An Investigation into Poor Leadership Skills & Mismanagement at PDVSA

This report investigates the impact of poor leadership skills and mismanagement on the organizational performance of PDVSA, a Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company. It explores the role of leadership in setting a clear vision, motivating staff, and guiding employees through work processes, while also highlighting the negative consequences of poor leadership, such as decreased productivity, high employee turnover, and a decline in overall organizational performance. The report discusses ways to improve leadership skills, including practicing discipline, learning to follow, developing situational awareness, understanding strengths, and having a compelling vision. Additionally, it addresses effective strategies for improving mismanagement, such as plan development, valuing leadership potential, emphasizing educational background, and fostering active listening. The research aims to analyze the impact of these factors on PDVSA's performance, with objectives including examining the role of leadership, evaluating the impact of poor skills and mismanagement, and identifying potential improvements.

Proposal
(An investigation into the impact of the poor leadership
skills and mismanagement on organisational
performance)
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Table of Contents
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A) INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
B) THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH FOCUS..............................................3
C) JUSTIFICATION AND CONTEXTUALIZATION..................................................................7
D) METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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A) INTRODUCTION
Overview of the topic
Leadership is an art of motivating group of the people to act towards attaining common aim.
It can mean directing the colleagues and workers with strategy in order to meet requirements of
company effectively. Poor leaders are identified through their lack of capacity to give input to
team, that may come out of their own lack of ambition. Setting reasonable goals prohibits staff
from learning what they truly have to deliver. The poor skills of a leader develop negative impact
on the team members and their performance. Mismanagement is related to not to managing the
activities and operations at workplace in an effective manner (Hines, 2014). Poor leadership
skills and mismanagement both impact negatively on performance level of business. Bad
leadership cannot come through individual management but from the culture of the organisation.
A manager is unable to pull out best of workers if upper management doesn't have the tools to
compensate, value and motivate employees. Under control of poor leaders and managers, bad
leadership is costly, employee productivity decreases and employees are less dedicated to the
organisation and its task, which appears to lead to lower-quality jobs and slower doing of things.
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Background of the organisation
PDVSA organisation is Venezuelan state-owned oil and the natural gas firm. This has the
activities in production, exploration, exporting and refining as well as the production and
exploration of the natural gas. The main focus of this company is to make improvement in the
leadership skills of employees so that they can work effectively and also managing the activities
of company. Company was founded in 1976 by Asdrubal Chavez, President. Company is
headquartered in Maracaibo, Venezuela (International), Moscow, Russian Federation (Europe).
Company is specialise in has activities which are exploration, production, refining and exporting
oil as well as exploration and production of natural gas. Company provides provides the
government of Venezuela with substantial funding resources
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B) THEORETICAL BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH FOCUS
The theoretical background can be identified as an investigation's imperative field as it tends
to offer substantial assistance to entire study by the creation of a theoretical viewpoint that offers
a means for individuals to enhance their knowledge base over even a particular area of study.
This research section contains mostly secondary references such as books, magazines, papers,
and previous research and so on (Ikpefan and Agwu, 2015).
Role of leadership in PDVSA organisation
As per opinion of Live Oak Bank (2020) for the organisation, leader sets clear vision,
motivates staff, guides employees by work process and boosts trust. Leadership means directing
people in reaching specific targets. Leadership is function that is necessary at all levels of
Management. This is necessary for getting the co-operation in order to formulation of policies
and transform the leader by leadership traits helpful in integrating the personal objectives of staff
members with organisational objectives. Leader is made it trying to co-ordinate efforts of people
towards a common purpose and achieve the objectives. It can be done only if they can influence
as well as manage Corporation to attain the set objectives. In regards to this, main role of leader
is to guide the employees and also provide them the effective base so that they can achieve the
target effectively. Leaders are making the countless decisions and also facing issues which they
have never encountered before. There is the different role of leaders which play for success of an
organisation such as develop trust, create vision, executive strategy and coach potential.
