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Leadership & Management Assignment

   

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Leadership ManagementProfessional Development
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Running head: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT Name of the studentUniversity nameAuthor’s note
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1LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT Table of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................2Analysing the current leadership model..........................................................................................2Traits, skills and tasks of an effective leader...................................................................................3Core values of leadership model (refer to appendix)......................................................................4Expected culture of the organisation...............................................................................................4Organisational Leadership Seeking to Achieve...............................................................................5Benefits of using leadership model and comparison with existing leadership models...................6Application of leadership model......................................................................................................7Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7References........................................................................................................................................8Appendix........................................................................................................................................10
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2LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT Introduction Leadership and management are very important within the context of an organization. Itforms the backbone or the building block of an organization. The leadership style is reflectedwithin the culture of san organization. A good and positive leadership is extremely important inkeeping the employees motivated as well as enhance the productivity of the organization. Theleadership styles adopted often varies with respect to individual organizations and furthergoverns the success of the organization. There are many approaches to a leadership model whichis defined by the core principles adopted by a leadership model. Some of the chosen coreprinciples for the present assignment are – ethics, teamwork and leadership theory based onwhich the leadership model suitable for the current organization have been developed.Additionally, the issues faced within the implication of the current leadership models have beenanalysed over here in order to address the specific issues or challenge. Analysing the current leadership model One of the main issues which are faced with respect to the implementation of my currentorganizational leadership model is low employee engagement. Presently, the Andrews Airportparking has been facing a large number of employee turnovers which had been affecting thesurvival of the company within the global aviation industry (andrewsairportpark.com 2017). Ipersonally feel that the lack of employee engagement could be accounted to the lack of affectiveworking relationships within the organization.In my opinion, the disengagement of the employees could be attributed to lack ofeffective leadership styles and approaches. In this respect the personality traits of a leader further
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3LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT governs the kinds of approaches selected by him. A least engaged and callous leader is mostlyfocused upon getting the work done rather than reflecting upon the means of doing it. Accordingto me this kind of leadership approach is effective in brining a rapid change within theorganization. However, as argued by Higgs and Dulewicz (2016), micro changes are needful fora macro transformation. Therefore, proceeding upon the organizational changes gradually couldbe more practical than focussing upon the end result (Mendenhall et al. 2017).Traits, skills and tasks of an effective leaderA number of traits are required for an effective leadership within an organization whichare–team building, decisiveness, implementing change leadership. In my opinion, organizationalconflicts and authoritarian approaches are some of the factors which hinder the success of anorganization by taking away sufficient freedom from the employees. Some of the recent issueswhich had affected the organizational culture of the Andrews Airport Parking are overworkedstaffs, less pay, organizational disputes (andrewsairportpark.com 2017). The leaders wereineffective in managing the teams properly as well as lacked required decision making skills. Ascommented by Rauter et al. (2017), the lack of effective systems and technologies hindereddrafting of an affective financial report. This further affected the competing of the organizationwithin the global market. As argued by Higgs and Dulewicz (2016), using systems such as Q-CAT can help in making important organizational decisions. However, the organization lackedsufficiently skilled management who lacked expertise in the similar areas. Additionally, some ofour management staffs were fresh new recruits who had no prior experience in handling andmanagement of similar organizational disputes.
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