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ABSTRACT
In modern society, economic prosperity and progress depend largely on the quality of leadership. This is true of nation states as it is of individuals or generate among policy makers, corporate executives and investors are largely justified. Leadership is very essential in an organization because achievements and results occur corollary to the traits being projected by the leader. The major aim of every organization is to grow. The relationship between the management and employees has a great impact to that effect. Employees will be expecting to earn higher so as to sustain their living while the management will be expecting employee to work had so as to see that the objectives of the organization is realized. Organizational behaviour is more or less a pure psychology attached to the institutional companies and applicable to achieve organisational goals. It constitutes the activities of an organisation that can be observed by another organisation or by experimental instruments. The research work will focus on the leadership and effects of leadership style, appraisal and organisational behaviour of management and employees. The work is made up of five chapters. In the first chapter we will discuss about the general ideas of leadership, organisational behaviour and its effects on management and employee. In the second chapter we shall look into the literature review, we shall look into various authors who have researched on the leadership styles, appraisal and organisational behaviour of management and employees. In chapter three, we will present research methodology while chapter four will be presentation of data analysis. We shall also interpret the data and test the hypothesis and finally, chapter five will be summaries, findings and recommendation.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
GENERAL IDEA OF LEADERSHIP
Leadership is a process in which a leader attempts to influence his or
her followers to establish and accomplish a goal or goals.
LEADERSHIP
The capacity to lead others: command, lead.
An act or instance of guiding: direction, guidance, lead, management. See affect/ineffectiveness.
Leadership is the process through which an individual tries to influence
another individual or a group of individuals to accomplish a goal.
Leadership is valued in our culture, especially when it helps to achieve
goals that are beneficial to the population, such as the enactment of
effective preventive health policies. An individual with leadership
qualities can also improve an organization and the individuals in it,
whether it be a teacher who works to get better teaching materials and
after school programs or an employee who develops new ideas and products
and influences others to invest in them.
Leadership can be exhibited in a variety of ways and circumstances.
Mothers and fathers show leadership in raising their children with good
values and encouraging them to develop to their potential. Teachers show
it in inspiring students to learn and to develop their intellectual
capacity. Health care workers can be leaders and develop services that
meet the needs of the communities they serve, or work in collaboration
with other organizations to create cost effective, prevention oriented
programs and services.
Many studies have been done and many books and articles have been
published on this subject. Through this work a consistent set of
leadership attributes has emerged. An effective leader does most, if not
all, of the following:
Challenge the Process—search out challenging opportunities, take risks, and learn from mistakes.
Inspire others to come together and agree on a future direction or goal—
create a shared vision by thinking about the future, having a strong
positive vision, and encouraging others to participate.
Help others to act—help others to work together, to cooperate and
collaborate by developing shared goals and building trust, and help to
make others stronger by encouraging them to develop their skills and
talents.
Set an example—behave in ways that are consistent with professed values
and help others to achieve small gains that keep them motivated,
especially when a goal will not be achieved quickly.
Encourage others—recognize each individual’s contributions to the success of a project.
Another way of defining leadership is to acknowledge what people value
in individuals that are recognized as leaders. Most people can think of
individuals they consider being leaders. Research conducted in the 1980s
by James Kouzes and Barry Posner found that a majority of people
admire, and willingly follow, people who are honest, forward looking,
inspiring, and competent
An individual who would like to develop leadership skills can profit
from the knowledge that leadership is not just a set of exceptional
skills and attributes possessed by only a few very special people.
Rather, leadership is a process and a set of skills that can be learned.
The word leadership can refer to: the process of leading. Those entities that perform one or more acts of leading.
Kouzes (2002) states that “Leadership is not a place, it‘s not a
position,and it‘s not a secret code that can‘t be deciphered by ordinary
people. Leadership is an observable set of skills and abilities. Of
course some people are better at it than others.”
In general terms, leadership can be defined as the ability to influence the behaviour of others.
This definition can be expanded when considering leadership in
organizations to include the fact that the leader exerts influence
within a working group in order that the group may achieve group tasks
or objectives. (T .Lucy 1997) leadership is an everyday art involving
the skill of leading and dealing with people. The success in ruling new
dominions is contingent upon both his ability to wield power
effectively, and the existence of an opportunistic situation. Problems,
which result within organizational members, disagree on both the natures
of the goals of which people disagree on both the natures of the goals
of which people aspire, and the act of leadership. Leadership, as we use
the term refers to behaviour, undertaken within the context of an
organisational members behave.
