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Strategic leadership
Contents
Task 1- Leadership Case Study.......................................................................................................2
Learning Outcome 1.1.................................................................................................................2
Meaning and Importance of Leadership......................................................................................2
Learning Outcome 1.2.................................................................................................................3
Contrast the main approaches to the study of leadership and the approach relevant to the
organization.................................................................................................................................3
Learning Outcome 1.3.................................................................................................................4
Critically evaluate the role of leadership in strategic management.............................................4
Learning Outcome 4.1.................................................................................................................5
Critically explore the exercise of leadership power and influence..............................................5
Learning Outcome 4.2.................................................................................................................6
Critically review the importance of ethics, values and corporate social responsibilities to an
organizations value......................................................................................................................6
Learning Outcome 4.3.................................................................................................................7
Critically evaluate leadership and sustainability concepts and trends.........................................7
Task 2- Essay...................................................................................................................................8
Learning Outcome 3.1.................................................................................................................8
Assess the nature of organizations effectiveness and performance.............................................8
Learning Outcome 3.2.................................................................................................................8
Critically explore the main features and requirements of leadership development.....................8
Learning Outcome 3.3.................................................................................................................9
Provide criteria for assessing an organizations strategic effectiveness from a leadership
perspective...................................................................................................................................9
Task 3- Business Presentation.......................................................................................................10
Learning Outcome 2.1, Learning Outcome 2.2 and Learning Outcome 2.3.............................10
Speaker Note..............................................................................................................................14
References......................................................................................................................................16
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energy you can utilize to accomplish your goals. The knowledge, network, reputation, integrity,
and personal charm are other sources of power you can and should employ to accomplish your
goals. Similar to a battery, power increases in strength with increasing voltage.
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price that enables it to remain in business while also fulfilling its commitments to financial
experts, a company's moral obligations are the actions or behaviors that society and other
partners, such as representatives, expect of companies (Ferrell & Fraedrich, 1997).
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leadership. In this environment, leaders will undoubtedly need particular skills such as
facilitation, systems thinking, and creative thinking.
Task 2- Essay
Learning Outcome 3.1
Assess the nature of organizations effectiveness and performance
Organizations are structures designed to achieve specific goals, such as providing effective
services, finishing a project, or assembling groups of things, as well as longer-term goals like
productivity, market share growth, innovative competitiveness, financial growth/development, or
other execution measures for moving forward with activities. As a result, depending on the
context and purpose of the organization, it is necessary to measure organizational viability and
execution in an unconventional manner. Organizations are tools for achieving an entity's goals
while responding to all dangers and opportunities with resources that have been allocated, are
available, or are within reach.
The organization of companies and the administrative tasks they carry out have undergone
significant changes as a result of globalization, technological development, and the
information/communications revolution. The challenges of a society that is becoming
increasingly borderless and international, as well as the growing weights of advanced
communications technology's capability and promises for effective paperless and real-time
administration, will all be present as these developments proceed.
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most of every opportunity and initiative that comes their way. Leadership can become more
successful overall in situations that are changing thanks to change management.
Enhance Financial Performance on the Bottom Line
The potential to reduce costs, create new revenue sources, and boost customer happiness grows
with leadership development.
Talent Attraction, Development, and Retention
Enhancing leadership increases employee engagement, strengthens an organization's ability to
deal with talent pipeline limitations, and reduces the problems and expenses associated with
attrition. Fantastic representatives can be attracted to, recruited by, and energized by
extraordinary pioneers. A manager who has strong administrative skills may struggle to attract
and retain high-performing employees.
Execution of Strategy
Successful leadership development doesn't just happen for the sake of it. Organizations need a
governance structure that is closely tied to the business model and equips employees with the
necessary management skills to carry it out. Organizations can change their culture and
procedures by enhancing their authority.
Increase Success in Navigating Change
With better administration, people's ability to lead in a challenging world advances. When
businesses move beyond top administrators and lofty ambitions to tap into the full potential of
their talent pools, dexterity is unlocked.
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The most popular method for determining a leader's performance is to examine how the group
functions and how well its goals and objectives are achieved. The fact that leaders may influence
and enable their subordinates to succeed in a quantitative way may be a remarkable indicator. A
healthy organization has personnel, work styles, and frameworks as well as strong leadership,
excellent decision-making, and structure. Everyone is held accountable to a single aim and a set
of execution goals by an incredible amount of authority. One of their jobs is to oversee the
crucial progress of their business.
Focusing team members' knowledge and experience on the most urgent problems facing the
company is another crucial duty. Additionally, executives are responsible for setting an example
for desired cultural norms within their organizations. Representatives should have the impression
that an inspiring leader is advancing maintainability and other crucial measures in order to reach
certain goals, which believe and vision are at the forefront of achieving leader effectiveness.
