MGMT803 Organisational Behaviour: Leadership Report

This report on organizational leadership, prepared for MGMT803, delves into various leadership styles and their impact on organizational success. It begins with an introduction to organizational leadership, emphasizing its role in empowering individuals and groups. The report then provides an overview of different leadership styles, including charismatic, pragmatic, servant, authentic, and spiritual leadership, drawing on articles that discuss their emergence and characteristics. The report examines the relationship between organizational leadership and communication, highlighting how leaders shape interpretations and manage meaning within organizations. Furthermore, it explores leadership as a social process, differentiating between leadership and management. Key points from the literature are summarized, followed by practical implications for managers. The report concludes with reflections on learning, emphasizing the importance of vision, ethical practices, and effective communication for successful leadership. Key articles are cited and referenced throughout the report. The report also contains references to help the reader.

MGMT803 Organisational Behaviour and Management
Report Title: Organizational Leadership
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1 Introduction
Organizational leadership refers to the management approach that helps in achieving the best for
the individuals along with the groups in an organization. Organizational leadership can be said to
be a work ethic that helps in empowering the individuals of the organization. This report throws light
on the various kinds of the leadership styles that exist in an organization. The report also discusses
about various aspects of the management in an organization. The report also talks about how the
leaders can make use of the element of the social influence that can help an organization in
attaining the success.
2 Overview of Organizational Leadership
2.1 Leadership styles in organization
The article, “Reviewing Leadership Styles: Overlaps and the Need for a New ‘Full-Range’ Theory”
discusses about the emergence of various kinds of leadership styles in the present age that is
beyond the transformational and the transactional framework of the leadership. The article has
thrown light on the charismatic style of the leadership that helps in the articulation of the
inspirational vision for the desirable future. According to Anderson and Sun (2017, p.77), the
charismatic leaders exudes the passion along with the self-confidence that can help in the
promotion of the collective activity within the framework of an organization. A pragmatic leader has
the practical knowledge that helps him in solving the day-to-day problems of the daily existence.
The article has talked about servant leadership that lays emphasis on serving the other people first
that helps in taking care of the fact that highest priority needs of the other people have been met.
The article has discussed how the authentic style of the leadership helps in the promotion of the
positive psychological capacities and that of positive ethical climate. Spiritual Leadership
compromises the values along with the attitudes that can provide motivation to an individual.
The article, “Do Ethical, Authentic, and Servant Leadership Explain Variance Above and Beyond
Transformational Leadership? A Meta-Analysis” talks about how the transformational style of the
leadership helps in describing ideal situation in between the political leaders and that of the
followers”. The article has discussed that components of the transaction or the transformational
leadership have the ethical dimension. The authentic leaders have the development focus in
relation to moral development of leader along with the developing of the authenticity in the
followers. The article has stated that ethical leadership lays emphasis on ethical dimension of the
leadership instead of including ethics as the ancillary dimension. It has been argued by Hoch et al.
(2018, p.503) that the ethical leadership draws the concepts from that of the social learning theory
and it states that the ethical leaders influences the followers in the ethical behaviours. The
transformational leaders can be said to be motivational and it influences the followers so that they
experience the identification with that of the organizational goals. The article has said that the
engagement along with the job satisfaction can be said to be positively associated with the element
of the authentic leadership.
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2.2 Organizational Leadership and Communication
The article, “Leadership: The Management of Meaning” discusses how leadership can be exercised
in the process when the individuals are able to define reality of the other people. The article has
stated how the unstructured leaderless groups evolve the common modes pertaining to the
interpretation that helps them in evolving into the social organization. According to Smircich and
Morgan (1982, p. 259 ), leadership can be said to be a social phenomena that is constructed with
the help of the interaction. The roles help in institutionalizing interactions which helps in shaping
reality of that of the organizational life. The patterns of the formal interaction helps in
institutionalizing aspects in relation to the leadership process within context of the unified structure.
The article states that the actions of the leader can pave the path for the generation of various
kinds of the interpretations that can help in setting the basis in relation to the meaningful action.
The effective leadership is dependent on framing of experience of other people that helps the
actions in being guided by the common conceptions. The main challenge that a leader faces
pertains to managing meaning in such a manner that can help the individuals in orienting
themselves to achieving the desirable ends. The use of the language of the leader along with the
stories that are told by the leader can prove to be crucial for an organization. The leader can make
use of words, images along with the symbolic actions that can help them in structuring the attention
along with evoking the patterns of the meaning. It can help the leaders in getting considerable
amount of control over situations that are being managed in a company. The people who are in the
leadership roles should make use of interpretation that can help them in understanding a situation
before they initiate the actions. The image of the leader can be hegemonic and it can also be
charismatic who indulges himself in mesmerizing the followers. The individuals can look to the
leader for framing and concretizing the reality and they can also react and change the state of the
reality. The article discusses that the leaders get their power from ability of defining the ability of
defining the other people and their inability of controlling the people paves the path for
disorganization within the framework of an organization.