Leadership provides division of entire team is single most necessary role of a leader. Team
members which cannot expected to participate in common effort than they do not know about the
focus of practices. The team must know about the objective and reason then they are focus as
well as understand how role of a leader help them to success of business policy. On the other
hand, it is set up define organisational structure that consists organisational chart outlining chain
of the command and wireless protocols for better communication. Members of company, time
required to understand they report to when they have the concerns (Kumar, 2015). In context to
develop effective communication, it is helpful to use emails, memos, newsletters and others. This
type of a communication method should be appropriate for content of message.
Impact of the poor leadership skills and mismanagement on PDVSA performance
Carol Deeb (2020) stated that in the company, poor staff productivity may be a consequence
of bad management. When workers complain to each other, complete their jobs with little effort
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or struggle to finish their job assignments in a timely manner or at all, due to a boss who just
doesn't relate to an employee, they can complain about lack of motivation. The poor management
and leadership skills has caused the company to close. The poor leadership skills result in high
turnover rate of staff members, cost of hiring as well as training. This develop the negative
impact on the organisational performance. The poor leaders can have a negative effect on staff
members and also might even they made the reputation of company. The bad leadership impact
on every day to sustain employees at PDVSA company and minimise the employee moral as
well as productivity. This develops the negative affect on motivate the employees and also
enhance the employee turnover rate. The managers have direct impact on employees their line
managers. It is carried out the responsibility in order to performance of the departments and
employees with overarching the objectives of an organisation plays a main role in shaping the
organisational culture. It is necessary for the company to focus on improving the management
and also improve the skills of a leader. On the other hand, bad management can impact staff
members and overall operations of a PDVSA company. The incompetent managers at just and
they have challenges related to employees and keeping them motivated at workplace. The
substandard supervisors may not able to balance the budget in its revenue or perform the crucial
task. If the staff member’s complaint regarding working of Management, then investigate that
company do not suffer from the poor leadership (Maniora, 2018).
Ways for improving leadership skills within PDVSA organisation
According to Tony (2020), It is necessary for a leader to improving the leadership skills
so that they can work effectively and quite the employees so that they can focus on achieving the
objectives of company. Developing the leadership skills is one of the powerful moves that makes
transform the personal as well as professional life. This is empowering buying process of
harnessing natural talents for inspiring the others. Developing the leadership skills helps the
leader to improve their strength that develops ability and self-awareness to relate to the others.
There are some of the effective ways given below to improving the leadership skills:
Practice discipline- Good leader requires the discipline. Developing the discipline in
professional life is necessary to attend the effective leader and inspire others to be disciplined as
well. Employees of PDVSA company feel that capacity to lead through amount of the discipline
that display at workplace. It is necessary to demonstrate discipline at workplace through meeting
deadlines ending meetings on time and keeping the appointments.
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Learn to follow- A good leader has no issues healing control to the other person when
required. Leader should not feel threatened when someone disagree with question, about the
thinking and ideas of own. Keep open mind and provide the merit where is required.
Develop the situational awareness- Sign of a good leader is someone that can see bigger
picture as well as anticipated issue. It is valued skill to have when handling the complex projects
with the accurate deadline. Leaders of PDVSA company should give the suggestion for
neglecting the potential issues in an invaluable. This is helpful to a leader to identify the
opportunity that others to be overlooked and also earn recognition (Ololube, 2016).
Understand strengths and use them- Under this, developing the leadership skills take
effort and time and this starts with examination of weakness as well as strength. Strong
knowledge of leader gives an ability means that a leader can put them to work while
understanding of weakness provides them with areas that need to be improved. By addressing the
shortcoming help in development of leadership skills
Have compelling vision- Clear vision inspire the leader and others this act as compass,
tells where a leader is going and motivates. This is helpful to imagine the possibilities as well as
fortunate is. The clear vision provides reason to leader to face issues and helpful to pressure by
the challenges. Vision identifies destination or outcome and Figure out road map to get to proper
direction. Breakdown visa into the small and actionable steps towards attaining each steps and
this helps in bring closer to Vision. This is necessary to share vision with the others which will
working towards attaining the reason effectively.
