Leadership and Organizational Culture
1. How might lack of cultural dimension play a role influencing leadership?
There exists a direct relationship between organizational culture and the attitudes held by employees concerning their workplace and work responsibilities. The internal culture of an organization has profound influence on the level of job satisfaction amongst the workforce, which in turn influences their commitment to the organizations leadership vision and performance objectives. The leadership of an organization mainly focuses on influencing the attitudes and behaviors of employees to gain their acknowledgement and influence their acceptance of policies and objectives pushed by management. As such, the leaders in any organization …show more content…
This would enable the management style to become more adaptable to different and changing needs of individual employees and groups of customers. Inclusion of the cultural dimension of leadership would enable management and co-workers to become less judgmental of skill differences and uniqueness of preferences as well as provide members with appropriate skills and mindset for adjusting their habitual approaches to accommodate these differences. A lack of this accommodation in the management leadership style in the organization would cause increase turnover of the more-talented employees and cross-cultural customers. Lack of a cultural dimension in leadership would also create low job satisfaction and mistrust that would reduce productivity efficiency and increase costs for the organization. This might also cause apathy that would sabotage the efforts of managers to keep projects within the budget and on …show more content…
Dirks, building trust amongst the followers is essential for effective leadership and organizational success. Trust of the organization’s members in their leadership has profound influence on their level of confidence in the leader’s competency, character and commitment to the realization of individual as well as mutual benefits from participating in the organization. It is therefore important that leaders seek to establish trust in their followers by becoming aware of how they are viewed by their followers and establishing ways to demonstrate their leadership commitment and managerial stewardship qualities (
1. How might lack of cultural dimension play a role influencing leadership?
There exists a direct relationship between organizational culture and the attitudes held by employees concerning their workplace and work responsibilities. The internal culture of an organization has profound influence on the level of job satisfaction amongst the workforce, which in turn influences their commitment to the organizations leadership vision and performance objectives. The leadership of an organization mainly focuses on influencing the attitudes and behaviors of employees to gain their acknowledgement and influence their acceptance of policies and objectives pushed by management. As such, the leaders in any organization …show more content…
This would enable the management style to become more adaptable to different and changing needs of individual employees and groups of customers. Inclusion of the cultural dimension of leadership would enable management and co-workers to become less judgmental of skill differences and uniqueness of preferences as well as provide members with appropriate skills and mindset for adjusting their habitual approaches to accommodate these differences. A lack of this accommodation in the management leadership style in the organization would cause increase turnover of the more-talented employees and cross-cultural customers. Lack of a cultural dimension in leadership would also create low job satisfaction and mistrust that would reduce productivity efficiency and increase costs for the organization. This might also cause apathy that would sabotage the efforts of managers to keep projects within the budget and on …show more content…
Dirks, building trust amongst the followers is essential for effective leadership and organizational success. Trust of the organization’s members in their leadership has profound influence on their level of confidence in the leader’s competency, character and commitment to the realization of individual as well as mutual benefits from participating in the organization. It is therefore important that leaders seek to establish trust in their followers by becoming aware of how they are viewed by their followers and establishing ways to demonstrate their leadership commitment and managerial stewardship qualities (