Abstract
One of a political leader's key responsibilities is to persuade the populace to support a particular political position. The chapter's focus is on a study into the qualities of political leaders required for effective national management. Politicians, however, hold positions of leadership not only at the highest levels of government but also at the levels of local self-government and municipalities. The chapter tries to highlight the key issues that effective local self-government or municipal political leaders are defined by resolving. Sustainable management, which considers both the human factor in terms of ethical standards and political behavior, is today's model of successful management. The chapter will treat Serbia as a country that has recently begun to pave the way toward sustainability.
TopIntroduction
Politics represents a diversity of viewpoints and reconciling the differences between the parties involved in the main political goals. “Reconciliation” is achieved by proposing a solution that is considered rational. Members of a community, or in other words its majority, need to be won over for a certain political option, which is achieved by persuasion (Adizes, 2013). Politics - in the context of organizations, organizational behavior, and leadership, is a set of basic principles and associated guidelines that promote and limit activities aimed at achieving long-term goals, as well as the way and manner of decision-making by a group of people with the support of the public. Every political decision made, even though it aims for the common good, can encroach on the opposing interests of some members of a certain group, which opens the possibility that they will not follow it. In that case, the use of physical force can guarantee that those who do not agree with the decision will obey (Cu, 2014). The radical opposite of a violent solution is the agreement of group members, i. e. consensus. The word politics is derived from the Greek word polis, which means city-state, and it is indisputable that it represents an essential “controversial concept” because it contains many associations. German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck said that “politics is not a science but an art” because this term refers to the art of ruling, controlling society, advocating, and making and implementing decisions. After all, many things (freedom, equality, justice) cannot be measured empirically (Ristovski, 2016)(Lerman, 2004) (Feuchtwanger, 2002).
Key Terms in this Chapter
Charisma: Charisma (Greek: ????sµa - gift) means the rare characteristic of human beings to possess a strong charm and attractive personality, and sometimes a strong ability to persuade and to direct the course of conversation in the desired direction without forcing.
Regional Cooperation: This refers to the political and institutional mechanisms that countries in a general geographical region devise to find and strengthen common interests as well as promote their national interests, through cooperation and dialogue.
SFRY: (The) Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a socialist state that included the territories of today's independent states of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Slovenia, and Montenegro.
Political Leader: Is, first of all, a person who can truly (and not nominally) lead a country or large masses of people, unite and organize broad layers of society, inspire them with sympathy for himself, faith in the righteousness of his cause, his ideas.
Political Option: The political spectrum, more modernly it can be called the political compass, is a two-dimensional model, with two axes, using which we can classify and organize political ideas on several levels. This is a newer way of classifying political ideas.
Community: Is a form of association of people within a more or less limited space. Enduring relationships that extend beyond immediate genealogical ties also define a sense of community, important to their identity, practice, and roles in social institutions such as family, home, work, government, society, or humanity.
Sustainability: Is the ability to support “oneself” in a relatively permanent way in different domains of life. It is usually associated with responsible and household management of different kinds of goods.
Local Self-Government: This means that residents in towns, villages, and rural settlements are the hosts in their own homes. People elect local councils and their heads authorizing them to solve the most important issues.
Leadership: Leadership is the ability of an individual or a group of individuals to influence and guide followers or other members of an organization.