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1) Introduction
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Leadership steps for positive organizational changes
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Introduction
Leadership, according to Haake, Rantatalo, and Lindberg, (2017), refers to the process by
which one person, or many people, called leaders, motivate or influence others to act towards
achieving particular objectives. A leader is the person who provides leadership and issues
commands, organizes, and directs the people in their group to attempt and achieve the goals
of an organization (Yukl & Yukl, 2002). There are numerous types of leadership styles like
autocratic, facilitative, democratic, and team leadership styles, among many others (Yukl &
Yukl, 2002). Authoritarian leadership involves the leader making their own decisions without
the consultation of their subordinates. Autocratic leadership style is not flexible. In
facilitative leadership, the leader communicates with the team, depending on the outcome of
their task. In essence, the leader will use a light touch with the group when the group is
performing well. Democratic leadership involves the leaders making decisions while
consulting with their subordinates and in team leadership, the leader creates vivid
descriptions of the team lead with them ensuring that their aides work with their hearts and
minds as a team (Yukl & Yukl, 2002).
According to Whicker (1996), ethical leadership will help in the guidance of people,
organizations, and assists people in making significant scale decisions that will keep the
world moving. Robbins, (2019) explains that there are qualities found in leaders that make
them get defined as good leaders which include excellent communication, the ability to
delegate, creativity, positivity, confidence, commitment, honesty, sense of humor and the
ability to inspire among others. There are several benefits for having good leadership in
organizations as Yukl & Yukl, (2002) assert since it is the most critical and influential
element in all businesses. Some of the benefits that come from good leadership include the
improved ability to succeed under pressure, increased emotional intelligence, improved
workforce productivity, growth in confidence of team members, enhanced creativity and
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innovation and the creation of a dependable, reliable and competent workforce (Robbins,
2019). The demerits that come into an organization due to poor leadership include high
turnover, low morale, and lack of collaboration (Haake et al., 2017, p. 766).
In this article, primary research gets done on the leadership steps required for positive
organizational changes to find out the necessary practices for those in upper management
roles. Leadership requires the will to allow the need for change and also the ability to lead
change. Some issues are that not enough top management know the proper steps to guide.
While most organizations know that change can be a definite advantage, some companies still
are not receptive to change, and as a result, their organization declines. The principal aim of
the research is to ensure that the readers know and understand the requirements needed for
successful improvements in an organization. This research is vital since as Haake et al.,
(2017) assert, people, trust leaders that they can respect, a virtue that gets earned through the
qualities of a good leader mentioned above like honesty. The trust and confidence from the
subordinates translate to cooperative and collaborative assistants and successful attainment of
goals (Yukl & Yukl, 2002).
Research questions
This article aims at answering the questions of how leaders can effectively increase
positive changes, whether leadership can be measured, how leadership can be made useful,
and whether or not toxic leadership results in a company’s negative change.
Background and discussion
Leadership, as stated above, refers to the process by which one person, or many people,
called leaders, motivate or influence others to act towards achieving particular objectives. As
Learmonth (2018) asserts, leadership and management studies got taken up in the early
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twentieth century, but the topic of leadership has been of interest since the dawn of man. In
this section, the historical context of leadership gets discussed, the definitions of key terms
related to administration get given, and the gap in which this research attempts to fill gets
stated.
Historical context
In the early twentieth century, one Frederick Winslow Taylor proposed that people
practice scientific management which, although not a leadership context, promoted leadership
to delegate duties through the division of labor. Taylor, as Learmonth, (2018) asserts,
believed that leaders were born and not made, and he thought that there was one form of
effective leadership, which was his proposed delegation through the division of labor. Before
the twentieth century, however, there were people like Niccolo Machiavelli who provided
manuals for rulers to aid them in keeping their power and leadership positions. Machiavelli,
as Learmonth, (2018) further explains, in his book The Prince, which got written in the early
sixteenth century, recommended that a leader is best feared than loved. As Storey (2016)
explains, the views of leadership were different among the people in all areas, with people
having various aspects of what direction ought to be. Reviews of the leadership perspectives
prompted researchers in the twentieth century to research the matter which led to the Trait
and Great man theories. The Great man theory is a leadership theory, which became popular
in the late nineteenth century, states that only certain people are born to lead, and situational
crisis makes...