S/M/163. Leadership

This paper introduces the idea of leadership and analyses in depth its meaning in organisations and why they need it. The definition of leadership is, ‘ability to lead: the ability to guide, direct and influence people’. When defining leadership, the most common words explaining it are guiding, influencing, directing and of course the ability to lead. Leadership is difficult to define because there are various aspects and clarifications of it. When you first think about what leadership means you would think something in the lines of, ‘to lead a group’ or ‘to get followers’. Leadership can be a characteristic or quality because you have personal knowledge or skills but it can also be a part of your character. Or simply it can be behaviour, as we see in animals, especially primates. So what is the role of a leader?