Name: Mohammad Rafique

Roll No: 15PG08

Subject: Organizational Behavior
Submitted to: Sir Aftab Mahesar
Leadership in any Organization
What is Leadership?
Have you ever wondered what the magic is behind a successful organization? In this
lesson, we will uncover the importance of good leadership and the role it plays in the
success of an organization. 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.

To be an effective leader of either a private- or public-sector organization requires you to

do five things:

1. Understand and interpret the environment in which you operate;

2. Develop winning strategies;

3. Execute them brilliantly;

4. Measure the impact of your strategies systematically, adjusting strategies as

indicated; and Develop organizational, departmental, team and personal
capabilities.

The management staff that typically provides inspiration, objectives, operational

oversight, and other administrative services to a business. Effective organizational
leadership can help prioritize objectives for subordinates and can provide guidance
toward achieving the overall corporate vision.

Leadership development is a systematic approach to expanding the performance

capability of individuals in leadership roles within your organization. And like any
approach, it's not achieved through a single stage or step but rather through a journey.
This journey is the process of leadership development.

A business leader must increase shareholder value, and the public-sector leader must
increase public value. (Shareholder value increases through either increasing stock
price and/or paying dividends on stock that is owned, results that are usually measured
as total shareholder return over some period of time. In the public sector there is a
different but analogous measure: public value, the return to taxpayers of public goods in
an effective and efficient way.)

Leadership in Organizations
Setting a clear vision
It means influencing employees to understand and accept the future state of the
organization. A unit of young soldiers may not believe in a particular mission ordered by
their commanding officer. A good leader will influence the soldiers to perform their duties
by explaining the vision and the importance of their role in the outcome. The soldiers will
be more apt to follow.

Motivating employees
It means to find out enough about the needs and wants of employees, giving them what
they need and providing praise for a job well done. Being far from home is lonely for a
young soldier. A good leader knows this and will communicate with his unit to learn
more about their needs and wants. It may be as simple as giving the soldiers a sweet
treat for their efforts.

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. Some military
maneuvers are difficult. Often, orders are to perform tasks that involve intricate details,
like explaining how to dig a tunnel past enemy lines. A good leader will explain the
tasks, provide the digging tools, direct the work and be available to assist the soldiers if
they run into a problem.

Building morale
It involves pulling everyone together to work towards a common goal. Let's face it -
fighting in a war is stressful. Soldiers are often placed in high-stress situations. This can
cause the unit to lose their focus or, worse yet, shut down emotionally. A good leader
will let the soldiers 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
soldiers' spirits.

A Leader's Role
A leader's role in an organization can be formally assigned by his or her position, like
manager or department head, and it can also be informally assumed by an employee
who possesses a certain charisma that attracts others to follow.
A formal leadership role is an officially assigned position given to someone based on
his or her ability to perform the job. It generally involves organizing and directing people
to perform tasks, like the job of commanding officer (CO) in the military. The CO holds
the highest level of authority over his unit. He is in charge of everything, from deciding
how to fight the enemy to overseeing the day-to-day tasks of his soldiers.

The challenges of leadership

I have described three primary challenges of leadership strategic (involving both
environmental surveillance and the formulation of winning strategies), executional
(implementing those strategies, monitoring their impact and making adjustments as
indicated), and developmental (building core competencies and cadres of leaders at all
levels).

References
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/organizational-leadership.html

http://iveybusinessjournal.com/publication/the-leadership-role/

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/role-theory-organizational-leadership-4958.html