Leadership in shaping organisational culture

EVERY employee plays a part in the process of changing organisational culture, but at the end of the day, leaders are the ones who can make or break it. Their choices cause a ripple effect on employee recruitment, engagement and performance that powerfully impacts upon a company's performance.

Several possibilities exist for organisational culture to change: hiring a new senior executive; embarking on a focused campaign, such as increasing innovation and restructuring the organisation. But the best option is to develop its leaders if you want the culture of an organisation to change.

It is worth analysing how changing leadership styles could improve organisational culture. Leaders have strong influence on every measurable business outcome: employee engagement, innovation, intention to stay, productivity, sales, performance, and customer satisfaction. Even though the leadership team is a relatively small part of an organisation, it has enormous influence on people down the order. Leadership is like the rudder of a ship and reshaping the rudder of the ship has a profound and lasting impact on how fast it turns and achieves stability.

What every country or society needs is the exercise of strong leadership.

Mahbub Hasan Riad

Department of Business Administration

East West University, Dhaka

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