Effectiveness of Leadership within University of Melbourne

This research analyzes the effectiveness of leadership within Australia, focusing on the University of Melbourne. It examines the benefits of effective leadership and the challenges faced by the university in maintaining effective leadership practices within Australia. The research methodology involves positivism philosophy, observation as research design, deductive approach, and survey as research strategy.

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Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................3
Research Topic:...............................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Research Aims and Objectives....................................................................................................4
Research Questions:.....................................................................................................................4
Rational of project.......................................................................................................................5
Literature Review............................................................................................................................5
Benefits of effective leadership within University of Melbourne...............................................5
Challenges faced by the University of Melbourne while maintaining effective leadership
practices within Australia............................................................................................................6
Research Methodology....................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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Research Topic:
“To analyse the effectiveness of leadership within Australia”.
INTRODUCTION
Leadership is the ability of a person used to guide, motivate, lead, and inspire the individuals
for the purpose of assigning and performing duties effectively. This is the process of social
influence, that maximizes the efforts of others towards achievement of a goal. In other words,
leadership is the accomplishment of goals after receiving directions from human being and
supported to grow their business. For business organization leader is important as it understand
the goals and guide their employees to work accordingly that can help to managing all functions
and activities effectively. The current study is about effectiveness of leadership within Australia,
where University of Melbourne is selected that provides education to their students by managing
the classes and activities effectively. The leadership which is adopted by leaders convert the
vision of company into reality. The current PPT covers research design and preliminary findings,
and research questions.
MAIN BODY
Research Aims and Objectives
Aim: “To analyse the effectiveness of leadership within Australia”. A study on University of
Melbourne.
Research Objectives
 To determine the benefits of effective leadership within University of Melbourne?
 To assess the challenges faced by University of Melbourne while maintaining effective
leadership practices within Australia?
Research Questions:
 What are the benefits of effective leadership within University of Melbourne?
 What are the challenges faced by University of Melbourne while maintaining effective
leadership practices within Australia?
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Rational of project
Leadership is important as it used to attain the set goals and develop the organizational
productivity. The main reason of conducting research is to gain knowledge and skills regarding
goals and ways to achieve them. The researcher will improve their personal and profession skills
like as motivation, presentation, interpersonal, and marketing skills that are used by an individual
for the purpose of attaining higher performance.
Literature Review
Benefits of effective leadership within University of Melbourne
As per view point of Ciulla (2020), Leadership is doing the right things by managing all
functions and activities appropriately. It is an important activity used by management for
understanding the needs and perform all activities effectively. This is useful to improve the
quality, knowledge and skills that can be used to bring changes and attaining higher
performance. It has seen that many companies follow the effective leadership strategies that can
help to accomplish the business goals. Having strong leadership could really effective to business
industry as it states how easily employees ready to accept the challenges and develop the
organizational productivity. In relation to University of Melbourne, there is effective leader who
have leadership skills and motivation skills that can help to develop organizational performance.
A strong leader ensures that staff remind the vision and values of organization and also remind
them to take necessary actions to convert those vision into reality.
Helps in getting qualified employees – Effective leadership is main task for business
organization as it helps to attaining the qualified employees that support to develop business
performance. Without qualified employee’s business is nothing. In relation to University of
Melbourne, management identify the vacant position and recruits the qualified employees that
support to grow business.
Boost employee morale – Leadership is the continuous process which is used by
company to boost employee morale that can help to attain business goals. In relation to
University of Melbourne, management use leadership process for the purpose of boost employee
morale and attaining productivity.
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Challenges faced by the University of Melbourne while maintaining effective leadership
practices within Australia
As per opinion of Breevaart and Zacher (2019), A person who develops, encourages, and
support their staff team to put their vision in to practices is known as leader as it manages the all
functions and activities effectively. Leadership is the ability used by individual for the purpose of
managing changes and attaining higher performance. It is important to organization to identify
the changes and adopt it effectively that can help to attain the business goals. In relation to
University of Melbourne, leader plays an important role as they identify the roles and put efforts
to manage work. The challenges are faced by organization in maintaining effective leadership
practices in Australia such as:
To run a business successfully innovation is needed as it used to introduce something
new that support to grow. In relation to University of Melbourne, leader faces the challenge of
adopting innovation and technology that affect the business negatively. Australia is now
witnessing the problems of slow economic growth, lower productivity, less employment growth
and more. For a leader, it is quite complex to lead a diversify team in appropriate manner. This
will create challenges in maintaining effectiveness of leadership within organization. Further,
this will also create issues for leaders in terms of leading and motivating the team.
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Research Methodology
Research Philosophy – This involves positivism and interpretivism philosophy. The
researcher will make the use of positivism philosophy in order to collect information and data.
Research Design – This states an arrangement of conditions or collection used by individual
for managing the data. The involving aspects are descriptive study, correlation, and
experimental. In current research, researcher will use observation as design to develop
understanding and managing performance.
Research Approach – A plan and structure is being prepared by individual by considering
inductive and deductive approach. In relation to current research, deductive approach is used by
researcher.
Research Strategy – This is another method used by an individual for the purpose of
developing their understanding and managing changes. This involves case study, survey, action
research, and grounded theory. The researcher will use survey as quantitative study done that can
help to improve knowledge and complete task.
Conclusion
From the above it can be concluded that leadership is the regular process used by leader
for influencing number of employees and get work done. This is important to organization to
understand what employees wants and how they could be satisfied so that kind of services are
provided to their staff and support to manage higher productivity.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Niswaty, R., Juniati, F., Darwis, M. and Salam, R., 2019. The Effectiveness of Leadership
Functions Implementation in The Makassar Departement of Manpower. Jurnal
Pendidikan Bisnis dan Manajemen. 5(1). pp.1-10.
Cheong, M., and et.al., 2019. A review of the effectiveness of empowering leadership. The
Leadership Quarterly. 30(1). pp.34-58.
Ciulla, J. B., 2020. Ethics and effectiveness: The nature of good leadership. In The search for
ethics in leadership, business, and beyond (pp. 3-32). Springer, Cham.
Breevaart, K. and Zacher, H., 2019. Main and interactive effects of weekly transformational and
laissez‐faire leadership on followers’ trust in the leader and leader effectiveness. Journal
of Occupational and Organizational Psychology. 92(2). pp.384-409.
Metwally, D., Ruiz-Palomino, P., Metwally, M. and Gartzia, L., 2019. How ethical leadership
shapes employees’ readiness to change: The mediating role of an organizational culture
of effectiveness. Frontiers in psychology. 10. p.2493.
Niswaty, R., Juniati, F., Darwis, M. and Salam, R., 2019 Cheong, M., and et.al., 2019 Metwally,
D., Ruiz-Palomino, P., Metwally, M. and Gartzia, L., 2019
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