Why Do We Need New Leadership Styles in Today‟s Organizations?

Why do today's organizations need new leadership styles? This is an emerging fact that dynamic organization requires a dynamic leader to run the organization effectively as well as efficiently. Moreover, the organizational dynamic environment creates the movement around the Factors of Organizational Productivity (FOP). This paper examines through the relevant literatures on leadership and leadership theories to generate the new leadership styles for organizational need. Theoretical construction was drawn from the leadership theory. The findings and discussions on this conceptual paper reflect on leadership style that focuses on the components of Factors of organizational Productivity (FOP) which was indicated as the Followers, the leaders and the organizational context. This paper elaborates on the leaders and follower's flexibility and mobility to gain ground on new leadership approaches. The gaps were identified on the Situational leadership theory on the components of leader and followership domain. This paper illustrates the theoretical construction and discusses the flexibility and mobility of both the leader and the followership in an organization, which today's organization needs for running effectively, efficiently and for success.