Defining Leadership as Process Reference Model: Translating Organizational Goals into Practice Using a Structured Leadership Approach

Abstract : Effective leadership in organisations is important to the achievement of organizational objectives. Yet leadership is widely seen as a quality that individuals innately possess, and which cannot be learned. This paper makes two assertions; (a) that leadership is a skill that not only can be learned, but which can be formalized into a Process Reference Model that is intelligible from an Enterprise Architecture perspective, and (b) that Process Reference Models in the strict sense can be redefined to include a new category of PRM called provisionally a Reference Model of Organisational Behavior which focuses on organisational behavior in pursuits of goals.