...Does leadership exist in management? In order to find this out you need to look at management as a whole and leadership as a whole. Leadership is defined as, the position of function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group. Another common meaning is the process that involves attempts to influence other people in obtaining organizational goals. Given these definitions, you can see that leadership can be anywhere. A person doesn’t need to hold a certain position in a company or organization to be considered a leader; it’s not a job title. There are several types of leadership, laissez-faire, autocratic (authoritarian), participative (democratic), transactional, and transformational. Laissez-faire leadership, when translated, means leave do or hands off. This form of leadership allows subordinates more freedoms to complete their tasks. The employees make decisions instead of the managers. Autocratic or authoritarian leadership is a type of leadership where a leader acts as the dictator. All decision will come from the leader with little to no input from subordinates. Autocratic leadership is highly effective. These leaders are highly motivated, knowledgeable, and feel fulfilled when they achieve something on their own. Participative or democratic leadership involves cooperation by all members of a group or team to get things done. This type of leadership allows leaders to work closer and together with their subordinates. Advantages of participative leadership are...
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...1) With your observations and research about family corporations, please comment on how corporations face challenges over leadership transitions and sustaining in the market. (Write less than 500 words) Leadership transitions and sustaining is an important and challenging issue in most corporations, especially the family corporations. Quite a numbers of founders, who are also the first generation of the corporations, set up their business in a small scale, and walking through the period of expansion in the business cycle, they run their business well and thus the scale become larger. During this period, the business was mostly operated under the help of the family of the founder, like his wife, sons, daughters, or even son-in-law or daughter-in-law. As years passed, the founder need to think of the ways of passing the business to the next generation. Before that, there are a few obstacles that is necessarily to be stepped across. The first obstacle would be arose from the individual aspect: the willingness and capabilities of the inheritors. Growing up in the family with sufficient resources, the second generation is usually educated to inherit the family business, despite the willingness of his or her interest. This phenomenon generates from the sense of traditional Chinese that the family business has to be inherited by the sons (mostly) or daughters. It is quite common that “Chinese founders would want their offspring to stay together and lead the businesses they have founded...
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...Contents Page Introduction 2 Background 2 Discussion 3 Products and Services 3 SWOT Analysis 3 Competitive Analysis 4 Competitive Advantages 5 Sustainability 5 Recommendations 5 New Product/Service 5 Marketing Strategy 6 Conclusion 7 References 8 Introduction This report is mainly focusing on studies of marketing strategy. By analyzing and discussing the case of Zara, we will be able to have a more in depth analysis of companies and their marketing strategies. In the background section, basic knowledge of marketing strategy will be introduced. In the discussion section, an analysis of Zara’s existing product and service will be listed and an S.W.O.T. analysis is done to figure out the company’s current situation and position in the marketplace. In the recommendation section, a new product/service will be recommended to augment Zara’s brand. Also a marketing strategy will be suggested to improve Zara’s business. Background Firstly, some commonly used terms and their definitions will be introduced in this report in order to provide some basic knowledge and understandings of the principles and studies about marketing strategy planning. SWOT Analysis: This is a strategic planning method which used to evaluate the strength, weakness, opportunities and threats of an organization involved in a certain business. (Friend...
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...with Steve with funding from a millionaire investor. In 1984, he developed the Macintosh, which was the first small computer with a graphic interface in its time. It had promise to revolutionize the whole PC industry. However, bad business decision and internal stife with his CEO would eventually cause Jobs to leave his own company. He went on to start two other companies; NeXT and Pixar. Pixar would be acquired by the Disney Company and NeXT would be acquired by his own Apple Computers Inc. With the acquisition, he returned to Apple Computers Inc. in 1996 as interim CEO. From that time on, the rise of Apple Computers began again as the iMac would be developed. The famous iPod and iPhone would later be developed and it would revolutionize the whole handphone and MP3 player industry. Under his leadership, Apple Computers Inc. became a force to be reckoned with. In 2009, Jobs would have a personal net worth of $5.1 billion. However due to the need for a liver transplant, Jobs took a break from his work since January 2009. Transformational leader Dubrin defines a transformational leader as one who “brings about major, positive change for the group, organization or society”30. As we just heard, Jobs has transformed several companies over the years. He has transformed Pixar into a success story31. He has all the necessary attributes to be considered one, based on some requirements that Dubrin mentions32: he...
