Organizational Behaviour For Leadership And Organization Development

Organizational leadership and learning

Discuss about the Organizational Behaviour for Leadership and Organization Development.

The quotation “A leader is one who knows the way , goes the way , and shows the way,” by Mr. John C. Maxwell describes that  leadership is an intersection of courage, vision and influence. This leadership style of Maxwell is like three legged stool. If you try to strip one way then your stool will dump you on your rear. Its simplicity is just amazing as it describe a depth thought in an easy manner. It totally relies on the skills that can be taught easily (Cameron and Quinn, 2005). It doesn’t rely on style like other leadership definition. It describes that if you have a dream to do something, you can easily do it and if you can convince other people to do it then you can be a good leader.

Organization leadership and learning can be affected through many factors like organizational culture, geographical area, subordinates point of view, type of  organization, type of labor etc. a perfect leader is the one who understands and learn about the leadership first and then implicate it to his life (Griffin and Moorhead,  2011). Earlier, people would think that a person can never learn about the leadership skills, “a leader born lead not created”. But now the thought process has been changed. Now a person can be leader by developing his skills, power and learn about leadership (Hersey, P. and Blanchard,1993).

Currently we are living in an era where technology, competition, globalization, workplace diversity, socio economical factors etc have been changed and increased and it impacts directly on the process and structure of an organization. In this era, the organizational learning is playing the essential role (Adler and Gundersen, 2007). The organizational learning provides results in competitive advantages, sustainability and organizational performance (Hallinger, 2011).

Leadership and learning are the two main aspect of every organization. A leader helps the organization and its employees to motivate towards their work and contribute in sustainability and long term goals (Schein, 2010). It is commonly said that for enhancing the organizational leadership a person must increase his learning capabilities by improving the process of learning, organizational culture and human resource system (John, Ravasi and Schultz, 2006).

Knowing the leadership qualities and learning process is quite essential for a person to understand the organization and work effectively. It is the process in which a person is made aware about something new. A person is either born as a leader or he develops his skills and abilities to become a leader by learning (Leskiw and Singh, 2007).

Organizational learning and leadership

I was a child but old enough to understand my mother’s words, she would narrate the wise words of Prophet Mohammed, that every person on the earth is responsible for something, a man plays a role of guardian and he is responsible for his family, a woman as a guardian is responsible for her husband, his house and his offspring and thus all are the guardians and they are responsible for their wards. My mother always told me that 3 main qualities must be equipped by a true leader i.e. reliability, confidence and integrity, and if I want to see myself as a great leader, I too have to adopt all these qualities (Berson, Nemanich, Waldman, Galvin and Keller, 2006).

Going is the process in organizational behavior where a person goes through many levels for understanding the leadership qualities. A good leader learns about the organization culture and other skills to enhance his leadership qualities. This process helps him to understand each and every aspect of an organization and implement it practically. A leader in this process understands the work properly (Montes, Moreno and Morales, 2005). He understands that how he can motivate his subordinates. How can he become the best motivator? How can he influence his subordinates to work in a better way with full of their efficiency etc?

I started playing a leader’s role in my young age, where I would play a role of elder brother and leaded the team of my younger siblings. Through my life, I have learned so much about leadership along with lot of errors, trials and humility. A difference between a great leader and manager has been understood by me and it has been also analyzed that a leader can play a role of manager but a manager can never play the role of leader.

Leadership is not only a position or title for a person, it is actually an action. A leader will always play a role of leader in each and every position she or he holds. Mr. John Quincy Admas described that if a person’s action inspires other people to dream, learn, become and do more than he can be a good leader.

Showing is the process in which a leader started showing his skills practically. At this stage, he has been understand enough about the leadership, learning, skills, organization, organization culture, influence power, motivation, leading capabilities etc. it’s the time when he shows all of this in his life (Chang and Lee, 2007). He shows that how perfectly he can lead others life and make them feel worthy. How he can complete the work easily and efficiently. How he can influence other people to work smarter and effectively?

Knowing Leadership qualities and learning

At this stage, a person starts playing a role of leader in organization. He starts implementing new strategies with innovative and creative ideas to control and motivate the employees. A leader is the one who can always make his subordinates feel like worthy and motivate them to work harder and achieve the individual goal as well as organizational goals.

In the practice of being a great leader, a person must have to start with a humble position of leadership. Throughout the steps of my life like high school and university, I have been blessed with many opportunities of being a group leader while many fest and various student club.

With a great passion and leadership skills, I have joined an internship program where I can learn more about leadership and its skills, uses etc. I worked at a largest bank of Australia as a bank teller. I have gained and used many influencing skills through my internship program; I became more aware about leadership traits. At the end of my training, I have been awarded as the best trainer because of my dedication, skills, traits, customer influence etc.

This reflective essay is describing my personal context of leadership. This is explaining that how I became a good leader. What are the factors which helped me in being a good leader and what skills are required for being a great leader (Arends, 2014). This is showing that a leader can play a role of manager but a manager can never play the role of leader. A leader is the one who have the power of influencing the thought of other person and can play his part everywhere whether it is his workplace or home (García-Morales, Jiménez-Barrionuevo and Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, 2012).

A leader is the one who knows that what is leadership and how it is important in someone’s life, how can a leader change the thought process of another party and how can he influence them to follow his rules and regulations to get success. A leader must understand the organizational culture first by involving with experienced staff of that organization or by learning about the organizational culture from books to understand the organization in better manner and then work accordingly (Dashwood and Puplampu, 2010).

Conclusion:

After a study on organization culture, leadership, learning, a leader etc, it can be said that learning must be adopted by every organizational leader. With the help of learning, all the leaders of organization can enhance and encourage their skills and tactics, which will help the organization in a great productivity and success. If a leader wants to achieve personal and organizational objectives, he should implement the skills which he has developed or learnt from somewhere. A leadership approach includes the strategy of the organization as well as the learning process.

If a leader fails to use his leadership skills and influence his subordinate then it will lead the organization into deadlock condition. A leader must not only learn and develop the leadership skills, he even know that how can he use these skills in his workplace. It is essential for the leaders to involve with the experienced staff in a learning environment to understand the organizational culture more and work accordingly.

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