Effective Leadership in Business: Alan Joyce Case Study, MBA401

This presentation analyzes the leadership of Alan Joyce, focusing on his contributions to business success. The presentation identifies two key factors that contribute to Joyce's success, emphasizing his ability to handle work pressure and his positive attitude towards work. It also highlights the importance of accepting people from different backgrounds to gain diverse viewpoints. The presentation further explores two key ways to measure his effectiveness, including the impact on brand image and the fostering of a positive work culture. The analysis draws on relevant literature, including Cote (2017) and Hemlin et al. (2014), to support the arguments and provide a comprehensive understanding of Alan Joyce's leadership style and its impact on the organization.

Alan Joyce
Management

Effective leadership
In today’s complex and competitive business environment, leadership is crucial for the
success of organisation. Effective leader is required because leadership is the most significant
function of management that assist any individual to maximise the efficiency. Effective
leadership is required at professional, personal, as well as social level. Leader is said to be the
person who influence the group of people for achieving certain goals. Several leadership
skills are involved named behaviour, traits, vision, intelligence, and charisma. Alan Joyce is
one such leader who led its team members in effective manner. The positive leadership
approach of Alan Joyce definitely helped the employees to work effectively for gaining the
organisational goals. In the crisis situation too, it is found that Alan Joyce has effectively
handled the work pressure due to its positive attitude toward work. In addition to this, it is
also required to undertake the diversified approach by accepting people from different
background. This helps in getting the different viewpoints about the organisation growth or
nay problem (Cote, 2017).
Effective leadership also offers several benefits to the organisation. The most significant
benefit that any organisation gets is the positive brand image. By getting the positive brand
image, it is easy to gain customer trust and thereby growth and revenue. In addition to this,
effective leadership also helps in maintaining the positive work culture which ultimately
bring the positivity among the employees (Hemlin et al, 2017).

References
Cote, R., 2017. Vision of effective leadership. Journal of Leadership, Accountability and
Ethics, 14(4).
Hemlin, S., Allwood, C.M., Martin, B. and Mumford, M.D. eds., 2014. Creativity and
leadership in science, technology, and innovation. United Kingdom: Routledge.