Leadership in Organizations (Critical Writing)

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Leadership in an organization has become an essential for the success of the institute. Therefore leadership is a major cause for the performance of the institute; either to be successful in the administration or be unsuccessful in doing so.

Leadership Archetype Questionnaire (LAQ) as a tool, is designed to mold leaders upon eight principles which are, “strategist, change-catalyst, builder, innovator, processor, coach, communicator and transactor” (Kets De Vries, 2010).

Efficiency of the leaders is determined by the composition of the team of leaders in terms of individual variances, role and involvement (Belbin, 1996; 2003).

Belbin (2003) witnessed this fact about the LAQ and he distinguished nine roles of the leaders which make them to be effective in their functioning. The roles included; shaper, implementer, resource investigator, plant, monitor, evaluator, coordinator, completer and team worker.

It is absolutely true that leadership positions or people with intentions of becoming leaders belong to a self-selected group and therefore not all people can come to be leaders. Ket de Vries (2006) notes that there are limited people with self-defeating, dependent, depressive or detached characters.

He notes that some leaders be unsuccessful in their management of duties due to their behaviors. This is especially right because the leaders act as an example to rest of the members and character will significantly affect others.

The author cites that no leader can stand in isolation and therefore every single member requires the support of one another.

The writers of the article are justified to conclude that leadership behavior is highly complex transformation in which many factors contribute to it. This is because the leadership behavior cannot be studied in isolation from other factor such as genetic predisposition and social influences.

It is clear that the LAQ will assist the leaders in assessing the roles of the administrative in order to come across the challenges that may be encountered in the organization.

After reading the article about LAQ, leaders are to be expected to optimize their collaboration with their followers after understanding their behavioral preference and behavior in leadership.

Conclusion

Teams working together will help in maximum productivity from employees as they try to develop healthy competition. Finally, organizing teams will let the organization to associate the different team goals into a single goal for the organization.

 

References

Belbin, R.M., 1996. Team Roles at Work. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann.

 

Belbin, R.M.,2003. Management Teams: Why they Succeed or Fail. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann.

Kets de Vries, M.F.R., 2006. The Leader on the Couch. London: Wiley.

 

Kets De Vries, M.F.R., Vrignaud, P., Agrawal, A. and Florent-Treacy, E., 2010. Development and application of the Leadership Archetype Questionnaire. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 21(15), 2848 — 2863.