Leadership is the basic need of humankind and that is why even almighty sends more than one lac prophets to lead the human kind. Leader is basically a light of hope that shows the direction of success to the people and without leader a nation can mislead itself because of the absence proper direction. Man is gregarious animal and society is his need, so it is natural that man will go for its desire and in this search of desire human kind discovers a need of organization, because the main difference between the social animals and jungle animals is organization.Humans prefer to meet out their need in an organized way because of their wisdom superiority over all creatures as ALLAH himself mentioned in Quran “ALLAH has made you the Ashreful Mukhlooqat “(AL-Quran) So therefore an organizational structure becomes a necessary part of human life but before elucidating organizational role and importance, it is necessary to understand its basic definition. According to intellectuals organization is “the amalgamation of social, political and economic institution in order to form such a system through which mankind meet out their needs”.
By this, one can easily conceive the importance of organization and its role. As organization is the sum of political, economic and social institution, so it is quite vivid that without a proper and pragmatic leadership one cannot form a workable organization. An organization sans a good leader would be nothing but a pipe dream because leadership and organizational behavior are interdependent. Moreover a concord leadership pattern and organizational behavior are the guarantors of a strong and stable nation state. Pakistan a country that came into being on 14th of August 1947 was the product of two nation theory.
It was quite evident right from the beginning that country ensue the democratic system as enunciated by Islam in order to run affairs of the state, where the individual would have the rights to exercise their lives freely and own private properties but predicament ally the system was not followed in letter and spirit. The early years of Pakistan were full of challenges, the newly born state were facing the challenges from the differing corners. Just after the creation political tension erupted when some corners were demanding to make Pakistan a theocratic state while some were trying to declare Pakistan a secular state.Social organizational structure of Pakistan was also strangled because of a political turmoil. Moreover the weak economy of the country was further debilitating the social control of the Pakistan’s nation.
In nut shell all the ingredients of Pakistan organizational structure were in deep waters, in such a crucial ultimately death of Jinnah in 1948 and Liaquat Ali Khan on 16th October 1951 created an irreversible space in Pakistan’s leadership clan. Growing political chaos weakened the organizational infrastructure of Pakistan and such critical situation paved the way to self-custodian, General Ayub Khan who imposed martial on 8 October 1958.Ayub’s regime is “a decade of development “in the eye of the some historian while some consider it the era of “controversial 60’s”. But this debate is out of question whether it was decade of development or controversial 60 because this assuming of power was the clear violation of Pakistan Magna Carta i. e. objective resolution 1949.
He was not the choice of people and because of his self-praising nature people of Pakistan scattered in different factions. Pakistan was clearly suffering from the absence of true national leadership syndrome.This leadership crisis cast a dark shadow on the organizational behavior of Pakistan. Politically Pakistan become vulnerable to external threats because due to the dictatorial regime of Ayub Khan.
The people of East Pakistan were thrown in oblivion which created the sense of uncertainty in them. In this case, the year of 1965 was very crucial when East Pakistan was at the cross hairs of India attacks during the war and despite the reminders from the helpless political leadership of both wings of Pakistan Ayub preferred to engineered war plans without keeping the vulnerable strategic position of East Pakistan.After this year the poor nation saw a change in the social structure of Pakistan. The country which was based on the ideology of Muslim brotherhood was axed by the sword of racism and ethnicity Historians who called Ayub’s regime “year of development” had only one reason that was Pakistan’s GDP which was 6. 7%. But there is another school of thought who believes it is just bubble of economy which is bolstered by the huge foreign aid given to Pakistan by USA and European in order to curb communism in south Asia.
The greatest setback in political history of Pakistan is debacle of Dhaka that occurred on 16 December 1971. Taken altogether it may be said that poor leadership pattern and weird organizational behavior are responsible of this weeping moment. After debacle the new political under leadership Z. A Bhutto led the country. For the first time it was being observed that finally democratic leadership in Pakistan was gaining strength. During his regime organizational behavior of Pakistan was not showing good colors, in fact some reports (non-official ) reckoned Bhutto’s era as “no plan period”.
