Unit 4: Leadership and Management in the Workplace Case Study Report

This report explores leadership and management in the workplace, focusing on motivational theories, performance management approaches, and leadership theories. It discusses Maslow's hierarchy of needs and its application in organizational settings, along with communication-centered and group behavior approaches to performance management. The report examines transformational, value-based, and situational leadership theories. Recommendations are provided for improving continuous improvement and performance within organizations, emphasizing the integration of performance management into daily operations and the importance of planning and team member engagement. The reflection highlights the understanding gained regarding the roles of leaders and managers, the development of effective strategies, and the application of management concepts in achieving organizational goals. The document is available on Desklib, where students can find past papers and solved assignments.

LEADERSHIP AND
MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Motivational theories.
The application of performance management approaches
Leadership and management approaches and theories.
Recommendation to improve continuous improvement and performance
Reflection
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
• This task will explain about the motivational theories, including the process, performance
engagement and continuous improvement.
• Along with this, explain about the various examples of application towards the
performance management approaches and assessment of management and leadership,
including their role for supporting performance.
• This also discuss the recommendation for improving the continuous performance and
improvement.

Motivational theories
Motivation is the process of stimulating people to action to accomplish the goals and
objective. Along with this also means the needs, desires, drives and wants within the group or
individuals.
Maslow states about that motivated and people to achieve the certain needs and that needs
take more preferences over others.
• Physiological needs-
This requires the satisfaction and most important as all other needs to be become more
secondary until these needs are not met. In addition, this could be required of food, water and
so on. This could keep about the essential to the survival and propagation of the species.

CONTD…
• Social needs-
At this level, it includes about the acceptance, belonging, the need for
emotional relationship that driver with having human behaviour. While in
organization this could lead within having satisfy for social group, community
group and religious organization.
• Esteem needs-
In organization participation for more about the professional activities, or
team participation hat can include for having the role of fulfilling the esteem
needs. People who are able for satisfy the esteem needs that can actually
achieving the good self-esteem and other tend to feel confident in their abilities.

The application of performance management approaches
• The group behaviour approaches-
Morrison's organization is highly concerned with the primarily behaviour among
their individual and also working within the social group which have the common feeling
and attitudes towards their formal organization concepts. Problem that are being created and
cannot be revolved within the authorities in organization. This could bring more about
attaches to the need for organization and keep the positive interaction among their working
group so that work can flow smoothly.

CONTD…
• The communication centre approaches-
This could lead the organization within having the proper performance
management and evaluate about them with proper view as centre receiving information.
Along with this also disseminating if emphasizing the role for communication in having
management of business.

Leadership and management approaches and theories.
Here are some common leadership theories such as-
• Transformational leadership:
These influences more about the serve of the role models to inspire other. This
might be also important in Morrison's organization which try to improve the morale and job
performance of team members by connecting with other sense of identification in
organization. Leaders in organization keep inspires other and encourages critical innovation
and thinking.

CONTD…
• Value-based leadership:
This guide team by encouraging other to act as per their accordance in Morrison's
organization and also shared more about their core values. It could bring more about the value-based
leadership drives with having positive changes and working with organization mission and purpose.
• Situational leadership:
This model in organization which keep the business consultant and have the better
framework for leaders in matching their behaviour to the performance that are being needs. This
could also lead for working with many new concepts and make sure for having their communication
an influence in manner and adapt the behaviour based on the diagnosis.

Recommendation to improve continuous improvement and
performance
• Performance management system that could integrate with having day-to-day operation and
planning for organization along with this how it becomes more ongoing part of organization
culture.
• Some resources which can help continuous improvement management system: assessing the
employee performance, guide the stages, culture transformation and excuses for not practising etc.
• Morrison's organization which keep about the various wants and make the small scale, with one
team or in team department and then expand their other working business.
• Leaders and manager in organization need to make daily planning and keep changing team
members within month.

Reflection
• I have understood about how the leaders and manager importance and their role in this part.
• As how this will help me for adopting more knowledge and make sure for having more effective
concepts.
• As well as this could help me for developing more skills and knowledge about how the leader and
manager play their role in developing organization.
• This might be also important for knowing about how the various management approaches that can
help the organization in taking some right steps.
• I have also analysed that how this could play the role in completion about those goals and objective
through which the various strategies that can be performed.

CONTD…
• They are only make the use of extent as they are being more relevant and also set
fundamental function of management which are being states for the core of management
study.
• I have also come to know about how usually the concepts of the organization in
developing the team members the role for the leaders and managers that can effectively
play the role.
• Along with this also states about how this can help me for working with many new
strategies and make sure for having more effective activities.

CONCLUSION
• From the above it had been concluded that, motivational theories which help the
employee financial and non-financial incentives.
• Along with this leadership theories and management approaches that could help the
organization for knowing about their goals and objective towards the team members.
• Continuous performance that could help the organization for having the better and
effective role for which they can make their huge strategies.

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