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Human Resources Management Strategy

   

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Introduction:In this era where human resources management has become an essential strategy to thesuccess of any organisations, the emphasis on leadership strategies and skills has increasedtremendously all over the world. Leadership is defined as “ the process of guiding anddirecting the behaviour of people in the work environment” (Sut, 2017). Apparently a firmleadership is the backbone for the progression of businesses, groups and organisations torealize their goals and targets. Leaders can potentially persuade others through their ability tomotivate, apprise, communicate effectively and empathise the employees. Depending on thebehaviour of the leader and the circumstances or culture in the organisation, a myriad ofleadership theories and leadership strategies came into existence. This essay will primarilyfocus on the reflection on evolution of leadership as I grew up, influence of critical leadershipstudies on my leadership approach and it also canters around the reflection on the practice ofleadership in various contexts. Reflection on leadershipNow as a student undergoing leadership course and after understanding fundamentals andnumerous theories and strategies of leadership, when I reflect back in the days, leadership hasalways existed ever since it is just that I failed to notice it. Charity indeed begins at home,upon being able to gather all the tits and bits concerning leadership altogether, I realize thatleadership started from the four corners of my beautiful home. Brought up in a conservativefamily, my parents never leaves a stone unturned guiding me how to lead a prosperous andsuccessful life. Parenting style is chiefly founded on two dimensions of responsiveness anddemandingness (Baumrind, 1991) where each dimension determines the parent childrelationship. Responsiveness include supportiveness and understanding of children’s needsand wants while on the other hand demandingness refers to the desire that the parents makeon children to become, supervision and disciplinary efforts. Depending on the extent ofresponsiveness and demandingness exerted parenting is classified into uninvolved,authoritarian, permissive and authoritative (Dinham, 2007). I was raised in a authoritarianparenting style characterised by low responsiveness and high demandingness. In family wasled by my father and perhaps he exhibited an autocratic leadership wherein he dominatedevery decision of the family and it was further characterised by strong discipline andcontrolling nature. However, on the other hand, my mother had some bits of a democraticleader where she encourages active participation from all the members to arrive a conclusionand she is substantially concerned about consolidating relationship between the members. Besides home, school is essentially one of the most critical place where we mould ourselvesand it is the very place where we pick up or learn many new things regardless of good or bad.Schooling has played a major role in my life and it has contributed tremendously to forgingme into who I am today. Those days in schools generally teachers are viewed as an exampleof leader and in fact different teachers exhibited varying leadership qualities. To be precise,during the primary schools, the most predominant leadership quality that I could recall is thatof authoritarian leaders wherein most of the teachers had that conventional conception ofleadership based on obedience, sincerity and respect for positional authority and status(Dinham, 2007). They seldom negotiate or discuss with students on setting direction of thegroup, but expect their novices to abide by their orders without failure. However, this trendhas changed as I pursued my undergraduate in business, in college the predominant trend ofleadership practiced across the premises was permissive leadership where the leaders valuedthe participation of others in planning and decision making processes. This culture of

permissive leadership further helped to build intimate relationship between the lecturers andstudents as permissive leaders employs reasoning and consensus building over authority andorder. Further, I have observed that while it works in bringing harmony and strengthening thebonds amongst the members, permissive leadership is known to take too long to come to aunanimous conclusion. Permissive leadership is indeed known to be deficient of direction andaccountability (Summers, 2018). For most of my childhood, I was preoccupied with the notion that a leadership is implicit oftitle, wealth and authority. Later, as I went through a book by Robin Sharma titled “ A leaderwith no title”, I came to comprehend that leadership has nothing to do with title that you holdor the size of the office or wealth you have accumulated rather it is a philosophy, a state ofmind and it’s a birth right of each one of us. Until I got my first job as the head of finance section of the Bhutan Airlines Ltd., Bhutan,most often than not, I have been working under others leadership, observing how otherfunction as a leader and in some cases criticising the leadership qualities of certain leaders.But deep within there existed a small flame of leadership in me and in most cases I was theleader of myself. Upon joining Bhutan Airlines, I had the privilege to lead a small group ofnine people and during those times, my experiences as a leader presented me with variousopportunities and challenges. Opportunities accelerated my moving forward while thechallenges made me tougher and this ultimately benefitted my colleagues and team at large. Ilearnt that to be a leader, principle of one shoe fits all size does not apply at all and I realizedthat it is impossible for one to be a cup of coffee for all. In the initial phase of my duties,owing to me being new to the workplace, I always sought suggestions from my colleagueswhen coming to planning and decision making activities and I made it a point that all mysubordinates are involved in the decision making processes. This helped foster better relationand ambient culture at the workplace and it also played a significant role in fixingaccountability to the employees (Noure Elahi, 2012). But little did I know that time that I wasputting into application the participative leadership theories. And as stated in the theories,inviting participation from all the members really delayed decisions, making it more timeintensive and as the circumstance demands sharing of most of the information regardless ofits sensitive nature, there existed a room for possible information leak and risk of croppingconflict amongst the employees. Despite the innate drawbacks, this style of leadership hashelped me a lot in gaining trust of the employees, drastically decrease the employee turnoverand it was also attributive to better acceptance of decision. Furthermore, in my case it alsoassisted in boosting employee morale whereby enhancing necessary coordination andcollaboration(Miao, Newman, Schwarz & Xu, 2013). During my tenure as the head offinance section, I notably learnt that teamwork is an essential element of leadership. Apartfrom the triumph, while seeking feedback from the employees, it was criticized that my styleof leveraging everyone with the opportunity to voice their opinion, at times leads to wastageof time as all become busy substantiating their own ideas and ultimately leading to argumentover irrelevant ideas. In addition, it was also pointed out that despite being vocal, I lack thequality to control individual within the group. The little spark of leadership in me was further ignited by the act of novelty and gesture ofsheer kindness and compassion showered to the fellow citizens by His Majesty, Jigme KhesarNamgyal Wangchuck, the 5th King of Bhutan. For me, my king has been my real life hero andI always considered him as the epitome of leadership. Out of the many, what motivated methe most is his quote that we do not need leadership of the masses but, we need the leadership

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