Leadership Styles: Shackleton's Approach and Contemporary Management

This report delves into contemporary management issues, focusing on Shackleton's leadership style and its application in the modern business environment. It characterizes Shackleton's leadership, emphasizing teamwork and employee motivation, and extracts key lessons applicable to today's competitive landscape. The report then critically analyzes an organizational situation, specifically Unilever, using different schools of leadership to evaluate its management practices. It assesses Unilever's strategies, considering factors like government policies and the importance of employee motivation and effective communication. Finally, the report provides recommendations for Unilever, suggesting the implementation of new policies, increased employee involvement in decision-making, and efficient resource management. The conclusion highlights the significance of effective leadership in addressing contemporary challenges and improving organizational performance, emphasizing the benefits of employee engagement and strategic decision-making.

Contemporary
Management Issues in
the 21st Century

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................1
How would you characterise Shackleton’s leadership style? State the important lessons learnt 1
from them.....................................................................................................................................1
Critically analyse and evaluate an organisational situation by drawing on the schools of
leadership.....................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Contemporary management can ben defined as the effectively planning and controlling of
all the activities in the business in order to complete and accomplish the goal in the market. In
today's time, there has been a significant growth in the various sector of the business such as
technology, competition, globalisation etc. These are the major points that the organisation
should focus on in order to increase their profitability in the market. On the other hand, these
create so much pressure on the managers in order to fulfil these tasks (Aldowah, Al-Samarraie
and Fauzy, 2019). Managers of the company focuses on to deal with these challenges in through
which they can increase their business operations in the market. In this report, there will be the
discussion on the Shackleton leadership style that helps the leaders of the company to lead the
operations in a systematic manner. This helps the organisation to increase the efficiency of the
employees in order to achieve the goal and the target. At the end of the report, there will be
discussion on the contemporary issues and leadership styles that facilitates the business to
increase their overall performance.
TASK
How would you characterise Shackleton’s leadership style? State the important lessons learnt
from them.
Shackleton was one of the tough leaders and who perform the leadership function with
full efficiency through which he can motivate the employees towards the achievement of the
goal. It is one of the most common used leadership style that is used by the leaders through
which they become able to become more attentive towards the accomplishment of the goal. By
the use of this leadership styles, skills and the knowledge of the employees can easily be
analysed. This leadership style explain that the leaders are one of the most effective department
of the organisation who are responsible in order to achieve the goal and the target. This
leadership style is one of the most important style through which the morale and the motivation
of the employees can be increased at the workplace (Gereffi, G., 2018). One of the main
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principle of the Shackleton is that he believe in the team work and accordingly that he used carry
out the operations at the workplace.
One of the main feature of this leadership style is that it involves the ideas of each and
every individual in the company and through which the motivation can be increased at the
workplace. It has been seen that leaders should have to make proper plans and strategies through
which they can lead the actions of the employees towards the goal of the company. Clear aim
and the goals of the company helps the managers to complete the task in the given time. It is very
necessary fr the organisation to check on the various activities of the company such as
advertisement, finance and other department through which they can improve the overall
performance of the company at the workplace (Biswas and Giri, 2019). In relation to the today;s
time, there is so much competition present in the market and effective leadership style is required
through which they can give tough competition in the market. One of the main barrier that comes
in the way of the business is the effective management through which they faces challenges in
carrying out the work and achievement of the goal in the market. This leadership style is one of
the most effective way of leadership as they focus on to rely on the various rules and policies
through which they can overcome the risk of the challenges and the risks. One of the main reason
for the inefficient management is the lack of communication between the managers and the
various department of the company.
The lessons learn from the above leadership style is that it helps the leaders to effectively
motivate the employees towards the accomplishment of the goal and the targets (Funk, 2018).
This leadership style facilitates the organisation to effectively distribute the roles and the
responsibilities to the employees. This help the employees to complete the given task according
to their knowledge and skills.
Critically analyse and evaluate an organisational situation by drawing on the schools of
leadership.
In order to evaluate the organisational situation, Unilever is one of the most established company
that deals in the various consumer products that they are offering to the customers in the market.
They are providing the products cheaper than the market price which helps them to attract large
number of customers towards their business (Baltabayeva and Kodirova, 2022). There are
various policies of the Government that has affected the operations of the grocery business in the
country of the UK.
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It can be seen that the organisations should ensures a safe and the hygiene working
condition in the workplace. By the use of the Shackleton leadership style the organisation can
become able to manage their task with full potential. It is very important of the leaders of the
company to motivate their employees on a regular basis (Baltabayeva and Kodirova, 2022). They
should implement the use of the new techniques of production in order to enhance the customers
satisfaction in the market.
Management of the Unilever company should effectively make plan for the activities in
order to accomplish the goal. They should have to clarify roles of each and every employees so
that the situations of the conflicts will not arise.
Recommendations
 It can be suggested to mangers of the Unilever company that that they should introduce
new policies in order to effectively lead the operations.
 It can also be recommended to the mangers of the Unilever company, that they should
involve the staff in the process of the decision making (Gregory, 2019). It will help them
in increasing the motivation of the employees at the workplace.
 Managers of the company should use the available resources in a efficient way in order to
achieve the future goal of the company in a smooth manner.
 Effective communication should be maintain between the different level of the
departments through which the managers of the company analyse the problems of the
employees.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it has been analysed contemporary issues greatly affects the
operations of the business in the company. There are various factors that such as internal as well
as external which consists legal environment, inefficient communication influence the
operational activities. In relation to the Shackleton leadership style, it is one of the most effective
style in order to improve the performance in the market. It has been seen that there are various
functions in the organisation, that the managers as well as leaders should focus to effectively
carry out the work in the workplace. There has been the discussion on the various barriers and
the challenges that affects the performance of the leaders as well as the managers in the
company. It has been seen that the organisation can undertake effective leadership style in order
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to improve their performance in the market and which helps them to increase their profitability in
the market. It has also been analyses that by involving the employees in the decision making
process, motivation of the employees can be increased at the workplace and they can perform
with the full potential in order to accomplish the goal and the targets.
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