Leadership Styles and Organizational Change
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Strategic International Business Management
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3Main Body ......................................................................................................................................31.The people management issues that potentially underpin...................................................3the difficulties Jan is facing...................................................................................................32. Steps which Jan is required to take in the short and mediumterm, to get the launch of the new product............................................................................63. Leadership style which Jan should adopt...........................................................................84. Any decisions or support that might be needed at board level to help improve this situation ................................................................................................................................................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTIONManaging business at global level is a difficult as well as complex task which requiredproper planning. An unplanned expansion can have negative effect on the business performance.International business strategy is defined as a plan which is designed for guiding commercialtransactions taking place in between entities in different countries. These plans or strategies areformulated by management team in an organisation for identifying the ways for increasingprofits. The objective of these strategies is to assist firm in managing business activities oroperations at global level. Strategies created by management team in an enterprise assists anorganisation in reducing negative effects or influences of changes in external or internal factorson business operations. It also helps business entity in gaining competitive advantage in market.There are mainly three types of international strategies which are international, multi domestic,global as well as transnational. The study of international strategic management is important as itwill assist an individual in managing business at international level. The purpose of report is todevelop understanding about several theories of leadership, motivation, change management andtheir effective implementation in an international context.MAIN BODY 1. People management issues that potentially underpin difficulties that Jan is facingManaging the business at global level is a critical as well as difficult task. There arevariety of issues such as cross cultural, language, business attitude, which might be faced bymanagers when managing several functions at international level. In addition to this culturaldiversity is the big issues due to which human resource manager might face difficulty inmanaging people. In given case scenario, main issue faced by manager is related to managingpeople as well as their performance at workplace. There has been number of issues that havebeen faced by Jan. One of the major issues is lack of support of workers. Without having thesupport of employees, it is difficult for the management team expected to customise the newproduct in the production plant, and sales are not taking off as forecast (Johnson,2017)While sales agents around world are trained in new product they seem to be havingproblems accessing crucial prospective customers. It has been identified from the given case thatall these problems were faced by Jan and other people due to difference in opinions in betweenstaff members. These small as well as major problems have significant as well as direct impact
on the business performance, productivity and other operations. It has been analysed from thegiven case scenario that there is power culture in an organisation and manager has adopted theauthoritative leadership style. Power has been used by production manager for threateningemployees to increase their efficiency as well as supporting change within an enterprise. Allthese activities as well as rude behaviour of Jan has given the rise to other major problems withinan organisation. Jan has also been accused by the production manager of not working with hismanagement team or listening (Kossek, Petty and Michel, 2018) Another reason for all these issues is overburdened work and pressure of responsibility.Other issue which was faced by Jan is lack of support from co-workers and other employees.These factors have created the major barriers in formulation as well as implementation ofstrategy at workplace. (Jamali, ed., 2016)There are several leadership theories such as transformational leadership, transactional,continuum of leadership behaviour and great man theory.Transformational leadership: Leadership approach that causes change in a person aswell as social systems. In its ideal form, it creates valuable and optimistic change in the followerswith the end goal of developing subordinates into leaders (Grinblatt and Titman, 2016)Great man theory: As per this concept, great men or leaders have high influencing power tomotivate people for performing specific task or activity. This theory is based on the assumptionthat some people are born with the essential attributes which make them different from othersand that these attribute. A leader is considered to be as a hero who accomplishes goals against allodds for his subordinates (Mouton, 2017)Continuum of leadership behaviour: As per this concept, successful leaders haveunderstanding that which behaviour is the most appropriate at a particular time. It is the qualityof an effective leader that such people develop their attitude after analysing of self, theirsubordinates, organization and environmental factors (Belias, Trivellas, Koustelios and et.al.,2017.) It has been analysed from the given case scenario that Jan does not have understandingabout the behaviour he should adopt in specific situation. This is the reason that Jan has to facevarious problems (Gray, Wharf Higgins and Rhodes, 2017)Contingency theory of leadership- As per this concept, effectiveness of leadershipdepends upon the nature or complexities of situation. There are several factors such as nature oftask, leader's personality and make-up of group being led. In context of the given case scenario,
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