Leadership Approach to Solve Waste Management Issues in Australia

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Leadership
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Assessment Task 2
Executive Summary
The paper will recognize the critical leadership issues necessary to solve the issues of waste
management. It will develop a leadership approach to solving the issues of waste management. It
will justify the need of leader approach to solving the problems of waste management. A
transformational leadership approach can be utilized to find solutions to waste management
issues. This approach is a theory of leadership where a leader performs with the teams to
recognize the required change, making a vision to lead the change by motivation and
implementing the change with the other members of the team. The report will justify the
utilization of transformational leadership by the Australian government to find solutions for the
waste management’s issues. Moreover, it will also provide some recommendation for managing
the waste materials.

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Assessment Task 2
Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Discussion and Justification of Critical Leadership Issues..........................................................................3
Leadership Approach...................................................................................................................................5
Justification of Leadership Approach to Solve the Wicked Problem...........................................................7
Recommendations.....................................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................11
References.................................................................................................................................................12

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Assessment Task 2
Introduction
The waste management is the process of controlling waste from its beginning to the disposal of
waste materials. These waste materials could be solid waste, liquid waste or gaseous waste.
Waste management is a major issue in Australia and an appropriate leadership approach needs to
be applied to find the solutions to waste management issues. It has been predicted that the people
of Australia produce almost 3 kgs of waste each person every day. So, the paper will identify and
provide the suitable leadership framework to solve the issues of waste management.
Discussion and Justification of Critical Leadership Issues
The most vital issue of waste management, are connected with the social and business
knowledge, which has been interrupted by the methods adopted in Australia. The Australian
market is at risk and the percentage of recycling is less than the collected percentage
(Tannenbaum & Schmidt, 2017). The recycling cost is vast and as the amount of waste is much
more than expected, so there is a problem for the operational department of waste management
in Australia to control the waste. The greenhouse gas method is effective in this situation, but
long-run decomposition procedure of the wastes would damage the whole nation and even
outside the nation. The levies problem is also essential in that situation and the government has
taken some measures to decrease the methods of waste management. By implementing the
methods of waste management, the situation could be managed to some extent. But still, the
nation would face the difficulties regarding the procedures of waste management.
Another problem of waste management is the waste recycling methods in Australia. The
procedure of dumped landfills is significant and Australia is unable to gather more waste through
this procedure. The dumping of wastes have become unlimited and reached their ultimatum at
present. The main problem at present is the recycling crisis of Australia (Fairhurst &
Connaughton, 2014). The domestic waste is stockpiled and dumped. The generation of waste is
closely connected with the population size, family income, and financial activities. So it is not
shocking that in Australia the waste generation has increased from the last few years. 60 million
tons of waste was generated in 2006–07 and this had increased to 65 million tons in 2014–
15.The lack of the involvement of the government leaders and some non-government
departments to realize the current condition of the nation had stopped the waste exchange.