Leadership Development: Report on a Case Study

This report provides a detailed explanation of leadership and management duties differences faced by the managing director as the leader of the team. It also describes the responses of MD towards the legal, ethical and strategic concerns. At the end of the report, there are recommendations on leadership behaviour, conflicts resolutions and developing teamwork, which helps the organisation in enhancing organisation upliftment.

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Leadership Development
Report on a Case Study
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Introduction
Leader of an organisation is an individual who influences his followers to work
effectively for the achievement of the specific goal (Harvard Business Review ,
2019).
Leadership is the leader, who has the abilities to influence, guide and helps the
employees of the organisation working under him. In addition, generally, the
executive management or the individuals who have secured the C Level position in
the organisation perform the leadership duties (Techtarget, 2019).
Around 65 % of the Businesses have improved their performance because of the
leadership development program compared with the other six companies who are
not following this program. In the same manner, approx. 86% of the companies have
a rapid response with this program as per the dynamic environment (Center for
Creative Leadership , 2019).
Brief Introduction of Case study “A meeting of minds?”
In the case study, the MD is appointed as the head of the company recently acquired
in Italy. In addition, he has to spearhead the changes in the operations running in the
European countries. Before the departure, MD instructed the owners to make the
cross subsidiary team of companies key managers. These managers have to work
under his Leadership.
In this Report, there is a detailed explanation of the leadership along with the
managerial duties performed by the MD in the Case Study. In addition, there are
various topics and aspects to analyse the case study, which helps in providing
meaningful recommendations for the further strategies company might adopt.
The Leadership and Management Duties differences faced by the leader (Case
Study)
 Counting vs. Creating idea
The leadership one of the duties in the business is to create the value for which the
team is created, that means, the leader has to acts as the creator of that team.
However, the management one of the duties is to count the values, that means, the
managers have to act as the individual who adds the ideas (Harvard Business
Review , 2019).
In the case study, the leader is facing the problem that he was not able to convey his
idea of meeting to the managers in a proper way as the agenda for the meeting is
not been fulfilled is an appropriate manner and the meeting ends with the
unnecessary discussion.
 Effective Communication vs. Coordination
The leadership one of the duties in the business is to maintain the “Effective
Communication” within the organisation. However, the management one of the

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duties is to maintain the “Effective Coordination” within the organisation (Career
Trend, 2019).
In the case study, the leader is facing the problem in both the aspects as he has
organised the meeting to establish effective communication and coordination in
between both the companies of Italy and Lithuania. However, he was not able to
establish these aspects fully.
Managing Director Response on Legal Concerns
Legal Concerns of the organisation is related to the corporate governance and the
managing director and the leader of the company has the legal responsibility to
participate in corporate governance (The Economic Times , 2019). Therefore, the
Managing Director should response on the legal concerns of the Company and this
can be done by following the legal duties and responsibilities of the Managing
Director such as a duty of care, the duty of Loyalty and duty of obedience.
In the case study, Managing Director required upholding the duty of care as it the
legal concern of the organisation that the MD as a leader has to avoid the
management risk by developing the plan and policies through which the differences
between the companies are solved and the further work followed smoothly.
In addition, MD has to follow the duty of loyalty and he must respond to these
conflicts to identify the circumstances, to disclose the conflicts, voting on the issues
rather than giving own decision and resolve the conflicts. By following these steps,
the MD might able to resolve the disappointments of both the companies.
Moreover, MD has to follow the duty of obedience, as the responsibility of MD is to
ensure that both the Companies should follow the rules and regulations of the
organisations is stepping helps in resolving the difference between the two
companies.
Managing Director Response on Ethical Concerns
Ethical Concerns of the organisation is related to the “Code of Business Conduct”
and the managing director and the leader of the company has to follow them. The
code of conducts includes the ethical responsibilities, conflicts of interest, corporate
opportunities, confidentially, fair dealing and compliance procedures (NCBI, 2019). In
addition, if these code of conducts are not followed in the organisation than it is to be
considered as unethical behaviour.
In the case study, Managing Director as a leader has the ethical responsibility that
within the organisation the Code of Business Conduct” must be followed by both the
companies. If any of these companies not following these codes then, it is
considered to be unethical behaviour and MD should respond to it by taking some
strict actions.
In addition, MD should fairly deal in this situation when both the companies are
disappointed which had created differences in between them and it is the ethical duty
of the MD to resolve these differences between them.

