Leadership Blog: Leading Change in a Globalized Business Environment

This report analyzes leadership strategies in the context of a changing global business environment, specifically focusing on the expansion of Mega Global Business Solutions Company. It explores the implications of leading within a global context, emphasizing the importance of innovation, skill development, and employee recognition. The report delves into the Team Leadership Model, highlighting its relevance to the company's international operations, and discusses factors that improve overall business performance, such as diversity and teamwork. Furthermore, it examines the principles of motivational leadership and their application in diverse cultural settings, providing insights on how to effectively motivate employees during periods of organizational change. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of motivational leadership in driving productivity and profitability within a globalized business environment.

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06/08/2019
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LEADING IN A CHANGING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
The change that brings some variations in the structure, operations, strategies,
technologies, culture, environment, etc. of an organization is known as the organizational
change. When the change took place in a global context then this is known as a change in the
global environment of the business.
Mega Globe Business Solutions Company (Organizational Global Change)
Mega Global Business Solutions company which is a financial consulting corporation
recently expanded its business from Chicago to Sao Paulo, Brazil and Shenzhen, Guangdong,
China. The global environment of the organization changed as now some of the Chicago
employees started working with employees of new offices in international boundaries. This
blog is for all those employees who faced this situation and can help them in this transition
process.
Implications of leading within a Changing Global Business Environment
It is for the benefit of employees to lead with the recent global change they faced in
their organization as it can help them in many ways such as:
Bring Innovation: Employees can facilitate with the new scenario present all around
them and can extract innovative ideas from them hence can bring innovation in the
company.

Increased Recognition: The change adaptation by the respective employees of the
company can have the change to perform effectively and being recognized by the
company on a large scale.
Skill Development: Adaptation of change by the employees and the organization can
help the organization in formulating such training programs that can help in skills
development of the employees in transition process (Mendenhall, M. E., Osland, J.,
Bird, A., Oddou, G. R., Stevens, M. J., Maznevski, M., & Stahl, G. K., 2017).
Higher Incentives or Benefits: The employees which adapt with the change can have
the opportunity of being paid higher than the employees which still are struggling, as
they can conduct the organizational activities in an effective manner than struggling
employees.
Team Leadership Model
Team management is considered one of the major functions of an organization as it can
help in accomplishing the goal in an effective and efficient manner then efforts of a single
employee. There are many team leadership models developed by scholars in their researchers,
as the leadership concerned with leading the team is the most demanding and crucial
leadership skill.
A major team leadership model is given here with its various heads which are
leadership decisions, leadership actions, and team effectiveness.

Team Leadership Model: Relation to Current Business Practices
In relation to the practices and activities of the Mega Global Business Solutions
company in international boundaries, the considered leadership model is very beneficial in
the following ways:
These leadership decisions regarding leading the team can be achieved by internal as well as
external leadership activities such as task activities, rational activities, and environmental
activities.
These all activities together can help the organization in achieving overall team effectiveness
in their business, which in turn facilities the global environmental adaptability of the
employees.
Improvement of Overall Business Performance
There are many factors of the considered organization or every other organization,
which needed to be taken into consideration in order to achieve overall improved business
performance. These factors and their positive aspects are as follows:
Gender: The organizational performance can be increased if there is no discrimination
based on gender in the organization.
Diversity: In organization diverse employees are present and it can be beneficial for the
organization as they have the employees with a different set of skills that can help the
organization in getting a competitive advantage over others.
Culture: The culture of the organization is also considered a major component in
improving its performance, as it provides the basis to various functioning of the
organization.
Teamwork: This factor is the basis of improved performance as this can help an
organization in accomplishing a task effectively and efficiently with the help of efforts
of each member of the team.
Principles of Motivational Leadership

Motivational leadership is such type of leadership that leads the employees by
immensely motivating them (Trepanier, S. G., Fernet, C., & Austin, S., 2012). There are
some principles regarding this concept that, which are as follows:
 It is important to always build a mission before starting to work in teams, it can be
achieved by motivational leadership.
 The motivational leader must be strong as there will be many circumstances where the
leaders must take very difficult decisions.
 The leader must have the ability to provide inspirational speeches to its team members
in order to motivate them in an effective manner.
Application of principles of motivational leadership in diverse cultures
The motivational leadership is considered one of the major aspects of productivity as
well as the profitability of every company. The employees of Mega Global Business
Solutions company have recently faced some challenges in front of them regarding global
environmental change.
The principles of motivational leadership can help the employees in establishing their
missions in an effective manner, attaining stronger leadership skills to motive themselves and
others as well as have the potential to innovate and motivate others n the long run.

Bibliography
Trépanier, S. G., Fernet, C., & Austin, S. (2012). Social and motivational antecedents of
perceptions of transformational leadership: A self-determination theory
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Mendenhall, M. E., Osland, J., Bird, A., Oddou, G. R., Stevens, M. J., Maznevski, M., &
Stahl, G. K. (Eds.). (2017). Global leadership: Research, practice, and development.
Routledge.