Analyzing Leadership Effectiveness within Australia: A Research Report

This report analyzes the effectiveness of leadership within Australia, focusing on a case study of the University of Melbourne. It explores the benefits of effective leadership, such as improving education quality, implementing vision and values, boosting morale, supporting change, maintaining communication, enhancing motivation, and keeping records of transactions. The report also assesses the challenges faced by the University of Melbourne in maintaining effective leadership practices. The research methodology includes primary and secondary research, employing quantitative techniques. Data analysis and findings are presented, along with conclusions and recommendations for improving leadership effectiveness within the Australian context. The study uses questionnaires to gather data and discusses research limitations and ethical considerations, providing a comprehensive overview of leadership effectiveness in a higher education setting.

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Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
Research Topic:.........................................................................................................................1
“To analyse the effectiveness of leadership within Australia”........................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Research Aims and objectives.........................................................................................................3
Rationale of project..........................................................................................................................3
Problem statement.......................................................................................................................4
CHAPTER 2....................................................................................................................................5
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................5
Benefits of leadership in University of Melbourne.....................................................................5
Challenges faced by the University of Melbourne while maintaining effective leadership
practices within Australia............................................................................................................8
CHAPTER 3..................................................................................................................................11
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY..................................................................................................11
Introduction................................................................................................................................11
Research philosophy..................................................................................................................11
Research approach.....................................................................................................................11
Research choices........................................................................................................................12
Research design.........................................................................................................................12
Research Method.......................................................................................................................13
Time horizon..............................................................................................................................13
Data Analysis.............................................................................................................................13
Validity and Reliability..............................................................................................................14
Research limitations...................................................................................................................14
Research Ethics..........................................................................................................................14
CHAPTER 4..................................................................................................................................15
DATA ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS..........................................................................................15
CHAPTER 5..................................................................................................................................20
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION............................................................................20
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................22
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APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................24
Questionnaire.................................................................................................................................24
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Research Topic:
“To analyse the effectiveness of leadership within Australia”.
INTRODUCTION
To operate a business successfully, planning and availability of resources is needed as it is
used to introduce something new and supports accepting challenges. A leader is the one in
charge, the person who convinces other people to follow. A good leader inspires confidence in
other people and moves them into action by managing all resources and activities. Leadership is
the ability of an individual or group of people to influence and guide followers or other members
of an organization. Without a leader, it will be challenging for companies to operate their
business because there will be no one to guide and state what they need to do? A company made
of number of people who have collected to share their opinion and views to complete the roles
and responsibilities that could help to develop the organization productivity (Durmishi and
Popovski, 2020). Leadership is vital management function that is used by managers to direct an
organization’s resources for improving efficiency and the achievement of goals. Effective leaders
provide clarity of purpose, and motivate and guide the organization to realize its mission. This is
important for an organization to set their goals and allocate the work between employees that can
help to manage the all work and activities effectively. If there are a skilled and knowledgeable
leader, then could be anopportunity to grow their business and maintain higher performance. The
researcher will use primary as well as secondary research by applying quantitative technique.
The management should have proper ability to manage their work and support to develop the
organizational productivity. To understand the needs and wants of their organization then offer
the kind of services that can help to develop the organizational productivity. To understand about
leadership University of Melbourne has been selected that is larger size education industry. This
is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. The university founded in 1853,
where students comes to complete their education. The management and leader of such
organization understand the goals and contribute each function into activities which supports to
improve the business performance (Angle and Swenson Lepper, 2020). The leader of business
industry plays a vital role as they analysis the environment and comes to know what motivation
strategy and directions could influence the number of people that kind of products and services
are provided to their staff. The present report involves aims and objectives, rationale, scope,
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literature review, research methodology, and data interpretation, and recommendations that
improves knowledge.
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Research Aims and objectives
Research Aim
“To analyze the effectiveness of leadership within Australia”. A study on University of
Melbourne.
Research Objectives
 To determine the benefits of effective leadership within University of Melbourne?
 To assess the challenges faced by University of Melbourne while maintaining effective
leadership practices within Australia?
Research Questions:
 What are the benefits of effective leadership within University of Melbourne?
 What are the challenges faced by University of Melbourne while maintaining effective
leadership practices within Australia?
Rationale of project
To set the goals and covert into reality leadership is important as it involves number of
process and activities which needs to be complete on time. Effective leadership is all about
executing the company’s vision and setting the tone and the culture for particular organization
that can be used to develop the organizational performance. The meaning of leadership is
creating, planning, securing resources, and looking out for and improving errors that is used to
managing the all function. The main reason of introducing the concept of effective leadership is
to bring changes and strategies which can help to develop the organizational productivity. To run
a business successfully, there is needed to have willing between employees to perform their
assigned duties then perform it well (Yukl, Mahsud, Prussia and Hassan, 2019). The aim of
current research is benefits of effective leadership that can help to manage the all functions and
activities properly. This report will improve personal and professional skills of an individual. In
context to personal, marketing, motivation, communication, and interpersonal skills can be
improved. Moreover, professional skills such as use of effective leadership at the workplace
being improve. This report will help researcher to set the goals and collect information regarding
a topic as it provides effective knowledge and skills to complete their task.
