Contemporary Management Issues: Lessons from Shackleton's Leadership Style

This report discusses contemporary management issues and how Shackleton's leadership style can help mitigate them. It covers essential lessons from relevant articles and provides recommendations for organisations like Unilever. The issues discussed include poor management style, disengaged employees, lack of communication, and more.

Contemporary
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
There are various issues of management in recent world because of change in trend,
technology, environment and market condition which make an impact for operations and
profitability (Dedhia, amd, et. Al., 2019). The environment of business is changing quickly in
addition this can not be predicted so the management will use the resource available in effective
manner. For achieving success and performance of organisation manage and work they can use
leadership style of Shackleton (Tamhane, Imudia, and Mikhail, 2019). This will assist the
manager of a company to lead the workers in right direction for the achieving of business goals.
This project report cover essential lessons which will be learn from the relevant articles of
contemporary business crises in enterprise (Islam, and, et. Al., 2021). Moreover, this highlights
the evaluation and analyse the situation of enterprise which is related to leadership and
recommends to improve performance and increase value (Weaver, Rungkitwattanakul, and
Singh, 2021).
MAIN BODY
As given in this article the leadership style of Shackleton is one of the most effective
style which assist a manager for lead and manage the team in such a way in which they work
with full motivation and coordinate for meet targeted goals on time (Murray, and Lee, 2018).
This have been seen in the article that how Shackleton made this most effective style of
leadership and leads the members by enhancing the morale and team making with same skills
and interest of working (Reardon, and, et. Al., 2019). The Shackleton was known as the cautious
leader and a popular explorer who led people to cross ice in Antarctica for completing the
mission for exploration. With the member of crew, Shackleton was the first person to walk
across the continent of Antarctica by encouraging and leading them in effective way (Alobuia,
Gillis, and Kebebew, 2020). This will be learned from the Shackleton's leadership style in
which leaders will have sense of responsibility and commitment in great presence of mind which
deals with many challenge at the time of working or completing the mission (Kitai, and
Xanthopoulos, 2020). For leading a team and motivate them for giving full efforts as all tools
and resources will achieve the target on time (Algert, and, et. Al., 2021). With the imaginative
combination, flexible methods and credible commitment for meeting the purpose for achieving
the success is most essential in 21st century for reducing the issue (Eldoma, and Pope, 2018).

Shackleton was an impressive leader who believed in the effort of team and never force the
members for doing hard tasks which enhance the tension and load of work (Shittu, Williams,
and Shaw, 2021). They were great when it comes to improvisation and never afraid in dropping
a plan and rule book which were not working for achieve the goals. They believes to adopt
effective and new rules, method, policy and other which will help in boost their morale for the
people and engage them in improvement of performance for future growth (Lestari, and, et. Al.,
2019). Shackleton always believe in team work as they interact and support with the member of
team for making strong connections with them so they can feel valuable and performs work with
perfection. In Shackleton's leadership style this will be learned the each leader have to develop
the clear vision and share this with whole team with a purpose and details (Homer, Huggins,
and Durairaj, 2019). This is most crucial for every member to know about what they have to do
and every member have various ideas for performance of task which a leader will listen at the
time of making of plan for doing a task. This will assist them in generation of interest and
excitement and clarity for members of team for meeting the desired goals at time (Roper,
Prouska, and Ayudhya, 2019). Other lesson learnt from this is that the necessity of development
unit with the commitment in the team is that Shackleton gave more importance to the well-being
of team and interacts with every member for understand the strength and weakness which give
training for improvement of their skills (Zimmerman, and, et. Al., 2019). They will make sure
each member of team for asking question and share the issue without any type of hesitation for
reducing the issue. In this they make two plans and take tough decision and they will be flexible
for adoption of changes as per situation through increasing the employees productivity (Maron,
Rowin, and Maron, 2021).
There are various contemporary issues in 21st century which change the environment,
high turnover of employee, technology changes, team work is poor, pressure in performing a
task, performance level decreased, inadequate support, lack of communication, conflict and
many more which will decrease the company's performance (De Biase, amd, et. Al., 2021). As
example, the concept of contemporary management issue were defined as selected organisation
which is Unilever which is the multinational British consumer product enterprise. The company
was established in the year 1929 by Samuel Van Den Bergh, Georg Schich and Antonious
Johannes Jurgens for providing the products to the (Cai, and, et. al., 2021)usIn the Unilever,
this have various management issues which are culture of poor organisation, low motivation in

the members of staff, weak style of leadership and lack of training which prevent the overall
performance in recent world. As the management and leaders use for power culture and autocrat
in the organisation in which the majority of decision were taken through them without asking the
workers (Thompson, and Henke, 2018). They plans and give command the the workers to work
and follow as per which they demotivate workers for performance of the task in an effective
manner. The leader of Unilever will not allow the workers for participate in decision making
process and planning the performance for a task in addition to this they will also not clearly
assign and define the duty to them which will create confusion in the workers (Heinola, and
Sörelius, 2021). They give extra work to the workers and assist them for performance of task
with new technology and manner without taking any training of it. The leaders will not interact
with the workers and do not allow them to interact informally for other member which makes
misunderstanding and conflict in them because of lack of communication and various mind-set
(Cannonier, and Burke, 2022). All the issues of management makes the problem in work
which will demotivate talented workers for retain in the enterprise for long run (Jazieh, and, et.
Al., 2020). As its result the issue which an enterprise loose the talented worker which will lead in
delay of task, the decline in productivity and misunderstanding, customer base and quality of
product. The top management have to focus on the internal environment and make change as the
requirement in order to achieve success in the market of dynamic enterprise (Bertazzoni, and, et.
Al., 2019).
Recommendation
Unilever management and entrepreneurs have been recommended to change their
organizational culture and leadership style to mitigate these issues that are affecting their
productivity and profitability (Afolayan, 2021). As they must use Shackleton’s leadership style
to lead and manage their prospective employees to achieve their desired goals (Pius,
Alharahsheh, and Adesanmi, 2020). By giving them more autonomy and freedom to participate
in decision-making and allowing them to voice their ideas while planning to carry out a task to
get it done in a systematic way (Holland, 2019). They can also change their organizational
culture that allows employees to strive to lead tasks and make more connections with others,
increasing their unity and understanding(Veneris, Mahajan, and Frazier, 2020). Since it helps
them reduce misunderstandings and conflicts between them, which leads to an increase in the

productivity of the company (Palme, and, et. Al., 2018). By implementing new technologies and
new ways of working, they create new things among employees to expand their skills. By
providing adequate training in new technologies and new ways of working, they are able to
improve the skills and abilities of their employees so that they can embrace the recent market
changes and offer innovative products and services to customers(Roukis, 2019). They can also
motivate employees to interact with them more and organize various wellness programs to make
them feel valued and do their best to increase the company’s productivity and market share
(Andraska, and, et al., 2022).
CONCLUSION
According to the information presented above, this was concluded that there are various
current management issues such as: Poor management style, disengaged employees, lack of
communication and many others that affect the profitability of the company. Shackleton’s
leadership style is the most effective style that helps the manager and leader motivate their team
members to work together with full commitment to achieve the company’s desired goals. By
using this style, they can boost their employees’ morale and get them to adopt new technologies
to increase the effectiveness of the company. By changing their organizational culture and
leadership style, they can retain their talented employees for the long term.

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