Analyzing the Effectiveness of Leadership at University of Melbourne

This report analyzes the effectiveness of leadership within the University of Melbourne, Australia, focusing on the benefits and challenges of maintaining effective leadership practices. It explores how effective leadership contributes to achieving organizational goals, improving employee morale, and ensuring effective communication. The study also identifies challenges such as the need for better-qualified leaders with improved technical and people skills, inspiring and motivating employees, and leading diverse teams. It references various studies and surveys highlighting the importance of leadership in addressing economic growth and productivity issues within Australian workplaces, ultimately concluding that effective leadership is crucial for the future success of the University of Melbourne.

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Table of Contents
ntroductionI ...................................................................................................................................................3
Research Topic:.......................................................................................................................................3
Research Questions:................................................................................................................................3
Rational of project.........................................................................................................................................3
iterature ReviewL ........................................................................................................................................4
Benefits of effective leadership within Australia.....................................................................................4
Challenges faced while maintaining effective leadership practices within Australia...............................5
Research roblemP :......................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................6
References...................................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
Leadership refers to the quality of a person to guide, lead, motivate and inspire the
individuals to perform their assigned duties effectively. Basically, it is the accomplishments of
goals by receiving directions from human beings. Here, leader is likely to provide meaningful
guidance to the employees so that they can deliver expected results. In this, leader is the most
important person who provides guidance, direction and constant motivation to the employees.
Additionally, leadership plays an important role in attainment of pre-defined goals of the
company (Cheong and et. al., 2019). The present study is based on effectiveness of leadership
within Australia. In the present scenario, effective leaders are really important as they play a
crucial role in creating confidence among the employees. In addition to this, effective leadership
is helpful in converting the vision of company into reality so that the organization get succeed in
future period of time. The study will cover benefits and challenges of effectiveness of leadership
in an efficient manner.
Research Topic:
“To analyze the effectiveness of leadership within Australia”. A study on University of
Melbourne.
Research Questions:
 What are the benefits of effective leadership within University of Melbourne?
 What are the challenges faced by University of Melbourne while maintaining effective
leadership practices within Australia?
Rational of project
In leadership effectiveness is really important to convert the set goals into reality. It helps
in attainment of business goals and objectives in profound manner. In this context, leaders also
play a crucial role in terms of providing appropriate direction, guidance and motivation to the
individuals. To run a company successfully, there is requirement to have willingness among
employees to perform their assigned duties effectively. By adopting effective leadership
practices, it is possible to encourage the workforce so that they perform their assigned duties in

the best possible way (Ahmad, 2018). Main aim of conducting present study is analyzed the
effectiveness of leadership within University of Melbourne, Australia. The report is helpful in
terms of assessing the benefits of effectiveness of leadership in organization. Further, the project
is also useful in terms of identifying the challenges faced while maintaining effective leadership
practices within the organization. In personal context, addressing the respective research problem
will also contribute in enhancement of knowledge base of researcher. Further, this will also help
in developing various skills such as communication, presentation, research skills and more so
that the investigator can easily grow in future career.
Literature Review
Benefits of effective leadership within University of Melbourne
As per the view of Lone and Lone, (2018), leadership is important in business as it helps
in running the company smoothly so that the pre-defined goals can be attained. It is also useful in
improving the knowledge, potential and quality of workers so that they can perform their
assigned work in the best possible manner. Majority of the companies working within Australia
has a vision where they wish to see themselves in longer run. In this situation, a strong leadership
is really important to convert the set vision into reality. A strong leader ensures that staff remind
the vision and values of organization and also remind them to take necessary actions to convert
those vision into reality. Without qualified employees business is nothing. In present time,
recruiting new employees might lead towards increment in the cost. In this situation, boosting the
morale of existing workforce is the best option (Cummings and et. al., 2018). When employee’s
feels appreciated, they are likely to contribute towards success of the company willingly. In
context of University of Melbourne, the effective leadership will help the companies in boosting
morale of their workforce to perform their duties significantly. It will also help in attainment of
pre-defined business goals in successful manner. The other benefit of effective leadership can be
understood as ensuring effective communication across the organization (Koh and O’Higgins,
2018). In this regard, effective leaders of the respective university are likely to ensure that
message reach to every employee via email, staff meetings and more. For the success of an
entity, it is important to keep the employees motivated. Here, effective leadership plays a crucial
role in motivating the workforce. When employees get motivated, they start to work willingly for

future success of organization. This will lead the organization towards enlargement and will also
help in enhancing the overall profit margin and revenue of the entity.
Challenges faced by the University of Melbourne while maintaining effective leadership
practices within Australia
As per the view of Gross, (2018), developing an empowered, engage and effective team
is important. However, there is requirement of appropriate leadership practices to formulate a
winning team. As per the recent survey by the centre for workplace leadership reveals concering
facts. Here, majority of the young worker are in favor that there is requirement of better
managers and leaders at workplace within Australia. During the survey, it is analyzed that
majority of leaders of Australia are not qualified for the job they are doing. According to the
paper published in 2014 by University of Melbourne, Australian workplace required much better
leaders. The survey revealed that majority of the leaders and managers are requires critical
technical as well as people skills (EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP: IT'S NOT ABOUT WINNING
FRIENDS, 2022). These challenges put a direct impact on the capacity of the organization to
introduce innovative and creative products.
After witnessing unprecedented 25 years growth, Australia is now witnessing the
problems of slow economic growth, lower productivity, less employment growth and more. This
shows the in capabilities of Australian leader to implement effective practices in business
organization (Study of Australian Leadership, 2022). To maintain effectiveness of leadership
within University of Melbourne, it is important to inspire the employees. However, the leaders
face significant challenges while inspiring and motivating individuals. For this purpose, they are
required to have information regarding the needs and requirements of workers. The other
significant challenge is leading a team effectively. A team is made with different individuals. For
a leader, it is quite complex to lead a diversify team in appropriate manner. This will create
challenges in maintaining effectiveness of leadership within organization. Further, this will also
create issues for leaders in terms of leading and motivating the team.
Research Problem:
The current study is based on effectiveness of leadership that has become an emerging
topic of discussion in current period of time. Leaders are considered as an important part of each

and every company hence, it is crucial to lead and guide them properly to attain success in
future. However, there are several challenges are occurring within University of Melbourne of
Australia in terms of guiding and leading the team members. The present report is based on the
challenges that are faced by the leaders of the respective University while maintaining
effectiveness at workplace. This is one of the emerging and significant research problems which
need to address in an efficient manner. Addressing the respective research problem will prove
helpful in attainment of success & growth for the company.
Conclusion
Out of the above-mentioned it is analyzed that effective leadership practices is highly
important to ensure success of the organization in future period of time. The above project report
is based on the effectiveness of leadership within the respective University. Further, it is
monitored that effective leadership is helpful in accomplishing the set vision into reality so that
the company can grow in future. Moreover, there are ample of challenges also faced by leaders
of Australia while maintaining effective leadership practices at workplace.

References
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Gross, R., 2018. Connecting the links between leadership styles and virtual team
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Koh, C.B. and O’Higgins, E., 2018. Relationships between emotional intelligence, perceived and
actual leadership effectiveness in the military context. Military Psychology, 30(1), pp.27-
42.
Lone, M.A. and Lone, A.H., 2018. Does emotional intelligence predict leadership effectiveness?
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Ahmad, S., 2018. Can ethical leadership inhibit workplace bullying across East and West:
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