Leadership. What is that? Every people often say about leadership,
but do we know about leadership? The first, I want to tell you about the
definition. The word leadership is taken from the word “lead” which has four manners,
they are loyalists, educated, be an adviser, and discipline. So, all of the
leader must have that manners.
Loyalty
means, the leader must have loyalty and power to organize something that he
lead. Educated means that people are called leader must have a power to give good
education. Next, be an adviser means that the leader can give us suggestion or a
good idea for our problem. Finally, a leader must be a good example for the discipline
itself.
Based
on Gardner (psychologist) defines the leadership as “The process of persuasion
or example by an individual (or leadership team) induces a group to pursue
objectives held by the leader or shared by the leader and his or her followers.
For example, when we want to be a president of BEM, we must have manner to give
persuasion for other students university, probably, something like a twitter
account that we use to inform our programs.
Same
as Gardner, George writes that a leader is ability to bring people together to
achieve sustainable results over time. “They not only inspire those around
them, they bring people together around a shared purpose and a common set of
values and motivate them to create value for everyone involved.” Same example
too, when you want to be a president of BEM, your twitter account must be a
good persuation and give motivation from another student university to bring
them together to take a shared purpose.
Next,
Conger writes that leaders are “Individuals who establish direction for a
working group of individuals, who gain commitment from these group members to
this direction, and who then motivate these members to achieve the direction’s
outcomes.
In
psychology, a new perspective about leadership was born, that’s a leadership
psychology. Leadership psychology is an integrates
the study and practice of leadership and organizational systems with the
fundamentals of human psychology to create a 21st Century approach to
leadership. This approach teaches leaders the skills and perspectives necessary
to meet the local and global challenges of a networked world. Leadership
psychology emphasizes the need to understand individual and group behaviors as
a complex system in order to achieve positive and long lasting change. Therefore,
leadership is defined as the art of influencing followers to achieve success by
identifying joint goals, finding best-fit roles in teams, collaborating
constructively and dynamically, and adapting to change within their
environments.
Although
people may recognize the need for change, it is often difficult to move people,
and therefore organizations and institutions, out of familiar behaviors, models
and beliefs. This demands an adaptive approach to leadership. For example, one
of psychology academy in USA has created
the first Leadership Psychology doctoral program in the U.S. to understand
leadership, followership, and to deploy the best research and practice to
address challenges in for profit, non-profit, higher education, healthcare, and
government domains. I think It’s very interesting think.
What
about in Islam theory? Imam Ghazali says that leadership is a how to be a great
influence, like maqamuka fii qulub al-nas. Next, we know that Rasulullah saw is
a great leader that give us a great influence in Islam, and specially in our
life. Rasullah saw have a special characteristic to be a leader. There are siddiq,
fathonah, amanah, wa tabligh.
Siddiq
means that the leader is a honest people and always try to be a right people,
in ayat (QS. Al Qalam: 4)
4.
dan Sesungguhnya kamu benar-benar berbudi pekerti yang agung.
Fathonah
means that the leader is a smart people and have a high intellectual, in ayat
(Al Baqarah: 269)
269.
Allah menganugerahkan Al Hikmah (kefahaman yang dalam tentang Al Quran dan As
Sunnah) kepada siapa yang dikehendaki-Nya. dan Barangsiapa yang dianugerahi
hikmah, ia benar-benar telah dianugerahi karunia yang banyak. dan hanya
orang-orang yang berakallah yang dapat mengambil pelajaran (dari firman Allah).
Amanah means that the leader is trust men,
in ayat (QS. Al Ahzab: 21)
21.
Sesungguhnya telah ada pada (diri) Rasulullah itu suri teladan yang baik bagimu
(yaitu) bagi orang yang mengharap (rahmat) Allah dan (kedatangan) hari kiamat
dan Dia banyak menyebut Allah.
Finally the leader must be Tabligh, when leader always try to give information
that he knows, in ayat (Asyu ara’: 84)
84.
dan Jadikanlah aku buah tutur yang baik bagi orang-orang (yang datang)
Kemudian,
In
Islam, there are many ways to say Leadership, there are khalifah, imamah, ra’in and
ulil amri, and they have a specific characteristic too. And you know, the ayats
that want to tell about leadership are:
QS. Al Baqarah:
30
30. Ingatlah ketika
Tuhanmu berfirman kepada Para Malaikat: "Sesungguhnya aku hendak
menjadikan (khalifah) di
bumi itu orang yang akan membuat kerusakan padanya dan
menjadikan seorang
khalifah di muka bumi." mereka berkata: "Mengapa Engkau hendak
menumpahkan darah,
Padahal Kami Senantiasa bertasbih dengan memuji Engkau dan mensucikan
Engkau?" Tuhan
berfirman: "Sesungguhnya aku mengetahui apa yang tidak kamu ketahui."
QS. At Taubah: 28
128. Sungguh telah datang
kepadamu seorang Rasul dari kaummu sendiri, berat terasa olehnya
penderitaanmu, sangat
menginginkan (keimanan dan keselamatan) bagimu, Amat belas kasihan
lagi Penyayang terhadap
orang-orang mukmin.
Or in a fenomenal hadist from Imam Bukhari Muslim:
Setiap kamu adalah pemimpin, dan harus
bertanggung jawab atas rakyat yang dipimpinnya; seorang imam (kepala Negara)
adalah pemimpin dan harus bertanggung jawab atas rakyat yang dipimpinnya. (HR. Bukhari
dari sahabat Ibn Umar).
And finally we know that every
person from us is a leader, so we must be a good leader (specially to ourself),
because when you want to be a leader from another person, we must be a good
leader from ourself before. It’s like how to ménage our psychologys, and It’s will
be back again in our department, department of psychologys. Say Alhamdulillah,
we were in psychology.
Picture:
From
the picture, we can see that how the way to be a good leader. Maybe, one of them is a
leader from this community, and to built the team he did not care about the dirtiness, etc. Because
in his mind, giving a good persuasion and motivation by doing.
References:
Beinecke,
R.H. 2009. Introduction: Leadershipfor Wicked Problems. The
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership_psychology
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Gardner,
J.W. (1990). On Leadership. New York: The Free Press
suryadiharyanto2003.blogspot.com/2012/06/kepemimpinan-dalam-psikologi-sosial
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I think that is all :)
Hatur syukron nggeh :)
Sorry kalau ada salah, terutama soal gramatikalx :D
Kulo, Ikhwan Lutfi..
Pamit..
Wassalamu'alaikum..
b.d'
Sumanga'!!
I think that is all :)
Hatur syukron nggeh :)
Sorry kalau ada salah, terutama soal gramatikalx :D
Kulo, Ikhwan Lutfi..
Pamit..
Wassalamu'alaikum..
b.d'
Sumanga'!!
