Entrepreneurial Leadership & Project Management at COGNIZANT: Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of leadership within COGNIZANT Technology Solution, exploring various leadership styles and their impact on the organization's culture. It examines both internal and external challenges faced by leaders, including issues related to finance, resources, and interpersonal dynamics. The report delves into the critical variables that shape organizational culture, such as communication, employee motivation, and customer satisfaction. Furthermore, it investigates sustainability issues, utilizing SWOT and PEST analyses to assess the company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as political and economic factors. The report also addresses legal considerations and concludes with recommendations for strategic planning and organizational growth, emphasizing the significance of effective leadership in fostering a positive and productive environment within COGNIZANT.

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Executive summary
This paper is based on different leadership styles, organization culture, sustainability, growth
and legal issues and how these issues affect COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION’s
management. Besides that, an organization can be operated appropriately just when it has
effective leaders and management. In addition, the organizational strategy is concerned about
various activities of the stakeholders which are focused on meeting business goals. Moreover,
these study will analyse and recommend a strategic plan for the organization growth. On the
other side, a decent strategic plan can be concluded by a single individual in the organization
who is the leader. In simple words, this paper will evaluate the significance of leadership on
the culture of COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION through proper arguments and
justifications. Therefore, in this context, it has been evident and has been analysed that the
employment of the skilled employees and the effective training procedures have been
recently implemented by the company. These strategies improved their overall status of their
employment and their service processes. However, the differences in the supply chain
management provide a number of setbacks for the company in the various aspects of their
international trading schemes.
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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
Understanding issues in COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION....................................5
Leadership issues in COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION PLC.............................5
The organizational culture of COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION............................6
Critical variables impact the organizational culture of COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTION............................................................................................................................7
Sustainability issues in COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION Plc...........................8
Legal Issues..........................................................................................................................10
Discussions...............................................................................................................................11
Recommendation......................................................................................................................11
Conclusion................................................................................................................................15
References................................................................................................................................16
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Introduction
Understanding the management development is very important for any organization.
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION is one of the developed IT sector in the USA
and leading by the front in the world also. Thus, it is very important for them to develop their
organizational structure to be in the top position in the competitive IT industry. The paper is
depicted on the developments on the organizational components by which they can be a
strong competitor in the industry of IT industry. In this aspect, it has been analysed that the
company largely relies in their methods of working that have been based on the flexible and
stout leadership styles. Therefore, the leadership skills are attributed largely by the company,
as a positive vibe for one of their business strategies (Thomas, 2014).
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Understanding issues in COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
Leadership issues in COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION PLC.
Being a Leader is in itself a test. The challenges of an organization are real of three sorts:
external, beginning from people and conditions, internal, spilling from inside the leader
himself, and those rising out of the method for the COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTION Company's leadership part (Henri and Asselin, 2005).
External Challenges
It's for all intents and purposes hard to imagine a condition where a Leaders doesn't have to
adjust to external troubles. In COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION affiliation, such
issues as nonappearance of financing and changed resources, confinement from qualities in
the gathering, and interpersonal issues inside the COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTION (Kehoe, 2001). Consistently near their heads. Social, money related, and
political qualities in the greater world can impact their affiliation moreover. To some degree,
the measure of any Leaders is the way by which well he can deal with the enduring
movement of crisis and minor aggravations that undermine the mission of their social affair.
The world stuns us at all times, where the path seems, by all accounts, to be clear, and
revealing load up expressways where there had all the earmarks of being simply piece
dividers (Henri and Asselin, 2005). Both sorts of surprises occasionally the positive more
than the negative, present open entryways for honing activity, with each one of the challenges
they include. Some customary conditions that call for COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTION association's Leaders to use their benefits join. Open input, especially
uninformed criticism, of COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION affiliation's get-
together or mission. Crises, which could settle to records, program, legislative issues,
publicizing, genuine concerns, even supernatural issues (Kroeze, 2011). In the context of the
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external influences, the rivalries of the other competitive companies of the similar fields have
made a great impact on the average annual sales for the company. In the recent years, the
changes in the leadership styles invoked the formation of the newer teams with the newer
strategies. The newer strategies gradually became unique and different from the other
strategies of the different companies. Therefore, in this aspect, the focus on the leadership
styles allowed the company to have a significant advantage in the business context of the
company.
