Leaders & the Leadership Process: Analysis of Lenovo's Leadership Model

This report analyses the leadership model used in Lenovo, Hong Kong and assesses the leadership style and theories of leader qualities used by the company's leader. It also creates a development plan to improve leadership capability.

Leaders & the Leadership
Process

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
1. Comparing a number of contemporary models of leadership and how they can be applied to
various business situation. .........................................................................................................3
2. Developing a personal leadership model including values and behaviours. ..........................5
3. Judging current approaches to effective leadership such as power, culture, coaching and
others. .........................................................................................................................................6
4. Analysing personal leadership style and creating a development plan to improve leadership
capability. ...................................................................................................................................7
5. Appraising a business challenges or opportunity and designing a leadership approach to
address the issue..........................................................................................................................9
6. Predicting employee performance based on leadership techniques used in the company. ..10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is the systematic process in which the leaders or owners maximizes the efforts
of their team members or employees in order to meet the goals. It is mandatory for leaders to set
right direction for their employees. The present report will analyse the leadership model used in
the company Lenovo, Hong Kong deals in electronics such as computers, software and related
business services. The case study will assess the leadership style and theories of leader qualities
used by company's leader. Further, the report will give judgement on current approaches to
effective leadership in company such as power, culture and others. Along with that, the study
will create development plan in order to improve leadership capability. For every company,
employees performance is important because it will increase productivity and performance of the
firm. At last, the case study will predict team members' performance based on leadership
methods used in the organization.
Leaders- The person who manages, commands or leads the company in order to meet
goals and make vision a reality while putting employees first. To be successful, the leaders needs
to motivate their team-mates and create connection with bottom level management and other
employees in the firm.
Leadership- The systematic process or style used by leaders which maximize the
contribution or efforts of other members in the company to achieve organizational goals is
known as leadership. For every company leadership management plays a vital role so that
desired goals can be achieved.
1. Comparing a number of contemporary models of leadership and how they can be applied to
various business situation.
Role of leaders- A good leader in the company prioritize personal development and focus on
developing others in the company. The leaders in the firm encourage strategic thinking, creates
innovative ideas, create connection between employees working at same level, perform effective
role in cross cultural communication. The leaders of Lenovo makes an effort to support their
team's skills, so they can achieve goals and meet their full potential. They establish strong and
successful business activities by creating relationship within the team.
Transactional leadership- In this leadership model, the leaders of the company focuses on the
major role of organization, employees performance and supervising the management. They are

more concerned about the company's status and daily activity or progress towards the desired
goals.
The leaders react to issues as they arise and work within existing company's culture.
Here, the leaders of the company punish and reward their employees in traditional manner on the
basis of company's rules or regulations (Leadership models, 2021). They promote their staff
members with systematic rewards system and punishments. They maintain the company's
environment with organizational standards. For example- the leaders of Lenovo set desired goals
and provide right direction regarding business activities and make decisions about how
employees will be rewarded for their efforts or contribution. On the basis of that, they provide
feedback on their performance in order to encourage performance or productivity. They will
make efforts to standardize business practices that will ultimately help the company become
productive and perform better.
In the company Lenovo, the leaders utilizes transactional style to give employees orders
and process documents in order to achieve goals. If the performance of the employee is poor
their leaders punish them and if they perform effectively, their leaders reward them. On the other
hand, if another leader in the company utilize situational theory- fiedler's contingency theory that
it will be helpful to determined how well the leadership model matches the business related
situation. It also states that how to run organization in different situations with the best leadership
techniques.
Transformational leadership- In this method of leadership, the company's leader is more
concerned about future goals, thus, they work to enhance the employees' motivation and
encourage followers in the firm by giving them right direction towards shared vision or
objectives (Transformational leadership theory, 2021). They accept the challenges and is more
concerned about future oriented.
The leaders are more likely to address problems in the company before they become
more problematic and situation get worse. They emphasize creative or innovative ideas in order
to transform company's culture (Young and et.al., 2021). Here, the leaders are more focused on
positive results from staff members by keeping leading them effectively and follows reward
system. For example- The leaders of the Lenovo creates a safe or positive environment to
challenge the status. Thus, they more concerned about vision statement that inspires and
encourages followers of the firm to meet important targets. They provide a sense of achievement

