Leadership Strategy Case Study 2022

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The importance of a sound leadership strategy and a motivating leader for the success of any
organization is an undisputed matter of fact. The style of leadership that is adopted by any
organization’s leader altogether influences the attitude of the office employees, the overall work
environment and the potential image of the organization to its external public (Giltinane, 2013).
In the referred case study, Rachel Adams is depicted as an effective leader who is always
open to new ideas and never misses a turn to grab new and exclusive opportunities. After her in-
depth experience in the field of clinical drug studies as she was integrally associated with a large
pharmaceutical company she felt that there is an immense need of research centers to be
connected with big pharmaceutical companies. This would not only help in creating more and
more job opportunities but will altogether bring qualitative improvements in drug production
sector of the company. Thus Rachel took all the required initiative and established Independent
Centre for Clinical Research. (ICCR) () . Her prime vision to build ICCR was to build an
effective link between research studies conducted in the field of pharmacy and drug analysis
along with cost-effect clinical trials for benefitting the organization and the society at large. Just
within a span of five years Rachel became the president and CEO of ICCR. She has always set
professional standards in which ever organization she worked and being so integrally associated
with ICCR which was indeed her brain child she made sure that the organization stood best in all
aspect be it the work culture, or the work environment or their quality of output. Rachel always
believed and applied Transformational Leadership Approach (McCleskey, 2014) in her
organization. Transformational leadership has always proved product for any organization as it
helps the staffs realize rather discover their own potentials whereas see their leader bringing
effective changes in the organization which would lead to increased productivity. A

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transformational leader is not just concerned with the production rate or profit figures he/she is
equally concerned about the fact that how his/her company is benefiting the society at large
(Moriano, et al. 2014). Social responsibilities are of prime importance for any leaser to earn
respect and become an example to be followed by his/her subordinates.
Thus, here in this referred case study Rachel portrays such leadership qualities and
strongly believed that innovations and transformations are very essential features for any
organization to remain relevant (). Being a transformational leader she ensured utmost welfare of
all the employees. It was the employees who claimed that it was probably the best organization
to be associated with and took immense pride for the same. With over 100 full time employees
and mostly being women, Rachel created a new bench mark with the organization’s
performance. Rachel is both a free thinker as well as a rule breaker who feels woman must be
encouraged to work and discover their own potentials. That is the reason ICCR essentially
recruits more women and ensure a healthy and safe working environment for them. Independent
Centre for Clinical Research (ICCR) is very committed towards uplifting women, which is very
much evident in its association with case studies which are exceptionally related with uplifting
women’s health care and welfare facilities. Even the organizational policies are so employee
centric like on-site care programs for working mothers, flexible time schedules for women with
small children, as well as full health care coverage and varied such other benefits for full time as
well as par-time employees. It is often said that with great position and power comes greater
responsibilities, thus Rachel has always worked for bringing in more positive results with her
organization and has continuously tried to emphasize on the quality of production.

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However as the organization witnessed growth, it also started increasing its department
which required more people to be recruitment. Every department had their own departmental
heads and altogether the strategic functioning of Independent Centre for Clinical Research
witnessed a significant change (). These changes have somewhat affected negatively on Rachel’s
as it does not go well with her morals and ethical principles that she abides by in her profession.
As Rachel is the president and CEO of Independent Centre for Clinical Research she cannot
spend much time in the organization as she is always travelling for business purpose. With so
many departments and departmental head Rachel somewhere feels that her integral association
and interaction with the employees which indeed helped her to connect better with all the staffs
as she was their idol and an example of sheer success had considerably reduced due to such
frequent travels and such branching of managerial heads as each individual posed different work
practice believes that somewhere affected the organization’s health. She is constantly worried as
she feels that she is losing her grip over the organization. For instance her every week pep talk
sessions with the supervisors of the company has reduced to two formal presentation in a year.
Rachel feels disheartened at the very fact that employees no longer refer to her with her first
name while the other half does not even know who she is. She feels extremely frustrated at this
current situation and feels that this is negatively impacting the whole organization’s actual motto.
Moreover another significant problem that the organization is going through is that more and
more decision making and strategic planning responsibilities are allocated to the varied
departmental heads and these people have significantly changed the very vision and mission of
what the organization used to stand for. Rachel feels these changes have impacted negatively on
the organization as the new departmental heads are more concerned on increasing the profit
figures rather than focusing on what actually Independent Centre for Clinical Research was built

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for. Rachel feels that her main objective of building a credible research Centre that would
facilitate more development of the discipline along with cost effective clinical trials seems to
have lost direction as the new policies and strategies proposed by these departmental heads do
not align well with her objectives. She is constantly facing problem in balancing the
organizational demands with her own values and virtues that she intends to hold strong and bring
justice to the vision and value with which Independent Centre for Clinical Research (ICCR) had
begun its operations. The directors of the company wished to make ICCR as any other regular
Pharmaceutical Company associated with normal research and production of new drugs.
However Rachel feels that the organization is losing its actual; meaning and with her leadership
principles she finds it very difficult to accept this changing scenario within the organization
which has been her dream project.
This case study helps to establish a strong and distinct classification between both
leadership styles where Rachel as a leader is an example setter of positivity, motivation, growth
and highly guided by social conscience and in contrast the departmental heads, the supervisors
and the board of directors possess a completely different leadership appeal, where the major
concern is to grow in size and in capturing greater market share even at the cost of sacrificing the
real cause for which Independent Centre for Clinical Research. (ICCR) was actually established
by Rachel. Even the organization’s employees and staffs recognize this change in the overall
work environment which is also affecting them.
Therefore the case study is gives a good insight about how the changing business needs
due to the changing market scenario often leads the decision makers to take such decisions which
might not be completely benefiting the society but will be quite enough to meet the

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organization’s revenue figures. Most importantly when the chosen sector of business operation is
pharmaceutical and drug research it is very necessary for the operational heads to realize that it is
a very vital component for uplifting the health index of any nation (Mothiram, et al. 2013) and
thus the firm must ensure to extend complete justice to its operation.

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References:
Giltinane, C. L. (2013). Leadership styles and theories. Nursing Standard, 27(41).
McCleskey, J. A. (2014). Situational, transformational, and transactional leadership and
leadership development. Journal of Business Studies Quarterly, 5(4), 117.
Moriano, J. A., Molero, F., Topa, G., & Mangin, J. P. L. (2014). The influence of transformational
leadership and organizational identification on intrapreneurship. International Entrepreneurship
and Management Journal, 10(1), 103-119.
Mothiram, U., Brennan, P. C., Robinson, J., Lewis, S. J., & Moran, B. (2013). Retrospective evaluation
of exposure index (EI) values from plain radiographs reveals important considerations for quality
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