Internal Challenges
While COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION affiliation's drive presents to each of us
the opportunity to demonstrate the best of what they are, it also revealed their imperatives
(Rosenbach, Taylor, and Youndt, 2012). All things considered, incredible Leaders need to
overcome those hindrances remembering the true objective to transmit and take after their
vision. Fear, nonattendance of conviction, shortcoming, irritability, bias. Meanwhile,
perceiving and vanquishing them can change unremarkable Leaders into an unimaginable
one. In this context, the cultures of the different employees and their religion posed a major
and a significant threat for the company. In this context the development of the cultural
diversities among the individual employees allow the company to have a significant
advantage in the business fields of the company.
It's routinely uncommonly troublesome for people, especially the people who see themselves
as to be Leaders, to yield that they may have character characteristics or individual qualities
that intrude with their ability to accomplish their goals in COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTION Plc. A bit of good power is making sense of how to recognize the reality of
those qualities, and endeavoring to change them, so they don't go about as weight (Kroeze,
2011).
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At times, what is in every way slack may present a test moreover? COGNIZANT
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION affiliation's Leaders who're enormously conclusive may
antagonize disciples by never directing them, or by dependably neglecting their proposal.
Upgradation of the skills of the leaders is important in this context, as their skills provide the
employees with the increased durability and skills to be presented for the company. Their
leaders who're amazing at making a relationship with others in their affiliation may be not
capable tell some person when she's not doing her business. A couple of traits can be twofold
edged swords, positive in a couple of conditions and negative in others. The real test is in
knowing the refinement, and conforming their direct in like way.
The organizational culture of COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
The organizational culture of COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION supports keeping
in mind the end goal to fulfil their desired objective, goals, and targets(Lewis, 2006). On the
other hand, the culture is an essential element of organizational value establishments, the
state of communication aptitudes, different types of behavioural methods, the system of
customer satisfaction, and so on. Aside from that, as per Dr. Geert Hofstede, a compelling
organizational culture affect the reflective measurements of different categories of
uncertainty, multifaceted feature, an instability which are emerging in the particular
organization like COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION(Gabriel, 2011). Moreover,
motivating the employees, compelling control over management, work satisfaction, and
organizational qualities also affects culture. Similarly, as indicated by Tharp, the organization
culture of COGNIZANT reliably makes an effect on organizational policies, for example, the
structure of the COGNIZANT, the behaviour of employees, the intelligence inquiry of
people, and positively employed condition inside the organization. Though, according to
Fontaine, appropriate systems, and practices for making a practical decision and impact the
organizational culture of COGNIZANT. In addition, organizational culture also contributes a
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sensible in interpretation and influences the decision-making system, deployment system,
accomplishing momentary objectives achievement, representative communication of
concordant actions related to the organizational culture of COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTION (Gabriel, 2011).
Critical variables impact the organizational culture of COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTION
As indicated by Hill and Jones, some main aspects enhance profit and influence a successful
organizational culture, for example, profit expansion, skilful and viable communication,
employee motivations, fulfilling extreme targets of the organization. Apart from that, it
includes deciding the employees work prospect, so they understand and acknowledge the
arrival and certain codes of conducts of COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
(Beckhard, 2014). Moreover, the leaders of COGNIZANT must be aware the employees
about policies and legislation through an active communication system. Geert Hofstede
expressed that there are distinctive types of components are recognized in many reviews
which finish up an authentic organizational culture and the practice of specific behavioural
approach of groups and their ethics, models, delegation towards work, motivated by the
specific attractive strategies of the management of COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTION. In other sense, the management of COGNIZANT also needs to focus on
customer satisfaction which can be measured by effective communication. In addition, by
satisfying customers, COGNIZANT can improve organizational culture, as well as the
overall revenue will be increased. Moreover, through active communication the relationship
between customers, employees and management can be concrete and developed (Beckhard,
2014).
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Sustainability issues in COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION Plc.
Sustainability is very crucial for any organization to develop within the organization. If the
organization is COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION, then sustainability is most
important for them to develop for retaining their position in the competitive industry. Some
key sustainability issues in COGNIZANT are as follow:
Internal issues in COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION
To understand the internal issues in the company, SWOT analysis is very vital. The proper
SWOT analysis can provide the best understanding of the current sustainability issues in the
organization (Rosenbach, Taylor, and Youndt, 2012).
