Effective Managerial Leadership Development in Large Organizations

This report delves into effective managerial leadership development interventions within large organizations, emphasizing responsible leadership and expenditure reduction. It critically evaluates the relationship between effective leadership/management development and organizational performance, highlighting competencies for measuring leadership and management success. The report explores various approaches to identifying leadership and management development needs, analyzing the challenges of measuring leadership competencies. It examines the importance of leadership skills in managing companies, including directing, coaching, supporting, and delegating. The report also discusses interventions such as recognizing and rewarding performance, structuring work according to business goals, and building employee morale. The influence of leadership styles on organizational performance, particularly transformational leadership, is also explored. Furthermore, it covers the importance of effective leadership and management performance, providing methods for measuring leadership and management effectiveness, including the importance of good leaders, strong interpersonal skills, and employee motivation. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and offering recommendations for improving leadership and management practices.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Effective managerial leadership development interventions should a large organization
consider ensuring that these leaders behave responsibly, to cut out unnecessary expenditure?..3
Critically evaluating the relationship between effective leadership/management development
and organizational performance...................................................................................................4
Competences for measuring effective leadership and management performance.......................6
Range of approaches to identifying leadership and management development need.................7
What you mean by ‘evaluation’, effectiveness, ‘LMD’, ‘competences’ and the meaning of
success (i.e. individual or organizational)....................................................................................8
Analyzing the situation, and discuss some of the inherent difficulties involved with measuring
leadership competencies..............................................................................................................9
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Recommendations......................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
Leadership development means increases in the quality of leadership, which can be
within an individual or organization. Leadership qualities includes, communication, decision
making, ability to motivate others as well as management, etc. Leadership management
development refers to imparting knowledge, changing attitudes or increasing skill in an
individual as well as in organization to attempt the current and future management performance
(DuBrin, 2012). The report is going to identify the effective managerial leadership development
interventions. Furthermore, the relationship between effective LMD and organizational
performance is evaluating. Competences for measuring effective leadership and management
performance are covered in this report. It also explains the different difficulties involved with
measuring leadership competencies. Moreover, also identifying the leadership and management
development needs.
The present report is based on the evaluation of article of “Poor quality people
management” by Hayley Kirton in which there is a study by investor in people on poor quality
people management in UK businesses. In this, IIP identified many practices which have a
positive impact on the employees of UK as well as which will also helps in improving the
company's value.
Effective managerial leadership development interventions should a large organization consider
ensuring that these leaders behave responsibly, to cut out unnecessary expenditure?
Leaders plays an important role in managing the company, they work 24/7. The main
responsibilities are of directing, coaching, supporting and delegating. The development
interventions by the leaders helps the company in improving the quality of the people
management. The company ensures the manager to develop and update the organization's
employees skills and knowledge and also to provide the latest information and techniques to
them. Leaders must have a people management skills, if they are lacking then this will be an
expenditure for the company (Crossan, and et.al., 2013). The leaders have to improve the people
management skills so that they can manage the people more effectively. By increasing the
efficiency in work, it results in increase in the productivity as well as increase in the profit of the
company as this is a positive impact on the organization. Leader have to update and develop their
own people management skills as to eliminate the expenditure of the company. They have to
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access the latest information and technology regarding their skills, as it will help in managing the
time more effectively and efficiently and also helps in reducing the expenditure of the company.
Company also have to reward the leaders according to their performance, by this they will get
motivated and the organization will also benefit in the market (Clifton, 2012).
The another development intervention by the leader is of recognizing and rewarding
performance with a motive to boost the company's value. The responsibility is to recognize the
performance of the employees whether tCambriahere performance graph is going up or down.
After recognizing their performance, the main motive of the leader is to improve the
performance of the employees. They can improve the performance by rewarding the employees
according to their performance (Ehrich, and English, 2012). By providing bonus, promotions,
rewards etc. to the employees will bring motivation in the work and also results in improvement
in the company's value. They have to manage the work in a proper way that they can easily
recognize and reward the people. By giving rewards to the employees, they will stick to their job,
and no one will leave the company. By this the company's cost of recruitment and selection will
be reduced and will result in cutting off organization's expenditure.
The other responsibility of the leader is of structuring the work according to the business
goal hence it is very effective. This is a process based, in which decisions are made by the leader
and on the key business goal processes (Bishop, 2012). The leader allows the right employees to
be organized efficiently and effectively so to accomplish the key business goal processes.
Improper alignment of the work will create confusion as well as inefficiencies in the work as
well as it bring barriers in the improvement and will result in increase the expenditure of the
company. Therefore, to reduce the expenditure, leader have to manage the work according to the
aligned task. Each task is to be aligned in a manner way by the leader so that it will help in
achieving the goals of the company.
Critically evaluating the relationship between effective leadership/management development and
organizational performance
Leadership development is an activity of motivating the individual and organization in
order to achieve the business goals. The Capabilities of the leader is, they influence the
employees in many ways, like coordinating, training, motivating, rewarding as well as by
communicating with them. As, these all capabilities helps the business in improving and
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increasing their performance. Effective leadership is helpful in ensuring the organizational
performance (Adair, 2011).