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Problem statement
The main problem which is facing by organization is ineffective leadership, maintaining
quality customer relationships, and meeting customer needs that directly affect the business
organization and its performance. This is important to organization to understand what is
happening around and what challenges are facing by employees where leader is selected to
identify the issues and resolve all problems. Having proper resources and capital could be
effective to organization in growing their business and managing the functions properly. The
management should have proper information regarding specific products and services that could
help to influence the number of employees and supports to accomplish the business goals.
University of Melbourne is education centre where number of students arrives to gain education
and skills to manage work and develop functions (Ibrahim and Daniel, 2019).
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CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW
A literature review is the comprehensive summary and study of previous research on a topic
where it became important to individual to analysis the environment and state how information
can be collect. This is the piece of academic writing explaining knowledge and understanding of
the academic literature on a specific topic. A literature review involves a critical evaluation of
the material where overview of previous work is published. This is generated by scholars in
order to collect information regarding topic. This is an overview of previously published works
that refers to scholarly paper, book, and action. The present report is about effective leadership
which is used by management to influence and attract the number of employees at workplace.
This is important to each business organization to identify what their employees wants and how
they could ready to accept the challenges so that each work will be done effectively.
Benefits of leadership in University of Melbourne
According to Forlenza (2020), Leadership is the ability of influence, and attract the
number of individuals to accomplish business goals. This is important to organization to identify
what their employee wants and how they could be satisfied so that kind of products and services
are provided to employees that can help to maintain higher performance. Leader is an individual
who mobilize people toward a vision and support the organization to develop organizational
productivity. The management and leader is having enough skills and ability to work which used
to support the organizational function and activities effectively. In an organization handling the
business activities and getting work done is tough task where leader could be defined as one
person who understand all issues and comes with optimum solution that can help to improve the
business performance. In Australia, University of Melbourne is considered as education centre,
number of students from other countries comes to gain knowledge and complete their study.
Number of staff and employees are working in this centre where leader is selected to solve the
business issues and bring right solutions. The benefits of leadership in University of Melbourne
is defined below:
Improving the quality of education – The overall education system of University of
Melbourne is being improved as having effective leaders. It has seen that leaders are important as
it contain connection between managers and employees then direct them to work in aspects of
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increasing business productivity. While offering products and services, quality matters a lot
where leader is responsible to understand the requirements and offer kind of services which can
help to develop the business productivity (Fernandez and Shaw, 2020).
Implement the vision and values – An organization is established by deciding vision
and goals where activities are involved to complete and manage functions properly. Vision are
devised as long term goals that could be set by an individual and support to manage the business
functions. This is important to each individual to understand what is happening around and how
their employees will contribute to activities so that each work could be done effectively.
University of Melbourne is oldest education centre by setting vision and values where leadership
is used to complete the vision and creating values. This can help to develop the organizational
performance and productivity.
Boost the morale of individual – In an organization number of employee’s work
collectively that can support the business to improve productivity. This is important to industry
that their employees should be enough motivated and skilled so that they become proficient to
manage the challenges. In University of Melbourne, leaders benefits to boost the morale of
teachers and students by providing them right guidance and direction to arrange work. Morale is
the capacity of group and individual person to pull together consistently in pursuit of a common
purpose (Boone and et.al., 2020).
Support to accept changes – Changes are needed to business organization as it bring
new ideas and innovation to work that can help to develop the organizational performance and
productivity. This is important to each organization to have effective leader as it bring changes in
their existing work and influenced people to make buying decision. During Covid-19, where it
became challenging to University to continue their offline classes then management and leader
has brought the change of providing good quality of online classes that can help to continue their
study until next updates. The leaders are skilled and acceptable who identify the situation first
then convert into opportunity by managing all functions and activities effectively.
Maintaining effective communication – Communication is the act of sharing,
exchanging ideas and feelings that have in individuals and used to complete the task. Without
communication it could be challenging for business industry to share the data and important
information that affect the business activities and performance negatively. University of
Melbourne is taking benefits of maintaining effective communication that support in no biased
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behaviour is following by employees and employer. This helped to bring changes and
accomplish the university goals. This also support to managing the business functions and
activities at workplace.
Enhancing level of motivation – Motivation is the process of initiating, guiding, and
managing the goal oriented behaviour that can help to managing the all functions effectively.
