Crisis Management And Management: The Leadership Role In Organizational Management

The leadership role in organization management.

Perhaps leadership topic is one of the most widely discussed and researched in management. This comes on the reason of leaders and their crucial importance to organizational success. It’s said that, in most situation a team, i.e. organization is only as good as its leader.

The founder of modern management Peter F. Drucker gives the off standard definition of a leadership concept. According to him leadership is not about magnetic personality or making friends and influencing people, but leadership is lifting person’s vision to higher sight, the raising a person’s of performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond it’s normal limitation. Among all the other traditional definitions

Nothing tests a leader as crisis. Crisis can hit at anytime, anywhere, and no organization can escape this stage. And especially nowadays, with rapid changes in economical and political environments, the need of crisis management and leadership is becoming essential. During all hard times, by the light of nature people tend to follow along only a strong leader they trust in. All of this is applicable to a modern business environment as well. In challenging times, only a good leader can keep corporate spirit alive, employees calm and brought together, and eventually lead company successfully through it. Effective crisis leadership can rescue an organization from chaos and deliver opportunities where before there were only disadvantages. Organizations that successfully handle crisis situations can come out of them stronger and with greater employee, customer, and community loyalty than existed prior to the crisis. Leaders must look deep into the crisis for such opportunities that not only benefit the organization but also raise the potential for individual achievement among the organization’s

Anne Mulcahy and Howard Schultz are remarkable business leaders with ability to develop and run successful company, at the same time handle crisis occurrences. Without doubt, either Starbucks or Xerox wouldn’t be as prosperous as now without contribution of their leaders. Mulcahy and Schultz approaches toward management are different, yet what makes both of them an extraordinary leaders it is attitude to people, both employees and clients.

All in all, I would like to point out that true leadership is based on inspiration and communication. Leaders eventual purpose is to create highly effective atmosphere in organization and in such ways produce new leaders by inspiring and communicating. This is absolutely applicable for 21-st century leadership. Expert says, nowadays leadership is different due to rapidly changing environment; new leaders should be globally oriented and flexible, innovative and inspirational. And I tend to believe it is possible to nurture such new leaders within organization by creating effective atmosphere, which is responsibility of a leader.

To summarize we can say, leadership is a unique privilege and duty that requires one to stay on top of their game to assure that they are continuously investing in themselves; that they are always adding value and making those around them better. The hard work that is leadership should never be