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Leadership Looking for Leaders:

Mohammad Aljeemaz, DBA Researcher.

29 Dec. 2013

Introduction:

The purpose of the article is to explore business leadership changes and developments in

parallel with business leader’s changes and developments, the relationship between them

and how could we bridge them to fit the best business leadership to the best business

leader. “Leadership development is defined as expanding the collective capacity of

organizational members to engage effectively in leadership roles and processes”,

(McCauley et al., 1998). “In the case of leader development, the emphasis typically is on

individual-based knowledge, skills, and abilities associated with formal leadership roles.

These acquired capabilities enable people to think and act in new ways”, (Coleman, 1988).

Considering rank and power is the most two element that would be reflected by family

owned business leadership controlling their businesses , on the other side two elements of

understanding and responsibility would be reflecting leadership of systematic well

organized and balanced organizations. For the best return of the integration between

leadership and leader, would require a great deal of flexibility and agility to maintain

balancing the complexity of both human being leader and combined leadership

development. These methods must be linked with each other and connected to a broader

organizational strategy (Hall & Seibert, 1992; Latham & Seijts, 1998).

Type of leadership:

In Leadership practices intended to be the influence, while management intended to be the

practices on managerial internal organizational duties which is affected by the type of

Leadership practices. Destructive Leadership practice is using the methodical and constant

performance by a leader to superintendent or executive that violates the justifiable concern

of the business by discouragement and loosing the organization’s targets, responsibilities,

possessions, and efficiency and the incentive, comfort or job fulfillment. The second type is

Constructive leadership practice when leaders act beneficially in cooperation towards the

employees and the business. The leaders at this part, act’s according with the justified

concern of the business, sustaining and improving the target, duties, and approach of the

business then getting most advantageous use of organizational possessions.

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Relationship Dimension:

Looking through the comparison between the leader and the leadership, we could

recognize the practice within particular framing each of them, in general the leader more to

human being and leader ship more the social collective. Leadership image, the leaders

toward self-power, business experience and the dependability. However the leadership

image towards relational, Commitments, general respect and the trust.

Bridging Leader AND Leadership:

Building character leaders using the training to create capabilities probably that leadership

will consequence to a balancing standpoint approaches leadership as a social practice that

engages everyone in the community (Barker, 1997; Drath & Palus, 1994; Wenger & Snyder,

2000). In that process, we could consider every individual is a leader and the leadership is

the effect rather than a cause (Drath, 1998). Leadership is growing assets of efficient

systems design (Salancik, Calder, Rowland, Leblebici, &Conway,1975). The Leadership

improvement from this standpoint should be taking advantage of using social relationship

methods to support constructs obligations between the members of the business (Wenger,

1998).

Finding:

It’s always fine leadership would be recognized by a leader, however, a leader could be

without any leadership experience but because he positioned on the top of the business

due to a heritage position exchange, then the training could be more useful to improve the

leadership practice. However, For the best return of the integration between leadership

and leader, would require a great deal of flexibility and agility to maintain balancing the

complexity of both human being leader and combined leadership development.

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