Leadership

             Currently, leadership is becoming one strategy that companies are utilizing to boost their competitive edge. According to Dike, Odiwe, Ehujor, & Dike (2015), leadership entails developing a vision and strategic goals and influencing other people to achieve them.  As time goes by, leadership strategies continue to change. Caldwell, Hasan, & Smith (2015) outline that leadership is influenced by factors like technology, diversity, economic, and market forces, which are ever dynamic. One of the significant leadership challenges in the 21^st century is balancing the organizational goals and employees’ needs. Achieving the organization’s short and long-term goals is one of the key drivers of the leaders. Therefore, leaders must formulate strategies that they can apply to achieve the organizational goals more efficiently. As much as the pursuit of achieving the organizational goals appears more crucial, leaders are on the verge of disregarding employees’ needs, which yields a crisis in the organization. Therefore, leaders need to develop an effective organizational culture that facilitates the efficient achievement of the organizational goals and attainment of the employees’ needs.  Also, an ethical dilemma is another critical challenge leadership is experiencing in the 21^st century.  Ethical dilemma in leadership occurs when leaders are faced with two conflicting choices. For instance, leaders share a choice to either meet their personal or organizational interests.  Leadership challenge comprises the difficulties encountered by a person in leadership in day-to-day operations and attaining the organizational goals (Caldwell et al. 2015).

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