Organisational Behaviour and Leadership

ORGANISATIONAL
BEHAVIOUR AND
LEADERSHIP

Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................... 2
An introduction to the organisation.......................................................................2
Description and analysis of the organisational behaviour or leadership issue.......3
Literature review – overview of application theories to the identified issue..........4
Evaluation of possible alternative solutions required to improve the situation.....8
Recommendations of the most suitable strategies................................................8
Conclusion........................................................................................................... 10
References........................................................................................................... 11

Introduction
This report brings out a discussion on leadership affecting the organisational issues. A leader
acts an influencer, manager, and supervisor of the operations and the activities of the
company. This report considers a corporate failure due to leader`s power to regulate the
organisational operations. This report reveals the product quality issues in Toyota. Further, an
effective literature review has been described regarding the styles of leadership. It affects the
productivity and motivates the employee`s morale from the effective leadership that also
ensures no issues in relation to the quality. The literature review undertakes to elaborate
many leadership theories such as trait theory, behavioural theories, autocratic theory,
participative theory, democratic leadership, situational leadership, contingency leadership,
and laissez- faire leadership (Anderson, and Sun, 2017).
An overview of quality issues in Toyota has been complied with the forms of leadership to
actually identify the role of a leader to improve the organisational issues by maintaining
culture at workplace. Each leadership trait tries to find the possible alternative solutions
required to improve the situation in the company. Further, at last several recommendation has
been strategized as per the adoption of leadership so that the goal of improving the quality
(DuBrin, 2015).
An introduction to the organisation
Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese company of Toyota Group that was renowned as one
of the leading a largest automobile manufacturer on the globe in 2008. It owns nearly 600
subsidiaries for the purpose of production of cars. The company was founded in 1933 and
further it developed main car production from business to other large industrial groups that
includes finance, machinery, and other industries. After 1930s and 1940s, Toyota has tried to
accelerate and fasten the development. With the introduction American and European

technology with the accomplishment management and technical experts, which has to be
mastered management techniques and automobile production techniques according to the
features of Japanese`s automobile industry. It continues to perfectly improve the plant`s
efficiency and the total production was nearly 10 million. Toyota maintains strong
development capabilities with greater importance to foresee the customer`s demand. The
company worked in south East Asia, US, and Britain so that it can establish joint venture by
the joint implementation in regards to the internationalisation strategy in the development of
production and design. The annual export of cars is nearly 5 million (Elbanna, and
Elsharnouby, 2018). The company will post a recorded net profit of nearly 2.5 trillion will the
unit sales of 8964394 for March 2018.
Description and analysis of the organisational
behaviour or leadership issue
Some of the criteria of the leadership issues started appearing among the employees
considering their teamwork, skills, diligence, safety compliance, work quality, and
attendance. Due to poor managing power, poor handling of employees and poor safety
compliance has led to huge labour turnover that has caused by either kicking them out or self-
resignation (Eranova, and Prashantham, 2017). The leader has faced many challenges related
to efficiency, productive, and compliant workforce. The leader started complaining about the
sick leave system and complained about the staff sickness. He has said that the redundancies
has destroyed the morale (Eranova, and Prashantham, 2017). The procedure of traumatic for
the survival of workers lead to losing of job and several responses lead to anger, depression,
guilt, reassured about the future insecurities, and anxiety. Although, the company leaders
have seen that retrenchment has led to least productive staff. However, at the same time
productivity accelerated after the redundancies (Eranova, and Prashantham, 2017). The main
task of leader is to restore the energy, sense of purpose, excitement, and a huge component of