Effective Leadership As The Platform Of Realization For The Organizational Goals

Introduction

Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and direct the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. Northouse (2001:3) defined leadership as a process whereby an individual influences a group of individual to achieve a common goal.

An effective leadership is generally someone that leads by example and other people just tend to follow because they believe what they do is the right thing. An effective leader can admit when they are wrong and by doing so, allows people to feel comfortable asking them For help and advice.

Leadership plays a crucial role in an organization on which the demand on the individual employee and demand of the organization are balanced for an organization.

Leadership is the human factor which binds a group together and motivates it towards achieving organizational goals and objectives. An organization without quality leadership will make the employee look like cocoons, it is leadership that will trigger the power of motivation in people and guide them towards organizational goal and objectives. Leadership is the driving force or state or need which inclines a person to behave in a particular manner to develop a capacity of certain types of behavior.

Leadership is defined as the process by which an individual influences another individual or a group to achieve a common goal. Implied that leadership involved the use of interpersonal approaches to techniques with the intention to persuade followers to accept a goal. Once accepted, leaders also motivate followers to engage in the behaviours necessary to achieve the state or condition of the followers, to a future state desired by the leader that can be accompanied by achieving the goal.

When a leader can cause a positive change within an organization, the leader can make positive professional changes. There is difference between a leader and a manager, a manager may be a person that is in control, because they are appointed to a position and that position may have or give them authority. It is that position may have or give them authority. It is more than having technical training and following a list of proper procedures.

Leadership has been as the process of “social influence in which one person can enlist and aid, and support others in the accomplishment of a common task”. It is not out of place repeat here that leadership is the ability to question one’s own behavior.

To be effective, a leader must be self-aware without being egocentric. Those leaders who are egocentric are slave drivers rather than servant leader.

1.2 Statement of the Problem

Management is part of the organization, its culture and structure. Leaders and subordinate are both influence by the organizational structure and culture, but leaders probably have a greater possibility to shape and change it. An organization must know who are its outstanding workers, those who need additional training and those not contributing to the efficiency and welfare of the company or organization. Also, performance on the job can be assessed at all levels of employment such as: personal decision relating to promotion, job rotation ,job enrichment etc. And in some ways, such assessment is based on objective and systematic criteria , which includes factors relevant to the person’s ability to perform on the job . Hence, the overall purpose of performance evaluation is to provide an accurate measure of how well a person is performing the task or job assigned to him or her which eventually becomes the basis for decision making concerning the employees future.

However, the incompetence of leaders influence and affects the organization administration negatively. Incompetence in policy making where the leader feels inconsistent in policy making on how best to run the organization. Most Leaders lack administration knowledge and skills needed to run the organization effectively. They forget that the effectiveness of staff depends a great deal on the attitude of management towards them and beyond ethical framework that guards and guides its official conduct.

1.3 Objectives of the Study

The broad objective of the study to examine effective leadership as a platform for the realization of organizational goals

To evaluate the impact of leadership on achieving organizational goals

To examine the relationship between leadership and workers performance

To examine the challenges facing leadership

To make recommendations on ways of improving organizational performance through effective leadership.

 

1.4 Research Questions

The research questions for this study are based on the following:-

What is leadership

What is relationship between leadership and worker performance

What impact does leadership make in achieving organizational goals

What is differences between leadership and management

What various styles are leaders utilize in the course of leading

What recommendation can be proffered in improving employees performance through effective leadership.

 

1.5 Significance of the Study

The Study: Effective leadership as a platform for the realization of organizational goals is relevant and important to the policy makers, public administrators, researchers and the government policy makers will find the study relevant because it will help on leadership and job performance and also in advising government in an efficient and effective way by which policy formulated could be implemented.

The study will also benefit policy makers in further deliberations on leadership and job performance issues in an organization and studying the current trends of organizational performance in an organization. Business administrators will find this study in their deliberations and discussions on leadership issues and proffering possible recommendations that will help both the government and the administrators of policies.

Government will also benefit from the study because it will help to formulate and implement effective policies in leadership and job performance in Nigeria.

1.6 Delimitation

This study covers the effective leadership as a platform for the realization of organizational goals and it is delimited to the

1.7 Limitations

The major limitation of the study experienced by the researcher was the problem of getting the relevant textbooks, journals and other materials which posed a treat to the quality of this research and unavailability of some vital data from the respondents.

Chapter Five

Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation

In the previous chapters, a lot of research work has been conducted and the findings have been presented and analyzed in chapter four. Therefore, it is necessary to give the summary, conclusions of the whole finings and to make useful and necessary recommendations that are relevant to the write-up on “Effective leadership as the platform for the realization of organizational goals”.

5.1 Summary

The research focused on the effective leadership as the platform for the realization of organizational goals. Zenith Bank Plc and Sterling bank Plc, Ilorin was chosen as the case study. In order to get answers to the research questions, the researcher reviewed some related literature and sourced information from respondents as well as learners authority. The questionnaire was developed by the researcher and gone through by the supervisor.

Complete of the questionnaire were filled by the respondents. This was later analyzed in chapter four to summarize the views of the respondents regarding the topic.

As earlier stated in chapter four, in the data collected, it could be seen that organization that succeed with leadership will have the employees they need doing the sort of work they need, and organization without effective leadership will suffer greatly because of it.

5.2 Conclusion

Leadership is the key to succeed in the completion of the co-organizations gives the possibility to go ahead with right direction with ease. The leader also drives the vehicles of organizations and make it reach its destination.
In several organization, when there is a death of leadership, they always fail in long run and cannot make their way through the difficult time. Leaders never thinks about his gratitude or reward of what he does for the betterment and strength of the organizations, and he always brings good changes in the organizational set-up. The best leader are those who first of all pursue and motivate the followers. When they are ready to accept change, the leader stouts making changes so as to avoid rebellion in the organizations.

Finally, it is concluded that leadership is the background and structure of any organization that wants to achieve its goals. Leaders are needed in all circumstance, even for more routine tasks to help run the organization smoothly.

5.3 Recommendations

Based on the summary and conclusions of the study, the following recommendations are made:

First and foremost, effective leader should build mutual trust and cooperate with his followers and interpret the meaning of events, a leader should make sure that he promotes social justice and morality in what ever situation he find himself. A leader should be able to develop and empower people. Organize and co-ordinate all activities within his or her surrounding and obtain necessary resources and support. It is not out of place for a good leader to motivate his follower and build task commitment with optimism. Finally a leader should set the goals of the organization, because how can you lead if you don’t know where you want to go