 Strength:
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION is one of the successful IT industry in the USA
and it has branches all over the world. They have the best and superior information
technology system in the world that brings the best service and job security to them. In this
way, their value of IT service can be a competitive part of the industry.
 Weakness:
Mangers are not aware of the organization's position and the value of the company.
Depending on the fact, managers are not supportive of their supply chain management and
the software development system is getting slow for COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY
SOLUTION. In this way, they are losing the vital customer base around the globe. On the
other hand, it is also visible that the company is not providing the best training to the
employees about the IT service that they are providing to their customers. Thus, they are
losing their position in the USA (Rosenbach, Taylor and Youndt, 2012).
 Opportunity:
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As it is mentioned that they have their best IT management system, they can offer the best
process to their customers by quality service. In this way, they can get more customers in the
world. However, it is also an advantage for them that they have the best employees, but they
are not well trained. If they get the best training from the HR department, COGNIZANT can
establish a better working environment (Thomas, 2014).
 Threats
In the competitive world, COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION is losing their
position and declining from the top. Thus, it is very easy to say; they will face a huge loss
shortly. It is also notable that the company is providing massive IT service in an average
quality which is not competitive. There are various IT companies who are providing the same
quality service within a low budget. Thus, they can be overtaken by other companies even by
who are new in the IT industry.
Apart from the internal issues, they are facing external sustainability issues. To understand
the external sustainability issues, PEST analysis is important (Thomas, 2014).
PEST analysis:
 Political:
The company is not accustomed to world politics. To sustain in a certain country, the
organization should understand the political environment in that country. From many cases,
COGNIZANT is unaware of many political issues like; health and safety laws, competition
regulations, and employment laws.
 Economy:
The economy is another factor for any organization to develop sustainability. COGNIZANT
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION is developing their business in many countries. However, they
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are not aware of the economic factors in underdeveloped and developed countries like most
of the Asian countries. They are providing their service as same as they provide in every
country.
 Social:
Social factors are very crucial to understand to develop sustainability in any state. However,
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION is not aware of the social conditions in the
world. They are not analysing the social factors which may affect an organization. Thus, they
are facing trouble in developing the sustainability (Kroeze, 2011).
 Technology:
Technology is developing day by day rapidly. Technological improvement is vital or any
organization to develop sustainability within the organization. However, it is also very
important for the COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION to develop their technological
innovation to develop sustainability. The technological usage of the company is much
backdated and they require improved technology. Thus, they are facing trouble in the
operation of software development andsustainability (Henri and Asselin, 2005).
Legal Issues
The legal issues of COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION are based on the company’s
law. Other legal issues are disgruntled employees, harassment cases, patent and copyright
issues, immigration audits and dissatisfied customers. On the other hand, tax litigation, as
well as legal disputes with the competitors and contractors also, falls into the category of
legal issues. Aside from, customers who are dissatisfied can file class actions lawsuits against
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION. It is the result of unhappy customers.
Therefore, the company needs to take protective actions (Jenkins, 2002). The company can
face copyright issues. The competitors of COGNIZANT can take steps against the company
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to achieve competitive advantages if COGNIZANT has no exclusive service. The legal
consequences of suspected discrimination such as age, ethnic, sexual issues can cause harm
to the company which is a major legal issue. The structure of business from hiring employees
and make them leave the company needs legal actions such as documentation proof of the
individual. A business license is another legal issue a company may face during its operation.
From the research, it was observed that most of the companies faced legal issues with late
payments while trading with subcontractors and contractors.
Discussions
The arguments are based on the issues an organization faces every day. COGNIZANT
TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION faces issues such as leadership issues, sustainability issues,
legal issues as well as communication issues. The leaders of COGNIZANT face various types
of problems which vary from IT experts to all the staffs. It is the responsibility of the leaders
to maintain the decorum of the office. Moreover, the organizational issues need to be solved
to achieve competitive advantage and make profits in future. One of the main weakness of
COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION is that the managers are not aware of the
position and value of the company. In supply chain management, the managers are not
supportive(Woods, 2007). Based on legal issues, the organization needs to look after the tax
litigation along with legal disputes. Apart from it, competitive rivals pose a threat to the
company, and appropriate strategic steps need to be taken to remove all headaches of the
manager and from the enterprise. The chosen organization is losing their position and in
future they may face a huge loss.
Recommendation
Be proactive. Despite the condition, it's basic for leaders to finish something. Holding up is
sporadically the right system, in any case despite when it can't avoid being, it makes a social
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