2.3 Leadership as a social process
The article, “Leadership and Organizations” that has been written by Alan Bryman and it states
that the leaders influence the activities of the organized group so that the goal can be achieved.
Leadership can be said to be a social influence process that helps a person in steering members of
group towards that of a goal. It has been argued by Bryman (2013, p. 7), that leadership can be
said to be differentiated from the concept of power as leadership can be stated to be an influence
process that helps in changing the preferences of the other people. A crucial component in relation
to the leadership behaviour is the use of the rewards along with the penalties that can guide the
other people in an organization. The opportunity that the leader has in relation to encouraging and
criticizing are affected by the power that he has within an organization. The organizational policies
also have influence on the aspect of the leadership in an organization. The managers can be said
to be the reactive organization men whereas the leaders adopt an active attitude towards that of the
goals. Influence that is exerted by a leader helps in altering the moods and evoking the images that
helps in the determination of direction of a business. The article has stated that leadership helps in
entailing creation of the vision regarding the future that can prove to be of great use for the growth
of an organization. The leader should act as a social architect who can help in shaping the culture
prevailing within the boundaries of an organization. It can help in the transmission of the norms
along with the values that can help in creating a bond in between the employees of a company.
Leadership can be said to be a transactional approach that acts as influence process that is two-
way. The article has argued regarding the fact that leader is dependent on the other members of an
organization so that he can meet the personal obligations. The article has talked about the
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importance of ‘idiosyncrasy credit’ model that can help the leader in gaining the credits with the
help of their competencies.
2.4 Summary of key points from literature
The first and the second article talks about the different kinds of leadership styles that can help an
organization in getting success. The first article has talked about how a transformational leader has
the ability of the intellectual stimulation that helps him in challenging the assumptions in the
organization whereas the second article has contrasted the transformational style of the leadership
with that of the authentic ethical along with the servant leadership. The third article has talked about
how the strategic leadership can provide the conception along with the direction for the
organizational process. The leadership actions can interpret the situations that helps in guiding the
members of the organization into the common interpretation of the reality. On the other hand, the
fourth article has very pertinently talked about the difference in between the element of leadership
and the management. It has talked about the difference that lies in between the manager and the
leader.
3 Practical implications for managers
The managers can make use of the various elements of the leadership that can help in the
development of an organization. The managers in an organization can display self-confidence that
can pave the path for growth of organization. The managers should focus on the ethical dimensions
that can help an organization in getting ahead in the long run. The leaders should be able to frame
the concrete experiences within an organization that can help the company in realizing the vision.
The managers in a company making use of the symbolic actions can help in the smooth functioning
of a company. The art of the interpretation can be taken recourse to by the manager that can help
him in understanding the true nature of the things. A manager can make use of the rewards and
that of the penalties that can help him in getting the successful results in an organization. The
managers being able to create the vision in an organization can prove to be of great benefit for his
followers. The managers should transmit the norms that can help an organization in functioning in
the proper manner. The transactional approach being adopted by the manager of an organization
can help an organization in surviving in the competitive environment.
4 Reflection on learning about this topic from articles and lectures
I have been able to learn with the help of the articles along with the lectures that the leader should
be capable to creating the vision that can help an organization in reaching the goal. The power
should be exercised by the leader in the proper manner that can act as a boon for all the
employees in an organization. I have learnt that the leader should possess the practical knowledge
that can help an organization in attaining excellence. I have understood that the leaders should
create the right kind of the organizational culture that can improve the performance of the
employees of an organization. The social interactions taking place in an organization can help in
building proper relationship in between the employees of organization. I have learnt that leaders
should be able to control situations that can be useful for the success of a company. The leader
should serve the other people that can prove to be an advantage for an organization.
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5 Conclusion
It can be concluded that a leader should be able to inculcate positive psychological capacities in the
employees that can aid in the process of developing of an organization. A leader should possess
the values that can help in providing effective guidance to the other employees of a company. The
leaders should have the active attitude that can help in serving the other employees of a company.
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Reference
Anderson, M.H. and Sun, P.Y., 2017. Reviewing leadership styles: Overlaps and the need for a new ‘full‐
range’theory. International Journal of Management Reviews, 19(1), pp.76-96.
Bryman, A., 2013. Leadership and organizations (RLE: Organizations). Routledge.
Hoch, J.E., Bommer, W.H., Dulebohn, J.H. and Wu, D., 2018. Do ethical, authentic, and servant leadership
explain variance above and beyond transformational leadership? A meta-analysis. Journal of
Management, 44(2), pp.501-529.
Smircich, L. and Morgan, G., 1982. Leadership: The management of meaning. The Journal of applied
behavioral science, 18(3), pp.257-273.
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