By improving the communication skill by the leader, will result in easily communicate
with the employees and making them clear about the vision. By setting a clear vision by the
leader will improve the performance of the company. An effective leader will influence the
employees, to perform their duties effectively as well as on time. They influence the employees
by explaining the vision of the company and their importance in the market. By this the
employees will be more apt to follow the company's vision and mission, hence, it will help in
increasing the performance of the company. The leader has the ability to motivate the employees
which can be done by understanding their needs and wants. They can motive by providing praise
by giving appreciation regarding their work. With this ability of motivating the employees will
help in improving the performance of the company (Identifying leadership development needs.
2012).
By guiding the employees regarding their work will result in increase in the production as
well as efficiency in the work. Whenever they made any mistake in their work, leader has the
capability to provide proper guidance to them by explaining the task. If they face any problem,
they have to assist the employees, by this guidance in their work, will bring improvement in the
work as well as it also improve the performance of organization (Pradeep, 2011). By building the
morale by the leader, will result in pulling everyone together to work, to achieve a common goal.
They have the capability of getting the employee into confidence as well as win their trust. A
leader must be a morale booster, by achieving full co operations. With this the employees will
improve their abilities as well as work to achieve the business goal. Effective leadership has a
direct relation with the performance of the organization. Leaders give rise to inspiration and
empowerment in their employees which takes them high efforts, high commitment and
willingness to take risk (Love, 2010). The leader has a balanced personalty and skills which
helps him to put the purpose into action.
Leadership styles have a great impact on the organizational performance and helps in
achieving and evolving the success. This leadership styles have a positive impact on achieving
the performance. Transformational leadership, is a successful style of leading, in this style leader
plays the role of leader. In this, they inspire the employees as well as challenging them to
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involved more in the work. The trasformational leader, try to communicate and understand with
their staff and also try to know the strength and weaknesses in their work, and motivate them by
finding the best way. Therefore, this styles helps in optimizing their employees performance and
also optimizing the entire organizational performance (Simic and et. al., 2012).
Competences for measuring effective Cambrialeadership and management performance
The effective leadership and management performance has a crucial role to play in the
organizational success. If the effective leadership is adopted in the company then this will reduce
the cost incurred on the poor quality of people management. As it has been analyzed that £84
billion cost is incurred because of the poor quality people management in an organization. For
this aspect, adopting a sustainable good quality service is feasible for the company. Along with
that, company can measure the effectiveness of the leadership and performance of the
management in order to reduce the cost incurred due to poor management. This is how company
can maximize their revenue and can reduce the attrition rate in the organization (Northouse,
2009).
There are many competences for measuring the effective leadership and this can be done
by following several methods. This can be measured on the basis that good leaders are
possessing a certain mission and they are inspiring the team members or other employees to get
combine with them. Further, the effectiveness can be measured by watching that leaders have
created the strong organization (Maki, 2010). Along with that, they have strong interpersonal
skills which make them effective and this way they can carry out the work in an effective
manner. Along with that, they can also encourage others to do effective working. Moreover, this
way company can manage the people and this way less cost can be incurred upon them.
Furthermore, the effective leadership play a most important role of motivating others. It can be
measured that if the employees are highly motivated in the organization that means leadership is
effective (Moran, Harris and Moran, 2011). As the effective leaders motivate other which leads
to the effective management. Thus, the organization can reduce the cost of poor management
which lower down the profitability of the company. Along with that, if there is a deep
relationship between the employees this also indicates that effective leadership has been
employed in an organization.
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Furthermore, the management performance is also measured in order to reduce the cost of
the company which are incurred unnecessarily on the poor management of the people. The
company must have the proper management system in order to avoid the unnecessary cost on the
poor management of people. For this aspect, management performance leads to the reduction of
cost to the company (Bridle, 2010). This can be measured by the organization through various
manner. If the managerial duties are getting fulfilled that is proper staffing is done, training is
provided to the people in an appropriate manner, proper communication flow is done then
company's management performance is effective. Furthermore, if there is a foster teamwork then
company is having the effective management performance. It can be assessed if the teams are
achieving the goals on time and they are giving efficient performance then the management is
fostering teamwork and this will lead to the reduction of cost of poor management. Moreover,
the measurement of effective management performance can be done if the management is
delegating the work that means the work load is distributed to everyone and all the employees
are aware about their roles (Bildstein, Gueldenberg and Tjitra, 2013). This way proper
management of employees can be done and the cost of the company can be reduced. Therefore,
effective leadership and management performance plays a crucial role in reducing the cost of
poor management of people.
Range of approaches to identifying leadership and management development need
To understand the needs of leadership and management development there are some
approaches. The approaches are:
Academic liberalism, this is the approach which is used rationally and relatively. The
manager of the company need this approach to find the way of moving forward. Leaders gained
this approach with the help of the experts through attending seminars, reading, taking programs
etc. leaders applied the ideas and principles in their work, which is gained from the experts.
