Principles of Effective Leadership: An Interview Analysis of Procter & Gamble's Former CEO

Managing
Organisations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
INTERVIEW ANALYSIS...............................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is an action of individual or group of individual to guide and influence other
team members of company. The leaders of organisation play a significant role in improving the
performance and efficiency of employees due to which they contribute their productive output in
achieving the goals and objective of business (Fry and Nisiewicz, 2020). They generally ensure
that employees must understand, work and embrace towards accomplishing business goals.
Leaders share information, celebrate progress, set new targets and also provide requires
resources (Gyurisko Sr, 2016). They are also responsible for managing operation, lead and
motivate team, manage performance, solve problems and also take care for health, safety and
welfare of people. The skills required for becoming effective leader are self development, team
development, strategic thinking and acting, ethical practice and innovation (Zhongming and et.
al., 2020). The project is based on managing organisation in which different leadership style and
principles of effective leadership are determined. In this project, an interview is conducted of Mr.
Bob McDonald who was a former chief executive officer of Procter & Gamble. In interview, he
highlights about principles of leadership which is used to create innovative culture and enhance
the performance of employees.
INTERVIEW ANALYSIS
Leadership is one of the important functions of management which provide guidance and
direction to employees in order to achieve vision and goals. It helps in motivating employees to
improve their performance and give productive outcomes. There are different models of
leadership such as transactional, transformational, democratic, autocratic, bureaucratic,
charismatic and laissez-faire leadership. In the interview, former CEO of Procter and Gamble
Mr. Bob McDonald has discussed about the principles of leadership which is implemented in
organisation for creating innovative culture and improving the performance of business. He
focuses on encouraging their employees to think innovatively and expect from them to deliver
innovation. Company understands the value of listening due to which they hear every innovative
idea of employees and also implement the relevant ideas that are suitable for business and also
improve the performance of company (White and Rice, 2015). They encourage all the employees
to innovate whether they are from factory line or executive assistant. Procter and Gamble also
created a leadership model in create positive working environment and enhance the performance