**1. Introduction**

Leadership is one of the fundamental imperatives for the success of any organisation. For social welfare organisations, it is even essential given the nature of these organisations. Unlike your corporate entities that are streamlined towards a specific business objective which is mostly income generating, social welfare organisations are broader in scope and therefore requires a broader approach to leadership. With complex,

divergent and complicated modern social problems like Covid-19, gender-based violence and others that are compounded by the very nature of social work's applicability to diverse fields, the need for welfare organisations to align their leadership strategies and approaches to accommodate its diverse and complex nature is of particular significance if social work is to effectively respond to these social problems. This chapter seeks to explain how social welfare organisations can be managed or led from an integrated social work approach in order to effectively and efficiently respond to modern complex and diverse societal problems that are often presented to these organisations. A discussion of the meaning of leadership in the context of welfare organisations will be an opening section of the chapter, which will then be followed by a background to integrated social work approach and its significance to organisational leadership. The discussion will proceed to how integrated social work approach to leadership can be effectively used to manage or lead an organisation in responding to various problems that confront our modern society. Due to an applied approach followed in this chapter, a case study will be used to demonstrate the applicability of an integrated social work approach to managing welfare organisations.