Having good motivation in employees and leaders could be beneficial for business industry as it
brings change in existing performance and supported to grow it effectively. In relation to
University of Melbourne, motivation is needed to enhancing the productivity of education
system by focusing over needs, values and goals of teachers as well as students. The teachers are
responsible to build a motivation among teachers and students so that each work and activity
could be perform effectively (Stronge and Xu, 2021).
Keeping records of all transaction – While running a business and managing functions
there is need to focus over recording of all transactions and activities as it could support the
business industry to manage the all functions. The leadership is effective as it bring optimum
utilization of resources and capital without any delay that could support the business activities. In
relation to University of Melbourne, there are many course and degree which is providing by
university to influence number of people and get work done efficiently. The management make
the use of leadership process that used to guide the people to maintain the records of all financial
and non-financial transaction. This helped the university to develop the organizational
productivity as well as profitability.
Foster a fearless culture – In some organization employees work under pressure that
directly affected their business and productivity. This is important to business organization to
provide freedom to their staff and give opportunity to share their opinion regarding specific
topic. If people feels restriction to speak and learn then it could be challenging to operate their
business activities effectively. In relation to University of Melbourne, leadership give a benefits
to teachers in fostering the fearless culture in which teacher as well as students are free to speak
candidly, question, learn, and experiment. Learn how to adopt leadership practices that ensure
psychological safety for your team.
To build trust – Having effective leadership style and process can help the business
organization to grow their business and managing the functions. In business organization number
of people works collectively where it became important to build the trust among staff and
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manage the work properly. In relation to University of Melbourne in Australia, leadership is used
by teachers and students by building the trust among them so that each task could be perform
effectively (Vogt, 2020).
From the above it has identified that leadership is the important aspect which is used by
companies to identify the issues pertaining in business environment and provide the best solution
that can help to develop the organization productivity. Leader is playing major role as it
understands the goals of University and allocate the work between employees that can help to
develop the performance and productivity effectively.
Challenges faced by the University of Melbourne while maintaining effective leadership
practices within Australia
As per the view of Bass (2019), leadership practices could be explained as main
procedure that foster and encourages a good working relationship between employees. Having a
good connection among team members will help team building, and increase organizational
productivity as well. This is important to business organization to know how their employees
could perform all functions and activities effectively so that kind services are provided to
individual which can help to maintain higher performance. This is important to each organization
to have effective leadership practices as it could help to manage the changes and develop the
organizational productivity. Australians prefer a leader who is driven towards outcomes and
objectives, with ambitious being the second-ranked ideal leadership value. Broad-mindedness
was next on the list, with Australians desiring to be led by individuals who are open to new
ideas, innovation, and change. The number of leadership practices are followed by University of
Melbourne such as:
Develop a Leader's Mind set – The first leadership practice is to set the mind of leaders
and leading the team to work collectively. This is important to business organization to
understand what their leader wants and how they could influenced to number of employees to
complete task. This practice relates to develop the leader’s mind set and bring change in existing
work so that right work could be perform effectively. In relation to University of Melbourne in
Australia, leader uses this practice to set their mind towards specific task or topic so that type of
work and activity could perform accordingly.
Set up a team to get results – Team is the involvement of number of people who decide
the goals and allocate work among employees so that each work could be perform effectively.
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This is important to leader to understand what their employer wants and their goals so that task
could be divide between team members to perform well. In relation to University of Melbourne
in Australia, leadership practice is applied by management that can help to divide the work into a
team and get results accordingly. This can help to develop the business productivity and
profitability in changing environment (Alrowwad and Abualoush, 2020).
Challenges faced by University of Melbourne in Australia in implementing the leadership
practices
Communication challenge – The major issue was found while implementing the
leadership practice in University of Melbourne is lack of communication as students belongs to
other country and place where language and culture is different that directly affected the
productivity of education centre. It has seen that if there is no effective communication and
sharing of ideas then could be challenging to regulate their business activities and performance.
However, leader of selected industry faced the communication barrier that have impacted
negatively on students learn activities and studies. To solve the issue, University campus is
needed to keep their focus on the communication level from where the students, professors and
leaders all can interact with each other in fine manner and can create a better learning
environment. From the view point of the author, communication should be very accurate and
proper from where only the students and professors can convey their ideologies and speech in
definite order (Fraboulet, 2021).
Not having accurate knowledge and skills – While arranging and managing the
business function it is needed to have good knowledge and skills regarding specific as it support
to manage the business productivity. This is important to business organization to analysis the
environment and determine what is happening around and how each function could perform
well. In context to University of Melbourne, challenge of inaccurate knowledge and skills found
between teacher that impacted negatively in business productivity and performance (Iqbal and
Ahmad, 2021).
Having burden of work and high pressure – To operate a business and education
centre arrangement of all resources and activity is needed as it supports to manage the functions.
There are many task to perform where it became important to manage them well as it create the
pressure and affect business task. Due to high pressure of the work and arrangements, leaders
and management of the University gets frustrated and let down which makes the leadership
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