LDR/531
October 11, 2012
Week # 1
Individual Leadership Approach Paper
Leadership in Organization
Robin Muse

Leadership has been defined in multiple ways. The subject of leadership has intrigued many individuals and has been speculated by research that probed a growing interest in understanding leadership and the process involving different teams and organizations. Although there are many effective and ineffective ways to merge people to lead, it has been difficult to define the “term” leadership. There is no doubt that the leadership position simplifies the influence to guide, structure, and facilitate activities over other people, it also shares a specialized process that influence the role of leadership. The type of influence process that defines leadership involves the commitment by followers along with the reluctant of obedience of thus followers. The purpose of the influence process of leadership only occurs when ones view point attempt to influence the purpose and outcome of behaviors, traits, role relationships, interaction patterns, and occupation of a leadership position. In research the leadership process influence others to understand and agree to the needs of what needs to be done, how it is done, and a collective effort to facilitate the process to accomplish a shared objective. There are to forms of leaderships direct and indirect. Direct leadership involves the attempt to influence individuals to follow and interact with other by way of memo, faxes, e-mails, and television, whereas indirect leadership is described as how followers are influenced by leaders in and organization without any direct interaction (Pgs.: 3-5). The overview approach of major research studies of leadership carries valuables key theories that emphasize one or more categories that characterize the primary basis for explaining effective leadership abilities. Some of