Thoughts on the modern leader and his organizational environment

The relationship between leadership and power has been an important subject of study for many years. Leadership is often understood as the ability of an individual to effectively influence others to behave in a way that matches the individual's expectations. Power, can also be perceived as the ability to influence other people to behave in line with our wishes. The purpose of this paper is to briefly examine the formal versus informal power structures within the organization in which the writer works, as well as the effect that these have on organizational leadership.

Leadership is about developing leaders and building capability in the system.Until recently the Leader was considered as a Hero, who has followers. They used to be admired for their courage, outstanding achievements or noble qualities. But now in the 21 st century a Leader is someone who guides, inspires, motivates others to do more. Now Leaders exercise a high degree of influence over others to do more, others can be your seniors, colleagues, team members, subordinates or sometimes may be your seniors too. The definition and responsibilities of a Leader is drastically changing. This article is an attempt to understand the evolution of the concept of Leadership till 2020. Each Leadership style is also explained with appropriate case studies.Also an attempt is made to understand the leadership skills which we can inculcate in today's world which can help us to excel in all aspects of our life.

2016

Individuals have many innate abilities and learned skills, which support them towards the journey of success. Leadership belongs to those skills, which make a person prosperous in various walks of life. Leadership is defined as the ability to lead others, and considered as an art to motivate others to do something, which a person wants to be done. With the growing competition in global economy and technological advancements in 21st century, critical decisions are being made by the organizations. The business and organizations are also required competitive and ambitious employees to move towards high standards. This argumentative essay explains the role and importance of leaders in current era.

American Psychologist, 1990

The trend in research on power and leadership in organizations toward greater interest in the role of followers is examined. The historical development of this trend is reviewed, along with current applications aimed at greater follower involvement in organizations. Problems and prospects of empowering subordinates are discussed, along with challenges to be met. Although power and leadership research has made notable progress in addressing questions of relevance to organizations, suggestions are offered for additional work to be done. Historical Developments From Traits to Attdbutlons The original trait conception of leadership was founded on the major assumption that leaders possessed universal characteristics that made them leaders. These characteristics were seen to be fixed, largely inborn, and applicable across situations. Broadly speaking, this was the essence

Power is a central force governing organizational life. In the current review, we demonstrate that it is also a critical factor regulating psychological and mental life. In understanding the far reaches of power, we argue that the experience of power has three main psychological effects with important implications for organizations: (1) Power affects social attentiveness, decreasing perspective-taking and compassion but increasing the objectification of others by perceiving them through a lens of self-interest (2) Power makes the person, transforming its holders into optimistic, abstract thinking, action-oriented individuals and (3) Power reveals the person, exposing the person's personality and magnifying culture differences. We highlight how each of these separate effects of power can be united by the robust finding that power increases a focus on goals and facilitates goal-directed behavior. Throughout the review, we discuss how each of these effects can be both constructive as well as corrupting We conclude by exploring how power can be harnessed to achieve effective leadership, considering both selection (picking individuals who will be positively affected by power) and creation (organizational structures and contexts that will maximize the leadership possibilities inherent in the effects of power).

