Management and Leadership Analysis: A Case Study of Welcon Automotive

This report examines the management and leadership challenges faced by Welcon Automotive, a multinational automotive organization, during a period of structural change aimed at cost reduction. The report identifies issues stemming from the implementation of cost-cutting strategies, including employee demotivation, delays in task completion due to approval processes, and a lack of clear communication regarding the rationale behind the changes. To address these problems, the report proposes the application of transformational and situational leadership theories, emphasizing the importance of motivating employees, adapting leadership styles to different situations, and fostering better communication. Practical recommendations include allocating adequate resources, involving employees in decision-making, developing alternative strategies, providing training, and conducting regular meetings to improve employee understanding and performance. The report concludes that effective management and leadership are crucial for guiding Welcon Automotive through its structural changes and ensuring its continued success.

Management and
leadership

Executive summary:
Management and leadership is the concept that is used by the organisation to run business
operations in systematic manner through implementing proper planning, organisation,
monitoring and controlling. Leadership helps business to motivate employees to perform in
efficient manner. Welcon is the multinational automotive organisation that is taken into
consideration. Employees of organisation faced the problem related to performing their roles
properly while implementing structural change in business. Business need to analyse the problem
and adopt effective management and leadership theory that enable business to attain its defined
goals and objectives in efficient manner.

Contents
Executive summary:........................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK...............................................................................................................................................4
Discuss and critique the problem that the organization is facing, arising from the management
or leadership style........................................................................................................................4
Theory of management or leadership which relates to the problem and justify your selection of
this theory....................................................................................................................................5
Make practical recommendations to resolve the problem...........................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Management is defined as the process of controlling a specific group as well as set of
entities through developing effective planning, organising resources, motivating and directing
employees and controlling efforts to attain desirable results. Whereas, leadership is the related to
the ability of an individual to motivate, influence and enable other to contribute to attain business
goals and objectives in efficient manner. It is important for any organisation to implement
effective management and leadership approaches that motivate employees and lead business
towards growth and success. In this report a case study is taken into consideration of Welcon
Automotive Ltd which is multinational automobile organisation. Mr. Jerry is the leader of this
organisation who is friendly and people-oriented leader. This report covers critical problems that
are faced by the Welcon of management regarding implementing structural change policies in
organisation. Along with that, effective management and leadership theories are implemented to
resolve the problems as well as some practical recommendations are explained that help business
to resolve their issues in efficient manner.
TASK
Discuss and critique the problem that the organization is facing, arising from the management or
leadership style
Leadership and management are the most important concept of organisation that helps it to
manage business operations in efficient manner, motivate employees and lead their efforts and
actions towards attaining business determined goals and objectives in efficient manner. Welcon
is the auto-mobile organisation that operates its operations at international level. Mr. Jerry is the
leader of respective organisation who adopts people-oriented approaches on the other hand, he is
very strict leader when it comes to work as well as does not tolerate employee’s mistakes
regarding to ethics and values (Anthony, and Antony, 2017). In organisation, majority of
employees are happy with leader’s friendly approach. Everything is good in organisation until it
witness a transformation. With the objective of business development, organisation adopts
structural change policies. Top management of organisation want to being change in business
structure for the purpose of reducing business expenses.
Employees of organisation started facing various problems or obstacles in performing their
duties because of the implantation of cost cutting strategies. Management department of Welcon

fails to suggests any alternatives in different business areas in which business have executed cost
cutting strategy. There is not a proper strategy for implementing structural change in organisation
that affect overall business performance and efficiency. it created negative impact on
organisational employees to complete some important or crucial task as well as employees have
to wait for sanctioning the amount that wasted huge time as well as energy of employees.
As there are various strategies regarding the structural change are implemented by the
organisation and employees are not aware regarding the reasons that behind business cost-cutting
strategies such as turnover, sales, profits and other information (Bowers Hall, and Srinivasan,
2017). It demotivates employees that directly impact on their working performance and
completing their task on time. Organisation do not follow any specific management and
leadership strategy regarding implementing change as well as there is improper communication
between employees and management that impact on employee’s performance level. As
employees do not have information regarding the business change strategies that un able them to
perform their defined task on time with efficiency. Employees of organisation have to wait for
the manager’s approval to take actions because there is authoritative approach is adopted by the
organisation that wasted employee’s time and efforts. Employees many time raised this issue to
management but issues are not addressed. It demotivated employees so, they stop putting extra
efforts that directly impact on business profitability and compile the management to revisit its
cost cutting strategy again. All these are the potential issues that are faced by the Welcon due to
its management and leadership approaches. It is important for the organisation to
All these issues bring instability in business operations then Mr. Jerry bring the issues that
are faced by the employees in completing their task to the management department to take
efficient actions to resolve the issue that enhance employee’s performance and contribution
towards attain business goals and objectives with efficiency.
Theory of management or leadership which relates to the problem and justify your selection of
this theory
Management is defined as the process of managing business and activities and operations
in efficient manner that lead business towards growth and development and leadership is the
ability of an individual to influence others to perform activities in their desirable manner (da
Costa Nogueira Sousa and Moreira 2018). As there are various challenges and problems are
raised in business that impact overall performance and efficiency of organisation. As the Welcon

