UTAS - Management Journal Article Review: Leadership & Communication

This assignment presents a comprehensive review of several management journal articles, focusing on key aspects of leadership and communication within organizations. The review covers articles discussing the importance of communication skills for effective leadership, methods for leading and motivating knowledge workers, and the influence leaders can have on staff decisions. Additionally, the review highlights the significance of active listening for managers and addresses some common misconceptions in management practices. The analysis of each article includes its main focus, key findings, and overall usefulness in understanding contemporary management challenges and strategies. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a variety of study tools and resources for students.

Journal Article Review on
Topic Management

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Review of journal articles on management.............................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Management review on journals is a peer reviewed academic journal which specialises in
proper narrative literature reviews along with bibliographic studies that helps in analysing
replication of studies. This report is based on review of journal article on management with 5
articles that are based on management along with its conclusion.
MAIN BODY
Review of journal articles on management
Decker and Mitchell, 2017, importance of communication skills for leadership and
management [Online] Available Through:< https://managemagazine.com/article-
bank/self-handicapping-leadership/importance-communication-skills-leadership-
management/>
Dehlin, 2017, How to lead, manage and motivate knowledge workers [Online] Available
Through:< https://managemagazine.com/article-bank/motivation/lead-manage-
motivate-knowledge-workers/>
Mintzberg, 2017, about some half-truth of management [Online] Available Through:<
https://managemagazine.com/blogtalk/management/henry-mintzberg-half-truths-
management/>
Rambhai, 2021, Leaders can influence staff decisions [Online] Available Through:<
https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/experts/research/leaders-can-influence-staff-
decisions>
Vanderhayden, 2021, The key to being a good manager is being a good listener [Online]
Available Through:< https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/voices/comment/key-
to-being-good-manager-being-good-listener>
Decker and Mitchell, 2017, importance of communication skills for leadership and
management [Online] Available Through:< https://managemagazine.com/article-
bank/self-handicapping-leadership/importance-communication-skills-leadership-
management/>
a. Importance of communication skills for leadership and management
b. Importance of communication skills for leadership and management [Online]
Available Through:< https://managemagazine.com/article-bank/self-handicapping-
leadership/importance-communication-skills-leadership-management/>
c. Decker and Mitchell, 2017,
Dehlin, 2017, How to lead, manage and motivate knowledge workers [Online] Available
Through:< https://managemagazine.com/article-bank/motivation/lead-manage-
motivate-knowledge-workers/>
a. How to lead, manage and motivate knowledge workers
b. How to lead, manage and motivate knowledge workers [Online] Available Through:<
https://managemagazine.com/article-bank/motivation/lead-manage-motivate-
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knowledge-workers/>
c. Dehlin, 2017
Mintzberg, 2017, about some half-truth of management [Online] Available Through:<
https://managemagazine.com/blogtalk/management/henry-mintzberg-half-truths-
management/>
a. About some half-truth of management
b.About some half-truth of management [Online] Available Through:<
https://managemagazine.com/blogtalk/management/henry-mintzberg-half-truths-
management/>
c. Mintzberg, 2017
Rambhai, 2021, Leaders can influence staff decisions [Online] Available Through:<
https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/experts/research/leaders-can-influence-staff-
decisions>
a. Leaders can influence staff decisions
b. Leaders can influence staff decisions [Online] Available Through:<
https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/experts/research/leaders-can-influence-staff-
decisions>
c. Rambhai, 2021
Vanderhayden, 2021, The key to being a good manager is being a good listener [Online]
Available Through:<
https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/voices/comment/key-to-being-good-
manager-being-good-listener>
a. The key to being a good manager is being a good listener
b. The key to being a good manager is being a good listener [Online] Available
Through:< https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/voices/comment/key-to-
being-good-manager-being-good-listener>
c. Vanderhayden, 2021
The article by Decker and Mitchell, 2017, focuses on examining relevance of
communication skills which are used by companies for having success. As breakdown in
communication could cause major issues for managers that could create in having
experiences of communication failure. It has been identified that communication skills
are essential for managers to carry their business practices with effectiveness as with
poor communication leaders could not be able to understand about business practices
and it leads to consequences of poor financial management. With proper communication
skills managers could be capable to change their programs according to market demands