Through pioneer appraisals and points to demonstrate how the pioneer effects an organization,
the seen efficacy of a pioneer may be expressed. Employee dissatisfaction In particular, worker
perceptions and discernments based on a variety of variables, such as the extent to which leaders
are able to satisfy followers' wants and requirements, the capacity to improve followers' quality
of life, and followers' abilities, are crucial indicators of a leader's suitability.
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Speaker Note
Usually, a work group's leader sets the rules for how the group should operate. All of the leader's
immediate reports will look to him or her for guidance and judgments. However, in a team, the
leader facilitates the conversations among the team members. The final choice is made after
considering each member's perspective. While a work group may embrace predetermined
organizational goals as part of their strategy, a team meets together to establish its shared goals
and objectives. Participants in a work group frequently respond to the meeting organizer with
"yes" or "no" answers or, at best, brief observations because meetings are primarily used to
transfer information. Team members frequently actively engage in conversation and debate about
the issues at hand, providing impromptu insight. As the problem is seen from various angles, this
typically leads to a synergistic solution to a number of problems.
In a work group, decisions are often made at the top; roles and responsibilities are clearly
defined, and everyone is aware of their responsibilities. Typically, a team will decide on the
work to be done and then divide it up among the members according to their individual talents,
skills, and areas of competency. In order for companies to perform, function, and run like a well-
oiled machine, working groups are also essential and should be maintained.
The capacity to influence others' behavior without using the formal power granted by the
organization's rules and processes is referred to as informal leadership. Informal leadership is any
style of leadership that is not dependent on official authority. No informal leader possesses
official organizational leadership authority, despite the fact that formal leaders can exercise both
formal and informal power. Contrarily, informal leaders influence followers and, in some
situations, outperform formal leaders in terms of effectiveness.
Various sources of authority are used by informal leaders. They are able to set an example or
employ referent power. Others turn to unofficial leaders for knowledge and skills that nobody
else in the organization possesses. They can also use their award authority to recognize and
applaud team members for a job well done.
On the other hand, they are unable to exert formal or lawful power because the organization
hasn't openly acknowledged their authority. Additionally, they are unable to successfully deploy
coercive power because doing so often requires using a person in a position of authority to carry
out the organization's approved rewards or penalties. One possible exception to this general rule
is the informal group leader's capacity to use peer pressure to force a disobedient group member
to conform to group norms by threatening exclusion.
Establishing teams at work boosts productivity and offers a structure for employees to participate
in planning, problem-solving, and decision-making processes to enhance customer experience.
Employee involvement improves decision-making comprehension, support for and willingness to
take part in implementation plans, contribution to problem-solving and decision-making,
employee ownership of decisions and changes, and morale because employees are eager to take
part in performance evaluation and improvement.
Teams are essential for any firm to accomplish its goals. Teams bring new ideas to organizations,
which are crucial for their success in the cutthroat corporate environment. Teams offer new
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perspectives that support achieving and exceeding the aims and objectives of the organization.
The likelihood of the company succeeding is increased by a diverse team.
Collaboration among employees assists in resolving difficult circumstances and obstacles that
the business may encounter. The groups engage in brainstorming to exchange concepts and
develop original, creative solutions to problems. Teams may quickly and effectively provide
quick, reliable solutions to organizational problems by working together. A synchronized team
has a higher chance of success and producing top-notch outcomes.
The leader of any work group significantly affects the tenor and mood of that work group by his
or her leadership values and behaviors. As a result, in a highly effective group, the leader adopts
leadership principles that encourage a positive atmosphere and a connection between the
members that is cooperative rather than competitive.
The group's leader and members believe that each person can accomplish the goal. Each member
is pushed to their limits and their personal growth is accelerated by these expectations. Each
participant is eager to share with the group all knowledge that is pertinent to its operations in an
open and honest manner. The group is highly driven to make the most of the communication
process in order to further its interests and objectives. Every point that a participant feels is
crucial but is, for whatever reason, being neglected will be repeated until it receives the
consideration it requires.
To avoid wasting the group's time, members also aim to avoid communicating useless
information. Just as there is a great drive to communicate, there is a strong motivation to receive
communications. The highly effective group has strong incentives to try to influence others as
well as to be influenced by them. This applies to every facet of the group's activities, including
technological problems, organizational problems, interpersonal problems, and group processes.
The goals and operating philosophy of a highly effective group are clearly understood by all
members and serve as a solid foundation for decision-making, giving individual members the
confidence to take actions that seem appropriate to them. This encourages initiative and defers
choices while yet maintaining coordination and direction.
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