Experiential liberalism, this approach is different from the academic liberalism. Rather than
understanding through theories, experience is the source of learning by the leaders (Bridle,
2010). The previous experience is the source of learning as it provides ideas and insight to the
leader and it can also be used in practice. The leader can use experience from a variety of sources
and from their own action rather than being set a specified formula. Usually, this approach is
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more meaningful for the leaders (DuBrin, 2012). Each of these approach affect the leaders'
measurement, assessment and development. As it gives rises to number of models of leadership
as well as management.
What you mean by ‘evaluation’, effectiveness, ‘LMD’, ‘competences’ and the meaning of
success (i.e. individual or organizational)
Evaluation is defined as judgment or rating the individual performance within the
organization. With the help of proper evaluation individual can rate and assess their skills and
abilities that support them in attaining the tasks and activities. On the other hand, evaluation in
the context of organization is assessing or analyzing the internal as well as external environment
of the organization that support therm in measuring their overall performance in the market
(Bishop, 2012).
Effectiveness among the individual is defined as capabilities that support the individual
leader in attaining the desired outcome that further support individual in achieving the
organizational objectives in the effective manner without any wastage of resources. On the other
hand, effectiveness in the context of organization is termed as producing the expected outcome
through utilizing the resources in the proper manner so that organization can easily attain the
desired success in the market.
Leadership and Management Development (LMD) is essential for individual as it support
them to lead and manage the workforce within the organization. With the help of LMD approach
individual can easily assist them in amending and developing the skills and abilities so that they
can render proper services. On the other hand, LMD approach also plays significant role in the
success of organization as with the proper leadership they can lead the organization towards
attaining the objectives (Dries and Pepermans, 2012).
Competences is the essential component that support the individual in performing the
activities and tasks within the organization. Effective competences support the individual in
attaining success within the organization. On the other hand, competences for the organization
may include quality of their services, human resources, policies and procedures that they follows
etc. will support the organization in attaining success in the market. Therefore, competency
among the individual and organization plays significant role in attaining success in the market.
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Analyzing the situation, and discuss some of the inherent difficulties involved with measuring
leadership competencies (Crossan and et.al., 2013)
Analyzing the situation, and discuss some of the inherent difficulties involved with measuring
leadership competencies
Different situations are present due to which it may be required for business to measure
leadership competencies within the workplace. One of the most critical situation is decline in
profitability level of the company where employees may not be actively performing in the
organization. Apart from this leaders appointed within the workplace are not efficient due to
which operations of the company may not be carried out efficiently. Therefore, in this situation
company is required to measure leadership competencies due to slow growth of business in the
form of decline in profitability level. Further, it is well known fact that performance of company
declines only when its workforce is not managed in appropriate manner and sometime it may
prevent company from accomplishing its desired aims and objectives (Dries and Pepermans,
2012).
Decline in confidence along with motivation level of workforce is also another situation
due to which business has to measure leadership competency. In case if employees are working
with low motivation level then it states that leaders appointed by the business are not efficient
enough to handle employees within the workplace. So, in this case business has to measure
leadership competency so as to know whether individual is efficient enough to enhance
motivation level of the workforce or not. Apart from this decline in overall performance of staff
members within the workplace highlights that there is a need for business to measure leadership
competency (Northouse, 2009). Further, it is well known fact that performance of every staff
member differs from one another and in case when they are not able to perform efficiently or are
underperforming then it highlights that leaders are not efficient enough to handle them and this
proves to be ineffective for business in every possible manner. In short if leaders of the business
are not performing efficiently then it adversely affects business productivity and acts as hurdle in
accomplishment of desired aims and objectives. Reduction in workforce engagement is also
unfavorable situation which highlights the need for measuring leadership competency. In case if
employees does not prefer to engage in the major affairs of the business then it states that leaders
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of business are not efficient. Further, it is the main duty of leader to motivate staff members so
that they can take part in major affairs of the company and in case if it is not possible then it
highlights that they are not capable (DuBrin, 2012). So, business has to measure competency of
the leaders appointed with the motive to ensure that they are performing efficiently or not.
Reasons for measuring leadership competency may vary from one organization to another. But,
on the other hand it is necessary that leadership competency must be identified properly as it is
directly associated with business performance. In case if workforce is managed in efficient
manner then it directly leads to accomplishment of desired aims and objectives and vice versa.
For development of competencies of leaders it is required for company to take corrective actions
and has negative impact on overall performance also. Therefore, these are some of the main
situations highlighted due to which business has to measure leadership competency (Moran,
Harris, and Moran, 2011).
CONCLUSION
This report explained the practices which helps in improving the quality of people
management. Recognizing and rewarding performance and improving the quality of the people
management are the important development interventions by the leaders helps the company
performance. Effective leadership plays an important role in ensuring the organizational
performance. The main capabilities of the leader is to motivate the employees. Furthermore, the
performance of company declines only when its workforce is not managed by the leader.
Recommendations
 Recognizing and rewarding performance will help the company in motivating the
employees, by this they can boost the company's values.
 HR initiatives is also benefits for the industries.
 Structuring work practice have a positive impact on the large firms as it helps in
achieving the business goals.
 Improving the people management skills have a positive impact on the organization as by
improving the skills by the leaders, will help in cutting off the expenditures.
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