Leadership

1. Introduction, Definition of leadership:

An organization’s effectiveness is dependent upon employee behaviour and effective leadership. This essay seeks to discuss how leadership impacts employee behaviour and organizational effectiveness. (Yukl, 2006) defines leadership as “ the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives”. (Northouse., 2007) defines leadership as “ a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal”. These definitions suggest several components to the leadership phenomenon. For example: (a) Leadership is a process, (b) Leadership involves influencing others, (c) Leadership happens within the context of a group, (d) Leadership involves goal attainment, (e) these goals are shared by leaders and their followers. The very act of defining leadership as a process suggests that leadership is not a characteristic or trait with which only a few people are endowed with at birth. Defining Leadership as a process means that leadership is a transactional event that happens between leaders and their followers. Viewing leadership as a process means that leaders can affect and are affected by their followers either positively or negatively. Leadership operates in groups, it is mainly about influencing a group of people who are engaged in a common goals or purpose. Leaders direct their energies or the energies of their followers to the achievement of particular goal and the sharing objectives.

• Define Employee behavior: LIST OUTCOMES

According to Mardanov, Heischmidt and Henson (2008), employee behaviour depends on the relationship between an employee and the leader, as experienced by the employee. Every employee within an organization should have a specified set of roles and these allow the leaders of an organization to hold the employee accountable for...