Revue du Journal arabe des affaires et de la gestion

Review of Effects of Poor Leadership Skill in Organization: Evidences

Abstract

Berhanu Debela Gonfa

The purpose of this review paper is to assess effects of poor leadership. Leadership is a discipline and an art of guiding, directing, motivating, and inspiring a group or organization toward the achievement of common goals. It is about influencing others and to do so there are some important character and skill that a leader has to possess. Leadership skills are the tools, behaviors and capability that a person needs in order to be successful at motivating, persuading and directing others to buy into the vision, objective or goal. Leadership skill is a pregnant word or phrase that encompasses different skill types namely; communication skill, motivational skill, management skill, vision, setting positive examples and among others. Leadership skills are one of the most important skills that are required in the changing world to perform different roles such as achieving the goals of the organization, communicating vision, mobilizing and motivating others, planning, organizing, controlling, in developing and maintaining cooperative relationship with superiors, subordinates, peers and others and so on. Moreover, leadership skills are important in order to build and keep healthy relationship with the people in and outside of the organizations. Leaders must be equipped with the necessary leadership skills. If this is so, they can effectively execute their jobs in an extraordinary way. However, in reality problems are clearly seen with the effective performance of leaders and employees. The reason why is because of deficit of leadership skill. The reason as to why poor leadership skill might be attributed because of lack of experience, education, training and so on. Where leaders are in short of important leadership skill, there will be lots of problems which will have long and extended effect in the organization. The important leadership skills that are lacking and causing problems with the performance of the organization are related to vision, communication, motivation, management, setting good examples and among others. Lack of leadership skill has consequences of reducing performance of the leaders and also the employees by increasing employee turnover, reducing employee satisfaction, etc. which again have negative impact on the productivity of the organization. This is because leadership is backbone of an organization. It is the leader who is responsible for the effectiveness of employees. To remove constraints related with poor leadership it is better working on leadership skill development through creating conducive environments for new employee to exercise leadership, provision of appropriate training, leader undertake self-help activities and lastly positive good example setting.