Competing Values Framework for Efficient Management

Running head: INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
Introduction to Management
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1INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
Executive Summary
The use of Competing Values Framework is highly useful for understanding the leadership
roles within the teams. The Framework is made up of leadership models and roles, which
provides an understanding of how the teams are efficient and effective by the usage of
various roles of leadership. However, the report discusses about the problems of applying
leadership theories to the self managed teams. Moreover, in such cases Competing Values
Framework is applicable. Furthermore, the report gives detailed analysis of the problems
identified in the case of self managed group. In addition to this, it provides recommendations
to the issues.

2INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Competing Values Framework and Leadership Theories..........................................................3
Authoritative Definition of Management...................................................................................5
Self Managed Teams and its Problems with the leadership theories.........................................6
Recommendations......................................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

3INTRODUCTION TO MANAGEMENT
Introduction
Over the period of time, leadership has been the central theme in the organizational
literature. It has been operated and defined in several ways by most renowned researchers.
Besides, leadership roles in organizations became highly recognized, during the nineties and
thus various roles of the leaders came into light. The diversity helps in reflecting various
leadership models and under this the Competing Values model falls. The model is based on
the specific leadership theories that include the performance standard of various roles. The
leadership model depends on the four models of rational goal, internal processes, human
relations and open systems (Cameron et al., 2014).
The overall purpose of the report is to demonstrate the usefulness of the Competing
Values Framework and the need for Managerial Leadership. Moreover, the report discusses
about the shared leadership within self managed teams and why leadership theories are not
applicable to the SMTs. A real life example of this is, in an organization where I used to work
for a limited period of time, the managers let its developers as well as engineers to work in
their own self managed teams, where the leadership theories could not be applied. The
outcome of this had been great and the organization is an extremely successful one, which
developed its own technologies, which their rivals also could not match.