Wintec BIBM795: Leadership and Motivation Reflection

This assignment is a reflective journal entry for the BIBM795 Professional Work Placement module, focusing on leadership and motivation. The student analyzes the Charismatic Leadership Theory and Victor Vroom's Expectancy Theory, evaluating their relevance to personal work experiences at a pizza food joint. The reflection includes specific examples, discussing the practical application of these theories in motivating employees and achieving organizational goals. The student emphasizes the importance of patience, teamwork, and career development opportunities in the workplace. The assignment also references relevant literature on leadership and motivation, providing a comprehensive overview of the subject matter.

Leadership and Motivation
Leaders are engaged in behaviors that complement environment and ability in a way that
compensates for deficiencies and is instrumental in subordinating satisfaction and individual and
performance of individuals and units of work.
One of the following theories which I found quite relevant and practical is the "Charismatic
Leadership Theory", which is based on the belief that a leader must possess some extraordinary
and exceptional qualities to become an effective leader.The traits of such charismatic leaders
are:-
● Envisioner-Leaders who usually have high expectations and dreams, foresee future
possibilities and create a vision or goal and plan accordingly. An envisioner can highlight
the followers how shall their values or efforts can reap desired rewards.
● Energizer-Highly enthusiastic, proactive, energetic and confident. They aim towards
success through their energy. ("What Is Leadership?", 2019)
● Guide-Leading the followers with great compassion and trust by providing ample support
and guidance.
There are multiple definitions of leadership, although the varying definitions generally collide in
the theory that leading politicians are prepared to make tactical and visionary decisions and
encourage others to follow those judgements.. Consensus is leaders who develop a vision and
will get others to operate toward same goal efficiently.. The Charismatic theory of leadership
when applied in conjunction with the Victor Vroom's Expectancy Theory of motivation leads to
better results and successful stories as it explains that the same is actually a product of valance,
expectancy and Instrumentality. ("What is leadership? - Definition from WhatIs.com", 2019)

Generally, surprise employee departures are a result of lack of motivation due to poor leadership.
It is generally said that employees don't leave jobs, they leave their Bosses. Arrogant leaders
have a shelf-life within their organizations. (Martin & Guéguen, 2015) Managers who provide
their employees opportunities to develop their careers are in a good position to retain their
employees eventually.. A leader should work on self efficacy which is the individual's belief
about one’s ability to mobilize motivation, cognitive resource, and series of actions required to
complete a task successfully. ("Motivation Theories: Top 8 Theories of Motivation –
Explained!", 2019)
Once I had personally experienced the instance of leadership and motivation. I was in high
school when started working for a pizza food joint, Fabbrica Della pizza which was done
basically to utilise my weekends. The wage was though minimum.
This was a complete turnaround as I could figure out the cases how employees were motivated
and literally trained to face the clever world beyond my school. Every coin has two sides,
similarly there were both pros and cons of the job.
I can share from my personal experience that what one needs the most in job, is “Patience”.
Another important factor that I have learned is Teamwork since employees at a pizza joint are
trained for a variety situations where work can be done perfectly with joint efforts only.
It might sound easy to sling pies for a living, but there are major downsides to this kind of low-
wage job as there can be two profiles, one can be cooking pizza and the other delivering the
same, both of which are equally challenging.
Uh,,let me share the pros of my job:

I used to get paid leaves
I was allotted meal discount coupons, SODEXO as additional remuneration.
I had flexible working shifts.
It gave me immense pleasure working in such renowned customer service industry.To sum up, I
will always encourage and recommend the fellowships to do proceed and work in customer
service industry, as it gives challenges and is a really dynamic one.
References
What Is Leadership?. (2019). Retrieved from
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_41.htm

What is leadership? - Definition from WhatIs.com. (2019). Retrieved from
https://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/leadership
Martin, A., & Guéguen, N. (2015). Repeating what children say positively influences their
learning and motivation. Learning And Motivation, 52, 48-53. doi: 10.1016/j.lmot.2015.08.004
Motivation Theories: Top 8 Theories of Motivation – Explained!. (2019). Retrieved from
http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/motivation/motivation-theories-top-8-theories-of-motivation-
explained/35377