1LEADERSHIP The generation, collection and keeping up of information secured is one of the most primary issues of concern for any organisation. The organisations need to keep the data about their plans, about their strategies, Artificial Intelligences and the confidential data about the employees as well. The data adds up to the benefit of the business and are kept secured so that it does not fall to any wrong hands since leakage of informations are a great loss for any company (Soomro, Shah & Ahmed, 2016). In today’s area of technological advancement and various means of access to informations, the risk of cyber crimes has increased rapidly. Yet, for all the expenses the company have made to keep their systems secure and protect the informations about customer and employees, the organisations are struggling largely to make the cyber security more proactive and vibrant. The security of the informations and the proper usage of it can earn a company competitive advantage which will lead to profit. If the informations are once leaked out, a company not only suffers financial loss, but it also has to deal with the insecured employees who starts getting de motivated that their hardships went into a fiasco.Such is the case of Sullivan Corporation at present. The company at present, in order to make their security system more compact and reliable needs to have a strong leadership in the field. New systems regarding the surveillance policies need to be undertaken. Generally, people have a tendency of developing negative perception on the issues of surveillance. In the current situation, the leaders ofSullivan Corporationhave to takeTheory Y leadership style initially in order to check the leakage of informations. The leaders also need to undertakesituational leadership strategy where they can gauge the readiness level of the employees in accepting the surveillance(Odumeru & Ogbonna, 2013).. According to the level of readiness by the employees, the leaders can share the
2LEADERSHIP knowledge about the newly implemented systems and either tell or sell the idea.The leaders also need to apply the transformational leadership Stylewhere in they will share the ideas and coach the employees about the rules and regulations of the information keeping systems. It has often been noted that informations are leaked out unconsciously due to the unawareness of the employees on how to handle them (Dotcenko, Vladyko & Letenko, 2014,). A proper guidance and leadership that will impart trainings and knowledge- both theoretical and practical will be helpful for the company. In dealing with the productivity and sales related issues, theSullivan Corporationneed to motivate the employees. The employees of Sullivan Corporation may have been de motivated by the fact that their efforts have went to vain because of the leakage of informations. A deft leadership spirit that will urge the employees to come up with more innovative ideas must counter this de motivation (Latham, 2014). The leaders can bring in target based incentive mechanism and other benefit oriented recognitions in order to boost up the productivity.
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