is the organisation that implement structural change in business that creates problems for
employees as they feeling it difficult to perform their task through implementing change
strategies. There are some management and leadership styles are executed by the organisation to
resolve the problems and lead all efforts of employees in the direction to attain business goal and
objectives.
Transformational leadership: As the transformational leadership is related to the
maintaining relationship between leaders and followers that lead organisation to attain
determined objectives with efficiency and effectiveness. Mr. Jerry is the people-oriented,
inspirational leader who motivates and encourage to employees to transform themselves through
adopting changes to perform better in tasks. Welcon uses this leadership and management theory
to resolve the problem that is faced by the organisation during implementing structural changes
in business that reduces overall cost and improve profits. Leader of organisation motivates their
leaders through their abilities to perform task in most efficient manner and pushes them to reach
higher potentiality. Implementation of this theory, helps the organisation to resolve the problems
that impact business overall efficiency and effectiveness (Dimmock, 2020). Leader motivates
employees to adopt structural changes in business that enhances the possibility of business
growth and success. This is the appropriate management and leadership theory that helps
management to make better relationship with employees and influence them to adopt as well as
implement changes in proper manner. As Mr. Jerry bring the problems that are faced by the
employees to the management and take decision to influence them to perform in efficient manner
and help to attain determined goals and objectives of organisation with efficiency.
Situational leadership: Situational theory of management and leadership is related to
take decisions and implement suitable leadership styles as per the demand of situation. As
Welcon organisation implements the structural changes in organisation that reduces business
overall cost and expenses. Employees of organisation faces the difficulty to perform their roles
and responsibilities due to cost cutting strategies. There is no alternative are available to the
organisation for those areas in which cost cutting strategies are implemented. It is important for
the organisation to adopt this strategy and take decisions as per the situations. In some cases,
employees have to wait for the authorization of managers or higher department for decisions and
take actions that wasted their time as well as efforts (Golensky and Hager, 2020). In this
situation, organisation need to adopt decentralised leadership through which business included

employees in decision-making and provide them power to take decisions on their own to gain the
opportunity in that situation. On the other hand, if situation requires higher quality decisions than
it is important to take decisions by the top management and communicate it to all departments
so, employees can perform their operations and business activities in effective manner. It is the
effective management and leadership theory that enable business to handle situations properly
and grab growth and development opportunities.
Both these theories are used by the organisation to reduce the level problems and improve
business performance and efficiency. Transformational leadership is used to motivate employees
to perform defined operations in business with efficiency and effectiveness as well as enable
employees to transform their nature and behaviour to adopt changes and implement them
properly to attain defined goals and objectives (Kandukuri, 2017). on the other hand, situational
leadership helps business to take decisions as per the situation to gain higher benefits.
Make practical recommendations to resolve the problem
As Welcon organisation faces the problems related to implementing its structural change policies
to reduce the organisational cost. There are unavailability of alternative strategies and policies
that affect its efficiency (Morden, 2017). It impacts performance and efficiency level of business.
Some recommendations to resolve the problem are mentioned below:
 It is recommended to organisation to allocate educate resources at all hierarchical level of
business as well as communicate all strategies, planning and necessary information to
employees so they can perform their defined operations in efficient manner. It is
important for the organisation to allocate budget for each initiative with suitable time,
authority, support as well as required training to employees for adopting changes in
efficient manner.
 It is suggested to organisation to use efficient leadership style in business as per the need
and demand of situation. If organisation staff is skilled, experienced and capable than
include them in decision making process or in some situation expert opinion are
necessary than authoritative leadership approach is implemented by the organisation.
 It is recommended to Welcon to create alternative policies and strategies for making
change in business regarding the business structure (Pidgeon, 2017). If one strategy is not
applicable in certain situation than another one can be used to gain desirable outcome and

improve business performance. organisation need to all role and responsibilities among
employees that reduce conflicts run operations properly.
 It is suggested to the organisation to provide training to employees that enhance their
capability to adopt changes and implement them to perform operations with great
efficiency. It is important to provide benefits, perks, promotional opportunities to
employees that motivates them to attain the objective of higher performance and
productivity.
 It is recommended to organisation to conduct regular meeting and group conferences to
understand views and ideas as well as communicate them all change related policies and
practices that improve their efficiency and enable to perform their operations properly
(Pretorius, Steyn and Bond-Barnard, 2018). Business need to monitor employees work
through implementing key performance indicators that help to identify employee’s weak
areas and develop strategies to improve them and enhance their contribution towards
attaining business goals and objectives.
CONCLUSION
As per above report, it can be concluded that leadership and management are the concepts
that are important for the organisation to run its activities and actions into right direction.
Managers of organisation need to analyse employees needs and requirements as well as the
situation of business than adopt suitable managements and leadership theories that motivated
employees to perform defined operations on time. There are various leadership and management
theories such as contingent theory, situational leadership theory, transformational, transactional
and behavioural leadership theories. Business analyses the situation and adopt the best one to
lead business operation in the direction of growth and success. There are various problems and
difficulties are faced by the organisation that impact its performance and efficiency. All these
problems are properly analysed than effective actions are taken to resolve them properly and lead
business activities on right direction.

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