LEADERSHIP AS AN ORGANIZATIONAL QUALITY

In this article, leadership is conceptualized as an organizational qua lity Adopting a perspective on organizations offered by institutional theory, the authors offer a view of leadership that builds on the foll owing points: Leadership flows through the networks of roles that comp rise organizations. The medium of leadership and the currency of leade rship lie In the personal resources of people. And, leadership shapes the systems that produce patterns of interaction and the meanings that other participants attach to organizational events.