Leadership Styles and Organization Structural Configurations

Abstract

This article focuses on discussing the existence of leadership and organizations as well as the correlation between them. The core of leadership contains power and traits; cognitive, affective, and technical competence overlay the leadership core. The core and its overlaid competences express leadership existence. Four styles of leadership existence are transactional, charismatic, transformational, and servant. Each leadership style has its own specific competence. To express the existence of an organization is easier than that of leadership because organizations are everywhere. Mintzberg suggested entrepreneurial, machine, diversified, professional, innovative, missionary, and political organizations which are introduced to identify different structural configurations of an organization or organizational forms. Finally, the strength of attribute to leadership styles correlating to each identical organization forms is evaluated to identify the differences of leadership styles and the organizational forms.