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...specialise in the animation industry until expanding into live film production and theme parks. There are many famous animations where the company succeeded with the most familiar to be “Mickey Mouse”, making Disney to develop its success worldwide by building theme parks in different countries. In 1992, the “Disney company” expanded by opening a new theme park in Paris known as “Euro Disneyland”. By the time, Disney announced the new project they were planning to make, there were many critics and arguments arising according the Disney’s approach at Euro Disneyland. However, the question remains whether there are any strengths and weaknesses of Disney’s approach at Euro Disneyland and what steps should be taken next to ensure success in the operations. The Disney’s approach at Euro Disneyland was mainly criticised for its influence on French culture and this can be analysed through theories and concepts displaying the “for” and “against” arguments of different topics affecting it. The topic that had the most effect on Disney’s approach is Globalisation. Globalisation is the process by which the world is becoming more interconnected as a result of increased trade and cultural exchange. Disney was benefited from globalisation’s impact since it is associated with some advantages. Firstly, Euro Disneyland was located in the middle of Europe close to Paris which is a very famous tourism destination and it was also expected to create 28000 jobs helping the French economy to flourish...
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...Leadership can be described as the manner and approaches that leaders uses to direct, implement plans and motivate people. Basically, it describes how leaders react, interact and treat employees at work. According to Bass (2007, p. 1), leadership can be defined as “an interaction between two or more members of a group that often involves a structuring or restructuring of the situation and the perception and expectations of the members”. There are various leadership styles namely the autocratic, democratic, laissez faire and charismatic. Basically leaders tend to use all these leadership styles depending on the situations; however, one of the styles is always the predominant on them. It has to be noted that a particular leadership style will not be effective in an organisational setting. Hence, different styles are needed according to different situations. Steve Jobs CEO of Apple has been a successful leader in this modern era. His approach to leadership is both fascinating and confusing and that is the reason why he has been able to make Apple a successful company. He has brought a lot of changes in the life of people through his greatest advanced technology ever made namely the Mac, the iPod, the iPad and iPhone but has also introduced a new concept for business and leadership. His approach to creative leadership was remarkably high, that is inspiring others to do the impossible but at the same time Steve Job’s leadership style was complex because he always put a...
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...decision, they have an important impact on team characters and outcomes. The importance of leadership is definitely obvious. However, different approaches to leadership can lead to totally converse results. Authoritarian and laissez faire are two typical styles. The former means individuals control over all decisions with little input from group members, it is dominant and self-reliant. Conversely, the latter depends on teamwork, and be more democratic. This essay will firstly compare these two approaches to leadership in successful multinational companies in various aspects and then illustrate the benefits and drawbacks of each one respectively. Finally, it will analyse and evaluate the appropriate applications in terms of creating sustainable success, which includes steady period management and crisis management. What should to be emphasized is that it is unfair to define one leader as an exact example of an authoritarian leader or a laissez faire leader, thus, in this essay, I only classify leaders by the some characters they showed. The differences of these two modes are primarily demonstrated in three aspects. First of all, the personal characters showed during the work are definitely distinct. Authoritarian leaders are always confident and decisive, and they have powerful mentality, which leads to making decisions with less input from other group members, even though they may have different points. Finkelstein and Hambrick (1996) have claimed that the degree...