and meaning in order to identify shared vision. It will ultimately avoid conflicts between
employees and engage performance management.
In lenovo, the leaders push their staff members out of their comfort zone in order to meet
employees needs (Xu and et.al., 2021). Providing them transparency is the major goal of the
leaders here. They utilize this method in difficult situation such as collaboration with employees
so that they can identify important areas where improvement is much-needed. On the other side,
if the leaders apply house's path goal theory- it is helpful to motivate the employees and
encourages performance. They do so by offering the detailed information, ideas, support which
are required to complete the task performance by employees. Here, the leaders act as coaches
and follows participative style because the leader believes in team work so, that they can make
decisions and shares information.
2. Developing a personal leadership model including values and behaviours.
Personal leadership model means the leaders of the company chose the theory of
leaderships in order to meet desired goals. They utilize it effectively as they are core elements to
contribute towards a successful and important model of leadership (Plata and et.al., 2021).
Leaders are made by the behaviour and values they exhibit over the time period through their
experience, ability, learning styles which they have inculcated through surrounding challenges.
While facing issue or confusing situations in life one needs to focus on strong philosophical
value or behaviours.
For the leader of Lenovo company, behavioural theory would be suitable in order to
develop personal leadership model. Here the leaders needs to inspire their employees by
evaluating the performance and behaviour. Therefore, it is important for them to unleash their
potential efforts and energy for the best results. Every organization needs positive environment
and employees always look for someone who exhibit a positive energy thus, an effective or
energetic leaders will be beneficial for the companies' performance (Peng and et.al., 2021). The
Lenovo leader focus on strategic thinking and clear vision in order to achieve long term view. An
effective leader empathizes with employees or others so that people form a connection with each
other and make efforts towards the common goals. A good leader need to practice discipline and
learn to develop situational awareness to avoid any uncertainty. They are more focused on
resolving conflicts and maintain team work between employees and distribute them
responsibilities on the basis of their experience and interest.

A strong philosophy plays a vital role in leadership model to analyse if employees is
moving in the right path or not. A personal leadership model is effective when one bases oneself
on a right philosophy then it becomes really easy or simple to make strategic decisions (Ofosu-
Anim and Back, 2021). One of the core values is that a mission is achieved when the employees
efforts and unique qualities involved to achieve goals. According to personal leadership model,
leadership in the company emphasizes that the behaviours exhibited by an employee determines
the capabilities and qualities of leadership. It provides lot of scope to become a leader by
channelizing behaviour. They are more focused on Utilizing and respecting the skills and
knowledges of everyone in the company.
So, this is the great way to develop a personal leadership models to develop leadership skills
which includes core value and behaviour.
3. Judging current approaches to effective leadership such as power, culture, coaching and
others.
Nowadays, leadership and its role are the most concerning issue for the company's
culture. An effective leadership creates a positive and safe environment to achieve goals. A good
leadership comes from the personal qualities and experiences (Northouse, 2021). An effective
leadership is a systematic process in which an individual influences a team work and create cross
cultural communication to achieve desired targets. Leadership style is all about an ability to
organize and maintain the management in order to protect the company. They are also focused
on firm's benefits by realizing staff members need and brining them together to work as a team in
a positive atmosphere.
Power- Leadership power is the process in which leaders persuade employees to help and
support their contribution and efforts. It is said that people don't follow leaders without
leadership power. The leaders need to use their power to lead and manager team members. There
are various types of leadership power that a leader of Lenovo can use to manage and lead staff
members to achieve success. A person with power manages and commands prominence in order
to shape employees behaviour.
Reward power- It is the power utilized by the leaders in situation whereby an employee
possesses the ability or capability. In order to encourage employees the company nowadays are
using reward power as a motivating factor.

Legitimate power- This power plays a vital role as the managers usually utilizes this approach
within the company. Here, the leader has the capacity to manage various resources such as
punishments, reward and others.
Influence- it is important to leadership style because leaders cannot perform without it.
Influence plays a vital role to successful leadership as the leaders here need to spread effective
and creative ides in order to motivate employees so that they can make decisions (Leadership
styles and how to find your own, 2021). After that, employees are able to implement decisions to
support each and every staff members of the company.
Coaching- It is powerful tool used by company to manage employees training sessions
and help business leaders to maximize the employees' performance. They help team members to
improve their skills such as communication skills, personnel skills and others. The leaders
practice discipline and other personal development skills at individual level to motivate team-
mates. An effective coaching in leadership model improve personal investment and engagement
of the team members. They help them to perform well, promote learning and development from
experience.
Leading changes- An effective leader focus on communication and collaboration by
bringing employees together to plan for future goals. The leader of Lenovo provide commitment
to become successful and made sure their own behaviour and beliefs supported changes, too.
They are more focused on improving changes plans and implement them.
Culture- leadership culture in the company is essential to building positive environment
and organizational culture. This shows how leaders and managers interact with others to make
decisions. It includes behaviours, values, interactions, collaboration and beliefs. Leaders create
norms and standards in the Lenovo at all levels in order to provide employees with the business
opportunity take the lead on strategic development and projects.
4. Analysing personal leadership style and creating a development plan to improve leadership
capability.
Personal leadership style is all about being authentic and leading on the basis of personal
beliefs and values. It is said that the strategic leadership development plan should include
potential, efforts as well as other effective areas of improvement (Holmes Jr and et.al., 2021). It
should include the time frame in which one want to complete the task and the cost which shows
how much money is needed and every area where one want see potential to develop. As

