Leadership and Organizational Management

This assignment explores the author's experience demonstrating key management qualities like planning, organizing, controlling, and leading during a challenging situation at their college. A conflict arose due to overlapping events (welcome program, annual party, examinations), causing student dissatisfaction and potential disruption. The author, recognizing the issue, took initiative by convening a meeting with students and teachers, proposing solutions to merge programs and adjust examination schedules. This demonstrates effective problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills within an organizational context.

Running head: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS
Managing People and Organisations
Name of Student:
Name of University:
Author’s Note:

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A situation in which I had showcased the qualities of planning, controlling, organising
and leading was at the time I had just joined my college. At that time I was a fresher and did not
have much interaction with any of the other students who were in my year or even my seniors.
There was a problem in maintaining a particular schedule in the college as the dates for the
welcome programme, the annual party and the upcoming examinations were clashing. There
were several disputes among the students and it gave rise to a lot of confusion. Many of the
students stated clearly that they would not be attending either of the programmes or the party as
they did not want to harm their grades. This led to the party having a chance of becoming a
failure and hence it would have a negative impact on the name of the college. There was an issue
between the juniors and seniors as well as the teachers were in a dilemma as to how to place a
schedule for the examinations which could not be delayed at any cost.
Being a witness to the situation and understanding the whole situation I realized how
crucial it was to solve the issue. I took it upon myself to arrange for a meeting of all the students
along with the teachers on an urgent basis. This according to me was an example of a leadership
quality (Northouse 2015). After that I put forward the suggestion that a possible arrangement be
made to accommodate the two programs of welcoming new students and the annual party be
merged in a single day in the morning and evening so that the students would not lose out on two
crucial dates. I also suggested to the teachers to take the practical examinations after the
theoretical instead of before, so that the students would get two to three weeks time to study for
the examinations. At the same time they could enjoy the party and their presence in the welcome
programme would make it a success (Cooke and Williams 2013).
Thus in case of my suggestion to the teachers regarding the practical date, it showcased
my planning capabilities. I had thought in advance that a suggestion to completely postpone the

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examination schedule would not be accepted at any cost. Therefore it was important to make a
suggestion which was helpful and also was acceptable by the teachers.
Arranging a meeting at such a short notice was an example of organising skills. It
required a certain amount of effort to take an initiative to bring all the teachers and students
together for a meeting when I myself was a fresher. The entire situation showed an example of a
controlling power so that the situation could be brought to a specific state within a short span of
time. I knew that in order to take the situation under control it had to be done as soon as possible.
In this situation therefore I showcased the characteristics of planning, organising, controlling and
ultimately leadership (Kerzner 2013).

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References:
Cooke, B. and Williams, P., 2013. Construction planning, programming and control. John Wiley
& Sons.
Kerzner, H., 2013. Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Northouse, P.G., 2015. Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage publications.