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Moreover, MD ethical duty is to monitor the ethical behaviour of the team as the
leader. He is the one who has to take the necessary steps to evaluate the ethical
behaviour of the team. As a leader has to be clear and consistence reaction on the
situation and this the part of ethical culture of the organisation that the organisational
people has to follow the ethical culture by following the leader's agendas based on
ethical behaviour.
Managing Director Response on Strategic Concerns
Strategic Concern of the organisation is related to the “Strategic planning” of the
company and the managing director and the leader of the company have to follow
the necessary steps to implement this strategic plan (Gilgeous, 2019). The Managing
Director has to make sure that the organisational people have to work according to
the strategic plan as it is the strategic concern for him and the organisation. It is the
fundamental responsibility of the managing director to implement it in the
organisation in an effective manner.
In the case study, Managing Director as a leader has to give directions to the team to
do the work as per the strategic plan as it holds the position of the leadership. He
has to work on the team building process as both the companies have many clashes
and because of the clashes, the problems may occur in future. Hence, it is
compulsory for the MD to response on this situation by taking up the necessary
steps to resolve these kinds of difference in between the companies, which could
help the MD in building up the efficient team for the further projects.
Recommendation on “Leadership behaviour, attitude and style”
 Trust your team: The leader of the organisation should always trust his team
and give them liberty by trusting on their innovative ideas. In addition, trust is
the two-way street if the leader does not trust the team then the team will not
trust the leader so it is very important for the leader to trust the team
(Business Leadership Qualities , 2019). In the case study, also the MD should
trust the team and should support the ideas of both the companies.
 Stick to your commitment: The leader should always stick to the
commitment and always keep promises of the team. This helps in establishing
a positive environment in the organisation as the team will always faith his
leader (CMOE, 2019). In the case study, the MD should always be on words
and will be on his commitment so that both the teams have faith in the
decision of the MD.
 Treat everyone fairly: The leader should always treat every organisational
people fairly, which means all the people of the organisation is equal for the
leader and this will help in promoting a healthy environment in the
organisation (The Balance Career, 2019). In the case study, the MD should
supports the team in a fair manner so that the conflicts will not take place in
between the two companies.

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Recommendation on “Conflict resolution”
 Listen: The leader of the company must have the practice of listening to the
views of team and should always welcome the innovative ideas without
interrupting them so that there will be fewer chances of the conflicts in the
organisation (Jokanović, 2017). If in any case, there is the chance of conflicts
within the organisation then the leader should listen to the problems and react
accordingly. This will helps in the resolution of the conflicts. In the case study,
the MD should listen to both the companies in a fair manner and take the
correct actions.
 Stay calm: The leader should always have the quality to stay calm in any
complicated situation. He should always have patience while dealing with
complicated situations especially at the time of conflicts so that the problem
will resolve in a calm manner (Entrepreneur, 2019). In the case study, MD
should stay calm as both the companies are disappointed with each other and
there are the chances of conflicts in between the companies so as the leader
MD should stay calm and have patience while dealing with both the
companies.
 Positive attitude: The leader’s positive attitude will help the organisational
conflicts to be resolved quickly without any disappointments in the
organisation as the leader has the power to deal with the situation in with the
positive behaviour. In the case study, the MD should have positive behaviour
towards the situation and this positive attitude will help the MD to resolve the
differences in between the companies.
Recommendation on “Developing teamwork”
 Effective communication: The leader should always have effective
communication for developing teamwork so that the team should always get a
clear vision of the instructions given by the leader and work in a united
manner (Forbes , 2019). In the case study, the MD must have the quality of
effective communication so that both the companies should have a clear
vision of the orders given by the MD. In addition, effective communication
helps the MD in developing teamwork in the organisation.
 Creative Freedom: The leader of the company should always give the
freedom to the team to think creatively and generate innovative ideas for the
organisation upliftment (The Balance Career , 2019). In the case study, the
MD is the leader of the team and he should always give the freedom to both
the companies to think creatively which helps in enhancing the business of
the organisation. In addition, it will help in developing the teamwork.
 Adaptability: The leader of the company should have the quality to adapt the
changes as per the dynamic environment, which helps the team to do work in
the same unit and follow the same path of the leader (Forbes , 2019). This will
helps in developing the teamwork in the organisation. In the case study, MD
should also have the capability to adapt the changes as per the changing
requirement of the organisation, which helps in establishing the teamwork in
between bot the companies.

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Summary
In the above discussion, it can be seen that the leader should have the capabilities
that can help the leader in improving the abilities, skills and confidence of the team in
the organisation. This leadership development helps in expanding the capacity of the
leader to perform the roles of leadership in the organisation in an efficient manner. In
addition, there is the explanation of Leadership and Management Duties differences
faced by the Managing director as the leader of the team. Moreover, there is the
description of the responses of MD towards the legal, ethical and strategic concerns.
At the end of the report, there are recommendations on leadership behaviour,
conflicts resolutions and developing teamwork, which helps the organisation in
enhancing organisation upliftment. Therefore, effective leadership will help
organisational growth.

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