discussed, the leader of Lenovo is more focused on behavioural leadership theory which involves
the overall success is based on the behaviour and values. Leadership development plan is a key
initiative for every business thus, it needs to improve so that decision-making process can be
done effectively.
Development plan to improve leadership.
Objective Action required Resources Time frame Success criteria
Find out strength
and weakness
Mapping
leadership skills
by understanding
capabilities,
ability.
By using various
methods or
techniques to
raise awareness
about capacity for
future success.
1 months Employees are
following self
reflection assessment
and 360 assessment.
Practice
discipline
Always keep
appointments and
end meetings on
time.
Regularly
communicate
with staff
members.
1.5 months Team members are
more focused on
motivation and
following guidelines.
Set an attainable
goals and target
Keep track record
on specific ideas
and information.
PACE model can
be used by the
company which
means pick a
goal, appraise
others and collect
ideas and
information and
provide feedback.
2.5 months Employees are
focusing on long term
goals to boost their
professional
effectiveness with the
help of feedback.
Engage in
leadership
training and
development
Keep practising
the skills to
empower staff
members.
Mind tools and
master class
management
would be helpful.
3 months Learners gained
knowledge and
effective skills from
the development

program.
Develop soft
skills
Work on
communication
skills, practice
empathy and
listening skills
Attend seminars,
workshop and
arrange weekly
meetings.
2.5 months Employees track
productivity rates and
work as a team which
leads to success in
time management and
communication.
Motivate team
members
Delegating task
on the basis of
employees
interest and skills
Reward power
must be utilized
to encourage
employees.
2 months Employees are
attaining guidelines
which is beneficial
for the company's
performance.
5. Appraising a business challenges or opportunity and designing a leadership approach to
address the issue.
Business opportunity- An effective leader creates a clear vision and mission statements and
apply them to encourage stakeholders of the company towards desired goals or target. It is said
that when a leader is identifying business opportunities then they must focus on challenges,
needs of customer and competitors analysis.
Strategic acquisitions- In the recent years, Lenovo has strategically acquired a large
number of business operations to expand its product portfolio and reach its target market. In the
year 2014 the company acquired Motorola mobility from google, this was the big hit and
enhance its customer base. The company is now focusing on growing tablets and smartphones
market. Lenovo has also been focusing on the growing market position opportunity by focusing
on cloud computing business (Gardner and et.al., 2021). Increasing demand for personal
computer globally is the opportunity for company. Nowadays government companies increasing
their investment on information technology.
An effective leader must design a leadership approach and invest in leadership skills. The
most powerful tool in leadership is empathy which is emotional intelligence. If the leaders are

potentially able to improve their empathy then they can easily influence other team members to
achieve success in a most effective way. Paying close attention to team members and
understanding the needs of customer will help leaders to build strong relationships. By utilizing
transformational leadership, the company highly influence as role models to motivate others. The
company leaders must focus on problems as it can be more challenging. For successful business,
Being authentic will be helpful to solve the issues.
The firm is focusing on building relationship with customers and employees because
both are the key initiative for successful business (Einola and Alvesson, 2021). If the leaders of
the firm communicate accountability and regularly check on employees' performance, manage
conflict competitors analysis and develop skills then they can achieve success. With the helps of
leadership approach company can achieve business opportunity strategic acquisition, vision
statement and gain competitive advantages.
6. Predicting employee performance based on leadership techniques used in the company.
Transformational leadership is one of the most popular leadership techniques used by
company to predict employee performance. It is the most desirable leadership method having
positive impact on different types of employees performance. It will also address productivity
and relationship between employees performance and leadership style or skills. Furthermore, the
Lenovo leader is applying cognitive theory to assume employees performance. It will also
address the top-level management builds close relationships with company's employees.
Intellectual and inspirational stimulation is the degree in which the leaders of the company
challenges assumptions and task risks. On the other hand, it articulates a vision statement that is
inspiring to employees with high standards.
It is mandatory to focus on group performance with innovation and innovative behaviour.
Moreover, employees performance based on their task and responsibilities refers to the
evaluation of the behaviour in traditional job descriptions (Berkovich and Eyal, 2021). It is an
essential element, taken into consideration by the company's leaders to keep record on employee
performance appraisal indicators. This leadership method can anticipate that team members will
needs transformational leadership when the work is more meaningful and stressful. Here, the
leaders must predict individual performance to support employees which includes coaching,
training, allocating task or responsibilities on the basis of performance and interest. The leaders
need to provide feedback to motivate and encourage employees and needs to follow new

approaches on different situation (Changar and Atan, 2021). Inspirational motivation will be
helpful to deal with emotional traits and build self-confidence. This leadership style is most
important factor which enhance the team members' ability to deal with all kind of situation. So,
that they can organize the optimum level of mental stress through motivational and situational
theory in order to enhance their confidence level.
The leaders follow a strategy in which they can allocate various assessment and tasks on
the basis of employees performance and must evaluate individual performances. Employees of
Lenovo are encouraged by the leader to achieve success and perform better at workplace.
Therefore, employees' performance and intrinsic motivation illustrates an essential contribution
in organizational growth and progress.
CONCLUSION
To conclude, leadership styles can motivate people to achieve success and solve the
business related issues. An effective leadership helps the company to develop business strategies
and encourages employees with the help of power and influences which includes reward system
and punishments. Providing feedback is the best way to motivate the team members so that they
can perform effectively for future success. By evaluating the report, it is also concluded that the
company is utilizing behavioural theory in its leaderships skills. The leaders focus on team work
and act together in groups to implement strategies and solve problems. At last, the report
summarized that the company is utilizing transformational leadership model in order to predict
employees performance.

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