LEADERSHIP: ITS

DEFINITION, ITS PRESENT

SHAPE AND ITS
IMPORTANCE FOR AN
ORGANIZATION.

By Nurulaini binti Taib

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 WHAT IS LEADERSHIP?
"Leaders are people who
do the right thing;
managers are people who
do things right."
Professor Warren G. Bennis
“Leadership is a process of
giving purpose (meaningful
direction) to collective effort,
and causing willing effort to
be expended to achieve
purpose.”
Jacobs & Jaques
"Leadership is the art of
getting someone else to do
something you want done
because he wants to do it."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Leadership is the process of
influencing
the activities of an individual or a
group in efforts toward goal
achievement in a given situation.”
Hersey & Blanchard
WHAT IS ITS PRESENT SHAPE?
 Old Paradigm New Paradigm
imposed goals, top-down decision autonomy encouraged, worker
making participation

aggression, competition cooperation

manipulation and dominance cooperation with nature

strictly economic motives spiritual values transcend material

gain

rational rational and intuitive

treatment of symptoms attempt to understand the whole,

locate deep underlying causes of
disharmony

Marilyn Ferguson, in The New Paradigm: Emerging Strategic for Leadership

and Organizational Change
 Motivation
Providing
guidance

Initiates
action

Creating
confidence What are its
importance for
an organization?
Co-ordination

Building
morale
Builds work
environment
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Importance of Leadership.
Retrieved 3 August 2010, from
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htm

Leadership Defined.
Retrieved 3August 2010, from
http://managementhelp.org/blogs/leadership/2010/04/06/leadership-
defined/

Ferguson, M (1993). New Consciousness Reader, The New Paradigm:

Emerging Strategic for Leadership and Organizational Change.
Retrieved 3 August 2010, from
http://www.managementhelp.org/mgmnt/paradigm.htm