leadership and governance
ASSESSMENT NUMBER: 1
ASSESSMENT TITLE: THE LEADER’S ROLE IN EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE OF ORGANISATIONS
COURSE CODE: MGMT20125
COURSE NAME: LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE
Executive Summary
The following essay will analyse two important elements in every organisation, leadership and governance, the interaction between them and how they influence in organisations outcomes. This paper will cite different journals and studies to support the ideas referents to this topic.
Firstly this essay will discuss on leadership to understand why this culture of influence and motivation has become so important for nowadays organisations and explain the role of the modern leader, among all the perspectives and theories aroused about this subject.
The second point is about governance; the term organisational governance is defined and evaluated to find out how governance enhances the management in organisation. Also is discussed what is the managers role in the governance scheme in order to expose the difference between leaders and managers. They are different but complementary, while leaders have a compromise with the vision on the long term, manager focuses on how to achieve the vision strategically.
Furthermore the next logic step is to evaluate the relationship between these elements analysed previously. Leaders can affect positively and negatively the governance outcomes, basically if there is no self-control or lack of ethic among leaders even the best governance scheme would collapse. On the other hand collective leadership will have a beneficial effect in the board of director’s performance.
The last point assesses how the leadership development and effective followership can affect the organisations outcome, being the relationship between leader and follower the most important key for leadership effectiveness and consequently a more effective
ASSESSMENT TITLE: THE LEADER’S ROLE IN EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE OF ORGANISATIONS
COURSE CODE: MGMT20125
COURSE NAME: LEADERSHIP & GOVERNANCE
Executive Summary
The following essay will analyse two important elements in every organisation, leadership and governance, the interaction between them and how they influence in organisations outcomes. This paper will cite different journals and studies to support the ideas referents to this topic.
Firstly this essay will discuss on leadership to understand why this culture of influence and motivation has become so important for nowadays organisations and explain the role of the modern leader, among all the perspectives and theories aroused about this subject.
The second point is about governance; the term organisational governance is defined and evaluated to find out how governance enhances the management in organisation. Also is discussed what is the managers role in the governance scheme in order to expose the difference between leaders and managers. They are different but complementary, while leaders have a compromise with the vision on the long term, manager focuses on how to achieve the vision strategically.
Furthermore the next logic step is to evaluate the relationship between these elements analysed previously. Leaders can affect positively and negatively the governance outcomes, basically if there is no self-control or lack of ethic among leaders even the best governance scheme would collapse. On the other hand collective leadership will have a beneficial effect in the board of director’s performance.
The last point assesses how the leadership development and effective followership can affect the organisations outcome, being the relationship between leader and follower the most important key for leadership effectiveness and consequently a more effective