Analysis of Authentic Leadership in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

This report examines authentic leadership, focusing on lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis. It defines authentic leadership as a management style emphasizing sincerity and ethical foundations, crucial for building trust and inspiring employees. The report analyzes the importance of leadership in organizational behavior and crisis management, highlighting the application of situational leadership theory. It discusses the complexities introduced by the pandemic and the need for credibility, teamwork, and stamina in leadership. The report explores different systems, including optimization of the whole system, data-driven approaches, and rewarding cooperation, to manage crisis effectively. It also emphasizes the importance of adaptability, communication, and understanding the interconnectedness of various systems in decision-making. The report draws on Foucault's methodology to analyze change and continuity within organizations, and discusses the relevance of leadership in achieving team goals and adapting to changing work environments. The report emphasizes that in a time of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, effective leadership is crucial for managing organizational challenges and ensuring progress.

Authentic Leadership

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
‘What are the leadership lessons that we can learn from the current Coved-19 crisis?...............1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Authentic Leadership is considered as an approach to leadership which highlights
developing legitimacy of leaders by honest relation with followers that value its input as well as
are develop upon an ethical foundation (Leroy and et. al., 2020). Usually, this kind of leaders is
optimistic individuals with faithful self concepts who promote openness. Moreover, it often
provides its overall minds as well as hearts of the specific cause. For instance, team spirit and
loyalty may spread across entity, that outcomes into higher morale as well as gaining extra
ordinary outcomes. Authentic Leadership starts with the leader’s awareness that allows him to
build positive relationships and inspire and encourage employees in the right ways. An
atmosphere of openness is key. According to George, one of the core qualities of a leadership
role is authenticity. Without actually being authentic, a leader will never be able to appear as if
he is. It requires a leader to be self-aware and have the ability to recognise and acknowledge his
own strengths and weaknesses. Also, this motivates trust into its groups. The aim of this report to
analyse the issue that organisation should response to the crisis. The topics which are going to be
discussed in this report is effective leadership model that are use as mind map.
MAIN BODY
‘What are the leadership lessons that we can learn from the current Coved-19 crisis?
Leadership is important in a company for effective people management in an orgaistaion. It
helps in forming and maintaining organisational behaviour which helps in increasing
performance and overall productivity. There are various leadership styles which helps in
managing people as per the requirement of situation. These styles are autocratic, democratic,
laissez faire which helps leader in authorising and delegating work in teams and organisation.
Leaders exercises control in decision making and directs behaviour of people with the help of
influencing and motivating. This helps company in driving and implementing change in an
orgaistaion. Thus, leadership is an important skill for managing people of a company with
diversity of talent. It involves various traits for managing and leading people such as integrity,
respect, honesty, decisiveness and other essential traits. Communication plays an important role
in leading and channelising group of people in right direction to ascertain team goals in a
company. It helps in developing values and motivating people of an organisation. Leadership is
important for a company to achieve team goals and ascertain require change in work culture. It
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helps in shaping right behaviours for accomplishing of work and coordinating efforts. This leads
to enhance performance and commitment towards company. Leadership is considered as both
research area as well as practical competencies that encompass the capability of person, team and
firm for leading, influencing or guiding and other group, individuals or whole entity. Moreover,
authentic leadership is defined as management style in which individuals act in real as well as
sincere manner through being true to itself. Also, these type of leaders are undertaken to be
effective in respect of motivating the faith and loyalty among followers which outcomes in
efficient staff performance (Wenger and Herne, 2020). This is also being believed that leaders
which are authentic bring efficacious longer standing thoughts that are being document as part of
modern leadership. Along with this, the global pandemic as well as related economical crisis
have thrown world off course, considering them into uncharted territory. Within these crisis
circumstances, individuals are operating firms often revert to type. Also, they have to undertake
narrow view as well as try to be in comfort zones within extreme uncertainty faces. The COVID-
19 crisis has developed various complexities to leadership. As crisis management have effective
scripts to obey as well as various leaders into huge firms are prepared should their application be
essential. It also understand the various unique risks for its operations, areas or market which
might pose as well as are ready for addressing cyber security breach or hurricane which might
interrupts enterprises as usual. In addition to this, the COVID-19 crisis also shows few essential
lessons in order to lead during crisis are credibility, team work, stamina and many more (CRISIS
LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM COVID-19, 2020).
