Integrative Leadership Assignment PDF

Running Head: INTEGRATIVE LEADERSHIP
INTEGRATIVE LEADERSHIP
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Executive summary
Since the coming of Ian Narev Commonwealth Bank of Australia is facing a series of ethical and
moral challenges due to its lack of good services and loyalty to the customers. Based on this, the
report is trying to figure out the flaws in the leadership quality of Ian Narev in order to add the
rationality of the discussion. Therefore, the purpose of this report is to evaluate the leadership
quality of a corporate leader and understands the way this leadership quality decides the future of
the organisation. In addition to this, the report also discusses the literature review of different
attributes of the leadership quality and based on this tries to generate an in-depth understanding
regarding the theme.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Leadership problem.....................................................................................................................3
Less effective leadership..........................................................................................................3
Unethical practices...................................................................................................................4
Uncooperative attitude.............................................................................................................4
Lack of management abilities..................................................................................................5
Inadequate employee benefits..................................................................................................5
Superfluous expectations.........................................................................................................5
Literature review..........................................................................................................................6
Inspire trust..............................................................................................................................6
Create vision............................................................................................................................7
Execute strategy.......................................................................................................................8
Coach potential........................................................................................................................8
Lesson learned.............................................................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Reference.......................................................................................................................................12

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Introduction
Leadership is considered to be an important aspect for the growth of a company. as a
matter of fact, the managements are always looking for a better leader who can deliver strategic
advantage to the company and at the same time consolidate the future of the organisational
business. Based on this it can be argued that it is important to evaluate the leadership quality of a
corporate leader. There are a series of leadership styles that the leaders follow such as
behavioural, transformational, charismatic and trait leadership. Therefore, the purpose of this
report is to analyse the leadership problems. For a better discussion, the report chooses Ian
Narev the former CEO of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and identify his leadership
problems that caused enormous challenges to the operation of the organisation. The reason
behind choosing Narev is because under his leadership the company had faced a series of issues
like bank fraudulency, unethical business practice and mismanaging the employees. In addition
to this, the report also incorporates a literature review to conceptualise various attributes of a
leader. Moreover, the personal reflection section is also added up a different outlook in order to
figure out personal opinion about the leadership qualities.
Discussion
Leadership problem
Less effective leadership
Being the CEO of CBA in 2009 there was no effective leadership quality that Narev had
followed in his long tenure of 7years. According to Knaus (2017) it can be stated that Narev was
more relied on the charismatic leadership style in order to show off his authoritarian power to the