Unit 5012 Being a Leader
Introduction:

Being a leader is bliss in its true sense as it helps a person to set goals or targets in their lives and then prepare an organized plan of action in order to accomplish all these goals. Leadership is the capability of efficient execution of various tasks by driving each member of the team to give his/her best and channelize his/her potential and co-ordinates the entire team to work collectively in order to accomplish greater organizational goals.

Learning outcome 1) Understand the organisation’s ethical and value-based approach to leadership

1.1) Evaluate the impact of the organization’s culture and values on leadership
Organisational culture is a total of the organisation’s past and current assumptions, experiences, philosophy and values that hold it together. These are expressed in its self-image, inner workings, interactions with the outside world, and future expectations. It is the way the organization conducts its business, communicates and exchange information. The ideal organisational culture depends on the strategy of the company and kinds of competitive forces its businesses are dealing with. Values are building blocks of culture. They motivate behavior and emotional responses. They support the process in which people approach their work, make choices and decisions and deal with each other. Deal and Kennedy’s cultural model helps us understand rites and rituals in corporate culture.

Deal and Kennedy’s cultural framework was based on set of six cultural elements; history, values and beliefs, rituals and ceremonies, stories, heroic figures, the cultural network. Sharing the traditions of the past keep people anchored to the core values that the organisation was built on. Cultural identity is formed around the shared beliefs of what is really important, and the values that determine what the organisation