BTEC HND: Leadership, Management & Motivational Strategies

This report comprehensively examines leadership and management theories and their impact on organizations. It presents motivational theories, including Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and discusses the role of performance management, citing examples like Sainsbury's award recognition and IBM's ...Read More

UNIT 4 LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION
 PRESENTING MOTIVATIONAL THEORY
 EXAMPLE OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
 LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT APPROACHES
 RECOMMENDATION
 CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

PRESENTING MOTIVATIONAL THEORY
 Motivation is defining state of mind that drives person to work in particular way to achieve the desired goals
in effective manner. It pushes people to work with high level of commitment and focus.
 Maslow hierarchical needs:
 Physiological needs: it is consisting of air, sleep, water and clothing.
 Safety: It is known as protection from threat and other danger such as secure employment and property.
 Social: The need for association, affiliation and friendship.
 Self-esteem needs: The need of respect and recognition.
 Self-actualization needs: The opportunity for personal development and it is known as highest level need of
human being.
 Thus, this theory states that leader need to understand about the level of team member and to find out ways to
keep them satisfied so that their general needs are fulfilled.

EXAMPLE OF PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
 Performance management is known as strategic approach that helps in creating and building the
productivity of the worker with the motive of increasing their effectiveness of companies.
 Employee performance management is one of the classic example and it has been changing from
industry, size and objective of firm.
 Moreover, Top brands in the world make use of employee performance management like employee
feedback, recognition and goal setting to develop their business tactics.
 Sainsbury make use of award recognition for motivating their employees and it give them monetary
and non-monetary advantageous to them on yearly basis so that it can work productively and
contribute in their success.
 IBM also make use of employee performance management software in order to review application
and feedback which allow leader to identify their performance and work quality as well as guide them
with much needed improvements.

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
APPROACHES
 Leadership plays a very crucial role in an organization as it shapes the future of the organization.
 Each organization has its own set of dynamics which forms the leadership of the company.
 Management undertakes various different approaches which supports the critical leadership style
of the workplace.
 Management constantly tries to create healthy balance between employees and the organization
which results into a great leadership.
 One of the important approaches of the management in creating an effective leadership in the
organization the hiring the perfect people who can mindfully shape the leadership

RECOMMENDATIONS
 Motivation strategy-
 To make the higher performance there is need of a motivation strategy so the motivation strategy is
being recommended as-
 Setting goals-
 The goal is to improve the performance factor and also ensuring continuous improvement in it.
 As Mahmoudimehr and Sebghati, (2019) suggested that continues performance betterment is the
only way to progress in this competitive business environment.

CONCLUSION
 The report of leadership and management has comprehensively depicted various theories
and its impact in the organization.
 As leadership plays a very vital role in the organization. Also, the influence of different
leadership styles and management styles on the organizational culture has been illustrated.
 Further, assessment of various leadership theories and approaches and their role in
enhancing and supporting the performance has been elaborated.

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 Schleicher, D. J. and et.al., 2018. Putting the system into performance management systems: A review and agenda for performance
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 Tweedie, D. and et.al., 2019. How does performance management affect workers? Beyond human resource management and its
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