LEADERSHIP

Leadership is one of the important factors in any organization. For successful organization, there is the need of good leadership. If there is a good leadership, there will be proper management.

Leadership can be defined as “the ability of a company’s management to set and achieve challenging goals, take swift and decisive action, outperform the competition, and inspire others to perform well.”

Leadership provides direction for a company. Employees need to know the direction in which they are headed and who to follow to reach the destination. Leadership involves showing workers how to effectively perform their responsibilities and regularly supervising the completion of their tasks. Leadership is also about setting a positive example for staff to follow, by being excited about the work, being motivated to learn new things, and helping out as needed in both individual and team activities.

Leadership is the ability of an individual or a group of individuals to influence and guide followers or other members of an organization. 

Leadership involves making sound (and sometimes difficult) decisions, creating and articulating a clear vision, establishing achievable goals and providing followers with the knowledge and tools necessary to achieve these goals. Good leaders often possess the following characteristics: self-confidence, strong communication and management skills, creative and innovative   thinking, perseverance in the face of failure, willingness to take risks, openness to change and levelheadedness and reactivates in times of crisis.

Leadership is the action of leading people in an organization towards achieving goals. Leaders do this by influencing employee behaviors in several ways. A leader sets a clear vision for the organization, motivates employees, guides employees through the work process and builds morale.

LEADERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONs
1.  SETTING A CLEAR VISION
Leader sets a clear vision. S/he makes a vision what to do in the organization. More than that, leader influence his/her staffs to perform their duties by explaining the vision and the importance of their role in the outcome. 

2.  MOTIVATING EMPLOYEES
Motivating employees is to encourage the staffs for their work. When the work is done, they are praised. A good leader communicates with his staffs and teaches them to learn more. A good leader, on the other hand, helps his/her employee to learn more about their needs and wants which motivates employees to work more. 

3. GUIDING EMPLOYEES
It is important to define their role in the work process and provide them with tools needed to perform and participate in their efforts along the way. A good leader will explain the tasks, provide the digging tools, direct the work and be available to assist the employees if they run into a problem. 

4. BUILDING MORALE
Building morale involves pulling everyone together to work towards common goals. A good leader will let the employees know how much their work is appreciated. A simple gesture like throwing an impromptu party to recognize the unit’s small victories can reignite the employees’ spirits.  

CONCLUSION
In conclusion, leadership plays an important part in the success of any organization.  In the absence of effective leadership, no organization can work efficiently. An organization is created with the purpose of achieving certain objectives through a human group; it becomes essential to control this human group.

Therefore, the importance of leadership is to influence behavior of people. Not only this, it helps to fulfill the needs of employees, helps in introducing required changes, helps in solving conflicts effectively and helps in training and development of subordinates.

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