Leadership and Ethics in Royal Dutch Shell

LEADERSHIP AND ETHICS IN ROYAL
DUTCH SHELL

LEADERSHIP
 i. Identification of founders and CEO of the firm
 The organization was founded by Marcus and Samuel
Samuel in the year 1907. The executive management of
Royal Dutch Shell is mainly managed by the CEO or
Chief Executive Officer of the firm Charles O. Holliday.
 ii. Management competencies of CEO that is
important to the firm
 The CEO of Royal Dutch Shell or Shell has a major
level of understanding of the international commercial,
strategic and the environmental issues that have an
impact on the firm. The risk management and safety is
an important part of the extensive levels of experience
that has been gained by the CEO (Saleem 2015).

LEADERSHIP
 iii. Use of leadership models and concepts and description of
leadership style of CEO
 The transformational leadership style has been used by the CEO of
Royal Dutch Shell in order to maintain the operations of the firm.
 iv. Critical discussion of leadership style of CEO
 The leadership style that had been depicted by the CEO of Royal Dutch
Shell is mainly based on the ways by which the opinions of Board
members are taken into consideration.
 v. Examining alternative style that is more effective
 The alternative style of leadership that can be followed by the CEO of
Royal Dutch Shell is the laissez-faire style.
 vi. Recommendations based on suggesting appropriate style of
leadership
 The implementation of laissez-faire style of leadership will help the
CEO to improve levels of creativity within the firm and the time
required for decision making will also be reduced (Yahaya and Ebrahim
2016).