Leadership and Management: A Business Strategy Analysis Report

This report examines leadership within a business context, addressing the importance of leadership in guiding employees towards achieving organizational objectives. It explores the traits of an effective leader, emphasizing the significance of initiative, decisiveness, and honesty, while also considering contingency and behavioral aspects. The report analyzes a scenario involving staff disputes due to increased orders in a design business, offering suggestions such as implementing fixed working hours, fostering open communication, and promoting teamwork. Furthermore, it develops a strategic plan to resolve the situation, incorporating leadership theories like the trait theory to address issues of workload, product quality, and employee stress. The plan includes direct supervision, problem analysis, solution development, and implementation, emphasizing the importance of understanding the root causes of problems and measuring the results of implemented strategies.

Leadership for Management &
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Do you agree or disagree with the statement above? Justify your thoughts in detail..................3
2. Discuss your understanding on what constitutes an effective leader.....................................4
3. Analyze the current situation and give suggestions.................................................................4
4. Based on your understanding of effective strategic leadership, develop a plan on how you
would resolve this situation. Support your suggestions by elaborating on the leadership
theories used in developing the plan............................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Leadership is an action where one individual leads a group of person or employees of an
organization work together in guidance, direction and with one vision to complete all tasks
assigned to the team in a specific time period with effective and efficient use of resources.
Management concerned with responsibility for other things where as leadership always
concerned for people management but as management concerned for all things other than
peoples. In leadership management rules and policies are applied whereas in leadership new
rules and policies are framed. In leadership where new roles and duties are assigned and in
management detailed. Following management is a specified way where there is a simple way and
here in leadership ways to operate can change and being managed.
1. Do you agree or disagree with the statement above? Justify your thoughts in detail.
Yes, I agree with the above statement leadership is not restricted to strategic management
but also important for the employees of the organization without leaders the employees are
senseless about what to do and how to achieve the objectives. The leader plays the role of a
motivator to employees motivate them towards work. Leader is important to inspire and guide
employees towards the goal to achieve organizational objectives effectively. Leader creates
confidence in employees, confidence is important to get productive work from employees help
them to clear their roles, hear the problems and complaints of the employees, leader creates
coordination between employees and build team work in an organization a teamwork is
important to achieve goals and objectives of an organization (Brooks and Calkins, 2016). Leader
creates a work environment for the employees familiarize them helps them to analyze the work
situation act as a friend with employees share his feelings and opinions about the work leaders is
a person who shares the goals of organization & top level management to the employees. Leader
is essential for smooth working of organization, leader motivates employees towards the
achievement of their personal goals as well as link them with the organizational goals. Leader is
a person who communicates with employees initiate action and encourage employees to take
initiatives, Leader solve the work issues of employees, they boost employees towards goals they
don't follow they have followers, they give respect to employees to build trust and familiarize
them with organization.
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2. Discuss your understanding on what constitutes an effective leader
Leadership is not a single variable but instead a complex combination of traits,
contingency and behavior because leader has to face every situation before it went to employees.
Leader traits- there are many traits of a good leader like leader must be take initiative for every
task assigned to leader by his/her superior. Leader can't be dependable, leader must know
his/her duties. Courage to do take decision in tough time for organization. Leader is the person
who should be unselfish, leader first think about organization. Leader do justice to work, his/her
employees and towards organization (Ejimabo, 2015). Leader should be decisive he or she can't
be indecisive. Tactics of any leader should accurate and leader must be creative who have every
creative idea in his/her mind. Honesty is a special trait which should be followed by the leader as
because it helps an leader to grow and flourish in the organization. Commitment and passion is
also main source where an leader learn to respect his work and respect his or her junior.
Accountability is the process where a leader learn when he follows organisation.
Contingency- leader is the person who leads from the front who took all blame for every
situation so leader must be fit in with every situation. The contingency is concerned with every
aspect that leader follow(Higgins, 2018). Contingency emphasis upon internal and external
situation of organization. Contingency leadership judges leader and teach a leader that in what
circumstances he or she should do. It is situational approach is what leader become expert.
Contingency is a situation which shows a leader a real image of what eles business can suffer.
Leader's behavior- leader see problem make plan and solve them. This is the most optimize
way in leadership. Leader is the support system of any organization. so being supportive to other
is in the behavior of leader. Leader don't follow they are the one who set a path and make their
employees to follow (Markham and Smith, 2017). Leader solve major problem.
3. Analyze the current situation and give suggestions.
As an entrepreneur leadership is a key for every enterprises to grow and enlarge in
their business. As per my friend's case when her enterprises started to taking more orders there
are some staff disputes risen among the others so it means when their enterprises just doing
average on scale employees don't have any issues all were doing good in their own area of
work (Okoro, 2017). Now, so in my opinion she should follow some effective leadership
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qualities that every leader should have in mind before the start any business (Peña-Acuña and del
Henar Sánchez-Cobarro, 2017). I suggest to use smart approach among the employees.
As in her design business some are going for the time of daily fixed working hours and
some are calling for long hours but eventually that is not working so she should go for daily
fixed working hours it will help her to have an eye on the employees and by working together
and having lunch together they will stay together and this will increase the faith among them and
will help her enterprise to deliver good work in the end.
Leadership is all about leading from the front if she wants her enterprise to do well and
grow. She should talk to her employees and know that if they are comfortable with enterprise or
not. She may also take suggestions from employees that if they are not happy with company
policies and plans of working with growing numbers of orders. As she is an entrepreneur so she
must have abilities like innovative ideas, work proactive. Achieving objective of organisation is
first motto of every enterprise so she can aim high with accuracy as an leader she must have
these quality otherwise whole enterprise will suffer (Robbins, 2015). Effective leadership is
always about not wasting time and work with exact fig and facts. Good leader always knew the
problem before arrival of it.