But despite declining economy, social and political behaviors were gaining strength because of which it was expected that soon Pakistan organization structure would be on track to cover its distance. One of the strongest elements which whole world witnessed was the national solidarity in then Pakistan. Pakistan was not only gaining strength in only in Muslim world but was also respected by other nation-hoods. Unfortunately our immature political leadership could not absorb easy come gigantic powers and created chaotic situation after general election of 1977.PPP was accused of having rigged the elections by agitating parties they demanded Bhutto’s removal from government. Such precarious situation once again provoked another self-custodian of the country i.
e. Gen. Zia-ul-haq who stepped into the situation and imposed martial law on 5th July 1977. Undoubtedly it was fiasco of Pakistan’s political, social economic institutions i.
e organizational behavior that provide smooth road to the khaki invaders. Zia’s regime gave birth to a praetorian democracy. Leadership pattern was centralized, he was all in all and the parliament was full of chicken hearted political leadership, so therefore once again Pakistan’s organizational behavior was flabbergasted by derailment of democracy.Once again politico-social institution of Pakistan was put at the back resulting a clear divide in Pakistan’s organizational structure.
Like other dictators once again Pakistan economic situation was scintillating achievements because of the foreign aid based driven policies. But as organizational structure of a country is based on trio of social, political, economic institution so sit is impossible to strengthen organizational behavior by advocating one of its institutes while others lag behind.After assassination of Gen. Zia various political leaderships assumed power but none of them could complete its tenure, because of which leadership pattern turned into patter n of mercenaries and term democrat turned into kleptocrat as organization behavior of Pakistan went to the dogs. What a pity! After a long period of an on and off democracy another military dictator intervened into leadership cadre of Pakistan on 12 October 1999 by toppling down Nawaz led government.Musharraf regime is very important in many aspects because during his tenure Pakistan’s politicians realized democracy is the only solution to Pakistan because 9/11 attack on WTC turned the world topsy-turvy and when bush threatened Musharraf whole ruling class fell flat before America’s pandemonium and the fact behind this was not that Pakistan was a weak state but matter of the fact was that Musharraf was not a real leader, he imposed himself on the 18 million people of Pakistan.
This is the real charisma of leadership when a leader of non-nuclear state Ahmadi Nijaad stands up against Pharaohs of USA and NATO un the larger interest of Iran. Organizational Behavior hit the lowest during Musharraf regime, his reforms like enlightened moderation theory, women protection bill molested social values of Pakistan. Moreover intensified terrorism because of absence of grand political consensus and foreign aid driven economic policy tarnished the organizational behavior of Pakistan.Fortunate enough, Pakistan once again witnessed the dawn of democracy in the year of 2008, but this year is important in many other aspects as well because in last two years of Musharraf Pakistan’s organizational behavior examined a decisive change. The advent of electronic media turns the turtle of Pakistan’s socio-political dynamics.
The lawyer’s movement and zealous civil society stood like an iron curtain to establish rule of law in the country and the coverage that was given to such revolutionary voices was unprecedented.Such renaissance of Pakistan’s organizational behavior brought dictator to knees and paved way to the political leadership of Pakistan. The series of such events proved that the organizational behavior and leadership pattern are counterparts. Elections of 2008 gave rise to coalition government of PPP, MQM, ANP whereas PML (N) assumed role of opposition in parliament. Though the entire tenure of democratic government is full of conspiracies and corrupt practices yet civil society and media supported democracy.Now elections are round the corner and as a nation we have adequate time to rebuild our leadership pattern and organizational structure but this time truly in accordance to our cultural values because only those countries are successful who develop institutions according to their own cultural grounds and if once we could manage to establish our institutions as per our culture, naturally the real leadership and powerful organizational structure will be our future.
“He will ne not among the wrong-doers, who sticks to Quran and sunnah” (Alhadith)
