MBA401: Crisis Management and Leadership Style in Google Presentation

This presentation focuses on an organisational crisis at Google, specifically addressing the issue of diversity in the workplace. It explores the potential causes of such a crisis, which may include deficiencies in planning, lack of supervision, and conflicts among team members. The presentation then delves into the potential consequences of the crisis, highlighting the significant impact on the organisation's daily operations and overall long-term performance. A key aspect of the presentation is the examination of transformational leadership as a solution to the crisis. It discusses the advantages of this leadership style, such as its ability to unite efforts across different levels of the organisation to identify issues and implement changes. However, it also acknowledges the potential disadvantages of this leadership style, especially during a crisis. The presentation concludes with a set of recommendations aimed at supporting organisational change and fostering sustainable growth. The references cited provide additional context and support the arguments presented.

 An organisational crisis is the threat to a major product
line, unit, or impact the financial performance.
 Crisis situation can influence the health and wellbeing
of the employees or other individuals in the
organisation (Griffin, 2015).
 Some causes of crisis in organisation may include
deficiency in project planning, lack of supervision,
conflicts amongst the members.
 Google has been taken as the organisation in this
presentation.
Organisational Crisis

 The issue of crisis situations may lead to devastating
effect on the business organisations.
 Major impact has been found on the daily activities
or day-to-day operations of the organisations
(Sommer, Howell and Hadley, 2016).
 This leads to major impact on their overall
performance in the long run.
Potential consequences of Crisis

 A great role of leaders or leadership has been recognised in the
crisis management in businesses.
 Leaders use appropriate strategies or methods to solve the issues
or problems faced by the people in organisation (Davis, Frolova
and Callahan, 2016).
 Transformational leadership style has been used in the
Google for resolving the issue of crisis.
 The advantage of transformational leadership has been found
facilitating each different level to accomplish their goals.
 It unites the efforts or activities of upper level and lower level
to identify issue and make changes in their work practice
(Donnelly, 2015).
Leadership in the crisis management

 Transformational leadership is considered one of the
most effective style in the organisation (Svedin,
2016).
 The organisation may also face negative impact or
influence from the implementation of transformational
leadership, especially during crisis.
Disadvantages of leadership style

 Business owners and managers need to focus on
making change in the organisation to sustain growth
in the future.
 The presentation in the preceding slides mentioned
about the Google’s organisational crisis ‘diversity at
workplace’ issue.
 A number of recommendations are provided to the
organisations to support change.
Recommendations

 Griffin, P. (2015) Crisis, austerity and gendered governance: a feminist
perspective. feminist review, 109(1), pp. 49-72.
 Donnelly, P. (2015) What if the players controlled the game? Dealing with the
consequences of the crisis of governance in sports. European journal for sport and
society, 12(1), pp.11-30.
 Sommer, S.A., Howell, J.M. and Hadley, C.N. (2016) Keeping positive and building
strength: The role of affect and team leadership in developing resilience during an
organizational crisis. Group & Organization Management, 41(2), pp.172-202.
 Svedin, L.M. (2016) Organizational cooperation in crises. United Kingdom: Routledge.
 Hartley, D. (2016) Economic crisis, technology and the management of education: The
case of distributed leadership. Educational Management Administration &
Leadership, 44(2), pp.173-183.
 Davis, P.J., Frolova, Y. and Callahan, W. (2016) Workplace diversity
management in Australia: what do managers think and what are
organisations doing?. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International
Journal, 35(2), pp.81-98.
 Amanchukwu, R.N., Stanley, G.J. and Ololube, N.P. (2015) A review of
leadership theories, principles and styles and their relevance to educational
management. Management, 5(1), pp.6-14.
References