Showing posts with label leadership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leadership. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Lead Your Employees

The key to success is a change in human resource that is as initiator and agents of change constantly, forming processes and culture that together improve the ability of organizational change. Existing human resources within an organization has a high diversity. With a large diversity means the ability as the 'agent of change' will also vary. However, organizational change efforts that require participation from all employees that will be achieved if there is also a willingness of each individual employee to act as agents of change, not just rely on ability alone.

The willingness of employees in participating in the organization, usually depending on what you want to achieve the goal by joining the organization in question. Employees' contributions to the organization will be higher if the organization can provide what the employee desires. In other words, the willingness of employees to contribute to the workplace is strongly influenced by the organization's ability to meet the goals and expectations of employees.
In the work of employees is always based on the desire to achieve certain goals. In the integration between individual goals and objectives of the organization, much-needed role of a leader who can truly understand what the purpose of each party. Leaders need to define objectives, allocate scarce resources, focusing on company goals, coordinate changes, foster inter-personal contact with his followers, setting the right direction or the most good when failures occur. It is clear that leaders must be able to play a role in the interest of the organization through subordinates.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Transformational Leadership

Achievement of corporate goals and employee goals at once is no easy task. This is very important, because the effectiveness of a leader is measured from the performance and growth of the organization he leads and the satisfaction of the followers of pemimpinannya. Therefore, a leader must be able to influence followers to accept the request without using the compulsion so voluntarily subordinates will behave and perform according to the demands of the organization through referrals leaders.

To be able to influence the behavior and performance of followers, we need a certain leadership styles or behaviors. Where is the leadership style which is owned by a leader in a company with one another there is no equality, if there are similarities perhaps from one side only, while the other side there are differences.
Leadership or leadership is a process of directing and influencing work-related activities of member groups. According to the Hersey and Blanchard, leadership is a process of influencing the activities of individuals or groups in an effort to achieve goals in specific situations. Leadership is a style of a leader affects the subordinate, in order to cooperate and work effectively in accordance with his orders.
Leadership style is what caused a person elected as a leader or manager, because it is most closely associated with corporate goals are achieved, the types of activities should be led, the workforce characteristics, motives, and other businesses. According to Stoner terms of leadership style or leadership style is: different patterns of behavior are favored by the leaders involved in the process of directing.
One theory is the most comprehensive change agent is the theory of transformational leadership was first developed by James MacGregor Burns in a political context. The theory further refined and introduced into the organizational context by Bernard Bass.
Basically, the theory of transformational leadership emphasizes the importance of a leader create a vision and motivating environment for subordinates to perform beyond expectations. In this case, the subordinates feel trust, admiration, loyalty, and respect for the leaders, so they are motivated to do more than what they expected. Even sometimes beyond what they thought they could do. This leadership model is based more on efforts to transform the leader of various values, beliefs, and needs of subordinates.