Head of organisation with blemish getting award (5)
I believe the answer is:
oscar
'award' is the definition.
(Academy Award)
'head of organisation with blemish' is the wordplay.
'head of' says to take the initial letters.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'blemish' becomes 'scar' (scarring is a kind of blemishing).
The first letter of 'organisation' is 'o'.
'o'+'scar'='OSCAR'
'getting' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for oscar that I've seen before include "One close to Mike" , "Man" , "US film award" , "Mr Wilde - film award" , "trophy" .)