Therefore, for respective circumstances, situational leadership theory is applied as it does
not associate to specific kind of leader or claim that anyone style is effective. Also, this focus
upon effectiveness of situational variable as well as do not undertakes any other style of leaders
to be better in comparison to others. Additionally, this is regarded as a integration of two factors
leadership style as well as maturity levels of followers.
Crisis management is very important for the well developed script and it has to be followed
properly. There are several leaders within large organisations who are managing their work in
effective manner for controlling the business activities. It is essential to understand the risks
within market, location and operations. In context of COVID 19 scenario, it is concluded that
there is need to have a predetermined crisis team and development of relationships with experts.
This has helped in managing the work at the time of risk. It is also essential that while managing
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the factual response, there is need to have proper management of steps which are to be taken
when people are going for updates of information. There is requirement of developing reliable
public information. There is need to have proper analysis so that announcements are done for
managing same kind of activities an events. There are several empathetic as well as sensitive
ways of managing business operations.
There is presence of unprecedented time nowadays and it is essential to experience
particular details while managing the challenges. There are a lot of opportunities provided by
COVID 19 in context of assessing, learning and analysing the leadership qualities. This
pandemic is a dynamic and complex issue which is involved in bringing myriad of systems into
social, economic, technical, environmental and emotional aspect. There are several systems
which are interconnected and there is need to manage them, in effective manner for engaging
into decision making. There are three types of systems that have been adopted within the
leadership crisis. These are mentioned below -
Optimization of the whole system - There is a scenario when there is need to deal with complex,
dynamic and interdependent problem. There is need to manage and evaluate various long term
resilience for focusing upon the strategies and optimising the whole process. This can be
explained with an example that when a company leader makes decision for profit, different parts
of system have to be focused. There are some negative consequences of the system and it
weakens the resilience of whole process. Denmark country has created an integrated response
which has been supporting public health by stopping the corona virus spreading. This provides
boosting of economic resilience. There is a financial support bill which is provided and it
includes that 90% of each and every salary has to be given to all employers for three months.
This will help in retaining talent and provides employees the economic security to pay the bills.
The response of Denmark has increased trust within government that the strategy will be helpful
for optimising the health of whole country.
Data driven - There are various systems that are dependent upon strategy and leadership. These
are strengthened and data is generated. There is an independent system required within data and
it has to be shared as well as curated. This can be explained with an example – South Korea has
to use robust data for building public health strategy at the time of COVID – 19 pandemic. This
country tested widely for understanding and analysing the extent of infection that was spread at
that place.
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Rewards cooperation – There is a last factor of complex, integrated and leadership response
which was present at the cooperation. There are several complex dynamic, interdependent
problems which needs data perspective and it has to be understood in proper manner. According
to the ideology, there are several barriers for decision making and cooperation. This has caused
decision for work in the part of system. This diminishes with the overall health of large systems.
When the individuals are using system for evaluating the actions of leaders then there is
managing of different systems that will lead to manage the systems.
There is need of living in a world where leadership has become one of the most important factors
to handle any situation. There are managers within business environment who are called on for
providing leadership which is visionary, transformational, charismatic and authentic. There is
need to manage the work and perform in proper manner for handling the potential work. There is
need to understand and evaluate properly so that project work can be done properly. It is
analysed from the Foucault methodology, it is concluded that change and continuity within
organisation is essential as it explains assumptions, problems and process of forming the truth
claims. An effective leadership is known as presence of having charismatic, visionary and
transformational work. There are several ways to manage the work by adopting leadership
qualities and styles. There is need of compelling and powerful management so that good
performance can be given. At the time of proper development, it is concluded that there is
development of new leadership and it is more valuable and desirable. Leaders of an organisation
are said to be generating both qualitative and quantitative results. There are various problems
within the affair state. The present approach used by companies for developing the leadership.
