*Perspective Chapter: Fostering Effective Leadership in Social Work Organisations DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.106281*

affirm by calling for social work education to take some responsibility for the lack of progress in fostering healthy and effective leadership styles in social work organizations. The authors emphasize that various governing bodies have to formulate a vision that allow them to take a lead in reshaping the structures and policies of the state that would be egalitarian and open to reducing opportunities for bias, racism, and prejudice in groups and communities. Haworth et al. [5] crowned the entire saying a consistent definition, models of practice, and development opportunities throughout professional social work careers are the building blocks for success in leadership used in social work organizations. Informed by the above observations, it has been found that many questions concerning leadership style from social work perspectives have been raised many questions in social work organizations which have remained unanswered like; 1. What are the appropriate leadership models used by social work organizations in the contemporary society? 2. What are the responses by social work organizations, society, community, family and individuals that benefit from those leadership styles? 3. Which leadership styles could be used in social work organizations of this contemporary society? This book chapter seeks to discuss leadership and organization to determine proper definitions, leadership styles and theories from social work perspectives.
