LEADERSHIP FACTORS INFLUENCING THE SUCCESS OF THE NATIONAL CHAMPION POSDAYA

  • Authors: Francy Iriani
  • From: Trilogi University

Abstract:

In a country where most people has the symbolic view of leadership, (Robbins & Coultar;2013) and the high context culture where the leader is center of the organization (Kinicky&Kreitner;2010), (Yukl;2008), the success of an organization is highly dependence on the leader. Posdaya stands for Pos Pemberdayaan Masyarakat, or the social movement of empowering people, is a movement that form in a social organization, is aligned with the government?s goal of providing social welfare. This research wants to know on what leadership factors that influence the success of the national champion Posdaya. This research is a qualitative research (Czarniawska; 2004), (Cresswell; 2007), (Denzin & Lincoln;2009) with the aim of knowing what factors influencing the Posdaya and what leadership factors that has been successfully brought Posdaya to became a national champion. This research will use primary data that obtained from interviews with the Posdaya organizers who are the sample of the research. The interview will be coded using manual coding Saldana (Cresswell; 2007). The data will then be tabulated follow with the mapping of the leadership traits, characters and factors that make an organization achieving its goal. The map then will be compared with leadership theories (Yukl;2008), (Schermerhornm Hunt & Osborn; 2007) (Dubrin; 2010), (Hugh, Ginnet and Curphy; 2012).

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