There is creation of enormous human capability and performance for people within leadership
positions. There are several values important for sustaining a democratic society. This requires
active participation from different citizens which are having highly egalitarian and desirable
attitude. There is current positioning and understanding of problematic consequence in context of
diverse matters including theoretical innovations. These are related to managing of diverse
business situations properly. Leadership is one of the factors which have helped in focusing upon
processes and systems of organisational performance. In context of enlightenment era, there are
several political philosophers who are emphasising upon the problems. There is a process of
formation and this leads to the production of statement regarding leadership. There is need to
have conventional challenge while managing the work.
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Leadership is defined as one of the essential elements needed for concerning about different
issues that a business faces. The concept of leadership is related to the personal qualities and
skills of an individual. There is great role of leadership within business context. There is need to
manage the effectiveness of working in proper manner so that goals and objectives are attained
in less time. The organisational leadership is known as providing orders to the team and making
it to work properly so that goals are attained. According to Dumpty and Stacie, it is concluded
that in the era of changing business environment, there are several factors in which teams have to
understand and manage the business process and functioning.
There is spread of COVID-19 at high rate and this epidemics has created problem in working of
various organisational working. In the world of COVID, there is influence of microcosm within
large ecosystems. This has provided guidance for leadership in action and the impact of
leadership is involved in both the working and progress of any organisation. At the time of
COVID-19 pandemic when every organisation has to do work from home, leadership helped in
managing the work and meeting goals. While working in the most serious public heath crises,
there is need of managing the functioning of companies in proper manner. All companies have
shut down and they started working from home. There is need of managing the fundamental so
that leaders are to be managed in effective manner so that goals can be attained. When this
pandemic started, there is evolving of evidence of leaders who recognised and empathised the up
healing. There are lot of leaders and who have engineered and executed the communication
campaigns for communicating the work to employees. The CEO of different organisations have
understood that main responsibility of all employees is to take care of self and family. Delloitte
witnessed instances where actions of leaders have focused upon mental emotional and physical
well being. Main affect of COVID – 19 is on engineering and construction companies. They
have stopped working and mutiple live projects have been stopped. It is analysed that great
leaders are prioritising people over business. The main effort of the leaders is on managing
stability of business. There are initial efforts which have focused upon the security of people and
wokring from home. The leaders have to ensure that employees are safe and if they need any
assistance then proper help is providd to them. This will lead to manaeg the work in proper
manner and work inb proper manner. This will help in managing the work and fiocusing upon
the establishment of goals. There is need of evaluating different ways to manage the fucntioning
and attain goals. There is reqirement of planning and develop new ways to manage the work.
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When a company tries to run a successful business, there is need to follow all guidelines and
procedures properly so that goals are obtained in specified time. If there is no proper planning,
then most suiccessful ideas also fail. There is need to hacve proper guidance and planning for
reaching the organisational objectives. Mentoring is not an eay task. There is need of managing
various issues that can occur while different individuals are working together. It is essential for
different employees to adapt new changes within organisation and manage the work. As the
COVID – 19 has occured, there are different new challenegs that companies are facing. It is
essential to manage the functioning properly so that goals can be attained. The organsiational
leadership is defined as management approach where leaders have to develop strategic objective
for inspiring individuals and managing the work in proper manner. As there is shifting of work
culture, a lot of organistional leaders are adopting technological advancement. The chnaging
work environment has brought various challneges and these have to be managed in effective
manner. At the time of COVID-19, the business went remote and employees suffered from
anxiety, stress, etc. There is occurence of various factors that costs business leaders in negative
manner. It was not an easy task and there was need to manage teh functioning of organisation
properly. At the time of pandemic, more focus of leaders is on motivating and encouraging
employees. There are several elements that leadesr have analsyed at the time of COVID-19.
These include the following -
Be proactive in managing crisis situations – This is very important for the companies to manage
and tackle different
Keeping community together – it is essential to keep the communities in effective manner so that
work is managed proeprly. This helps in managing the work in effective manner so that
achievemnet of goals is possible.
Be adaptable and flexible – there is need to be adaptive and manage the functioning of processes
in propeor manner. Also, leadership skills are needed for managing the work and controlling
different ways to acheiove the targets and goals.
Communicate – for a manager, the best thing to do is communication. This will help in reaching
the goals and objectives in proper manner. These will help to manage the working in effective
manner and attain goals in proepr manner.
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