It could be observed that leadership and management envisages deeply
into what the organization can achieve if the quality of recognition is
accorded to them. Leadership has been propounded to include the sources
of influence that are built into a position in an organizational
hierarchy.
These include organizationally sanctioned rewards, and punishments,
authority, as well as referent and expert power katz and kahn 1966,
p.32. It could be seen however, that subordinates within the
organization, through not all seem to enjoy the influence that exists
all over and above the organization.
Leadership is very essential organization and greatly influences the
whole organization because achievements and results occur corollary to
the traits being projected by the leader. Leadership includes the
ultimate source of power but has that positive ability in persuading
other individuals and to be innovative in decision making. According to
Bennis and Nanus, many organizations are over managed and under led. The
difference is crucial, managed are people who do things right, but
leaders are people who do the right things always.
Problems are bound to occur within every noted organisation and decision
making is bound to generate conflicts while initiating policies.
People are expected to coordinate. Whatever they are doing to achieve
organizational goals. In this light, the notion of leadership act are
those which help a grouping meeting those stated objectives (Bavelas
1960:p491).in general terms the acts of controlling other people
consists uncertainty reduction ,which entails making the kind of choice
that permits the organization to proceed towards its objective despite
various kinds of internal and external variables.
The effectiveness of leadership has some characteristics, which include
forceful threats, a complete assertion of authority to the subordinates,
and a derived, and situational responsibility.
Note that in the society today, not only the presence of rewards
(positive and negative), or the incentive appraisal could induce
productivity but the feeling of belongingness.
Improper leadership qualities within the organization have a negative
impact on the subordinates as well as the achievement of the
organizational objective. An organization that has growth and forward
looking has a good leadership and vis a vis a bad or deteriorating
organization has a bad leadership.
Leadership is always related to the situation. There is a growing
awareness that is a continuous interaction between the factors presents
in any given situation, including for example, the personal
characteristics of the leader, the tasks, the environment, the
technology, the attitudes, motivation and behaviour of the followers and
so on.
1.2 BRIEF HISTORY OF SIAMOND BANK PLC
Diamond Bank Plc began as a private limited liability company on March
21, 1991 (the company was incorporated on December 20, 1990). Ten years
later, in February 2001, it became a universal bank. In January 2005,
following a highly successful Private Placement share offer which
substantially raised the Bank’s equity base, Diamond Bank became a
public limited company. In May 2005, the Bank was listed on The Nigerian
Stock Exchange. Moreover, in January 2008, Diamond Bank’s Global
Depositary Receipts (GDR) was listed on the Professional Securities
Market of the London Stock Exchange. The first bank in Africa to record
that feat.
Today, Diamond Bank is one of the leading banks in Nigeria respected for
its excellent service delivery, driven by innovation and operating on
the most advanced banking technology platform in the market. Diamond
Bank has over the years leveraged on its underlying resilience to grow
its asset base and to successfully retain its key business
relationships. And like a diamond, our strength makes us even more
valued and valuable. Diamond Bank has won several awards including the
prestigious “Most Improved Bank of the Year”- Thisday Newspapers, “Best
Bank in Mergers & Acquisition”.
We have retained excellent banking relationships with a number of
well-known international banks, allowing us to provide a bouquet of
world class banking services to suit the business needs of our clients.
These international banking partners include Citibank; HSBC Bank; ANZ
Banking Group; ING BHF Bank AG; Standard Chartered Bank; Belgolaise Bank
S.A; Deutsche Bank; Commerzbank; and Nordea Bank Plc.
In 2008, and to ensure we grow with the needs of our customers, we
streamlined our operations into three distinct strategic business
segments: Retail banking, Corporate Banking, and Public sector.
Diamond Bank continues to develop and to build on its core competencies.
By continually cutting from the rough, we have improved our services
and our banking facilities. Like cutting from a rough gem to create a
diamond of the finest quality, we are proud to have become a gem of a
bank.
1.3 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM AND SUB PROBLEM
The design of the investigation is to elicit the effect of the different
leadership styles in finance oriented and services oriented
organization in order to determine its distinct impact on the
organizational behaviour of management and employees in the case
organization.
SUB PROBLEM I: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the factors of
leadership (the traits: intelligence, initiative, imagination,
communication, the skills, analytical, diagnostic, conceptual, the
status, recognition and the situation) culture in the case organisation
with the view to calculate their contribution in attaining
organisational objective. (Contribution to efficiency and growth in
profit).
