Leadership Models Adopted by BioNtech for Strategic Achievement

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Management
Managing organizations and people
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7/20/2019

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Introduction
The concept of leadership focuses on setting and achieving goals; it tackles the competition
and solves the problems of the business quickly and decisively. It focuses on developing the
corporate culture where all the employees are integrating their goals with the goals of the
organization (Western, 2019). A leader in the one who initiates actions and motivates the
employees by clearly communicating the goals and the expectations from them. It plays a
guiding role and creates a positive working environment. Application of effective leadership
allows the company to coordinate its goals and sustain its competitive advantage It is
analysed that leadership is the most important process for aligning the task and influencing
the members to perform them willingly. It allows developing the organizational culture where
the common vision is shared (Antonakis and Day, 2017).
The further paragraphs of the report will cover the leadership styles and the models adopted
by BioNtech to strategically achieve its vision and mission. BioNtech is Europe’s biggest
privately-held biopharmaceutical company pioneering the development of individualized
therapies for cancer and other diseases (BioNtech, 2019). The CEO of the company focuses
on effectively managing the team members and integrating their efforts towards the common
vision. It will also include the leadership models that help in achieving the strategic
objectives (BioNtech, 2019).

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Leadership models
Managerial grid model
(Source: (Komives, 2016)
This managerial grid model of leadership was developed in the year 1960 by Robert Blake
and Jane Mouton. This model is formed on the basis of two behavioural magnitudes .i.e.
concern for the persons and concern for the outcome. This reflects whether the leader is
concerned about the team members or about higher productivity or organizational efficiency
(Komives, 2016).
Blake and Mouton have described five styles of leadership which are as follows:
Impoverished Management:

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Under this style of leadership, the leader is ineffective because he is not able to motivate the
members to perform and often results in the inevitable organization. It creates dissatisfaction
and disharmony in the company.
Perish Management
Under this style of leadership, the leader believes that the team members are simply a means
to an end. Under this style, the leader is known as the authoritarian leader who has strict rules
and procedures and focuses on achieving the results. The concern for people is always put
secondary. Under this style of leadership, the employee has low morale and motivation and it
becomes difficult to retain the employees (Zhu et al, 2015).
Middle of the road management
Under this style of leadership, the status quo manager tries to make a balance between the
result and the people. At this style, the manager makes the continual compromises and fails to
encounter the wants of the employees and the high performance of the company (Taucean,
Tamasila and Negru-Strauti, 2016).
Country club management
This reflects the accommodating style of a leader under which it focuses on creating a
relaxing working environment. The leader highly focuses upon the people and the
productivity of the organization suffers because there is a lack of direction and control.
Team Management
Under this model team management is reflected as the finest style of leadership under which
the leader focuses on higher productivity and concern for people is the highest priority. Under
this style, the leader focuses on creating a motivating environment for the workers and aligns