What is the value of Leadership to the Management of an Organization?
1. Introduction
Very often we can hear today how important good leadership is to manage an organization successfully. But why? Why do we need good leaders? Why is good leadership essential for managing an organization or even an entire business? What is leadership anyway? And most important of all, how can the performance of a leader or the leadership performance proper evaluated and assessed? This paper will interpret briefly what the value of leadership means to the management of organizations and tries to point out differences in these models and problems of applying them in reality. First of all though, it is necessary to know what both leadership and management is.
Leadership
Leadership has been described as “influence, that is, the art or process of influencing people so that they will strive willingly and enthusiastically toward the achievement of group goals.” [Koontz and Weihrich, 2005].
Management
Management has been described as “the process designing and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in groups, efficiently accomplish selected aims.” [Koontz and Weihrich, 2005].
2. Leadership in Managed Organizations
Organizations are established and structured as a facility to achieve defined objectives. Herein certain positions and tasks make up the work structure and form a basis for the appointment of a leader with the authority attached to this position. A leader’s personal qualities, the demands of the situation, or a combination of these and other factors are the basis of successful or unsuccessful achievements of an organizations objectives. Organizations mostly have the overall mission of generating profit and good leadership causes organization members to follow a path a leader has laid out in order to achieve an organizations mission. In order to achieve this a leader will influence, motivate, coach, manage and control a person...