and could be able to achieve their objectives with employee resistance by making
required changes. This Article benefits in gaining an effective understanding of
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relevance of communication skills in managers to carry their business practices by mode
of business communication with oral and written communication so that established
communication culture could be maintained in workplace. Along with it identifies that
communication skills are beneficial for managers to carry their business practices by
analysing needs and demands of customers and according to that formulate the strategies
for meeting up changes in a smooth manner.
The article by Mintzberg, 2017, keeps it focus on living in times of great
change in management of business. Identify that business world is becoming global with
group of managers for carrying their business practices in different parts of world and it's
more than half of their sales are coming from outside of their home country. From this
article it has been identified that management is an essential element which is to be
performed by companies to keep their business practices on going in different parts of
world with effectiveness. It carries a benefit that companies needs to analyse its
managers and leaders for carrying up business practices in a way that plant objectives
could be able to achieve within a specified period of time by managing their working
practices. article is beneficial in identifying role of management in business world for
carrying their business practices on international level as well for achieving higher success.
It carries and opportunities to carry business practices on international level for
achieving more growth in terms of revenues and profitability. It is beneficial to have
management system in business practices so that managers could be able to make
effective decision making for running business practices according to change to market
requirements by analysing market trends on regular basis.
The article by Dehlin, 2017, explains about knowledge and ways to lead, as well
as motor weight understanding employees of companies so that they could be able to
give their best performance with effectiveness. This article identifies that understanding
minds as well as expertise of employees is a knowledgeable work which is to be
performed by managers of companies. It is necessary to examine the behaviour of
employees by analysing their working criteria so that proper motivation and training
could be provided for having effective knowledge management in order to improve
employee skills so that they could be able to perform better. Article is beneficial in
identifying motivation opportunities that are to be provided to employees so that they
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could be able to perform with their higher level of efficiency by gaining knowledge.
Knowledgeable workers are proved to be an essential asset for companies in order to fulfil
their requirement and sustain in markets for longer time. This article identifies ways of
leading in toys with managers by carrying out proper knowledge management which is
carried through training and development session so that skills could be improved on
regular basis and they could be able to concentrate on their work without having any
disturbance.
The article by Vanderhayden, 2021, keeps its focus on manager and its
performance by being a good listener. As it focuses on identifying various skills that are
required to be in a leader or manager. It is necessary for managers to be effective listener
so that we could be able to analyse working and views of employees and make decisions
according to that. From this article it has been found that it is necessary to carry listening
skills in managers so that they could be able to listen their colleagues as well as workers
for resolving any issue and find cause of consequences. This article is beneficial in
gaining understanding of need of listening skills which are required by managers in
order to perform well in companies by slowing down and paying attention towards
audience so that effective decision making could be taken for resolving any problem.
The article by Rambhai, 2021, Main focus of this article is to analyse potential of
leaders that could be able to influence staff decisions in business companies. This article
identifies that there are various attitudes and values of leaders that could be able to
influence staff member’s behaviour in companies so that effective results could be
achieved. It has been examined that leaders are carrying potential to influence staff
member so that they could be able to make effective decisions in terms of meeting
change effectively in markets and maintaining their business position in markets by
generating revenues on constant basis. This article is beneficial for or gaining an
understanding of leadership qualities that are to be present in a leader for influencing
behaviour of companies in order to meet objectives with in a particular point of time.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from above report that journal article reviews are a systematic
narrative literature reviews that deals in specialising academic reviews on certain topics by using
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journals. This report examines about different articles where their focus, findings along with
usefulness of journal is explained in a well manner.
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