Leadership Analysis of Alan Joyce, CEO of Qantas Airways

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Executive Summary
The report has helped in the analysis of the different leadership approaches and styles which
have been followed by the CEO of Qantas Airlines named Alan Joyce. The different
struggles which have been faced by the CEO has been analyzed along with the different
criticisms have been identified which did not make him weak, but he tried to solve the
different issues in more effective manner. Furthermore, this was seen and analyzed that Alan
Joyce tried to be the top CEO along with the situational leader in the organization in
comparison to the others in the market.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
About Alan Joyce.......................................................................................................................3
Struggles Faced by Alan Joyce..................................................................................................3
How Alan Joyce has been critiqued by various stakeholders....................................................4
Identify specific leadership behaviors along with Leadership Theories for Analysing the
Appropriateness of Alan Joyce’s Leadership.............................................................................5
Identification of reasons why the person’s leadership was successful enough to make them
famous........................................................................................................................................7
Strengths and Weaknesses of Alan Joyce..................................................................................8
Issues of ethics in leadership should also be considered............................................................9
Recommendations......................................................................................................................9
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
The report helps in the analysis of the different characteristics of the leader by
crucially analysing the development, achievements along with the capability of the leader in
an efficient manner. The main focus in the analysis is required to be analysed which will help
in enhancing the understanding the struggles which have been experienced by the leader. For
the chosen leader, the critique is required to be analysed by the different stakeholders. The
leader who has been chosen in this respect is Alan Joyce who is the CEO of the Qantas
Airways.
About Alan Joyce
Alan Joyce is the Australian businessman who was born in the year 1966 in 30th June.
He was originally from Ireland and he is the chief executive officer of Australian airline
named Qantas. The nationality of Alan Joyce is Iris-Australian and by occupation, he is the
successful businessman in the present scenario. Joyce was born along with raised in Tallaght
which is now a suburb of Dublin. Furthermore, there are different kinds of achievements
which were received by Alan Joyce such as he is the Ambassador of the Australian
indigenous Education foundation and he was the most influential leader in the 2011 which
was been described in The Australian (Birasnav, 2014).
Struggles Faced by Alan Joyce
There were different struggles which was faced by Alan Joyce in the personal along
with in the professional life. In the personal front, this was seen that there was huge humility
faced by him during the success and there was less confidence during the setbacks. There
were different kinds of hurdles which was faced by Alan Joyce as in the past he used to lack
the managerial kind of effectiveness as he did not have much knowledge on the strategic