...What is the role of leadership in organisations? What type of leaders do organisations need to cope with the challenges of the future? In this paper provides discussion on:- a. What is Leadership? b. Role of Leadership c. Difference of leadership style (conventional vs future) d. Characteristic of future leader e. Challenges of the future Leaders. INTORDUCTION Leadership is a quality which cannot be acquired by any person from the other but it can be acquired by self-determination of a person. Leadership can best be called the personality of the very highest ability-whether in ruling, thinking, imagining, innovation, warring, or religious influencing. Leadership is a quality hidden in the personality of a human being. Human personality is very complex and it is very difficult to grade individuals according to one’s personality. Leadership, on the other hand, depends on the organic structure of the personality which includes experience, skill, responsibility, intelligence, power of organizing people and social interaction. Leadership is an indispensable activity, which every leader has tap perform for directing the people, working under him. It is the ability of the Leader to induce subordinates to work with confidence and zeal. In other words "Leadership is the process by which a leader imaginatively directs guides and influence the work of others in choosing and attaining specified goals by mediating between the individuals and the organisation in such...
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... 24/10/2013 The HR Manager, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), PMB 5320, Oyo Road, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Dear Sir/Ma, APPLICATION FOR TRAINING ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT POSITIONS I am writing in response to your advertisement on International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) for Training Administrative Assistant position. During my research about your Institute, I was excited to learn about the current openings for a position of administrative assistant. Your Institute being one of the world’s leading research partners has excellent objectives in finding solutions for hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. I am very much interested in joining your organization. In my former role as a front desk receptionist at Latbash Nigeria Limited, I was required to administer a range of administrative and specialized tasks in an appropriate and perfect manner. This comprised organizing meetings, directing visitors to appropriate contacts, answering incoming calls, and arranging appointments for guests to meet with company staffs, regularly communicating, dealing with enquiries from, and developing relationships with customers and suppliers. The few months that I have spent working at this position have been quite an eye opener as far the skills that are required to fulfill the duties of this position. I also have advanced Microsoft Office...
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...Journal of Management and Social Sciences Vol. 5, No. 2, (Fall 2009) 180-194 The Role of Leadership in Human Resource Management a Comparative Study of Specific Public and Private Sectors in Pakistan Akbar Ali * Dean, Multi Disipline, Degree Program NUST, Karachi ABSTRACT The fundamental problem of this study was to examine "The role of leadership in human resource management through comparison of public and private sectors in Pakistan" by evaluating the leadership in ten competencies. The sample was 115 leaders (assesses) which were assessed by 520 respondents (assessors) belonging to Airlines, Hospitals and Banks from both Public and Private Sector. Each of the manager / leader was evaluated by using 360 degree feed back assessment questionnaire. Statistical analyses were conducted using the SPSS statistical package. Outcome of this study pointed that there were statistically significant difference among score of leadership between Private and Public Sector organizations. The conclusion of the study indicated; a) Leadership at Private sector is performing better than Public Sector. b) The leadership score of private sector bank was significantly higher to public sector bank. c) The leadership score of private sector hospital was significantly higher as compared to the public sector hospital. d) The leadership score in public sector airline was significantly higher to the private sector airline. The findings also indicated to call upon Pakistani leaders at public...
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...Arthur G. Jago University of Missouri—Columbia Leadership depends on the situation. Few social scientists would dispute the validity of this statement. But the statement can be interpreted in many different ways, depending, at least in part, on what one means by leadership. This article begins with a definition of leadership and a brief description of 3 historically important theories of leadership. The most recent of these, contingency theories, is argued to be most consistent with existing evidence and most relevant to professional practice. The Vroom, Yetton, and Jago contingency models of participation in decision making are described in depth, and their work provides the basis for identifying 3 distinct ways in which situational or contextual variables are relevant to both research on and the practice of leadership. Keywords: participation, situational leadership, normative models, contingency theory T he term leadership is ubiquitous in common discourse. Political candidates proclaim it, organizations seek it, and the media discusses it ad nauseum. Unfortunately, research on leadership has done little to inform these endeavors. As Bennis and Nanus (1985) have noted, Literally thousands of empirical investigations of leaders have been conducted in the last seventy-five years alone, but no clear and unequivocal understanding exists as to what distinguishes leaders from nonleaders, and perhaps more important, what distinguishes effective leaders from ineffective...
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...business processes is important for businesses to stay ahead of competition in today's marketplace. Over the last 10 to 15 years, companies have been forced to improve their business processes because customers are demanding better products and services. Many companies begin business process improvement with a continuous improvement model. The BPR methodology comprises of developing the business vision and process objectives, identifying the processes to be redesigned, understanding and measuring the existing processes, identifying IT levers and designing and building a prototype of the new process. In this context it can be mentioned that, some of the biggest obstacles faced by reengineering are lack of sustained management commitment and leadership, unrealistic scope and expectations, and resistance to change. Re-engineering emphasized a holistic focus on business objectives and how processes related to them, encouraging full-scale recreation of processes rather than iterative optimization of sub processes. Business process re-engineering is also known as business process redesign, business transformation, or business process change...
