Leadership for contemporary organization

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Leadership for contemporary organization
4/22/2019

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Q1.
The concept assuming that the people working in an organisation will adapt their
behaviour to meet an expectation is known as Pygmalion effect. In other words, Pygmalion
effect in workplace refers to the aspect whereby other’s expectations of an individual or
target person affect their performance. In context to an organisation, a leader’s expectations
towards the employees may alter or change the leader’s behaviour. This may further lead to a
change employee’s behaviour in favour or against of their leaders. It has been analysed that
the concept of Pygmalion effect is observed on the productivity of the employees and creates
a change or influence on the behaviour of employees. The most effective change in the
behaviour of employees has observed through the increased expectations of the leader. The
more engaged an employee is in learning activities, the higher will be the expectation of the
leader for their employees in the organisation (Duan et al., 2017).
The effect of the Pygmalion leads to increased performance and affects the
productivity in the international organisations. The Pygmalion effect on the international
organisations has found positive as integration of different economies, and organisations
bring people together to achieve a common goal. In this way, employee working in these
international firms show high commitment towards the organisation, and show positive
behaviour towards members. Therefore, it acts as major benefit, i.e. a healthy relationship
between manager and worker and ensures effectiveness of the management practices and
strategies to attain increased profit and revenue over a period (Raiz, Zubair & Shahbaz,
2017).
Q2.
Leadership refers to the process of influencing behaviour of the individuals in an
organisation, towards maximizing their efforts towards a common goal. In an organisation,
leadership is significant as it inspires others to pursue the vision, to attain predetermined
objectives and ensure success in the long-term. However, leaders face many challenges in the
process of the attainment of leadership goals, in the present global business environment
(Dartey-Baah, 2015).
Developing managerial effectiveness: The challenge of developing skills, such as time-
management skills, problem-solving skills, decision-making skills, and others significantly
impact the process of goal attainment.

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Development of employees: It states about developing employees through mentoring and
coaching in the organisation, to help them attain goals.
Guiding change: the challenge of managing, mobilising, understanding, and leading
change is the major barrier in today’s modern businesses. Other barriers that exist in
organisations also include managing the issues of the key stakeholders, politics and image,
and gaining managerial support. Managing and satisfying the needs and expectations of the
varied stakeholders in the organisation, is a barrier affecting the leadership goals (Silva, 2016).
Therefore, these are major barriers for the attainment of leadership goals in the
modern business environment. To overcome the barriers in attaining the individual leadership
goals in the organisation, a leader can work to improve their communication skills, conflict
management skills. It also includes organising training seminars, and programmes to boost
the morale, and help employees attain leadership goals. Thus, a leader must practice effective
communication with their followers or employees to ensure they work better, within a diverse
team and attain high growth in the future (Meleis, 2016).
Q3.
Transformational leadership refers to the aspect of inspiring and empowering
employees and motivating them towards enhancing their performance and gain positive
results. an organisation must focus on the implementation of effective leadership style or
theory to derive positive outcomes from the organisational strategies or practices.
Implementation of transformational leadership is beneficial to both, employers or managers
and the employees working in the organisation. However, there are particular circumstances,
which state the implementation of transformational leadership more beneficial to the
organisation, or not.
For an instance, in enterprises or organisations that do not have internal experts, and
who can advise for a particular course of action may involve the application of
transformational leadership. Therefore, on the implementation of transformational leadership,
managers will fine a cost effective strategy to introduce these practices to the organisation
(Raiz, Zubair & Shahbaz, 2017).
On the contrary, situations when using transformational leadership within
organisation may not be beneficial. In the case or situation, when the organisation does not
want to introduce any change in their practices, or policies. In addition, the case when the