly. Jobs always maintained
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this quality in himself because it helped him in achieving difficult tasks with less effort and
complexity. This made Apple. Inc one of the largest firms across the globe and made its possible
for the organisation to achieve growth and success.
Similarly, Wang (2015) states that the ability to communicate often aspires leadership to
become influential in terms to achieving organizational growth. () Investigated that Bill Gates,
known as one of the richest individuals in the world a leader with qualities that inspired not just
his organizational employees but the employees and individuals across the world. He achieved
this by effective communication skills. Bill Gates always maintained effective communication in
order to maintain a strong leadership. His communication characteristic involved understanding
the needs of the employees, management and customers and solving their problems accordingly
(Team performance management, 2017). It is essential for a leader to have good communicate
because without it, it is going to be difficult for the organisation and its leadership both to strive
properly in order to achieve set goals and determine the needs and requirement of the employees
and customers.
He (2019), carried out a study in which he found out that dysfunctional leadership often
do not create such situations in which the organisation, employees or the wider society is
impacted in any ways. The study showcases that the leadership often fails in achieving its set
goals and objectives. It can be because of its ability to take risks and perform operations on wider
platforms. However, this impacts the leadership only not the organisation and its employees for a
long term. In short the organisation can face issues with profitability and the employees need to
work hard in order to get back the organisation on the track. Its impact is very small and can be
rectified easily with small amount of efforts but it does not impact the wider society, the
organizations thriving into it and its employees.
Oxendine (2019), studied on the effects of dysfunctional leadership in the organisation.
As per the done study, he evaluated that it is not possible for the dysfunctional leadership to
impact the organisation, its employees and the wider society. Dysfunctional leadership only risks
its own reputation in the times of crisis, but through effective measures taken by the management
and employees the leadership maintains its growth and development and ensures organizational
development again. It does not have any negative impacts on the employees working within the
organisation because when leadership fails, it tends to motivate the employees to work hard and
strive to make the organisation reach its full potential to achieve set goals. It never risks the
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development of the employees instead it inspires them to work better and increase their potential
from time to time.
As per the views of Sung (2016), sense of humor is one the most effective qualities of a
leader that allows the organization to maintain strong actions in order to achieve desired growth.
A better sense of humor is the core need to a leader because it provides him with new aspects to
make its employees feel happy and joyful. Leaders such as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook while
addressing his employees often uses humor to make the people laugh and be more happy. This
helps the leader to connect with the people and maintains strong connection between him and the
employees which are being addressed. This quality is one of the most effective one in order to
achieve growth and development of an organization and ensure that the employees are satisfied
with their leader and they are open towards communication and growth.
According to Liu (2016), leadership often tends to become an effective one when its
understands the needs and demands of the employees and management. Along with it, it creates
an environment of growth because the growth of any organization is dependent upon the wants
and needs of consumers and employees. Richard Branson who is the CEO of Virgin Industries
often addresses the employees of the organization before taking their feedback of the work and at
what places they feel the need of improvement. It allows him to understand the important needs
of the employees working within the organization and in what ways the organisation can be set
up to achieve growth and development as per the needs and demands of these employees
working within the organizational environment.
Similarly, Vishnubhakat (2016) states that evaluation of these particular wants keep the
employees satisfied. During the times when leadership becomes dysfunctional, these employees
help the leadership to take the organisation back on the track. This is one of the most effective
characteristic of a leader to achieve set growth and development in an organizational
environment. Along with it, when leadership becomes dysfunctional it does not impact any of the
employees, nor the organisation and the wider society at large.
According to the views of Sibony (2016), when leadership becomes dysfunctional, it
sometimes creates such situations where the organisation develops the needs to network with
more people in the external environment to ensure set growth and development. In these times,
the organisation connects with the government officials, its competitors and other people which
can help the organisation to go further to achieve set growth and development. This explains that
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the times when leadership becomes dysfunctional, it does not impact the employees, the
organisation and the society on a wider context because the leadership manages to take the help
of the outside sources to make the organisation, its employees and society free from the troubles.
This action allows the leadership to decrease the impact which it is having on its overall
stakeholders along with on its environment. It is one of the core strategies to help the
organisation achieve growth and development and ensure better results (Effective leadership and
the allocation and exercise of power in organizations, 2018). Leadership often adopts this
strategy at time when its becomes dysfunctional to achieve growth and development and bring
everything back on the track. The characteristic of leadership which is described here is
networking.
Similarly, Lovallo (2016) explains that networking is one of the most important aspect
which allows the organisation to achieve growth and development and ensure success during the
time to crises. Appropriate networking tends to make the employees working within the
organisation to achieve set growth and development and gain better market advantage over the
sold products and services.
According to Garbuio (2016), confidence is another import aspect of the leadership
which allows it to grow and maintain respect within its employees. Confidence of a leader
motivates the employees working in the organisation to get motivated and inspired because it is
one of the most important quality which create positive environment for the people. A negative
leader often do not hold any sort of confidence because he is not sure about the decisions made
by him in order to achieve growth and development whereas a positive leader is full of
confidence and a hold a nature of success.
As per the views of Mahmood (2016), decision making of a leader allows him to be more
effective in the times of need. A leader when becomes a good decision maker, it makes the
organisation achieve its goals and objectives with an ease. It is important for a leader to maintain
an advantage on the organisation and its employees to achieve set growth and make them follow
the set decisions by the leader. The employees working within the organisation when follow the
directions and respects the decision made by the leadership. It makes the organisation to achieve
its set goals and objectives properly and provides it with new advancements along.
Similarly, Barnes (2016) states that the quality of decision making of leader creates a
dependence of the employees working within the organisation towards the leader. This is helpful
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for both the organisation and its management. This dependence makes the leadership strong and
the decisions made by the leadership fundamentally creates a strong sense of learning for the
employees and helps them in their individual development and growth.
As per the views of, Gomes (2016) leadership when becomes dysfunctional due to the
lack of clear decision making practices. It impacts the organisation and its overall growth. In
such times, an effective and positive leader clearly make required decisions to put the
organisation back on track. It is one of the core aspects where the organisation is easily put back
on track without much suffering. This states that a positive leader does not create situations
where the organisation, its employees and the community is impacted largely. This is one of the
basic and positive aspect of leadership which ensures growth and success of the business and its
overall environment.
According to Wiersema (2015), a leadership sometimes becomes ineffective due to the
lack of support and basic requirements which are required to achieve set growth and
development for the organisation in which it is thriving into. The effective measures taken by the
leadership allows the organisation to maintain its place in the market and its respect within the
employees. A good leadership strives to make the organisation one in which there are none of the
complications exist. The positive characteristics of a leader including optimism, hard work,
inspiration, development oriented, honesty, confidence etc. tends to take the organisation further
and allows the success to reach new doorsteps without any interruptions (Where power resides in
committees, 2019). Also, it makes the employees sharp and creates opportunities for them to
achieve new dimensions where they can ensure a success of their own and the overall business
environment.
CONCLUSION
The above essay explores the importance of leadership in the organizational environment.
It explains how leadership asserts the growth and development and provide opportunities to seek
advancements for its own and its stakeholders. The essay provides examples in which the
effectiveness of the leadership from the leaders across the world is explored. Along with it, it
neglects that dysfunctional leadership does not create situations where the organisation, its
people and community suffers.
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