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...LAS2027 Rethinking Leadership: new realities and new contexts Elaine Azzopardi Becoming a leader is no easy feat. It depends partly on the person and largely depends on the followers. Make an evaluation of leadership emergence from the followers’ perspective. Use relevant theoretical frameworks to explain the phenomenon and use a famous personality to illustrate the various aspects you discuss. To become a Leader is not easy you have to struggle a lot and you have to deal with people that try to bring you down. It is up to you that you have to deal with them, try to demonstrate that you can do it or give up. To become a good leader you have to be very determinate, problem solver, able to work as a team, be an example for your people and especially always be there for them. The more effective the leader will be the more the company successful become. The first thing that gives good advantage to a leader is that he/she will be there to lead them. Leaders who have good relationships with their followers will have high levels of mutual trust, respect and confidence. When the leader is negative his followers will have a less trust in him/she. If the leader will be positive then will have good relationship with his team and the company will have positive results. Great man theory the trait approach leadership the key of unbeaten leaders. All the way through this move towards decisive leadership personality could be out-of-the-way...
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... |Version | 1.4 | |Word Count |1975 |Total Pages | 9 | CONTRASTING STYLE OF TWO LEADERS The traces of Leader and the act to guide have always been since the beginning of mankind. Numerous theories have been evolved; definitions have been coined by various famous and renowned authors, academicians and also from the various institutes. In today’s business active world lot of attention have been shed on leaders and various notions of leadership linked with them. Peter Drucker, in his work in 1954 pointed out that “Leadership is of utmost importance. Indeed there is no substitute for it. But leadership cannot be created or promoted. It cannot be taught or learned”. In an orthodox composition on ‘Kantian theory of Leadership’, Bowie mentioned that “leader has a hierarchical and even elitist connotation, opposite to Kant’s moral (basically egalitarian) philosophy” (Bowie, N, 2000).As per Machaivelli “power was seen as the sole purpose of leadership”. (Machiavelli, N, 1952). Were as academicians like Schiro, J. B. (1999) whose view is more vigorous; “Leadership is an elusive concept, so there are many definitions of...
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...Throughout history there have been leaders and famous people for that matter that have been looked at as leaders. A leader is someone who people choose to follow and influences others to do things that they may not otherwise do. Ideally one would expect the effective leader to be a person of integrity. But is that really always the case? There are five different leadership styles that would apply to leaders of yesterday as well as today. The first theory would be the trait theory. An example of a leader that falls into the trait theory would be motivational speaker Tony Robins, because he has charisma. The attributes that give off his persona of charisma is his magnetic personality, paired with superb communication skills. His approach to this is pulling people in with his smile. When he takes the floor, people listen. He proves to have the magnetic personality as he speaks people attract to him as if they were metal being drawn to the magnet. Of the five leadership styles, the trait theory is more salient for Tony Robbins because with the charisma the he exudes it does not matter. For example the type of behavior he presents good or bad for that matter gets over looked once he begins to speak. He takes on the Autocratic approach as what he “preaches” is the belief that he expects his listeners to take on. That is the right way and the only way it should be done. Ronald Reagan “the people’s president,” would be an example of the contingency theory. He would be categorized...
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...Leadership Style Page Collins LDR/531 April 7, 2014 Professor Donald Frey Leadership Style “Leadership is less about your needs, and more about the needs of the people and the organization you are leading,” (The Wall Street Journal, 2014, para.1). This is why it is important to understand one’s own leadership style to be successful. In the following research the author will talk about the leadership style, and ideas and plans to improve based on an admired leader and the work that is performed with my mentor. Style/Characteristics Charismatic leadership style is what I would like to evolve into over my history of growing and becoming a seasoned leader. This style is characterized as, “the leader uses charm to get the admiration of their followers. They show concern for their people and they look after their people's needs. They create a comfortable and friendly atmosphere for their followers by listening to them and making them feel that they have a voice in the decision making,” (Dems, 2011, para.3). Mary Kay Ash is defined as a charismatic leader and I have admired her for years. She started with a vision, and her son to run a company that evidently cares about the health of men and women for the last 50 years. She has a lot to admire and one thing that has always kept me interested is her ability to bring so many people together and continue to inspire them although she has passed on. She was and is still amazing. Mary Kay has built a company based on the needs...
