Leadership in Organizations

LEADERSHIP

Leadership is the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of goals. Leadership is the influence – nothing more, nothing less. (John C. Maxwell). Leadership can be defined as the will to control events, the understanding to chart a course, and the power to get a job done, cooperatively using the skills and abilities of other people. (Donald G. Krause). The leader is the person who can give influence to other individuals in a company. Something interesting in leadership is the existence of leaders who are in the organization which has its own structure by creating a relationship between leaders and followers to achieve excellence. Track in an organization requires steps or activities that in the plan by leaders for pushing his followers increased determination and determination towards the organization. Therefore, efforts towards the consolidation of the activities of an organization subject to someone's intelligence leaders. Effective leader is someone who knows how to inspire and relate to subordinates; able to convince subordinates that the organizational vision is not only important but attainable; able to challenge them with goals, projects, tasks and responsibility that allow them to feel a sense of personal success, achievement, and accomplishment; rewards subordinates who perform well with recognition, money and promotions (Edwin A. Locke (1999). Meanwhile, leadership in Islam is a trust. Often, it takes the form of an explicit contract or pledge between a leader and his followers that he will try his best to guide them, to protect them and to treat them fairly and with justice. Hence, the focus of leadership in Islam is on integrity and justice. An effective Islamic leaders has positive personality t...

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...do so not simply able to do the work complex to the employees do it.

In addition, for the realization of excellence in an organization, one of the leaders needs to give inputs to their employees. In this context, the impulse is to nurture employees do work with the best way. Behavior on the employee may in effect and identified by leaders and from that we urge must be adopted into that harbors no consciousness. For example, some models in forward by Abraham h. Maslow, a master of the West can be adapted with the framework of the application of encouragement to employees according to the circumstances, time and atmosphere.

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