It involves modeling the vision, forming teams, influencing them and aligning people to achieve the set goals. Leadership bears the responsibility of inspiring people and producing meaningful changes in the company. Leadership is therefore responsible for positioning people and organizations in the right positions. A good leader has the ability to articulate a vision and assign the right people the right tasks based on their talents. Leaders motivate their subordinates and in return obtain outstanding results from their employees.
Affecting Change Paper Jenea M. Smith LDR 531 March 21, 2011 John Thompson Affecting Change Paper Leadership can be defined as the ability to encourage and persuade others to work towards achieving a goal. Leaders are individuals who are concerned with doing the right thing, and managers are individuals who are concerned with doing things right. Leaders of companies and organizations are often faced with challenges of motivating employees to adjust to cultural changes and organizational structural. In large companies or organizations, the efficiency of managers depends on the influence they have over their subordinates, as well as their peers and superiors. Smith and Falmouth is a mid-size tele-shopping and mail order network
What roles do managers and leaders play in today’s environment? There is a direct connection between the way people view their managers and the way they perform. Strong leadership is imperative for shaping an organization into a force that serves as a sustainable business advantage (Kumle, 2006). On the other hand, management is the process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals. Great managers do those thing both effectively and efficiently (Bateman and Snell, 2009).
Leaders seem to instill a sense of significance in the workforce by giving employees the power of their vision and values (Kilbort, 2004). The leader is important in forging links—creating connections—among an organization’s members to promote high levels of performance and quality outcomes (Sullivan, Decker, 2009). Management is going by protocols, procedures, and systems. A manager, in contrast, is an individual employed by an organization who is responsible and accountable for efficiently accomplishing the goals of the organization (2009). Working as a leader in the healthcare profession requires a large amount of responsibility, which takes much work, and is not effortless.
With Citigroup’s organizational culture it has guided employees toward the behaviors and attitudes that have put the company at risk. The company must revert to what is important that is the customers and focus on the core values of the organizations, and the vision of the organization. To change Citigroup’s organizational culture there needs to be a shared responsibility among the leaders of the company, managers, and employees. By having a shared responsibility will make Citigroup’s organizational culture more effective and productive. Having shared responsibility will allow each employee to achieve or accomplish his or her full potential, and acting with the greatest level integrity when dealing with one another, and customers.
Please comment. (graded) a) How can sales managers use the recruiting process to ensure that the salespeople that are hired are good team players? b) What kinds of questions can be asked in the interview to test if a candidate has strong teamwork skills and experience? c) What are some of the problems associated with poorly-executed recruitment and selection of sales people? MKTG 420 Week 4 DQ 2 Training The first and most important step in designing a sales training program is the assessment of training needs, which provides the starting point for setting training goals and designing the program.
What does this mean and how can you, as a leader, promote ethical workplace behaviours? Submit your answer for assessment. Managers focus on operations, leaders work with people to encourage them to use their own initiative and improve their skills. Manager is a designated position - positional power. Leadership is a personal characteristic - personal power.
Employee Motivation Theory Often times companies that struggle with the relationship between the employees and the goals of the organization; sometimes the moral of its employee is thread that sets the relationship apart. Managers have made several failed attempts to establish that relationship with the employee to knit them together with the goals of the organization. Therefore, the company level of accomplishments is diminished. A good manager has learned good people skills, and often times he/she is able to motivate their employees to increase their output. It is important to be able to penetrate any barriers that the employee may have as a defense mechanism.
* Have the ‘right person’ at the ‘right time’, with the ‘right skills and capabilities’ in the ‘right place’. * Good planning acts as a form of control and increases the likelihood of positive staffing outcomes. * Planning is also important to be able to anticipate changes in the internal and external business environment. Staffing The process of planning, acquiring, deploying and retaing a workforce Determain whp will work for the organisation and what their employees will do Enables an organisation to execute its business strategy, which for most organisationg lies with their people Step 1 job design – concerned with how th\asts that are to be performed are combined to form the job Step 2 job analysis – job analysis is a process of collecting and analysing detailed information about tasts, content and responsibilities of
Motivational Methods HCS/325 October 10, 2011 Jamee Smith Motivational Methods There are many different motivational methods used in the workplace. One key player is inspiration, which is unavoidable in the workplace. For a future manager it’s important for them to know different ways of inspiring employees so that work is done more efficiently. Through this paper the different methods will be discussed and show the significance of inspiration. The inspirations of workers can a large problem for managers in business.