An overview of nature of leadership styles in nongovernmental organization

Man is the only most important source in developing business and creatively but also leading the world from the grass root level to the formal organization No matter how well an organization is established, and how sophisticated the facilities are, without the intervention of people, these things will mean a little. The people have the capacity, not only to run, plan, and maintain the organization but also to solve problems faced by the organization and anticipate the risks that may occur. One of the ways of finding out the nature of human beings in this case is to identify the performance of the NGO leadership. A leader is a model of behaviour who manipulates his manner as he tries to influence the behaviour of other people as they are. (Sitorus, 2006)

Nongovernmental organizations have attracted attention of not only academicians but also policy makers. There are number of movements initiated by leaders for the welfare of the society but still the availability on literature on leadership styles and nongovernmental organizations are inadequate. This paper presents an overview of the literature present on Leadership styles and the role of nongovernmental organization It is found through instances that leadership styles may differ for organization per se. The literature portraits the traits and effective implementation and strive for further research. Ii cites instances to elaborate the leadership styles found in NGO's. This paper also suggests a new form of leadership style proposed by John Knight for effective change in NGO's