LEADERSHIP - CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Snežana Trmčić, Ozrislava Milinković, Marko Trmčić

Abstract


Global competition connected with customers' demand for quality increase of products and services is intensifying the need for flexibility and creativity of the organization. Poor management and lack of leadership are very often blamed for problems faced by the organizations all over the world. Many organizations are restructuring and introducing new business principles in order to stay competitive on the world market. Most changes have been introduced in the manner in which employees perform work. Employees are becoming more educated which leads to the result that younger members of the staff in organizations are expecting higher level of autonomy and participation in decision making. Employees are trained in various fields of business and they are expected to independently make decisions. They expect fast career advancement, challenging possibilities which will give them an opportunity to gain valuable experience through training and balance between private and professional life. With the increased use of teams in the organization, many of the traditional roles of leaders are changing. The teams are designed to complement employees' individual traits. Self-managed teams are deserved for continues assessment and improvement of the products as well as for the design of their work and all other work processes that affect them. Leaders are very often elected by the members of the team and each member is responsible for their own actions and decisions. These changes in management and operations in many organizations are shifting focus from leaders to employees. Purpose of this article is the analysis of leadership models and their role in the organizations.

Keywords


leadership, super-leadership, self-leadership, transactional-leadership, transformational-leadership

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