Effective ways for improving mismanagement in context to PDVSA organisation.
Anita Ginsburg (2020) stated that the main role of a leader is to focus on improving the
organisation productivity by managing all the employees at workplace. The poor management
can lead to the minimum productivity as well as moral of employees. Outside of work
environment for knowing how to manage the people will help in developing the personal
relationship. Improving the people management through getting not to close how to manage and
work effectively and to attain the set objectives. For improving the mismanagement, there are
different ways given below:
Plan development- Improving the leadership and management of PDVSA company with
development of capable team that is striking company constantly in order to improve the
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performance of company. Having the competent managers with appropriate educational level in
order to carry out the business goal is necessary.
Value leadership potential- Include the managers which demonstrate the skills of a
leadership that can be tapped to assist inspire the others in order to produce contribution as well
as talent level in team. Diverse group of the people will help to enrich contribution provided
through management team increasing after the outcomes. The expression of the ideas through
without fear of the negative consequences will help in produce the divergent as well as useful
solution to issues need it significant solution through management leadership (Rangongo,
Mohlakwana and Beckmann, 2016).
Educational background- Attaining the people with strive typically to achieve the advanced
degree with outstanding academic records. Involvement in the extra curricula and co-curricular
activities will give inside to commitment of manager and work ethic. Those have record of high
achievement often have driven as well as competition which is necessary to become better
manager at organisation.
Learn to listen- This is imperative to listen closely to the contributions every day while
enlisting the support of associates who've been crucial to effective activity of the organisation.
For advice and constructive feedback, a close-knit management community may be reliant on
each other. Should all be made to believe like the whole of leadership team desires one's point of
view. When conflicts occur, both management must feel relaxed voicing points of view to the
party, as they often do with powerful leadership personalities. With fair compromise and
approval by the whole team, unity should be reached. There are several advantages to making
strong leaders within the business. Certain aspects of the market can be hurt by bad management.
organisation will thrive by working on developing leadership and management skills.
Research Aim
To analyse impact of the poor leadership skills and mismanagement on organisational
performance. A study on PDVSA organisation.
Research Objectives
 To examine the role of leadership in PDVSA organisation.
 To evaluate the impact of the poor leadership skills and mismanagement on PDVSA
performance.
 To identify the ways for improving leadership skills within PDVSA organisation.
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 To determine the effective ways for improving mismanagement in context to PDVSA
organisation.
Research Questions
 What is role of the leadership in PDVSA organisation?
 How poor leadership skills and mismanagement impact on PDVSA performance?
 What are different ways for improving leadership skills within PDVSA organisation?
 What are effective ways for improving mismanagement in context to PDVSA
organisation?
C) JUSTIFICATION AND CONTEXTUALIZATION
Present investigation is related to impact of the poor leadership skills and mismanagement
on organisational performance. At workplace, poor leadership and the mismanagement develop
the negative impact on performance of company as well as productivity. the leaders should focus
on improving their skills so that they can guide the employees of company and also focus on
improving the performance of an organisation as well. The mismanagement also develops
negative impact on employee’s motivation as they are not agreeing to work and leave
organisation. This causes to enhance the employee turnover rate and reduce the productivity of
company. As it has great significance for personal and also professional perspective, this has
been named the most concerned area (Seijts, 2016). This research is important for a person,
organisation or group of individuals to obtain a substantial understanding detailed analysis about
the concept of poor leadership skills and mismanagement and in which manner it impact on
performance of company. The investigator 's main purpose of carrying out this investigation, to
investigate own abilities and expertise in regards to this defined field to improve personal and
technical expertise that will be capable of achieving success in future. This study is primarily
considered to provide an important idea of an individual that focus on improving the skills of
leader.
