logo

Empowering Leadership and Employee Performance

   

Added on  2020-03-01

12 Pages3199 Words41 Views
 | 
 | 
 | 
THE IMPACT OF LEADERSHIP AND MOTIVATION ONEMPOWERING STAFF OF THE ORGANIZATION BEATStudent Name:Student ID:
Empowering Leadership and Employee Performance_1

Table of ContentsExecutive Summary.........................................................................................................................3Literature Review............................................................................................................................5Statement of Recommendation with Rational.................................................................................8Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9References:......................................................................................................................................9
Empowering Leadership and Employee Performance_2

Executive SummaryThe aim of this assignment is to understand how leadership and motivation impacts inempowering the staff of the organization. The organization chosen for this particular assignmentis BEAT UK. Efficient leadership and good management is the need of every organization.Without proper leadership and management no organization can deliver qualitative services tothe people (Argyres et al, 2013). This is all the more important in the sector of healthcare asusers have specific needs. In order to provide good and proper services to the users BEAT too istrying to improve the staff by implementing efficient leadership and motivation. BEAT (Beating Eating Disorders), is a charity and company which is limited by guarantee and itis nationally registered in the UK. Beat is committed to providing help to those people whosuffer from or are affected by several types of eating disorders. BEAT celebrated its 25th year ofservice in 2014. Directory of help finder, conferences, information and groups that rendersupport online, training and helpline services are provided by BEAT at present times. Twocharities ‘Anorexic Aid’ and ‘Anorexic Family Aid’ joined together and formed the ‘EatingDisorders Association’ (EDA) in 1989. A third charity by the name of ‘The Society for theAdvancement into the Research of Anorexia’ (SARA) united with EDA through uninterruptedprogression and improvement. The name Beating Eating Disorders (BEAT) was adopted by thecharity as through which it will be known in 2007. The name EDA is the formally registeredname of the charity and it remained the same till date. Leadership styles and motivation affect the work attitudes and behavior of the employees in theplace of their work. The management of BEAT through leadership tries to empower its staff. BEAT constantly keepsits staff motivated. The structure of organization of BEAT contains the points mentioned below:The Board of Trustees: For all the charity work that is done by BEAT is looked after by theTrustees because they are the ones who are accountable for them. The activities that areundertaken by the charity are performed by the Trustees as they have the complete authority todo so. Thus, the members of the Board are known as The Board of Trustees.It is collectively responsibility of The Board of Trustees to take care of the daily businessfunctions and work at BEAT. Senior positions are given to about 5 member of the Board. TheTreasurer, the Chair, and the Vice-Chair are the three senior officials in The Board of Trustees
Empowering Leadership and Employee Performance_3

currently. In order for BEAT to achieve the goals of the organization most of the responsibilitiesare delegated to the Chair. The Chair looks into the matter so that effective plans can be made forthe charitable works undertaken and proper strategies can be implemented. The Chair is heldresponsible for developing and keeping cordial relationships at it supports the Chief Executive todo the same with the Board. The role of the spokesperson for all the work that is related to thecharity be it generating funds from outside, gaining support and so on is played the Chair(Laschinger et al, 2015).The Vice-Chair is also known as the senior alternate Trustee. The main work and responsibilityof the senior alternate Trustee is to provide the management with advice and support which arenew and are substitutes of the existing ones. Organizing meetings and holding them is alsoanother task of the Vice-Chair.All the finances and the administration of the organization BEAT is taken care of by theTreasurer. The Treasures is the head of the Finance Committee. The accounts and other facets offinance are reviewed 6 times within a year at BEAT and this is also looked after by the Treasurerso that risks can be forecasted and managed. The Finance Director is supported and given adviceby the Trustee.The Sub-Committees of the Board: The Board passes over some tasks and obligations to thesub-committees. The sub-committees follow the order of the Board and carries on with their jobof fulfilling those tasks and obligations. Every single day the sub-committees are required tomake reports and hand them over to the Board and formally present those reports relating to theirwork on Board meetings (Dong et al, 2015). The Human Resource Committees and the FinanceCommittee make up the sub-committees at BEAT, currently. At any point of time theresponsibilities of the sub-committees can be stopped and changes by the Board.The Senior Management Team: A Senior Management Team is always appointed by the ChiefExecutive. In order to complete and fulfill the obligation of the charity the Board appoints theChief Executive. (Lorinkova et al, 2013). Thus, the Senior Management Team is elected forfurther division and delegation of the duties. External Affairs and Services, Fundraising andDirectors of Finance make up the Senior Management Team at BEAT. Through recruitment and
Empowering Leadership and Employee Performance_4

End of preview

Want to access all the pages? Upload your documents or become a member.

Related Documents