Importance of Perception of Leaders and Contemporary Traits in Management and Leadership in Metropolitan Police

This article discusses the importance of perception of leaders and contemporary traits in management and leadership in Metropolitan Police. It covers the impact of perception on stakeholders, ways to manage perception, and contemporary traits such as effective communication, motivation, decision making, and flexibility.

MANAGEMENT AND
LEADERSHIP

TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUESTION 1...................................................................................................................................3
What is the importance of perception of leaders how does this impact readiness of
stakeholders and how could a new leader of the Metropolitan police manage their perception
have of them?..............................................................................................................................3
QUESTION 2...................................................................................................................................5
Focusing on two contemporary traits in management and leadership, to what extent have these
traits has been demonstrated in Metropolitan police?.................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

QUESTION 1
What is the importance of perception of leaders how does this impact readiness of stakeholders
and how could a new leader of the Metropolitan police manage their perception have of
them?
The perception of leaders plays significant role in the context of growth and success of
companies (Dinh, Caliskan and Zhu, 2021). In each and every company, either small or large the
perception of effective and skilled leaders may contribute to shape the environment in the
workplace and effectiveness of working atmospheres, where skilled and talented candidates are
performing together for purpose of achieving target aims and objectives. It can be said the term
perception is defined as the effective way that drive the attention of a leader toward interpreting
their experience, knowledge and useful comprehending related to varied concepts that is
beneficial and essential for each candidate to study (Ng and et.al., 2021). In the companies, the
perceptions or point of views of leaders, are considered as path way that individual person prefer
to follow, which drives their attention and overall concentration toward unpredictable success
and growth that they want to do so. It may contribute to create those working environment,
where employees prefer to work for longer time and enjoy daily practice that they are
responsible to conduct in appropriate and systematic manner. Perception not only create the
experience of knowledge around individuals, but also allow them to act within that specify
environment, which in return lead to increase their productiveness and performance level (Chen
and et.al., 2021). It may support to guide people about what they can do even better than last few
years or months effectively and successfully, without making any major mistake that put
negative impact on their hard work.
The perception of effective leaders may put direct impact on readiness of stakeholders in
positive manner, for purpose of engaging with vision of a leader and in the company achieving
its target aims (Ahtiainen, Fonsén and Kiuru, 2021). It affects positively in form of driving the
concentration of stakeholders such as employees, managers and others to engage themselves
with the clear vision of a leader that guide them how to complete work and what need to do
further that affect the way firm reach desire outcomes. In the recent time, when a leader has clear
point of view regarding any project or work, it may put positive impact on readiness of
stakeholders, as it may contribute to move them ahead toward engaging in company aim

achievement initiatives, for which they are also accountable in several terms. In an organization,
each and every stakeholder are ready to engage with mission of a leader and in business for
purpose of achieving aims. Their readiness may affect effectively and positively in form of
moving forward in the future and current work scenario, in which they may have to perform
productively and effectively. On the other hand, it may put negative impact on readiness of
employees, management and others stakeholders, when the perception of leaders are not clear in
the context of any concept or tasks.
As it affects adversely in form of decreasing the effectiveness and productiveness of
stakeholders, which directly or indirectly impact business performance and efficiency to achieve
target goals and objectives, which management may expect to obtain from all the candidates
(Els, Meyer and Ellis, 2022). In the metropolitan police force a new leader manage the
perception stakeholders have of them in affective manner in term of considering the needs and
requirement of each stakeholder that they expect to fulfil in effective manner in the workplace
while working with the higher authority. They can manage everything from perception to
motivation and other things of the stakeholders have of them by considering the ethical concept
and conducting these concepts into practical manner which is quite important for them to do so.
Furthermore, there are different type of ways that enable a new leader of the metropolitan police
force to manage perceptions stakeholders have of them (López‐Concepción, Gil‐Lacruz and Saz‐
Gil, 2022). It’s quite important for any leader whether they are new or existing to manage the
perception of stakeholders in effective manner. They may conduct a collaborative practice and
communicate with the others just to make a sure that their point of you met others perception or
not. In the recent time, when a new leader manage perception stakeholders have of them, they
may boost the confidence level and morale of each stakeholder that enable them to achieve target
aims with supportive candidates. They may manage the perceptions of everyone have of them in
form of developing understanding what they want and in which manner. They may manage the
perceptions of everyone have of them in form of developing understanding what they want and
in which manner. Perception manager a new leader can take efforts to engage with all the
employs and other people who were performing in the same workplace. This initiative in return
provide a lot of benefits to leaders and other people in the organisation.

