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The Role of Leadership in Shaping Organizational Culture
Natasha Grant
Walden University
The Role of Leadership in Shaping Organizational Culture
An organization 's culture plays a significant role in its ability to execute strategic plans. A leader that treats culture as a core business strategy and intentionally focus on creating a thriving culture that aligns people to the mission, vision and values create a substantial competitive advantage. A leader is a person that possesses high energy levels, commitment to cause, responsible and credible (Smolenyak, & Majumdar, 1992). Leadership is the process of influence in which one can enlist the help and support to accomplish a common task (Northouse, 2013). Motivate, support and communicate goals with followers to promote the growth and success of the organization are attributes of an effective leadership while taking into consideration the strengths and weakness of team members who help each other to do his or her best. In this paper, I will focus on the transformational leadership theory and how informational leaders change organization culture.
Leadership, Leadership Theory, Characteristics, Skills and Styles
Transformational leadership hinges on motivational leaders expressing vision and direction, valuing and nurturing their staff, which it assumes generates commitment, strengthening culture, thereby improving performance (Bass and Avolio, 1993). This method is to increase followership effectiveness. Transformational leadership theory suggests that the leader is charismatic, intellectual offers incentives and individual attention to empower and elevate followers, and transforms them into higher performance.
Influence
According to Quinn (1996), transformational leaders driven by vision and can “see beyond technical competence and political exchange." Quinn (1996) also states that transformational leaders focus on experiences where the concept realization and practice are in a
Natasha Grant
Walden University
The Role of Leadership in Shaping Organizational Culture
An organization 's culture plays a significant role in its ability to execute strategic plans. A leader that treats culture as a core business strategy and intentionally focus on creating a thriving culture that aligns people to the mission, vision and values create a substantial competitive advantage. A leader is a person that possesses high energy levels, commitment to cause, responsible and credible (Smolenyak, & Majumdar, 1992). Leadership is the process of influence in which one can enlist the help and support to accomplish a common task (Northouse, 2013). Motivate, support and communicate goals with followers to promote the growth and success of the organization are attributes of an effective leadership while taking into consideration the strengths and weakness of team members who help each other to do his or her best. In this paper, I will focus on the transformational leadership theory and how informational leaders change organization culture.
Leadership, Leadership Theory, Characteristics, Skills and Styles
Transformational leadership hinges on motivational leaders expressing vision and direction, valuing and nurturing their staff, which it assumes generates commitment, strengthening culture, thereby improving performance (Bass and Avolio, 1993). This method is to increase followership effectiveness. Transformational leadership theory suggests that the leader is charismatic, intellectual offers incentives and individual attention to empower and elevate followers, and transforms them into higher performance.
Influence
According to Quinn (1996), transformational leaders driven by vision and can “see beyond technical competence and political exchange." Quinn (1996) also states that transformational leaders focus on experiences where the concept realization and practice are in a
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