School of Economics and Business Sarajevo
University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Economics Ljubljana
Module: Research Methods
Assignment:
Topic selection and literature Review
LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS IN PRIVITIZED AND STATE OWNED COMPANIES
Professor: Students:
Nijaz Bajgorić, PhD Elma Mujkić Selma Hadžipašić Anna Kakhvich
1. Introduction
It is well known, that the success of a company always relays on the effectiveness of a leader. If an enterprise is in a bad position, we should first of all pay attention on leadership and try to change some occurred issues. The first crisis in a company is a “crisis of leadership” (Greiner 1975). On a question “why?” there is a simple answer. He/she is also a marketer, a sales representative, a public relations officer, a financial controller and so on, occupying numerous roles and wearing many different hats simultaneously. (Exploring Distributed Leadership in the Small Business,Jason Cope, Steve Kempster, Ken Parry, International Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 13, 270–285 (2011).
Good leader is not only a person, who “wears many different hats simultaneously” good. That also depends a lot on relations and relationships between a leader and team members. There have been made many studies on that subject. Many studies were trying to identify the individual traits of effective leader. These trait theories were trying to attempt a systematic approach to this topic. However, this kind of approach didn’t resulted with expected