Leadership plays an important role in business’s success. While there is not one universal definition of leadership I’ve chosen to share the definitions that caught my eye. Leadership is defined as the ability of mobilizing others to want to struggle for the shared aspirations, another definition of leadership is that leadership is an influencing process where the aim is to achieve a certain goal. What these 2 have in common is that Leadership involves having influence over others to work as a team to achieve a common goal. In ancient times the only leadership style that existed was the autocratic leadership style. This involved the leader making all the decisions by himself and not asking any input from his subordinates. In the 20th century various other leadership styles were invented. This was done due to the fact that people started to realize that different organizations were in need of different types of leadership styles to prosper in their business field. Two o...
Motivation is a tool that is used to keep a person actively engaged in something. Motivation has a strong impact on what people do, how strongly people do something and how long someone will do something for. It can be derived internally, but it can also come from social influences, externally. Motivation can improve organizational performance, reduce the amount of employees that leave the company and boost the workforce morale. There are alot of theories discussing how motivation can be improved. According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, employees' needs consist of social, safety, esteem, physiological and self actualization needs. To be able to motivate an employee you must first know how high the employee is on the hierarchy and from there offer him the adequate needs to become more motivated. A theory from Herzerberg named the two-factor theory suggests that salary and recognition are vital to keep satisfied employees. While motivation has its upsides,...