Bibliography: Robbins, S.P., & Judge, T.W. (2017) - Organizational Behavior, 17th Edition. Pearson Education Inc., Singapore. (RJ)

Communication and leadership are crucial in organizations. The author discusses their importance through experiences working in student groups. Good communication allows for information sharing and increased creativity and productivity. A leader is also needed to organize and direct the group towards their goals by defining roles and motivating members. Positive leadership requires trust between members and is supported by ethical communication through various mediums. Together, good communication and leadership can manage behavior and ensure groups function well.

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Communication and Leadership

In organizations, communication and leadership are crucial. Communication itself is very

important and powerful while having a leader will help guide work within the company in an
effort to achieve its goals. Since I have never joined a large company, I will give my opinion
on 2 topics majorly through my own experiences as a student.

We don't have to go far to the scope of a company, we can easily find communication and
leadership anywhere. Starting from at home, in the school environment, as well as in
community. As a student, I believe that we have all been involved in assignments that require
teamwork. Through group work, we are able to see the role of communication as well as
leadership. From my experience, starting from the first semester, I have found that there is a
positive relationship between communication and the outcome performance of the group.
Good communication between members (which is included in the type of lateral
communication = because we are all from the same level) can facilitate our work. In my
opinion, out of the 5 major functions of communication, what I feel the most when I have to
work with other people is the information exchange. The formation of a group must have the
same goal. If we are able to communicate with members well, here we can find many ideas
from individuals, increase creativity, and also boost productivity. Good communication also
involves arguments, that is, we have the right to provide feedback which help our group
members to grow and learn from mistakes.

In addition to communication, a group leader is needed especially because they are to

organize and direct the group. In choosing a leader, we are also not arbitrary, we must
consider a person which have such a good abilities, ethics, dignity, and personality. From my
experience, for the assignment needed for 1 full semester (big project), the lecturer will
appoint us to choose a leader. What's the rationale? In my opinion, without a good leader, a
group will be confused in carrying out its obligations. A good leader is a leader who is able to
concurrently not only provide a guide to their members by defining each roles and tasks to
achieve goals (transactional leader) but also motivating and having the power to affect each
individuals to change for the good of organization (transformational leader). In a positive
leadership, “trust” is very much needed. In deciding to work together, each individual
concerned is expected to be able to trust one another.

Positive leadership must be supported by good communication between members.

Communication itself occurs through many mediums. For example, direct communication
when conducting meetings, or communication via e-mail, or now many are using technology
to communicate. Most importantly, in communicating, we also still have to instill good
ethics. A good communication and leadership are able to manage our behaviour because with
good guidance from a leader we are able to comply with the rules and procedures to perform
a good group function.

Bibliography:
Robbins, S.P., & Judge, T.W. (2017). Organizational Behavior, 17th Edition. Pearson Education Inc.,
Singapore. (RJ)