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...Leadership Roles in the Workplace Prepared for Management and Supervision MGT-410 Instructor Ms. Jacqueline Carreras Prepared by Connie Burns-Marshall Management-Skills and Application by Rue & Byars book have a lot of useful information. It focuses on the essential skills that are needed to become a successful manager. It’s a roadmap for critical thinking that’s needed in leadership where problem solving, decision-making and empowerment are daily routine roles. Senior management value leaders that can focused on accomplishing organizational objectives accurately and efficiently with these professional skill sets. At the end of each chapter the questions are designed to promote critical thinking as a leader. (Rue, p. 3) Healthy control of my emotional intelligence is another important attribute that’s needed in the workplace and is related to critical thinking skills, since a calm head allows me to engage more effectively; both attributes can help me establish better relationships with co-workers, senior and middle management and external resources. Stress and challenges are common in practically all workplaces and jobs. Healthy emotional responses and expressions in response to stressful situations will help me project an image of professionalism, avoid negative consequences and maintain an open mind for critical thinking. If I have better control over my emotions I will typically show poise and patience in response to a stressful...
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...as a healthcare quality professional, if you want to improve the way you lead, it is important to understand the concepts and ideas behind great leadership and push yourself to improve your own leadership abilities. One way to do this is by learning about the theories and ideas behind great leadership. By empowering yourself first through knowledge, then through role modeling, it will help you empower others so that the organizational goals can be met. Leaders develop the structure of their practice and interpret their role to others. A leader should initiate actions of many different kinds including planning and organizing work, guiding and evaluating others, calling meetings, mobilizing support systems, risk taking, and confrontation. The leader should use the basic skills of problem solving, critical thinking, and communication to carry out performance improvement effectively. Teamwork and group development are very important in performance improvement. Tuckman and Jensen identified five stages of group development. Each stage has a characteristic emotional climate, group behaviors, and specific tasks. These include forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. The role of the leader is very important to group dynamics. Different leader actions are appropriate for each of these stages (Tappen R.M.1986). Leadership actions should vary depending on the phase of group...
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...Furthermore, NSMS has a healthy and functioning PAC, a strong group of active parent volunteers that support community cooperative events including grade 6 immunizations (a collaboration with VIHA), our LC (community volunteers supporting literacy) and a staff where every single member presently volunteers to coach, sponsors and/or organize extra-curricular activities. Because the goal of an ATP is to plan, coordinate, implement and review the school’s community partnership program with the goal of creating a welcoming and united school climate (Epstein & Associates, 2009, p. 87), my leadership role at NSMS would initially be one of communication and facilitation. BCPVPA President Kevin Reimer in the latest edition of Admininfo...
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...The role of the healthcare manager is to ensure that the service, the unit, or the organization he is leading achieve a high performance to reach the organization's goals so that: First: where the patients or services are delivered in an efficient and timely manner. Second: to work on the development of staff and the framework of excellence [people - staff, patients, doctors - quality, service, funding, and growth] and vision towards setting goals, measuring performance and making corrections. Third: Stakeholders - This includes insurance companies, consumer advocacy groups, and federal and state governments who demand and expect in many cases the most acceptable levels of performance in healthcare organizations, and here the management's task is to ensure that this high performance...
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...The Role of Leadership in Managing Partnerships In the case study, Managing the Partnership: Leading an Innovation Team – the Importance of a Positive, Persuasive, and Collaborative Approach (2010), authors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble start off with the story of Aetna’s Laurie Brubaker. The case study tells of her leading her team to success in the previously unexplored market of individual health insurance plans. The interesting thing about Laurie’s team is that they are comprised of a somewhat of blended family model; utilizing both a squad of direct reports who were dedicated solely to this new project and also calling on the strengths and resources of the Performance Engine. With Brubaker at the helm, these two groups collaborated to form a dream team of sorts leading Aetna to tremendous growth in a previously untapped market. The article uses this and other examples to illustrate the importance of leadership in the merging together of innovation teams (dedicated staff) and the Performance Engine (shared staff.) The article also sheds light on some challenges specific to this type of partnerships. Effective leaders like Brubaker are able to use their wits and their tools to navigate these challenges and lead their teams to the promise land of successful innovation and gain or maintain competitive advantage in their respective fields. Peter Andrews, a consulting faculty member of the IBM Executive Business Institute wrote of what it takes to lead innovation...