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...Military leadership theory brings forth the discovery of many ideas regarding the application of knowledge from a military background in a business environment. Much information was premised on business owners, managers and employees working collectively, how to improve communication skills, and how to define a goal and motivate others to follow it based on military leadership. The connection between these two worlds of business and military is apparent. Many of today’s companies derive their structure and leadership model from that which is applied in the army. The military typically has a main leader or a decision \ maker, who transmits orders to subordinates at lower levels. This model is almost identical to what is seen in many business organizations throughout the world (Rost, 1993). The US Army defines leadership as “The process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation, while operating to accomplish the mission and improve the organization” (Army Leadership, 2012). However, this definition does not delve into whether leadership is innate or not. There are two main ideas – Colonel Sherman L. Kiser states that leadership is an exact science capable of being understood and practiced by anyone or General Sir Archibald P. Wavell’s which states “no amount of learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one” (Taylor and Rosenbach, 1984). Leadership has gone through several stages of development throughout history, which...
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...Case Study Analysis Paper 1: A Tale of Two Coaches Rhodeanny31 Grand Canyon University: LDR-600-0101 September 23, 2014 Case Study Analysis Paper 1: A Tale of Two Coaches Intelligence, self-confidence, and determination are the leadership perspectives that have exhibited in both Coach Bob Knight and Coach Mike Krzyzewski (known as Coach K.). Coach Knight is known as the winningest coach in NCAA men’s basketball until Duke’s Coach Krzyzewski exceeded his spot. Coach Krzyzewski played under Coach Knight when they were both at West Point and he was a graduate assistant at Indiana University under Coach Knight (Snook, Perlow, & Delacey, 2005). Coach Knight and Coach K. are very successfully college basketball coaches who has different leadership styles of pursuing and producing a competitive goal of winners. Power Bases Relied Upon Coach Knight’s power bases are relied with a tight controlling type categorized by societal detachment between him and the basketball players he coaches. His leadership role consist of discipline and intimidation, sometimes goes too far. Coach Knight’s position of power is high reflected by his regular abuse of verbal and physical punishment. Based on his regular outburst of anger when he was “under stress”, he reverted to less developed ways learning in early developments (Northouse, 2004). Coach Knight emotional capabilities consist of high self-awareness, low self-regulation, high motivation, low empathy, and low social skills...
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...positive outcomes in the future even if they are currently experiencing disappointments and difficulties." The main objective of her fight isn't also democracy, right, and freedom, but she wants Burma to be the free and open border. Where people have a right to speech and practice, have freedom of religion, and have to follows the leader. Aung San Suu Kyi is a talented leader, married to a British citizen, speak other languages, and living experience with other communities. She has the clear vision for Burma, but it is hard to bring different sub-group, and provides them goals, and provides them motivation. Because the government doesn't provide health services, childcare programs, hospital, and school. Inside...
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...Leadership and business performance Assignment of “a good leader influence a group of individuals to achieve a common goal and perform well, without having to watch over them” Word count: 2,927 Introduction Leadership is always considering as an important managerial topic because a good leader does not only able to guide behaviors from followers, but also leads individuals within an organization to achieve their common objectives (Morrill, 2010). The commonly accepted definition of leadership is contributed by David and Vince (2008, p2), who defined leadership as a person has “abilities of leading a group of people, and also has abilities of supporting group of people to achieve common objectives”. More specifically, Bass (1990) defines leadership as the ability to adapt the setting so everyone feels empowered to contribute creatively to solving the problems. The primary aim of this assignment is to critically discuss the topic of “a good leader influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal and perform well, without having to watch over them.” In order to answer this question well, the author selects Steve Jobs as the leader, and then with reference to Apple Inc to discuss why a good leader as Jobs influences group of individuals without watching them. As an essay based assignment, the author organizes this paper in three main parts, including introduction, main body and conclusion. In introduction section, the definition and importance of leadership...
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