The SAGE Handbook of Power

Management Learning, 2020

2021

INTRODUCTION -8- "Freedom, justice, uprightness, truthfulness, honesty, courtesy, courage, audacity, ambition, mercy, the feeling of sorrow or shame, the sense of duty, charity, patriotism, loyalty, bravery, selflessness and, above all, a wonderful sense of honor are never automated, in any man, in any society. in no season. They are simply tested and confirmed everywhere and always."1 GENERAL "Business Administration" can rightly be characterized as one of the most important manifestations of modern life. Thanks to it, huge reserves of materials are produced and services are offered to man that he would not otherwise be able to have. Thanks to this, to a large extent, our daily lives have this form. We think it is appropriate to make it clear here that the group activities of the individual, in which we are interested here, do not always have to refer to profit-making enterprises. Public education, local government and public services are group activities in which profit does not apply at least directly. Nevertheless, their operation is greatly facilitated if the principles of Business Organization and Management are applied to them. The issue of effective leadership in an organization is one of the most critical issues in modern societies, especially nowadays when the conditions of crisis shape competitive and rapidly changing situations in the workplace. Effective leadership is a constant challenge, since a series of factors hinder the development of employees' capabilities, the creation of team spirit, the building of a collective vision, the launch of a common perspective, the formation of a healthy work culture. It is clear that the formal and bureaucratic processing of contractual tasks in a labor space does not produce a result that meets the capabilities of employees. On the contrary, where the intervention of a leading figure occurs, the productive result reflects the synthesis and utilization of forces, highlighting characteristics such as innovation, self-motivation, voluntary participation in a common vision, moral satisfaction, professional self-realization. Specifications, terms and conditions-criteria of the leader we seek and find from Ancient Greek Literature, the Renaissance, Byzantium and up to the present day. The specifications of the leader, and the leadership, cannot be a shallow moralism, but essential existing elements that aim to enhance and deepen it, but also to develop and improve it in order to contribute to lasting success that seems to depend on personal work, to require imagination, research, patience, perseverance and creative effort to connect the "parts", the "elements" of the group or society, in order to overcome and expand its limits of development. Konstantinos Tsatsos2 leaves us in his "Greek course" as a legacy the following: "Leadership in a modern state is not a one-party construct. It is a pyramidally formed group of people, led by the first, let's call him that, leader. This leader will choose 1 Inazo Nitobe, "Bushido, The Code of the Samurai", Introduction by V. G. Polydoras, ed. Kastanioti, Athens 1996, p. 24 2 Constantine Tsatsos was a Greek jurist, philosopher and politician who served as President of the Republic. He pursued an academic career, being elected full professor of philosophy of law at the Athens Law School and a member of the Academy of Athens, of which he also served as president. -9- the leaders under him. Again, the leaders under him, who must also have leadership qualities, must choose the leaders under them. So we gradually descend to that circle of simple executioners, who have a completely limited initiative. The leader must know how to choose his associates and, when the time comes, his successors. And he must be sure enough of himself not to be afraid to choose the best, the most leading, those who could, thanks to their leadership qualities, supplant him, the one who happened perhaps by chance to hold the first place of leadership." (Polydoras, 2008, pp. 263,264) Ethos and choice of partners seem to be among the key characteristics of the leader. In times of crisis and tension it seems to Other "gifts" are added in addition to moral skills, such as many and varied skills as a key to effective leadership. Seizing opportunities, practicing leadership, training, and carefully evaluating experience and its implementation in culture also seem to lead to the lasting success of effective leadership. In this paper an attempt will be made to highlight how important leadership is for the development of an organization In this context, the first chapter defines the concept of leadership and identifies the positive effects on the development of an organization while giving the mark of offering effective leadership to an organization. The second chapter analyzes the definitions and basic characteristics of business management. Chapter Three illustrates the main theories of success and why successful businesses fail. Chapter Four analyzes the most representative theories on the issue of Leadership, what are the current leadership standards and what method of leadership we should follow. In the Fifth, an approach to the role of the Leader in leading teams is attempted and basic strategies of a leader are recorded. In order to avoid confusion between the terms Leadership and Management, it was considered appropriate to record the elements that differentiate the two concepts ASSUMPTIONS The factors taken into account which influence the development of the topic are: 1. The leader is born and becomes. 2. The reference is made to leaders of "Western societies, democratic states and well-governed societies.3 3. Virtue is taught as well as cultivated. (Aristotle., pp. 5-15) DEFINITIONS For a better understanding of work, we will develop some of the terms related to it and they are as follows: 1. System It is a set of interdependent units or objects (inanimate or animate) considered in conjunction with the set of Laws, which govern the relations between them. The set of units or objects constitutes the composition of the system, while the set of laws constitutes the operation of the system. 2. Enterprise - 10 - They are a set of individuals and means engaged with each other in a specific way, to accomplish a specific objective (or more). With a little attention the reader will notice that the term "Enterprise" is identical to the term 'System'. That is indeed the case! Because, what else constitutes an "Enterprise", from all the working people within it, considered in conjunction with the means at its disposal and with some objective. With the generality of the term "Enterprise" that we adopt here, we are not limited only to Commercial and Industrial Enterprises. Non-profit enterprises or state service providers (i.e. public services and similar entities) are well included in the generality of the above definition. 3 It is accepted that many principles of leadership and characteristics of the leader can be found, for example, in authoritarian regimes and Islamic societies, but not all of them and not with the same importance and hierarchy And in Public Services we have movement of people and means, under a certain set of rules, to achieve a set of objectives such as the provision of services. Therefore, what is developed in the following is valid for any "form" and "nature" of Enterprises, which fall under the above definition. 3. Productivity Productivity can be considered as the volume of production of goods and services, relative to the means consumed to carry out this production. The task of the business executive is to achieve precisely the greatest possible productivity. 4. Work It is the activity of the individual, referred to as "freedom of action", in order to achieve certain objectives. The examination of an activity, which we can consider as human labor, will lead to the enumeration of certain characteristics. Thus, we will find that there is always an objective or more, as well as some kind of raw materials, i.e. primary energy sources, required to carry out the project in question. 5. Project It is the result that must be achieved within a certain period of time. In any project there is a specific or conditional, explicit or implicit, time limit that determines when it is desirable to achieve the objectives that will be fulfilled by completing that project. 6. Role It is the position occupied by an individual in an organization and related to a specific task or group of projects, in the sense of the terms defined above. It is emphasized that it is particularly important to be able to separate the "personality" of the person from the role that this person is called upon to play each time. PURPOSE The purpose of this thesis is to explore the concept of leadership, what it means and from where it is determined to be effective, whether it can guarantee lasting success and what it is, in a modern and constantly changing world and whether effective leadership contributes to the development of an Organization.