Article Review Leadership Vision, Organization Culture,...

Article Review: Leadership vision, organization culture, and support for innovation in not-for-profit and for-profit organizations. This article works on the premise that organizations must adopt a change philosophy including â€Å"transformational leadership, organizational culture, and organizational innovation† (Sarros, Cooper, Santora, 2011). This is an area which has had little attention, despite the assertion that these are important aspects required to create a change strategy. This article covers background research primarily pertaining to not-for-profit (NFP) organizations’ relationship to leadership and organizational culture, a set of six hypothesis regarding these relationships, a review of the method for conducting this study,†¦show more content†¦Although it has been asserted that this is an outdated model, there is also a strong claim that only those at the top have the means to create significant organizational transformation, so this view of leadership may not be as outmoded as it seems. By looking at both the defined components of leadership and mediating effect of tea m structure, individual empowerment, and participative management, we may be able to gain a clearer view of leadership within the NFP and for-profit (FP) sectors. Leadership and organizational culture Organizational culture refers to the interpreted meanings found in everyday interactions within an organization. There is significant difference between the cultures found in NFP and FP organizations. In NFPs, the servant leadership model is more prevalent, where FPs tend more towards a heroic leadership model. There are two systems used to model the relationship between leaders and culture, functionalist and anthropological. The functionalist view states that leaders build the organizational culture which supports change, where the anthropological view questions this ability. Since most reviewed evidence points toward the functionalist outlook, the study is approached from this viewpoint. In most situations, the type of leadership needed to instigate change culture is transformational leadership, which requires â€Å"top