Leadership in Business

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Leadership in business

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Table of Contents
Leadership in business...............................................................................................................1
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Challenges of leading an organization.......................................................................................3
Managerial effectiveness........................................................................................................3
Employee motivation.............................................................................................................4
Team Development................................................................................................................4
Change Management..............................................................................................................5
Internal and external stakeholder management......................................................................5
Changes to overcome challenges...............................................................................................6
Recommendations......................................................................................................................9
Conclusion................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The entire process of being directed by someone to others for accomplishment of task and
meeting the desired objectives is termed as Leadership. The person who directs is known as a
leader. Process leadership, trait leadership are various forms of leaderships (Sharma and Jain,
2013). Adequate skills and knowledge of a person make him/her a prominent leader. The
world has witnessed various prominent leaders. Organisations across the world are arranging
leadership development program which is focussing on building prominent leaders to run the
organisation. Leadership development program varies in type and desired outcomes
(Komives, Dugan, Owen, Wagner & Slack, 2011). The aim of this essay is to find out the
various challenges that are being faced by the leaders in the organisation and it will also
discuss about the way in which the frame of leadership can be changed in order to deal with
the challenges that are being faced by the leaders in the organisation. The essay will also
discuss about few recommendations which can change the entire program which has been
built for the development of leadership qualities.
Challenges of leading an organization
In today’ world the competition among organizations has increased to a significant level.
Objectives of most of the organization is sustainability of the business in the market. The
work of a leader of an organization is not considered to be easy one. A leader or a manager of
an organization needs to handle people in the workplace who comes from diversifies culture.
The globalized environment is considered to be one of the main reason of complexity for the
leaders. The various challenges which are faced by the leaders of an organization are
discussed in the following part of the report.

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Managerial effectiveness
Development of managerial effectiveness is considered to be one of the major challenge that
is faced by leaders in an organization. Management of time, thinking strategically and
decision making are all tough responsibilities of a manager or a leader (Gentry, Eckert,
Stawiski & Zhao, 2014). It has been seen that in most of the organization, the working
environment is very diverse. People from different part of the country are now coming
together and actively involved in one particular organization. Leaders often find it difficult to
manage these kind of workforce because most of them are culturally very different.
Grievance handling in an organization is very important. It is sometimes difficult for the
leaders the exact problem in the workplace which leads to dissatisfaction of the employees.
Employee motivation
In today’s business environment the objective of each and every organization is to become
successful and increase the market share. Thus, the effectiveness of the organization can be
increased with the help of motivating the best employees of the organization. Thus,
motivating employees of the organization is one of the major challenges that is being faced
by the managers or the leaders of the organization. In the organization it is found that
employees are always competing with each other instead of focusing on collectively
improving the performance of the organization. The needs of the employees are very different
from each. It is difficult for the managers to study the behavior of each and every employee
and then motivating them (Dobre, 2013). So, it can be said that motivating the workforce to
behave and work smartly in the workplace is one of the major challenges that is faced by the
team leaders and the managers of the organisation.
Team Development
The third challenge faced by leaders of organisation is building a team. Effective team
building is one of the main skill of transformational leadership and it is the main cause of the