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The Significance Of Effective Leadership In Achieving Organisational Goals
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
The
significance of leaders in achieving excellent organisational goal
cannot be over emphasized. Adequate motivation, suitable work
environment, compensation, efficient communication between managers and
subordinates play an important role in promoting this goal. Planning and
organisation of work is also very crucial in organisational attainment.
Some researchers have argued that the most common problems affecting
achieving organisational goals in Nigeria business and other
institutions are poor attitude to work among workforce, inefficiency as
well as ineffectiveness of leaders in most places, though others share a
contrary view. This second school of thought believes that
organisations in Nigeria are managed through leadership styles that are
strange to typical Nigerian are managed through leadership styles that
are strange to typical Nigerian culture. In the wake-up call to address
this issue, management practitioners in Nigeria have embarked on series
of studies in an attempt to establish the relationship between
effective leadership and achieving organisational goal. Some found out
that effective leadership styles are positively related to achieving
organisational goal while others have a different view. Still there is
no empirical evidence to show how effective leadership styles impacts on
achieving organisational goal. Again given our cultural background,
educational qualifications, environmental factors it is still not too
clear how effective a leader can be if he must combine the three types
of leadership styles to achieve high goal in Organisations (Usoro 2000).
Given this scenario, this study will be important in that it tries to
fill this gap. The extent (degree) to which all members of an
organisation use their abilities and influences in the effective
utilization of resources depends upon how well the leaders of the
organisation understand and perform their jobs. Maddock and fullton 1998
in Iyang (2006) explain that leadership styles and other processes of
the organisation must be such that can ensure maximum probability within
all interactions and relationships with the Organisations, each member
will in the light of his background, values and expectation view the
expenses as supportive and one which can build and maintains his sense
of personal worth and importance.
Despite the above, we should note
that individuals have their needs to satisfy and that is why they
offered their labours to become organisational members and the extent to
which they are committed to the organisation depends on the degree of
their conviction that their membership of the organisation will enable
them realize their predetermined objectives. In this case, the
support an organisation gets from the individuals will be based on the
realization that by doing that, his personal objectives and goals will
be met, otherwise his interest in the organisation will wane. Based on
that, leadership effectiveness should be given adequate attention it the
organisaiton intends to achieve it objectives. That is why it is a
common agreement among management scholars that the success or failure
of an organisation is largely a function of leadership and its styles.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study was carried out to examine the significance of effective leadership in achieving organizational goals using three (3) selected organizations in Eti-Osa LGA of Lagos State as case study. A total of 82 respondents were validated and used for this study. The study shows that Organization has complex system and consists of many divisions as well need a role of a leader that can handle all complexities within organization. Organization and leadership have become interrelated thing each oth ... Continue reading---