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...Byrd (2014) discovered that working in a leadership position is a legitimate part that incorporates a specific measure of force or impact inside of an association. Prevalently European Americans hold these sorts of positions (Byrd, 2014). Byrd highlighted that African American women thought to be regulated from leadership positions based on their gender, race, and social class. European Americans undermine African Americans women in leadership positions in the workplace. Byrd expressed that European Americans use their privileges to overrule and control the actions of African Americans in the workplace. Despite the fact that the numbers of African American women leaders in prevalently European American organizations is increasing, there is still a huge disparity and...
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...Executive Summary The aim for this thesis is to answer the problem statement: How do national cultures influence leadership styles? To give an answer to this question, this thesis is divided into three parts: leadership, national culture and the connection between them. The conclusion of this thesis is based on analytical and exploratory research. The first part, on leadership, focuses on mainly two types of leadership: transactional and transformational leadership. Transactional leadership is mainly based on the transaction between leaders and their followers. Bass described four components of transactional leadership: Contingent reward, Active management by exception, Passive management by exception and Laissez-Faire leadership (1997). Transformational leadership focuses mainly on inspiring and stimulating the followers. Transformational leadership contains also four components: Idealized influence (Charisma), Inspirational motivation, Intellectual stimulation and Individualized consideration. The second part focuses on different studies on national culture: Hofstede (1983), Schwartz (1990) and Inglehart (1997). Each study has different values and dimensions, both all three studies show some similarities. The first similar dimension contains: Hofstede’s Power distance, Schwartz’ Hierarchy versus Egalitarianism and Inglehart’s Survival and measures the degree to which the people in a national culture accept and expect the unequal distribution of power. The second similar dimension...
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..."There is a movement afoot, and that movement is saying that if we do not get nurses fully engaged at every level of this delivery system, from policy formulation to operations, that we all ultimately suffer, and we are tired of suffering," Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP, executive vice president and chief of medical affairs at UnitedHealth Group in Minnetonka, Minnesota, stated at the January 20 RWJF panel meeting. "It seems incredible that at a time when our challenges are the worst they have ever been and are getting more complex, that we would somehow not make use of all of our assets....," Dr. Tuckson added. "It is past time for health policy and for healthcare institutions to not maximally benefit from the experience, the knowledge, and let me indicate not trivially, the compassion of nurses." Other areas in which opinion leaders would like to see nurses have more influence included increasing healthcare efficiency and reducing costs (84%), coordinating care through the healthcare system (83%), helping the healthcare system adapt to an aging population (83%), and improving access to healthcare (74%). "These opinion leaders recognize that nurses' experience at the bedside and our unique perspective on patient needs make us particularly well-qualified to shape healthcare policy and delivery systems to best meet patients' needs," panel member Mary Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in Philadelphia, director of the New Courtland...
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...RoJournal of Management and Social Sciences Vol. 5, No. 2, (Fall 2009) 180-194 The Role of Leadership in Human Resource Management a Comparative Study of Specific Public and Private Sectors in Pakistan * Akbar Ali Dean, Multi Disipline, Degree Program NUST, Karachi ABSTRACT The fundamental problem of this study was to examine "The role of leadership in human resource management through comparison of public and private sectors in Pakistan" by evaluating the leadership in ten competencies. The sample was 115 leaders (assesses) which were assessed by 520 respondents (assessors) belonging to Airlines, Hospitals and Banks from both Public and Private Sector. Each of the manager / leader was evaluated by using 360 degree feed back assessment questionnaire. Statistical analyses were conducted using the SPSS statistical package. Outcome of this study pointed that there were statistically significant difference among score of leadership between Private and Public Sector organizations. The conclusion of the study indicated; a) Leadership at Private sector is performing better than Public Sector. b) The leadership score of private sector bank was significantly higher to public sector bank. c) The leadership score of private sector hospital was significantly higher as compared to the public sector hospital. d) The leadership score in public sector airline was significantly higher to the private sector airline. The findings also indicated to call upon Pakistani...
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...THE ROLE OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP HND Business Level 5 21rd June 2012 THE ROLE OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP AC2.1: Leadership Styles Introduction Concisely, leadership refers to the process through which a person manages to influence others in a coherent and cohesive manner so that they can accomplish a certain objective. Leadership practice depends on four factors namely leader, followers, communication, and situation. To a certain extent, leadership practice is closely related to management but there are certain differences that set the two organisational necessities apart. In the traditional thinking present in all organisations, leadership separates the roles of a manager from those of a leader. The rationale behind this is that managers are people who operate under control; they administer through focusing on already existing structures and systems. However, there must be a balance between both management and leadership demands for the optimal survival of any organisation. Both leaders and managers are vital for the positive performance and success of an organisation. Leadership skills model a way forward while management skills enable arriving at a set target. This means that striking a balance between leadership and management demands in an organisation requires an effective leader to carry good management skills and similarly, an effective...
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