QUESTION 2
Focusing on two contemporary traits in management and leadership, to what extent have these
traits has been demonstrated in Metropolitan police?
The management traits are –
Confidence and decision making – It is very important that proper decision making is
being undertaken so that it helps in analysing the aspects of how the organization is concerning
the aspects of gaining the confidence and decision making at large scale. The decision making
and confidence are the major traits which helps in knowing that how effectively their managers
of the organization are creating value for the organization. The company and organization are in
requirement of the managers who are able to gain the confidence and decision making such that
the proper functioning of the company is being done at large scale (Shrestha, Ben-Menahem and
Von Krogh, 2019).
Flexibility and Respect of Employees – It is very important that the company and
organizations are considering the aspects of having the flexibility and respect for the employees.
This is the trait which the managers have and this helps in creating value of how effectively and
in appropriate manner the managers are providing the employees flexibility and are respecting
the employees.
The two traits of leadership are –
Effective communication – The leaders of the company are motivated and are concerned
in evaluating the aspects of how effectively and in appropriate there should be effective
communication within the organisation.
Motivation – The leaders are the major motivators of how effectively they are motivating
and are taking care of the employees by guiding them appropriately and are taking care of the
aspect of effectively placing the concerns in an appropriate manner (Winton, Bean and et.al.,
2021).
There are several management traits which are helpful for organizations in order to perform well
where there is a cultural change in their organization. These traits may include appropriate
decision making which is helpful in improving the ability of the management to take effective
decisions and increase the accuracy of the changes management (Elizalde and et.al.2020). This
trait may help the organization to experience better policy formation which given the company a
competitive advantage over their major rivals in the industry. Decision making ability is a must

for any organization in order to conduct their business practices effectively where there is a
cultural change taking place (Esmaeelinezhad and Afrazeh, 2018). There are various situation
which can be difficult for the business to manage but with the help of appropriate decision
making skills a business may be able to reduce the negative impact of these aspects.
The other trait which is beneficial for the organization is flexibility for the employees in order to
understanding the changes that is happening properly. With the help of this trait, the employees
may be able to reduce the pressure of the cultural change over their organization. It will be
helpful to motivate the employees to contribute towards this change and increase their
knowledge about the decisions that are taken by the management (Karadeniz and et.al., 2022).
Flexibility is a crucial trait of the management process as it aims ant increasing the satisfaction
levels of the employees which may have a positive impact on the organization. These
management traits are useful for the business to gain a better advantage in the industry and
successfully introduce changes in their organizational framework. The management may be able
to increase their productivity with the help of these traits and provide better assistance to the
superiors for initiating the changes properly in the organization (Ahmed and et.al., 2020). The
organization may be able to gain competitive advantage with the help of several management
traits.
Effective communication and influence ability are considered in a list of leadership thread
that would be beneficial in support thing the company through the period of organisational as
well as culture change they are now facing. It can be said that effective communication would
enable management to communicate with the people who are existing in the workplace and
taking initiative to achieve the target aim. When a leader with this leadership trait work in the
company they can support organisation during the process of change that they are facing in the
recent time and required effective resources like their advice and suggestions at moment.
Influence is the key element of leader that they used to influence the people in case of
organisational culture change they may support individual person to boost their morale and
confidence which is important for the leader to do that in appropriate manner. the implications of
these two traits plays significant role in the context of change management that organization
expect.

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