It will draw on the adequate support of collection of knowledge from efficient sources such
as books, magazines, written papers, etc. Therefore, these sources will steer the done in the best
direction in order to establish an appropriate understanding of impact of the poor leadership
skills and mismanagement on organisational performance. On the other hand, the research is
timely, because it requires time to collect appropriate and effective information about
mismanagement and poor leadership skills of a leader and this mainly impacts on performance
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level of an organisation. the Therefore, by encouraging the development of time scales, the
inquiry can be carried out in a timely manner.
D) METHODOLOGY
Research paradigm
This is set of the common agreements and belief’s shared among researchers. It is related
how the issues should be addresses and understood effectively. There are interpretivism and
positivism are two different research paradigm.
Justification: In conducting the present investigation, there will be positivism research
philosophy used because it is based on the quantitative research philosophy. It provides
viewpoints and analyse of the different authors effectively.
Methodological approach
The research approach is regarded as mechanism that has wider inference measures for a
systematic system relevant to data processing and selection along with explanation. The
approach to research has also been categorised into different forms such as deductive and
inductive.
Justification: Deductive research approach has been used as it begins with social theory
which they search compelling and test implications with the data. This research approach moves
from genera level to more particular one. It is one that people associate with scientific research
(Shapira, 2017).
Research Methods
The research method is primarily categorised into three major forms or components
comprising of qualitative, quantitative or mixed research methods by which the use and
implication of the quantitative form of research method is more justifiable and fitting as it
ensures a simpler and more effective way to gather and convey information in numerical terms.
Justification: There will be quantitative research method used as it provides the appropriate
facts and figures. This emphasize the objective measurements and mathematical, numerical and
statistical analysis of the data collected by use of survey.
Research techniques
There will be survey research technique used. It is survey is list of the questions aimed at
extracting the particular data from specific group of the people. Surveys are mainly used to
enhance the knowledge in area (Tsatsu, 2016).
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Data collection methods
Usage of both secondary and also primary set of sources of data is made for research work
to provide both first-hand data through primary sources alongside help from previous researches
which includes parts of secondary areas of information. Primary data for investigation is
gathered with aid of a questionnaire which will consist of close ended questions. In addition,
with the help of online papers and journals to provide support, the secondary data will be used.
For conducting the literature review part to attain objectives, secondary method will be used.
Sample size
There is effectively two-type sampling, i.e. probability and non-probability, from which
the use sampling technique is enabled with the present inquiry as it reduces chances of bias in the
collection of observations from a large population. For gathering of the primary data using
random sampling methods, sample size of 40 respondents are chosen.
Target populations
There are 40 respondents chosen with the help of random sampling method. The chosen
respondents are employees of PDVSA organisation as they are aware about the behaviours and
skills of the leader and also about the mismanagement (Wang and Sedivy‐Benton, 2016).
Data analysis
Thematic analysis technique would be used to evaluate the gathered collection of
quantitative knowledge collected by the use of frequency pie chart in the questionnaire. In
comparison, a comprehensive literature analysis can be used to evaluate secondary data forms.
The explanation for using the quantitative method of data analysis is that by using the statistical
table and pie charts this contributes to a more measurable form of findings and ends with a more
efficient and clearer display of facts and figures.
Access and ethics
For collection of information, research should have the proper access. Without the proper
access, it is unethical to collection of information. On the other hand, ethics is related to the
norms, morals and values for conducting an investigation effectively. It is the duty of an
investigator to follow all the ethical considerations while conducting an investigation such as
informed consent, anonymity, disclosure to participants, privacy to data, confidentiality and
others. Researcher should assure that the information of participants should not be leaked or
disclose without their permission (Zineldin, 2017).
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Limitations of chosen strategy
There has been survey used as a chosen strategy. The limitation of this strategy is that
minimum priority to carrying a survey due to competing the urgent tasks. It is prone to an
investigator error where assumption is mainly made regarding sample which may not accurate.
In regards to this, survey fatigue could be lead to the response bias. Respondents may be skip the
answers in middle of survey.
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