Leading and Change: Analysis of Leadership Actions, Theories, and Barriers Faced by Women in Banking Sector

This report analyzes the leadership actions, theories, and barriers faced by women in the banking sector. It covers the path-goal theory, transformational leadership, and the importance of innovation in leadership.

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Leading and Change
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9/13/2018
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Question 1
The leadership actions that needed to be taken include:
The team that is lacking in the making the goals should be observed by the leaders.
Observing and monitoring the team and their performance makes them active to achieve their
targets and goals. From this, analysis can be made that the activities are done in the team and
their action affecting their decision on the group. In this monitoring, the external and internal
environment is done in order to ensure the performance and opportunities available in the
organization (Brauckmann and Pashiardis, 2011).
Another action faced by the organisation is continuing fight towards members in the team.
Action that needs to be taken by the leader in Hill’s leadership is that observing their team
members when they are performing the task. From this leader can able to analyse that the
how the team is performing and task are achieved by the team or not. If the team is not able
to achieve the task or goal set by them then the corrective measures will have to be taken by
the team leader in order to ensure the achievement of organizational goals. On the other hand,
the maintenance of a relationship with the team members is the responsibility of the leader.
This maintenance of relationship will bring the positive result in the future to the team and to
its member also. This will maintain the balance between the task and maintenance and ensure
that there will be no interpersonal problems and all the members of the team remain satisfied.
This will develop the cohesion in the organization and decision-making process in the
organization becomes simple in order to adapt to the changes (Yang, Huang and Wu, 2011).
If the team is not getting the recognition and support from the top management team then the
action should be taken by the team leader. The action that needs to be taken by the leader is to
look at the team attention and its leadership. Actions have been taken in order to improve the
team and interpersonal relationships among the members so that the relationship will be
maintained in the organization.
Question 2
Transformational leadership can be defined as the theory of leadership in which the leader’s
works with the team to identify the changes needed to implement in the organization. This
type of leadership is found essential in are the creating a vision to guide the change using the
inspiration, motivation and executing all the change in tandem with the committed members

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of a group. Dr. Cook in the case study is working as the transformational leader in the
organization as they are motivating their staff to perform to the best level so that the
organizational goals can be achieved (Buzzfeed, 2017).
There are four factors of the transformational leadership, which are an idealized influence,
inspirational motivation, individual consideration, and intellectual stimulation. From these
four factors of transformational leadership, two are applied in the case study given. From the
case study, it has been analyzed that Dr. Cook is motivating their team members in order to
achieve the vision of the organization that is the inspirational motivation has been provided.
On the other hand, Cook has been focussed on working as the advisor and trainer in order to
achieve the goals that help both the associates and organization (EDIS, 2017).
Question 3
There are various barriers faced by the women in the organization, which includes the
personal barriers, organizational barriers, structural barriers, and cultural barriers. The two
important barriers that may be faced by the women in the banking sector include the cultural
and the structural barriers. These barriers affect the performance of the individuals as well as
of the organization. to ensure that the barriers will not hamper the performance of the bank,
measures have been chosen to eliminate these barriers (World Economic Forum, 2012).
The cultural barriers can be eliminated from the organization by eliminating the evaluation
individually and leaders focus on evaluating the candidates whether males or females on
multiple bases. This will help in reducing the cultural barriers in the organization. All the
candidates are treated on the same grounds and bases.
On the other hand, structural barriers can be eliminated in the organization by changing the
organizational structure from hierarchal to flat structure. This will provide the equal
distribution of power in the hands of the higher-level authorities so no partiality is there
(Voon, Lo, Ngui and Ayob, 2011).
Question 4
The path-goal theory is based on specifying a leader’s style or behavior that fits best for the
individual in the organization for the employee and the work environment in order to achieve
the organizational goals. The goal of this theory is to motivate the employees, empowering
them and able to satisfying their needs so that they can be more productive members of the

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organization. In the case of Ibrahim, it can be analyzed that the leaders in the organization
should be such, which motivate the employees in order to accomplish the organizational
goals. From the characteristics of the Ibrahim, it has been analyzed that he is getting
dissatisfied with the job and does not seem to be excited about the projects. The contribution
to the new and innovative ideas is about to zero by Ibrahim which shows that he needs
motivates in order to get the work done by him in the organization (Vinkenburg et al., 2011).
By using the path-goal theory, it has been understanding that the independent variable of the
theory has been applied. The leaders adjust to the style of behavior to the employee and
marketing characteristics so that Ibrahim’s motivation should be increased and can able to
achieve their goals. The leadership should be adopted in the organization should be directive,
supportive, participative in nature so that the people like Ibrahim can easily achieve their
targets on time without any barriers (Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review,
2017).
Question 5
The leadership in the 21st century is found to be innovative in nature which influences the
individuals of the team member to work according to achieve the organizational goals. There
has been a trend followed in the society and organization to have the leadership with some
innovation in the organization. Innovation in the leadership plays an important role in
developing the team and its members. Continuous innovation has been performing a major
role in the present scenario in the organization (The National Academies Press, 2017).
Strategic leadership can be defined as the leader’s ability and capabilities to anticipate,
maintain flexibility and to empower others to create the strategic change as necessary. As the
strategic leadership capabilities, the leader should have strong communication skills and
innovation in the working by the leader. Many organizations are expanding their business by
making liaison with the world. By having the ability to clearly describing, what needs to be
done in the organization should be communicated properly (Sandler Training, 2017).
Various examples can be taken from the real-life organization in which Apple stands at the
number one position in order to have the leadership of Steve Jobs in the organization. The
proper communication and innovation channels used in the organization make the planning
and implementation easy in the company.

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