Leadership: Styles, Skills and Organizational Measures

Running Head: LEADERSHIP
Topic: Leadership

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Table of Contents
Leadership 1...............................................................................................................................3
1a. Leadership style followed by Detlef Schultz....................................................................3
1b. Range of Leadership skills...............................................................................................4
Leadership 2...............................................................................................................................7
2. Visualize your ideal leader. Without vetting your thoughts, complete the below table.
Try to think of as many adjectives as you can for each category of leadership traits............7
Physical Traits........................................................................................................................7
Social economic traits.............................................................................................................7
Work Performance traits.........................................................................................................7
3. Organisational Measure......................................................................................................8
i) How does your organization measure performance?......................................................8
ii) What triple bottom line reporting does your organization conduct?..............................8
5. Think of the last time you had to make a decision in the workplace. Was the decision
effective? In your opinion, what makes a decision effective?................................................8
6. Do you believe ethics can be taught? If yes, why? If no, why not? In your opinion, what
is the role of leaders for the development of ethical principles in their followers?...............9
7. How is your performance measured in your current job? What leadership performance
measures does your organization employ (if any)?................................................................9
Reference List..........................................................................................................................10

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Leadership 1
1a. Leadership style followed by Detlef Schultz
The role of Detlef Schultz in Vodafone procurement Company involves
not only managing complexities around procurement as well as supply
chains for all goods and services, but also transform several fragmented
supply chains in to single global function. In lean procurement and supply
chain management process, Kresak, Corvington and Williamson (2016), states that it
is most important to reduce spending as well as provide measurable
accountability. This is why it is evident that Detlef Schultz had used the
transformational leadership style to handle the situation. Transformational
leadership is the most likely form of leadership that can effectively fulfil the
organisational goals as well as objectives, specifically. In case if the group is
supposed to be led by an effective as well as good leader, then only the team will
be able to achieve the full organisational goals as well as project objectives,
successfully. On the contrary, in this case, if the leader had adopted an
authoritarian style of leadership, commanding or ordering the team on specific
work goals, the team would have been probably demotivated, being not able to
achieve the work goals. As Estrade and Imbault (2017), states, the main aim of a
transformational leader is to establish a goodwill that would help them to inspire
the followers in such a way that they would follow them in any and every
endeavour that is undertaken by the leader. Therefore it is the transformational
style of leadership that helped Schultz to implement an inclusive process of
project management. As highlighted by Harlow (2016), the primary qualities of a
transformational leader are his or her natural influence, persuasion as well as
well-developed communication skills. All these qualities were present in Schultz
that allowed him to organise holding workshops with procurement as well as

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supply chain staff. The inclusive strategy that he followed in the course of the
Vodafone project, helped him to consult with all the key internal stakeholders.
The communication skills of a transformational leader is also strong. They
have strong organisational consciousness that allows them to align their own
values with their organisation. This is because they share a joint purpose with
the organisation. The high adaptability of the transformational leaders also
allows them to find new ways to respond to the dynamically changing business
environment. Most importantly, they are willing to listen to the peers and
subordinates and entertain new business ideas. The leader understands that
success comes from team effort and organisational growth is ensured through
the willingness to be open to ideas from, all layers of the company. By dint of
these interpersonal skills, Schultz have been able to demonstrate strong
interpersonal skills in the organisation, which has been instrumental in shaping
the success of the organisation.
1b. Range of Leadership skills
As a supply Chain Management Director of a new age organisation, Schultz needed
to manage complexities of supply chain for the goods as well as services and
then fundamentally transform the fragmented supply chains in to one complete
global supply function. Influenced from the findings of Body and Ceri (2016), I have
identified that there are some vital skills that he might have used in his position to
ensure the best efforts coming from his team. The first most important skill in
this context is impeccable Information technology as well as Automation skills. In
order to develop an integrated supply framework around the globe, the leader
needed to demonstrate a sound knowledge of Enterprise Technology tools that
enables helps them in warehouse management and Enterprise Resource
Planning. The leader should have possessed user level IT skills that would