MBA401: Transformational Leadership Solving Executive Kidnapping

This presentation examines the application of transformational leadership in addressing executive kidnapping as an organizational crisis. It outlines the likely causes and potential consequences of executive kidnapping, further analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of employing a transformational leadership style in such situations. The presentation emphasizes the importance of understanding the external environment and employee safety, recommending proactive measures and employee safety schemes to mitigate risks. It also highlights the need for leaders to analyze the underlying reasons for kidnapping cases and strategically assign individuals to positions of authority to safeguard company data. The document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a variety of study resources for students.

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Transformational leadership and executive kidnapping
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Table of Contents
Likely causes:-.................................................................................................................................2
Potential consequences:-..................................................................................................................2
Advantages of transformational leadership:-...................................................................................2
Disadvantages of transformational leadership:-..............................................................................3
Recommendations:-.........................................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4

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Likely causes:-
Executive kidnapping is undertaken with a view to hamper the normal working
conditions of the company. The crime is conducted sometimes by the employee of the company
itself or sometimes by the rivalry firms with the intention to cause harm to the business firm. In
the global term, it is done due to unemployment, illiteracy and poverty. Australian department of
foreign associations and trade, care to look after this issue but this incident takes place
irrespective of various measures. Most of the kidnapping cases regarding the executives take
place because of the company’s data and assets to which the senior executives are only
authorised to.
Potential consequences:-
The consequence of such action may lead to a threat to a business firm. The kidnapping
takes place with the intention to possess the required data and money from the company by
bargaining the kidnapped person. The barter system takes place which is the motive of the
kidnapper and thus, undertake kidnapping activity. Under such cases the theft to a company’s
private confidential data and assets takes place. Biometric authorisation relies upon few hands
possessing higher authority, kidnapping of such body leads to bankruptcy of firms data and
informations.
Advantages of transformational leadership:-

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Transformational leadership is an active employee as well as leadership chain, both leaders and
employees by making sure that each one of them gets motivates with one another and reach the
hierarchy of higher level of the chain. A leader identifies the threat of its employees not only
internally but externally as well. A leader’s primary motive is to look after the wellbeing of the
organisation as well as of its employees. A transformation leadership ensures that the safety is
maintained. A leader is a body to whom an employee can communicate his problem and arrive at
a suggestion if a solution not possible (Decker et al.2018).
Disadvantages of transformational leadership:-
A transformation leader always motivates the employee to stop achieving and focusing on its
personal goals rather than start focusing on moral goods as an achievement towards the team. A
transformational leader qualities take place in terms of organisations culture and therefore fails to
understand to lead into a different path that is kidnapping. Kidnapping is an act of criminal
offence, which is not a part of transformation leadership in solving this particular issue.
Although, this case of executive crime is a part of corporate threat (Johnson et al. 2017).
Recommendations:-
A transformational leadership should understand the nature of the external environment towards
its employees and business firm rather than focusing on only the positive and internal facts of the
situation. A leader is one who possesses the vision, and the leaders should understand the extent
of liability that relies upon its employees. Understanding its employee’s value and providing
safety facilities while the employee is within the working hours is a step towards the prevention.
Employee safety schemes are to be introduced and should be given much focus for modification
of the present plans. A leader should understand the reason behind such kidnapping cases and

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should analyse the situation and accordingly assigning individuals to a higher authority position
with possession of the company’s potential data.

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References
Decker, J.P., 2018. A Study of Transformational Leadership Practices to Police Officers' Job
Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment.
Johnson, C.E., 2017. Meeting the ethical challenges of leadership: Casting light or shadow. Sage
Publications.
Pearce, C.L., Wassenaar, C.L. and Manz, C.C., 2014. Is shared leadership the key to responsible
leadership?. Academy of Management Perspectives, 28(3), pp.275-288.