Question

The concept of leadership as a "vocation" greatly distinguishes leadership from a job, career, or what one simply does for a living. A vocation can be thought of as one's calling. Vocation is often associated with the clergy or missionaries who feel called by a higher power to fulfill a specific purpose. Vocation is also a concept associated with careers like teachers, emergency responders, doctors, or other health care professionals who feel strongly compelled to dedicate their own lives to improving the lives of those whom they serve. Consider your own view of leadership. How does understanding leadership as a vocation inform your understanding of the personal and moral commitments required of leaders? If leadership is not a job, but a calling, what responsibilities do leaders have towards their position, their organization, and their followers?

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Leader ship as a vocation, in leadership the leader can helping the team to succeed, the works.

The leader ship gives the opportunity to be the key driving force in team success.

It is a moral vocation, in which the persons rightly guided and grounded the in the best ethical views and values and skilled practices and they shares and enhancing their capacity to satisfy needs.

Personal and moral commitments required of leadership :

* The leader can have capacity to guide the people.

* mainly moral leaders aim is instead of showing their skills, the moral leaders tend develop the capacity of others to meet goals.

Responsibilities of leader toward their position, organization and their followers :

* They can lead the people in an organization towards achievement of organizational goals.

* Leader can influence the employee behavior in several ways.

* leader sets clear vision for an organization.

* He motivates employees to wards achievement if goals.

* he guides the employee,

* he improves the moral values.

* leader can depend on the ideas and actions of the followers.

* each follower is a part of the leaders larger system.