Cultural Dimensions of Leadership
February 12, 2025
It is rightly said that organizations are individual’s first home as one spends the maximum time here. Employees must treat their fellow workers as a part of one big family and must work together to achieve the goals of the organization. Conflicts must be avoided at the workplace to ensure that the employees give their […]
It is essential for employees to communicate effectively with each other for better understanding as well as increased productivity at workplace. Employees doing everything on their own are generally overburdened and eventually fail to deliver their best. Effective managerial communication enables the flow of information and knowledge among employees in its desired form. Managers need […]
When an individual or a company takes an insurance policy, the risk that they are indemnifying themselves against is very clear. For instance, if a person takes insurance on their car, then both parties know exactly what the insurable interest is i.e. the car. However, this is not the case with reinsurance policies. This is […]
Leaders are responsible for creating and realizing the vision by encouraging the followers to work towards the fulfilment of a common goal. Effective leaders should be able to have a perfect assessment of their strengths/weaknesses and deal with it efficiently. By adopting remedial measures, they should reinforce their areas of strengths and overcome their deficiencies. […]
Introduction The emergence of the network-based organizational structures and a movement away from the hierarchical structures that were the hallmark of the earlier era presents its own set of challenges to Human Resource Managers (HRM) as well as Executive Leadership and Senior Management. The key aspect of the transition from hierarchy to network and from […]
Following are the main roles of a leader in an organization:
In the top level, it is important for getting co-operation in formulation of plans and policies.
In the middle and lower level, it is required for interpretation and execution of plans and programmes framed by the top management.
Leadership can be exercised through guidance and counseling of the subordinates at the time of execution of plans.
He/She has to represent the concern at seminars, conferences, general meetings, etc.
His/Her role is to communicate the rationale of the enterprise to outside public. He/She is also representative of the own department which he leads.
A Leader is trying to co-ordinate the efforts of people towards a common purpose and thereby achieves objectives. This can be done only if he can influence and get willing co-operation and urge to accomplish the objectives.
In this regard, a leader has to invite suggestions and if possible implement them into plans and programmes of enterprise. This way, he can solicit full support of employees which results in willingness to work and thereby effectiveness in running of a concern.
A Leader can be a philosopher by utilizing his intelligence and experience and thereby guiding the employees as and when time requires.
He/She can be a guide by supervising and communicating the employees the plans and policies of top management and secure their co-operation to achieve the goals of a concern.
At times he can also play the role of a counselor by counseling and a problem-solving approach. He can listen to the problems of the employees and try to solve them.
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