Global Leadership and Change Report 2022

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Executive Summary
The report is going to discuss the basic definition of leadership along with its functions. It
is going to showcase the leader, Jeffrey R. Immelt, who has dealt with different kinds of
problems and how did he overthrow the problems and emerged as a successful leader. A short
discussion will be introduced by a leader’s responsibilities and how to deal with different
employees and to motivate them so that the organization can develop in the upcoming years.
There are going to be three parts introduction, discussion and conclusion. The introduction part
will feature all the essential parts like the main functions of a leader and their individual skills
and abilities. Immelt’s fundamental issues and problems he faced while working in General
Electric. In the discussion part, the skills and abilities of Jeffrey R. Immelt will be examined and
analysed along with his company’s strengths and weaknesses so that the faults can be drawn
efficiently and appropriately. In the final concluding part, inevitable consequences and desired
goals will be detected to raise the company’s production for the betterment in the upcoming
future.
Table of Content

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Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................5
1. Issues as a Leader in an Organization:.................................................................................6
2. The Vision for General Electric in the upcoming future:.....................................................7
3. Immelt’s plan:.......................................................................................................................8
4. The critical factors in achieving success:.............................................................................9
a. Portfolio:...........................................................................................................................9
b. Innovation:.....................................................................................................................9
c. Globalization:..................................................................................................................10
d. Strategic focus:............................................................................................................10
e. Organizational management:..........................................................................................10
5. Leadership theories:............................................................................................................11
a. The Great Man theory of leadership:..............................................................................11
b. The behavioral theory of leadership:...........................................................................11
c. The Trait theory:.............................................................................................................12
6. Analyze on the leader’s competencies and strategies:........................................................12
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................13
Bibliography..................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
The report is going to introduce the key ideas as well as implementing various concepts
to a leadership problem. A short introduction to leadership will be provided in order to support
further statements, along with desired concepts and examples. Leadership is defined as the leader
who can commendably distribute his work and submits his motivation and dedication to increase
the company’s production (Summerfield 2014). As a leader, one needs to possess various
qualities and skills like honesty, spreading inspiration, commitment, decision-making,
innovation, and creativity. It is the leader’s responsibility to balance the strengths and
weaknesses in order to demonstrate the employees to cooperate and achieve the desired goals of
the organisation (Visser 2017). A leader must value an individual’s ability and should maintain
healthy communication so that they do not hesitate to confront their problems (Cashman 2017).
There are a few essential elements of leadership, such as setting the desired goals, organising the
plan, putting into action, coordination, motivation and direction, and group efforts which are
highly effective and adequate to utilise while dealing with specific issues and problems
(Antonakis, John, and David 2017). It will minimise the issues and it may help to recover other
parts of the organisation. The issues that Jeffrey R. Immelt had to witness when he was the CEO
of GE, General Electric in the U.S (Boyd et al., 2017). The report will discuss the role of a leader
as well as the CEO and his desired goal to raise his organisation in the upcoming future. The
dreams and plans that he implemented while maintaining his position along with the position of
the organization (Berthelot et al., 2019). The primary objective of this report is to facilitate and
channelise the essential functions of leadership along with the vision that Immelt had so the
readers can stimulate their ideas on the severe issues or problems in a better way. The following
definitions, functions, skills, and consequences and dissolving the issues will be discussed in the