ISM 4094 - Leadership Roles and Theories of Mintzberg - Enterprise System
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1ENTERPRISE SYSTEMIntroductionThe purpose of the following paper is about criticizing the leadership roles and theoriesof Mintzberg who has developed certain ideas about the term ‘leadership’. Leadership has beenone of the major things that lead an organization towards the grand success. Leaders are thepeople who show the path of success to their subordinates and help them in times of any trouble.The leaders are key people who try to motivate the employees to work hard so that they canachieve the objectives and goals of the organization. He had found some conflicting issuesbetween the roles of managers and the leaders. This is why he never wanted to mark themanagers as true leaders.CritiqueMintzberg has always addressed the roles of the managers and leaders from a differentperspective (Bryson 2012). Mintzberg has developed the idea that the creative and innovativeideas come from the brainstorming of the leaders as they observe the critical situationssystematically and thus come to a conclusion by analyzing the various conflicting viewpoints. Hehad concluded that managers were the people who did not provide any certain time for looking atdifferent tasks properly. Instead, they were the people who went on to utilize their times onshifting their attention on different tasks at the same time (Avolio and Yammarino 2013). Theywere rather the people who use to dominate the employees and dictate what they should do. Thisis contradictory to the fact that the leaders of the organizations try to motivate the employees toachieve the organizational objectives by providing them proper guidance (Miner 2015).Mintzberg has also discovered that the leaders should not be any superhuman beings on whomthe employees should rely on blindly.
2ENTERPRISE SYSTEMInspiration is one of the main things that can be attributed to leadership (Goleman,Boyatzis and McKee 2013). However, it is not the only duty of the leaders. Mintzberg hasasserted the fact that leadership is no superhuman role to perform. It can be done by everydaypeople. This is not a difficult job at all that can be performed by a selected few only. Mintzbergthinks that people should stop to wait for a savior who will come and save them from all theproblems in the day to day lives. This can also be done by the daily people as well. It is advisablethat the people should not depend on the leaders to solve their problems all the times since theyare human beings too. They should give relief to the managers by learning to solve their ownproblems. This would be useful for them to concentrate on their work better. Mintzberg hasshown a skeptical attitude to the fact that people admit their children so that they can becomeexceptional leaders when they grow up. This is not an ideal thing to imagine because theleadership skills are inherent and no matter what school the children are reading in, they wouldsurely develop the leadership abilities (Schoemaker, Krupp and Howland 2013). He thinks thebest way to develop leadership is to focus on the talent one has and utilize that talent for goodworks. This way all the needs and desires can be fulfilled by the particular people who haveleadership qualities inside them. According to Mintzberg, the people who want to be goodleaders can become so if they focus on their own personal experiences and thus take the help ofcertain conceptual models of leadership to link their experiences (Batool 2013). In this way, theycan surely develop their leadership skills by themselves. The managers have to get some time sothat they can get themselves a free time to think about some innovative management ideas fromtheir own personal experiences and apply it in their respective organizations. It is also a fact thatthinking of the leaders to be persons as some superheroes, thus separating the ideas ofmanagement leaders from that of the fantasy leaders. The leadership model of Mintzberg will
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