Liderança nas organizações, relevância do papel da liderança na iniciativa e sucesso empresarial: o caso da Impacto-Projectos e Estudos de Impacto Ambietal, Lda

Abstract

This paper aims to evaluate the contribution that leadership makes to the performance of organizations. The main reason that led me to develop a work on this subject was the need to awaken in the minds of scholars, Mozambican managers and people curious about the subject the need for the existence within organizations of an active leadership that is always prepared for change. For 'it is the leaders, who in the development of their actions determine the direction that the organizations take. To this end, the work was based on the study of a particular case, the company Impacto - Projectos e Estudos Ambientais, Lda. One of the objectives of the research was to identify the leadership styles present in the company according to the most popular theories on the subject, namely: Theory X and Y by Douglas Mcgregor, Managerial Grid by Blake and Mouton and Situational Theory by Hersey and Blanchard. Therefore, interviews and questionnaires were applied to a group of workers and managers of the company. The results of the research were confronted and interpreted according to the literature survey conducted and the observational method. The results revealed that in Impacto, the leadership style denotes a participative and people-oriented trend. This style suits the structure and the environment in which it is inserted. Thus, the actions that leaders take have a positive contribution to the company's performance. The main limitation of this work is that it does not present results or general conclusions about the type of leadership developed in Mozambique. However, it opens up a field for similar research and analysis that includes a broader group of companies, and that allows us to have a closer idea of how leadership is developed in Mozambican organizations. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)