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Concept of Leadership in Organizations - Prevailing Views

Author Affiliations

  • 1 Faculty of Management Information Systems, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, PAKISTAN

Res. J. Recent Sci., Volume 2, Issue (4), Pages 80-83, April,2 (2013)

Abstract

This paper has been designed to understand the contemporary concepts which are very common and understandable by every leader or manager in an organization. Therefore intellection of various prominent researchers has been collected in order to comprehend that how a leader should perceive and perform his duties in an organization to achieve the desired results efficiently and effectively. One very innovative responsibility of a leader is to convert himself from Boss to COGAL (Creator of Growth and Learning) by enhancing skills, proficiencies and good behaviors. This paper shall make the manager learn their responsibilities because responsibility of getting high degree of performance not only lies with the overall administration but as well on each of the manager in the organization.

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