Report on Leadership Aptitudes and Talent Management Practices

This report delves into the crucial leadership aptitudes essential for organizational success. It defines leadership as linking employee goals with business objectives, highlighting various leadership styles such as democratic, autocratic, and laissez-faire. The report emphasizes the importance of learning, communication, initiative, problem-solving, and ethical behavior as key aptitudes. Examples from companies like Tesco, HSBC, and Alibaba illustrate how these aptitudes are practically applied. The report underscores the need for leaders to adapt, communicate effectively, initiate positive change, solve problems, and maintain ethical standards. It concludes by mentioning additional aptitudes like time management and teamwork, providing a comprehensive overview of effective leadership practices and talent management strategies.

LEADERSHIP AND
TALENT MANAGEMENT

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MAIN BODY
Leadership is generally defines as a different action or activity perform in the
organization of leading a group of the people in the organization in such a way that personal goal
of the employee is linked with the objective of the business. This help organization in achieving
the organizational goal efficiently. There are many different type of leadership style which is
used by leader in the organization to lead the work of other employee in an organization such as
democratic leadership, Autocratic leadership and Laissez faire leadership style. There are many
different type of the benefit which is brought by the leadership for the organization such as
leadership help organization in building good human resource power, also it help the
organization in bring good sort of clarity in the organization and also improving the productivity
and efficiency of operation of an organization. At the same it has seen that having knowledge
about different leadership style is not enough for the leader to implement successful leadership in
the organization, there is need of showing variety of the aptitude in the organization.
Northouse (2018) highlights that the biggest aptitude which requires in the leadership is
learner, reason behind the same is that there is no such magical power or leadership style which
is possess by the leader which can help in overcoming every situation in the organization. Leader
need to be good learner, as there will be many different type of situation which will occur in the
organization so it is very important for all the leader to learn from that situation. In the case that
situation is not that favorable than make different policy to overcome the same in an
organization. Antonakis and Day (2017) highlights that good learner also able to understand the
change they want to bring in the organization and on the basis of the same used to plan the
different action to lead the performance of the employee in an organization. For Example: Tesco,
one of the biggest retail store chain firm in the UK leader's generally used to evaluate the market
and try to lean different angle of the same in the market. Reason behind the same is that way of
serving consumer in the market used to change on regular basis, so to overcome the different
difficulty which is offered by the change in environment, leader used to identify need of the
change and used to pass on the same to the employee in the organization, This help leader in
Tesco in passing on good sort of guidelines to different employee.
Western (2019) in the published paper identify that good communicator is another
aptitude which need to be highlighted by the leader in an organization. Reason behind the same
is that they are the one who is having the responsibility to build the environment in the
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organization where all the employee can easily to perform the different activity to achieve the
objective of an organization. To do the same all the leader always try to bring a good sort of
clarity and try to build the trust with the different employee in the organization. Communication
skill plays a very crucial role in the same. Communication aptitude helps the leader in passing on
the different information or the task to the employee very efficiently in the organization. Also,
helps the leader in getting all the issue or the problem faced by the employee more efficiently.
This eventually help the company in promoting good level of clarity in the organization. Grint
and et.al., (2016) has the opinion that good communication also help the employee in the
organization in feeling more relaxed at the time of communicating with the other, also they are
clear about the task they have to perform in the organization. For example, Tesco in the
organization used to conduct variety of different formal and informal meeting in the organization
and all the employee are invited to keep their view in the organization. This eventually help
leader in knowing what is going in the mind of the employee. To pass the order to the employee,
leader at Tesco generally used to communicate directly with all the employee. This is because it
help the leader in passing on the responsibility more efficiently by highlighting the different
motivational factor which can drive the interest of different employee in the organization.
Northouse (2019) pass on the view point that leader should be a initiator and should
create the reputation of role model among the employee. In simple words the leader should be
the one who has idea about how to lead from front in the organization. This imply that the leader
in the organization should take different initiation by their own in the organization and should
promote or drive other employee in the organization to also take a initiative of doing something
new in the market. Leader in the organization also has t o make sure that they used to make the
reputation in the organization that all the employee used to follow them in the organization. This
can be done in the organization by highlighting the picture of positive initiate in front of the
different employee in an organization. Mendenhall and et.al., (2017) supports the same in the
