Category: Leadership

  • The Concept of Servant Leadership and Its Difference From Followership

    Table of Contents Introduction The Concept of Servant Leadership in History The Role of Servant Leaders Difference Between Servant Leaders and Followers Conclusion References Introduction The purpose of this essay is to analyze the increasingly popular concept of servant leadership and to show in what way followership contrasts and at the same time complements it.…

  • Drucker and Leadership: The Father of Modern Management

    Managing an organization means being able to make adequate decisions is an essential skill that an efficient leader must possess in order to steer the company the right direction and promote its further prosperity (Robbins & Judge, 2014). A range of theories have emerged over the past few years, shedding some light on the phenomenon…

  • Leadership and its Role in the Organizational Behavior

    Leadership is considered to be one of the crucial parts of the successful development of any company. The necessity of the leader in the company is dictated by the core roles and aims of the leader: to inspire, to be the innovator, to be based on the perspective view of the issue, to push the…

  • Leadership Styles Assessment: Evaluating the Impact

    Owing to the great importance placed on leadership in recent decades, organizations and scholars are becoming increasingly obsessed with deconstructing the phenomenon into a universal set of measures (Dulewicz & Higgs, 2005). This obsession has fuelled the upsurge of numerous leadership styles assessment tools aimed at providing insight into leadership behavior and approach. In this…

  • Small Store’s Manager and His Leadership Traits

    Who is this leader, and why did you choose this person? The leader I selected for this shadowing project, Mr. Masood, is a manager at a Jewelry store named Peoples Jewellers. This establishment is a small store and so Mr. Masood is an all-rounded manager in charge of human resources, finances, information technology, and supply…

  • Management and Leadership: Defining the Relationship

    Available literature demonstrates that the terms “management” and “leadership” are often confused and used interchangeably despite the different timing of their evolution, as well as their differing functions based on their underlying conceptualisations, philosophies, functions and intended outcomes (Toor & Ofori, 2008). In this paper, I purpose to demonstrate the relationship between “leadership” and “management”…

  • Leadership in Organizations: Concepts and Approaches

    Abstract Leadership plays major social and professional roles in organizations with the support of basic principles. The type of leadership that seeks to follow the set principles triggers individual human resource potential at the workplace. Leaders also depend on the rest of the workforce in order to deliver their mandate. Hence, a leader is expected…

  • Transformational Leadership: An Ideal Solution

    Extant scholarship on leadership and management demonstrates that transformational and transactional leadership styles are widely validated in business and industry owing to their impact on employees’ outcomes and performance (Ilies et al., 2006; Ismail et al., 2010). In this paper, I focus attention to comparing the two leadership models to prove that transformational leadership is…

  • Leadership in Business: The Main Aspects

    The business world is very much different today than it was a few decades ago. Technology and globalization has made it more exciting and also very difficult to establish a company and sustain its profitability. The same thing can be said with an existing organization that may have had great success in the past but…

  • Leadership Skills, Techniques and Tools: Interview

    Good morning, could you tell please does your company need leaders and why does it need such people? Good morning, to begin with, I’d like to say that each company needs a leader as it helps the company to develop and grow. Considering our company, I want to say that leadership is the central link…