Influence of Religion on decision making by leaders and it's effect on stakeholders
INTRODUCTION
Human beings are the most precious part of civilization. What responsibility could be more important than the leadership and development of people? Without leadership an organization is only a confusion of people and machines. Leadership is the process of encouraging and helping others to work enthusiastically toward objectives. It is the human factor that builds a group together and motivates it toward goals. The leaders' act of motivation is similar in effect to that of the secret chemical that turns the insect pupa into a butterfly with all the beauty that was the pupa's potential. Leadership transforms potential into reality. This was the role played by Lee Iacocca, who provided superb leadership to guide Chrysler Corporation out of hard times in the early 1980s. Leadership is the ultimate act that brings to success all the potential that is in an organization and its people. It is so important that people have been concerned about it since the beginning of history.
Formerly it was thought that personal traits were the major source of successful leadership, but more recent emphasis is on identifying leadership behaviors. That is successful leadership depends on appropriate behavior skills, and actions, and not personal traits. Leaders use three different types of skills-technical (refers to a persons knowledge and ability in any type of process or technique. Examples are the skills learned by accountants, engineers and toolmakers. This skill is the distinguishing feature of job performance at the operating level. But as employees are promoted to leadership responsibilities their technical skills b ...