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Systems Theory and Systems Approach
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Abstract
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• systems theory has survived the test of time and remains a viable
theory used by a cross section of academe (Covington and
Covington Jr.: 1998).
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This model does not take into account the followers that give reason of
existence to the leader and treats the organization as suprasystem when all
serious authors portray the organization as a system and its surroundings
as suprasystem. For this critique a new model is proposed. Systems
approach to leadership can be inferred from the basic systems language. If
the environment in which the organization operates is to be referred to as
suprasystem; organization in which the leader works is seen as the system,
the team in which leader exercises the leadership is treated as subsystem
and leader with followers are known as elements of system, we can say that
there’s common sense between systems theory and leadership (Figure 5).
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4. Conclusions
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List of References
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