In this case she should have an effective communication with her employees as they are
facing such problems like working hours and long hours working so she has to make proper
communication with her employees and know their problems and give them suggestions and
solve those problems. As a team they sometimes didn't make expected output making an
effective communication between them will bring some sort of confidence, boosting
confidence may take to them their desired output. Show trust on them, appreciate them, give
motivation on their failed efforts. Bring friendly environment in the office. Look for more causes
those main causes which are mainly exploiting the problems inside enterprises. Build a strategy
like assign them set work with set time duration, set the formal schedule for different tasks. As
there are 6 employees so make teams and leaders for the teams so they have to behave in
discipline as because they have a responsibility on their heads. Make teams like 3 in one team
and among them appoint a leader (Seijts and MacMillan, 2017). As they are working in an
informal way so she should ask questions without hurting anyone. Allow others to voice up their
opinion and she also make on everyone's work or have an eye on everyone what are they
working and how much is left. She should organize team meeting and have a chat every
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individual and conversation with them about their work and problems if any the face by doing
work.
4. Based on your understanding of effective strategic leadership, develop a plan on how you
would resolve this situation. Support your suggestions by elaborating on the leadership
theories used in developing the plan.
Strategic leadership means the leaders efficiency to express the vision of organization to
employees and motivate them to achieve those vision, as an operation manager and an effective
leader of organization, in an above case where a supervisor increase the work hours of
employees for increasing the production efficiency and reduce waste where employees facing
problem of workload, stress as an operation manager and a leader (Seshadri and Sasidhar, 2017).
I will go for direct supervision and analyze the situation of employees provide them the extra
production quotas but on one condition they have to maintain the product quality which is
deteriorating due to inefficiency of employees and production supervisor Rex with minimum
waste and maintaining the cost of production provide them with the job security and manage
production supervisor Rex and guide him to provide timely break to labour try to put minimum
workload our the employees guide him to change his rules and policies to manage employees
and let him know what the workers think about him know I show you the proper process to
handle this situation as a leader first of all I will identify the problem about what’s the reason of
problem how it occurs and from whom it occurs as a leader needs to talk with employees directly
about their condition what problem they have from whom they have problem get information
from foremen about employees condition then (Stretton, 2018). I analyze the problem from how
much time it occurs the urgency of problem to take strict decision analyze which part of an
organization needs to solve urgently in this case there are two situation one is workload and bad
quality of product I have to analyze both about it is control-able or not how much damage is
occur due to this how serious the situation is, analyze how the production manager Rex is
reacting on this situation, then I will describe the problem by writing it on a paper ask my
employees that I am right or not this will help me to know the exact issue then I look for the root
cause of the problem gather information about the problems from the production supervisor how
he is behaving with employees what measures are to be taken to solve this problem like warning
to supervisor or termination if required how's the plan for solving this problem is going make a
proper solution for the problem so that it will never occur again then I frame a plan to solve this
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problem develop alternate solution about solving problems like workload, stress on employees ,
maintaining the quality of product, problem of supervisor burden over employees and decide one
best alternate from solutions who is similar to our available resources then implement the best
solution that I have to know that each and every person of the team know their part to make this
plan successful and I also track the position of plan (Vargas, 2015). Then I measure the results
after keeping track on the implementation of the plan measure the plan with the plan
implemented and compare them to know is it work or not we can implement it on other problems
or not
Leadership is not an easy task a leader needs various qualities to become a good leader
there are certain theories on leader qualities that are similar to the qualities of leader In above
paragraph. The trait theory shows the sense of responsibility, intelligence and the creativity of a
leader in above plan the leader is also taken care of his responsibility being a good leader analyze
the workload and stress over his employee and being a responsible leader solve their problems
leader work intelligently in forming plans and be creative while developing those plans take
corrective action towards supervisor (Yamanaka, 2018). The behavioral theory shows the leaders
behavior towards work and problems of employees both physical and mentally in the above case
leader also tries to understand the problem of workers and work according to that take decision
on behalf of the employees this shows the good behavior of a leader towards the employees. The
contingency theories show that leadership style based on certain situation in the above case the
leader has a situation of lab our turnover, workload of employees in this case leaders are
expressive when employees respond on leaders plans. Transactional leadership theories are also
relevant to above case according to these theories in above case the leader provide a longer
breaks an informal reward in return the labour provide the good quality of product and this helps
a leader in this case to motivate his employees. The transformational leadership theory in the
above case the leader tries to interact with his employees to know their problems on his direct
supervision and identify the problem he has on his organization this help in building trust of
employees and motivate them. Participative theories in above case shows the participation of a
leader in the problems of their employees and take corrective actions to solve the problems of the
employees in this case leader work on his own and take all required decision for the welfare of
the employees and participate himself to analyze the working of organization
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CONCLUSION
In the end of leadership for management and business there we find facts about leadership
here noticed that leadership bring changes among the employees and management is only about
managing things and process them in organisation. Leadership take a leader to being potential
and make impact on the business. In the above cases reflects that leader is the person who leads
from front and make sure that everybody in the team is secure, safe and satisfied with the
management and the way of working within the environment of organisation. Leader develops
the plan of cation to reduce waste and improve the quality of the production and also emphasis
on the cost of production. Leader follow the effective communication for knowing and helping
employees to voice up their concern over organisation policies. Traits, contingency and
behaviour are the most followed ways to be productive with organization management and
business policies. Leadership and management both are linked with each other but on the
retrospective they have their own difference in business.
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