Leadership Portrayed in Monologue from Shakespeare’s Henry V

Leadership is defined as a socially constructed process and which also affect organizational future outcomes. Leader is someone at high position who have overall duty for an organization, she or he decide what to do and the way how to achieve it. (Carter and Greer, 2013)The role of leader is extremely important for an organization, leader use their own power to influence the followers though many different ways such as motivation in order to realize the organization object. (Waal and Sivro, 2012)

In history there is a fight between Henry v of England and the French army on 25th of October 1415.Henry was aim to reclaim English land which seized by France at that time. The French army have strong dominant strategy compare to the English army, the French army had around 30,000 to 60,000 soldiers, most of them knights on armor ready to fight .Whereas, the English army had no armor and no horses, and they were exhausted by two months long journey. (William, 2005) However, Henry’s leadership skills lead to the victory of the battle, the way he stimulated and motivated his soldiers are remarkable, and then his speech recognized by many people and become one of the most famous motivational speeches in history.( Seargeant, 2009)

According to the movie Henry v, it shows that Henry use language to strongly persuade their solider. Ideologies of language can be considered both systematic and habitual, the way leader communicates with their followers this is related to linguistic. (Seargeant, 2009) Henry’s speeches give the soldiers unlimited power and energy, the speech leaves a deep impression on the audiences.

Henry called his soldiers “brother”, from the way how Henry address their soldiers can tells that Henry treat their soldiers as part of family members. Therefore, English soldiers they can feel the love from Henry, hence gained the needs of belongingness, this is one of needs in Maslow theory. Henry motivates their soldiers through the language he use. (Seargeant, 2009) Transformational leadership used by Henry, the relationship between Henry and English soldiers in terms of motivation and commitment. Under the leading of Henry, English soldiers regard this battle as commitment instead of task. (Weichun et al, 2011) Henry plays very important role of leadership in this time battle, this leads to success of the English army. He try to encourage his brother in order to have better performance in this battle, and enable the English soldiers do not fear of French army although they have more armor and horses than them.