How do you perceive the role of a business/ organisational manager, ie what things does a manager need to do and what resources do they draw upon? Submit your answer for assessment. 3. Organisations and the individuals within them should consistently demonstrate ethical behaviours. What does this mean and how can you, as a leader, promote ethical workplace behaviours?
1.1 DESCRIBE FACTORS THAT WILL INFLUENCE THE CHOICHE OF A LEADERSHIP STYLES OR BEHAVIOURS IN WORKPLACE SITUATIONS Leadership is defined as a dynamic process in a team whereby one individual influences the others to contribute voluntary to the achievement of team tasks in a given situation. Leadership depends not only on the knowledge, skills, and personality of the leader but also on the task to be achieved, the skills and the motivation of the team, and the environment or situation in which the leader has to operate. Leadership style is a leader's style of providing direction, implementing plans, and motivating people. The situational leadership theory (by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard) in 1969 proposes that leadership effectiveness depends on the leader's ability to tailor his or her behavior to the demands of the situation, namely, the subordinate's level of maturity. This theory highlights four different types of leadership behavior based on combining directive and supportive behavior: DIRECTING (high directive, low support), COACHING (high directive, high supporting), SUPPORTING (low directive, high supportive), and DELEGATING (low directive, low supportive).
The team essentially becomes the boss, with oversight from the company’s managers whom act as a liaison in fostering communication and structure for the goals to be accomplished. The teams will have a sense of shared governance and accountability for the goal attainment. Key components of contributing to a successful launch of the newly created structure include, but are not limited to; a clear vision from the COO on what the direction, and plan of action will be, implementation of strong communication of the plan with the managers and employee’s, and a system of checks and balances to allow for adjustments to be made to accomplish the goals of the
Understanding How to Motivate to Improve Performance Motivation is an extremely important factor within a workplace. Motivation levels amongst staff can have a significant impact on an business and can be key to a business being a success or a failure. "Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower In simple terms motivation is what causes us to act. Motivation is the process which begins, guides and sustains goal-orientated behaviours.
Understanding Leadership skill INTRODUCTION Very often we encounter or hear how important good leadership is to run a successful business. But the question is why? Why do we need good leadership? Why is a good leader essential for running a business? What is leadership anyway?
Definition: Leadership styles may also be known as management styles. They are the approaches that people use when directing and motivating people to achieve a task. The leadership styles we are most interested in are outlined as follows and only bad leaders will stick to one predominant style. Good leaders will change their style according to the circumstances and situation they are dealing with: • Authoritarian This style is used when the leader wants to achieve a task quickly. S/he will just tell the team or individuals what s/he wants to be done, when to do it and even how to do it without consultation from the team members.
This research will try to explain the relevance of the leader’s role in the effective governance organisations and how depending the role-played can alter the organizational outcomes. As a second aim, this essay will introduce the concepts “leadership” and “governance” showing the similarities and differences of both concepts to distinguish between its role and development. For this reason, research pretends to discuss these concepts to full understand the significance of governance and leadership within companies. In addition, a third aim was to expose the differences between a manager and a leader because both concepts are interrelated but also
A leader's job is to make the vision of the company clear to others and influence them to follow that vision. * Management: The competitive landscape provides some good examples to understanding leadership and communicating the vision of an organization. The first example is a puzzle; one looks at the picture on the outside of the box in order to put it together
More recent conceptualisations of leadership include contingency theory (), and transformational leadership (). Each of these theoretical models has a contribution to make in forming a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between leadership and organizational change and we shall explore how adopting a definition for leadership or organizational change infers the role of the other. However we define leadership, the concepts of organizational change and leadership can be argued to be inextricably linked. If a leader was not able to effect any change within an organization then it is hard to imagine a way in which such a leader could be effective in their role. Thus organizational change is at the very heart of a leader’s role.
Reflective Journal on Leadership Leadership Literature and Personal Experience In today’s highly competitive business environment, effective leadership is a must to achieve organizational goals which is essential for business success. According to Kierson (2009), a leader, in the context of organizations, is someone who can be counted on to create the future. In order to catch up with the rapid changes in the global business world, organizations modify themselves to a more knowledge-based workforce structure with highly specialized team members who are given great autonomy. As a result, becoming an effective leader requires having not only hard skills but also soft skills because soft skills are critical for productive performance in today’s workplace (Robles, cited in Nealy 2012, p. 453). In Robles’ study, the ten soft skill attributes categorized from executive listings include communication, courtesy, flexibility, integrity, interpersonal skills, positive attitude, professionalism, responsibility, teamwork, and work ethic (Robles, 2012).