Question

List one example/situation where the skills approach of leadership will not work.

Answer 1

Leadership means guiding, influencing, and motivating a group to achieve a common goal. It is the responsibility of the leader to make the group more cohesive and the group members feel inspired and motivated to accomplish the common goals. Effective leadership makes the group more goal oriented, facilitates goal settings and finally enables it to achieve its goals. An effective leader encourages interaction among the group members and promotes cooperation and teamwork between the members.

Leadership is a matter of skills and it depends on person to person that how one react in a particular situation and how the relationship is between the members and leaders. Hence a concept of leadership may fails in some particular situations. It is not necessary that leadership will always brings a good solution or always directed towards company's growth. There can be many situations where approach of leadership will not work. Example of one of the situation is provided below-

Suppose an organization has took some action or implement some change ( say technological change) in order to seek more growth and achieve organizational goals efficiently and effectively. This change may be beneficial for the growth of the organization but, on the other hand employees are not accepting this change because according to them this will brings more workload and complicates their working conditions. In this case when majority of employees chose to resist the change, leadership does not work so well. Although it is said that an effective leader can reverse the situation of resistance to change, but when majority of employees choose to protest against something of which they are unsatisfied, leadership sometimes fails completely