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An Assessment Of Leadership Strategies On Organizational Performance
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Organizational
leadership strategy is a process, which allows management to be
proactive rather than reactive in shaping its own future. A focused
organizational leader provides and establishes visionary leadership to
his organization. He understands and appreciates responsive options to
the change in the management environment.
He develops viable
strategies based upon sustainable competitive advantages. A good
organizational leader develops a proactive approach to strategic
management, whereby management rather than just identifying and
responding to change, anticipates is the bane of indigenous business
organization in developing countries.
It is therefore, expected that
the findings of this study will go a long way in improving the
leadership class. Leadership is the ability to persuade other to seek
defined objective enthusiastically. It is human fact, which binds a
group together and motivates it toward it goals, (David 2003).
Robin,
(2000) defined leadership as the ability of superiors to direct, guide
and motivates people towards the attainment of given set of goals in an
organization. The source of influence may be formal such as that
provided by the possession of managing rank in an organization or
informally outside the organization structure. Most organizational
theorists agree that effective leadership is one of the most important
contributors to overall organizational success.
Thus the quality of
an organization’s determining the quality of the organization itself.
The natural quality of an individual in the environment in which he
operate on daily events are they unfold coupled with other factors do
influence his leadership pattern. Leaders are not as such born, but are
in fact made. A manager may be a boss but not necessarily a leader.
Armstrong (2001) laid out four main characteristics of transformational leadership when he discussed the
transformational
leadership of sport term’s coaches. Emphasizing ethical behavior,
sharing a vision goal, improving performance through charismatic
leadership and leading by example. This shows a simplified version of
the components of transformational leadership provided by Bass (2001),
which also has four elements intellectual stimulation, individual
consideration, inspirational leadership and idealized influence. Though,
many leadership researchers have argued in support of effective
leadership having a positive impact on behavior with in organizations,
especially transformation leadership role in improving many factors of
organization.
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