Leadership in my Organization

Leadership in My Organization

 

Organizational Background

            In this section, information regarding the organization where I work in will be presented. I will discuss the history of the organization, its businesses, its operations and processes, and its people. A  scan of the organization’s business environment will also be supplied.

 

My Position in the Organization

            In this section, my job and responsibilities and my position in the organization will be detailed. I will discuss my job and provide a brief discussion of my interactions with other members of the organization. 

 

Organizational Structure

            It is important to discuss the organizational structure as it lays the foundation for the type of leadership that the organization encourages. Organizational structure refers to how an organization is put together. Structure reflects some of the underlying ways that people interact with one another in and across jobs or departments (Sims 2002). Organizational structure refers to how job tasks are formally divided, groped, and coordinated.

Organizational Structure institutionalizes:

• How people will interact with each other


• How communications will flow


• How rewards are distributed


• How power relationships are defined


• What is important to the organization

            Organizational structure provides the basic template for the continuance of an organization’s culture, norms, values, philosophies, and informal activities.

 

 

Organizational Culture

            Organizational culture includes the values, norms, rites, rituals, ceremonies, heroes, and scoundrels in the history of the organization. The organization defines what a new employee needs to learn to be accepted as a member of the organization. Each organizational culture divides into multiple subcultures. An organization’s structural design creates varying subcultures and processes within the organization. Subcultures grow readily within these differentiated parts of the total organization. They also grow readily within departments, divisions, and different operating locations of an organization. Organizational culture plays several important roles in organizations. The two major roles of culture are (1) adaptation to the organization’s external environment, and (2) coordination of internal systems and processes (Sims 2002). In this section, I will discuss the structure of the organization and the impact of this structure to leadership in the organization. There are three basic structures that organizations take – functional, self-contained and matrix.

 

 

Leadership

            This section will provide different definitions of leadership from different perspectives and different authors.

 

Bases of Power

            Power is a process by which a person induces change in another’s behavior or attitudes. Power is considered as the basis of all organized action. As a social structure of human interrelationships, the organization controls the action of individuals; and control over others in power. Control in the organization rests on power. Organizationally, power is described as the ability to make something happen – the essence of the causal relationship. Authority is a manifestation of power characterized by position and relationship within the formal, hierarchical system. Authority connotes the legitimate right of the holder to command, decide or determine the way the organization will go (Fairholm 1993). In this section, I will identify the base of power in the organization (reward, coercive, legitimate, referent, and expert)

 

Theories and Models of Leadership

            This section will discuss the different theories and models of leadership and how they are applied in the organization.

 

Type of Leadership

            This section will be devoted to the different types of leadership, particularly, transactional leadership and transformational leadership. I intend to identify which type of leadership is present in the organization.

 

Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

            Emotional intelligence is one aspect of leadership that is often ignored. In this section, I will try to make the readers understand that emotional intelligence is important in leadership.

 

Leader vs. Manager

            There is always confusion between a leader and a manager. There are differences and similarities between the two. In this section, I will try to enlighten the readers regarding the differences and similarities of being a leader and being a manager and how the leader in my organization fulfill the roles of a leader and a manager.

 

Analysis and Critique of Leadership in My Organization

            This section will be used for critical analysis of leadership in my organization.

 

 

 

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