organization, by passing on the view point that, good initiator will eventually bringing the good
force of innovation in the organization. This eventually help the company in getting more
creative idea in the organization and improve productivity of the business. For example HSBC,
financial institute in the UK, leaders always provides a example of what employee need to do in
the organization. This is generally performed in the manner that all the employee in the
organization are being invited to attain the different meeting in the organization. All the leader in
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the organization used to explain the different employee that they have to perform the activity in
the organization in different way. After that they used to show the example of the leader who has
already started working in the same way and the leader used to pass on the different experience
which is gained by the leader in the process of carrying out the same work in the organization.
This help the employee in the organization being more comfortable to the different suggestion
which is being pass on by the leader in the organization. This will also help the leader in building
good relation with the employee in the organization, which may help company in getting good
support from the employee at the time of bring any sort of order or change in the organization.
Holt, Hall and Gilley (2018) has given on the opinion that it is very much important for
all the leader to shown problem solving and analytical aptitude in the organization. Reason
behind the same is that there will be many different type of the issue which will be faced by all
the employee in the organization. It is the prime responsibility of all the leader to provide with
the better solution to the different employee in the organization, so that they feel motivated to
carry out different operation of the business. Also need to shown he Analytical aptitude, this
aptitude is explain that all the leader in the organization should have the understanding the
different information and data in the organization and should take different decision in the
organization. Smith (2017) highlights that problem solving aptitude will also help the leader in
getting the trust of different employee in the organization. For Example. In HSBC, all the leader
generally used to supervise the operation of the different employee in the organization and on the
basis of the same they used to organize the different training and development session in the
organization. This eventually help the employee in developing the different skill through which
they can overcome the difficulty faced by them in the organization. Also at the same time they
used to supervise the operation of different activity which is preformed by the employee in the
organization. After supervising the3 same in the organization they used to provide the different
suggestion to the employee in the organization through which they can improve the same in the
organization.
Antonakis and Day (2017) highlights that leader in the organization need to be open
minded and always ready to help the employee. Reason behind the same is identified that being a
leader who generally used to just pass on the different task in the organization is not the one
personality which is preferred by different employee in the organization. All the employee
always look to have a leader in the organization who used to hear the different concern of their in
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the organization and on the basis of the same used to make different decision. Also it is also very
important for all the leader in real to be ethical responsible toward the employee in the
organization. Reason behind the same is identified that performing ethical responsibility in the
organization also help the leader in promoting good and positive environment in the
organization, this help all the employee in the organization making different sort of the operation
more efficiently. Western (2019) in the published paper highlights that Alibaba, one of the
biggest online retailer firms leader in the organization generally follows the ethical behavior in
the organization by bringing a good sort of honesty among the different information which they
used to pass on in the organization. They generally used to justify all the information with the
proper reason of doing the same in the organization, also they used to take the suggestion of
different employee in the organization and on the basis of the same used to make different
decision in such a way that they used to look at the wants and needs of all employee also in the
organization.
This are some way through which different organization used to practice different
aptitude of leadership in the organization. There are many other aptitude also which are also
sometime consider such as time management this is the type of the aptitude in which all the
leader in the organization used to form the different activity in a way in the organization that
they used to provide all the task to the employee and guidelines and ask them to completed the
task within the time in the different way they can complete the same. Also Team player, evaluate
are aptitude which are consider.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Northouse, P. G., 2018. Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage publications.
Antonakis, J. and Day, D.V. eds., 2017. The nature of leadership. Sage publications.
Western, S., 2019. Leadership: A critical text. SAGE Publications Limited.
Grint, K and et.al., 2016. What is leadership. The Routledge Companion to Leadership, p.3.
Northouse, P. G., 2019. Introduction to leadership: Concepts and practice. SAGE Publications,
Incorporated.
Mendenhall, M.E and et.al., 2017 Developing global leadership competencies: A process model.
In Advances in global leadership. Emerald Publishing Limited.
Holt, S., Hall, A. and Gilley, A., 2018. Essential components of leadership development
programs. Journal of Managerial Issues. 30(2). pp.214-153.
Smith, P., 2017. Are you preparing for leadership opportunities? The IMA Leadership Academy
offers unique benefits to IMA members. Strategic Finance. 98(7), pp.19-21.
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