Leadership
LEADERSHIP
Introduction
Good leaders are made not born. If a person has the desire and willpower, he can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience.
To inspire workers into higher levels of teamwork, there are certain things a leader must be, know, and, do. These do not come naturally, but are acquired through continual work and study. Good leaders are continually working and studying to improve their leadership skills; they are NOT resting on their laurels.
Definition
Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Leaders carry out this process by applying their leadership attributes, such as beliefs, values, ethics, character, knowledge, and skills.
Leadership and organizational learning
In the field of organizational learning, leadership entered the discussion as a proxy for the organization. Initial concepts of leadership in organizational learning were based on the notion of the dominant coalition. Organizational learning theorists had suggested that the senior management team, or dominant coalition, was in fact the organization level of organizational learning.
Five Leadership constructs affecting each of the five organizational learning constructs shown in SLAM. Leadership of individual and group-level learning relates to the ways in which the leader supports or undermines learning at that level. Leadership of the organization level refers to the more typical domain of strategic management. The leadership of the feed-forward flow represents the degree that the leader ensures that the nonhuman elements of the organization, such as procedures, routines, and systems, support learning at the individual and group levels.
There are 14 behaviors of effective leaders , supporting,consulting,delegating,recognizing,rewarding,motivating,managing conflicts and team building, developing, clarifying, planning and organizing , problem solving, informing, monitoring, representing, and networking.
In conclusion leadership has a high correlation with all elements of the organizational learning system and it is a means to leverage knowledge through organizational learning.