SUB PROBLEM II: The object on the inquiry is to ascertain the most
favourable leadership style amongst autocratic, democratic,
paternalistic, and laissez faire, used in the case organisation to
determine its influence on management and employees.
SUB PROBLEM III: The intention of the investigation is to compare the
relationship (positive or negative) between leadership and
organisational behaviour in the finance and service oriented
organisation to identify the effect on work performance.
SUB PROBLEM IV: The purpose of the study is to correlate the leadership
style to organisational behaviour of management and employees in DIAMOND
BANK to decide the trend and influence of leadership style on the
organisational behaviour of management and employees.
1.4 RESEARCH PROBLEM ORIENTED HYPOTHESIS
In aiming to go on with the stated problem of study, the following research problem oriented hypotheses are revealed.
HYPOTHSIS I: Leadership style that display intelligence, initiative and
communication traits, analytical, diagnostic and conceptual skills,
recognition and situation, contributes certainly to attaining
organisational efficiency and growth in point.
HYPOTHESIS II: The leadership style that has no monopoly of authority
improves interpersonal relationship that employee oriented determines
positive reaction in form of contribution to decision making,
punctuality and work to achieve company goals.
HYPOTHSIS III: Positive relationship between leadership and
organisational behaviour in the case of organisation will increase the
work performance.
HYPOTHESIS IV: Positive correlation between the leadership style and
organisational behaviour in and DIAMOND BANK will lead to increase
performance to achieve organisational objectives and goals.
1.5 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
Research is basically aimed at determining ones view of related studies at every time.
In the course of studying the aforementioned subject on the leadership
style: one will be able to determine those areas where the different
types of leadership styles have contributed immensely to organisation
goals.
For the purpose of this study, the behaviour of the management and
employees can be viewed as endogenous as well as exogenous. The
researcher will therefore proceed to express and state those objectives
which the study is expected to accomplish. They are as follows:
a. The value of the different factor of leadership (the leaders traits,
skills and subordinates reaction, status, recognition and the prevailing
situation) in finance oriented as well as service oriented
organisation.
b. To critically evaluate the nature of leadership in affecting work performance
c. To determine the effect of leadership style and their basic relationship with organisational behaviour
d. To highlight the adoption of any best leadership style that will suit the organisation for effective productivity
e. To inquire the extent leadership has been affecting decision making and organisational effectiveness
f. To appraise any possible relationship and comparison on the effect of leadership styles on organisational behaviour
Furthermore, the research will assist future researchers in finding
possible solutions to the best leadership style after monitoring
organisational behaviour found in management and employees in different
organisation.
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The significance of this study is basically a definite scope which will
help elicit all the problems and effect of different leadership styles.
Also, it will assist in highlighting how management and employees react
under stereotyped condition.
In addition, all the aforementioned and determined effects, problems and
solutions will be critically viewed to serve as possible
recommendations to today‘s manager who may be willing to employ a
particular leadership style. It will forestall a better situation for
the leader to select best type of leadership system.
1.7 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
In pursing this investigation and study, lots of impediments and
obstruction were encountered as the research progressed. All these
impediments brought about a conspicuous clause with the research work.
They include, lack of relevant data due to poor respondent, time
constraint and financial conditions.
Lack of relevant data: The design of the study was negatively affected
by the nature of respondent, which was projected by the workers within
the case organisation. The non challant attitude of most employees
approached, sample of the studying population was discouraging relevant
information needed for the research was not made available easily to the
researcher while the available information were censored before being
allowed to be used.
A. TIME CONSTRAINT: Time was also limited to the researcher in carrying
out the study effectively and efficiently. Time constraint was
experienced under dual stages. One was with the sample under population
study. They either schedule appointment that they cannot meet up with or
complain of limited time within their work though they are willing to
respond.
In addition, the other was with the researcher. The research is being
carried out within limited semester time table, which include the
understudy of other aspect of the course being read. This created a
situation of not rescheduling meetings for more comprehensive interviews
as may have been required.
B. FINANCIAL CONDITION: Financial condition prevailing within the
economic system was a serious impediment. This includes transportation
fare to and from school to the case organisations. Also that of
extracting the essential information either through printing or
photocopying of relevant materials. Finance, thus contributed immensely
to limit the entire scope of the research.
Although all these obstructions were envisaged and experienced, efforts
were made to carry on with the research to achieve the expected and
desired result.
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