Organizational Behavior | Reading Journal

RUNNING HAED: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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Leadership:
Insight: the concept of class monitor or school captains have often made me think why the
teachers used to select few students where as the teachers could have managed and leaded us
effectively. Today in our class when we were taught about the process and concept of leadership,
many of my previous questions got an answer. Today we learnt how an effective process of
leadership is essential in the organisation as well as in the life of individual in order to succeed.
Description: We were taught that the best purpose of the leadership is to motivate and pursue
the followers in doing a task effectively (Hargreaves, Boyle & Harris, 2014). Our teacher
introduced us to the concept of leadership and explained us how much it has become one of the
seminal practice in any organisation or in any individual. At first the teacher introduced us with
the main characteristics of a perfect leader and what exactly is his or her function in an
organisation. Then we got an idea of various kinds of leadership styles and how they were
different from one another. In the process of learning we all could relate the teachings with our
daily lives and understood that leadership is not restricted only within organisations but are
required in every spheres.
Interpret: on reflecting on the different type of leadership I came to the opinion that not
a single style is enough to tackle a situation. For example the autocratic leadership definitely
encourages production; however, it suppresses the concern of the workers. On the other hand I
found that though democratic style gives ample independence and importance to the workers,
this process is not effective in emergency situations (.Day, 2014) I found a relation with my own
approach to leadership in the Theory Y as proposed by McGregor in his popular theory of theory
X and Y which suggests that the manager who follows theory X does not essentially trust on his

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employees and finds them to be lazy and thus imposes strict rules to ensure that they are
working, while the followers of the theory Y thinks that the managers must put belief and an
extent of liberty to the employees (Hargreaves, Boyle & Harris 2014). Moreover, I found that in
some case, though the employees are competent enough to do their tasks but they are not ready
to accept new rules. This, according to me can be effectively solved by the theory of situational
leadership as proposed by Hersey and Blanchard that proposes that a leader will have to take
different approach judging his situation and the competencies as well as the ability of his
followers.
Evaluate: Leadership is essentially about motivating his team on doing a particular job
and aligning the organisational objective with the individual objective (Day, 2014). Thus, the
manager must encourage cohesiveness and has effective communication with the employees and
give constructive feedbacks. The dynamic process of change and continuity will help the
employees to cope up with the changes more effectively. The social factor is a great impact on
productivity and thus in case of any kind of expansion and up gradation the leader must approach
to his employees first (Landis, Hill & Harvey, 2014).
Plan: By analysing the leadership process I effectively understood the need of leadership in an
organisation. This has also helped me in gaining insight about the various types of leaderships
and the effective models that is best suited in an organisation.