Post-Bureaucratic Leadership: A Collaborative Approach

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1LEADERSHIP
Post-bureaucracy refers to breakdown of the traditional mode of the managerial
authority owing to pressures that are related to globalization along with technological
advance. It has necessitated the emergence of various kinds of alternative practices that lays
stress on sharing power within the organization (Raelin, 2016). This essay states that greater
fluidity are introduced within the organisational structure of the present age that helps in the
perfect functioning of the modern day organization.
Post-bureaucracy management approach is more experimental and it is less directive
in style that can help an organization in making progress and making profit in the long run.
The leaders in the post-bureaucratic management approach lays stress on the invention of a
new identity and strategic human resource management that can ensure the sustainability of
an organization (Dischner, 2015). There are democratic principles underlying the post-
bureaucratic management approach of an organisation. The leaders take care of the fact that
there is network logic in the organization that can help in bringing cohesion in the
organization. Network logic refers to the managerial denomination in relation to political
democracy with the help of self-determination along with mutual adjustment. It is important
that the leaders flex the style of natural leadership that can help in fitting an individual along
with situation (Johnson & Szamosi, 2018).
The leaders in post-bureaucratic era take a collaborative approach that involves the
others in the process of decision making that helps in the growth of the modern day
organization. The leader should be able to execute best possible solution that can help his
team members to a great extent. The diverse workforce of the modern age necessitates that a
leader is capable of responding to different kinds of situations that can help in the growth of
the organization (Hummel, 2014). Flexibility is a necessity of the modern age and the global
business environment makes it necessary that one should not abide by the traditional modes
of management for controlling the employees. The leaders should be able to respond nimbly