MBA 608: Leadership and Organizational Behavior Analysis Report

This report provides an analysis of leadership and organizational behavior, focusing on two Harvard Business Review (HBR) articles. The report begins with an introduction to leadership and its importance in organizations, followed by an analysis of Kotter's views on the roles of leaders and managers. It emphasizes the need for an all-round leadership approach and the development of a culture that values effective leadership styles. The report also examines Heifetz and Laurie's perspective on adaptive leadership and managing changes within a company. The analysis highlights the importance of leaders understanding employees' perspectives and sustaining company quality in a competitive market. The conclusion emphasizes the critical role of leaders in setting direction, fostering innovation, and managing changes to enhance a company's competitive edge. The report suggests that situational, democratic, and other leadership approaches should be selected to best fit the needs of a particular period to manage the changes and help employees fill their skill gaps. The report also includes references to support the analysis.

Running Head: Leadership and organizational behaviour
Leadership and organizational behavior

Leadership and organizational behaviour
“Consistent with the learning objective of developing students to analyze how different types of
effective leadership styles are appropriate in different situations”
Introduction
Leadership can be defined as the methods by which an individual can comprehend and determine
in the mission and the vision which an organization can plan to achieve a particular goal. The
style of leadership can be vital by which it can be determined the approach of the employees and
management of the organization. The study has been focused on critical evaluation of the articles
that has been centered around leadership and covering various aspects of leadership in a proper
manner.
Analysis of the article (make subheads)
As per the views of Kotter in the article which has a sheer emphasis on the fundamental duties of
the leaders and the ways by which the roles of leader and manger can eb differentiated. However,
it can be said that the rile of manager can be a subset of the role of leader (Harvard Business
Publishing Education, 2020). The article puts forward the information of the importance of both
the roles in an effective manner. The article can help in understating that the leadership approach
needs to be more of an all-round approach as the induvial may need to focus on various aspects
in an origination. The importance of leadership has been gaining much importance and it is
important to develop a culture with the hep of shish leadership can be developed in a company
where employees can value the effective lead hip styles and put effort to develop it. From the
article it can be depicted that management and leadership are both emphasized ion the involving
and developing networks that can help in accomplishing the goal and ensuring that the goal can
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be achieved. The article provides idea that leader has the primary punctum that may require to
produce change. In order to set prep direction for the change it is important to develop plan and
create proper reaction with the employees.
From the article it can be said that the Kotter has been put emphasis on the way by which
leadership can be said to be very impact and the main roles which it needs to operate in an
enterprise. The study however lacks in the areas where the endear can improve their qualities by
categorizing their approach in any particular style. There has been lack of information in the
approach by which the leaders can handle their roles in very aspects and help in reaching then
goals and objectives (Arthur-Mensah & Zimmerman, 2017). Mover, it can be quite ineffective in
comparing a roles o leader with that of manager as role of leader is much more vitals as
communed to that of a manager.
From the views of Heifetz and Laurie it can be said that the work that leaders need to integrate in
their styles is adaptiveness towards the changes in an effective manner. Leaders might need to
understand the perspective of the employees and help them to understand the change as they are
the most effective people form the changes that might occur in the company. The changes that
may happen in the company needs to be simple so that it can be easier to compete with them.
The article has the major focus on the measures that the, leaders might need to take in order to
initiate any change and the method by which it can help in managing the stress of the company
collectively (Dhir, 2019).
On the contrary it can be said that managing changes is not the only directly job that leaders need
to focused on. The most difficult job that the leaders might needs to focus on is to help the
corporation to sustain and enhance their quality (Newman et al., 2017). However, in the modern
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world where change is the only constant managing changes can be complicated but sustain the
company in the compete meeker is more crucial (Rosari, 2019).
Conclusion
From the analysis of both the articles it can be said that, the role of leaders can be most important
in an organization. The setting of direction can help the company to innovate and mages the
chnages that might come across with regular changing trends in the modern world. This can help
the compnay to enhance their competitive edge and stand out in the market along with affective
leadership (Gordon, 2017). The leadership approaches like situational, democratic and others can
be selected by the leader which can be best suited in the particular period of time in order to
tackle the changes and help the employees to fill their skill gaps in an effective manner.
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References
Arthur-Mensah, N., & Zimmerman, J. (2017). Changing Through Turbulent Times–Why
Adaptive Leadership Matters. The Journal of Student Leadership, 1(2), 1-13.
Dhir, S. (2019). The changing nature of work, leadership, and organizational culture in future
ready organizations. Corporate culture, Management, Leadership, Job redesign,
Organizational Behavior, Innovation, Change Management, Human Resources, VUCA.
Gordon, G. (2017). Leadership as It Relates to Organizational Behavior and Performance.
In Leadership through Trust (pp. 17-22). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Harvard Business Publishing Education. (2020). Hbsp.harvard.edu. Retrieved 21 March 2020,
from https://hbsp.harvard.edu/download?url=%2Fcourses%2F712952%2Fitems
%2F12546-PDF-ENG%2Fcontent&metadata=e30%3D
Newman, A., Schwarz, G., Cooper, B., & Sendjaya, S. (2017). How servant leadership
influences organizational citizenship behavior: The roles of LMX, empowerment, and
proactive personality. Journal of Business Ethics, 145(1), 49-62.
Rosari, R. (2019). leadership definitions applications for lecturers’leadership development.
Journal of Leadership in Organizations, 1(1).
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