...Leadership Style Segun Akinyemi Strayer University BUS 520: Leadership and Organizational Behaviors Professor: Laura Poluka Spring, 2014 Abstract The success of any organization depends on the leadership of the organization, it is important to stress how important the effectiveness of a leader is to the organization he is leading. This paper will examine the effectiveness of the Google CEO as a case study, the leadership style and the CEO organizational value. The ethical behavior of a leader can affect the effectiveness of other workers in the organization as the leader in any organization are often seen as an object of emulation by the employee of the company. Ethical behavior of Google CEO shall be review in this paper as well as the significant value that made the leader a successful CEO. Background of Google CEO (Larry Page) Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in 1998, since inception, the company has recorded a growth of over 40,000 employees worldwide, Larry Page co-founded Google while pursuing his Ph.D. at Stanford University and became the first CEO until 2001growing the company to over 200 employees during the period. From 2001 to 2011, larry became the president of product for the company. He holds a bachelor degree in Engineering from University of Michigan and his masters in computer science from Stanford University. Larry was honored with Marconi’s prize in 2004, He is also a member of National Advisory Committee (NAC) of the University...
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...companies in the United States and this is not by accident. This company has risen above its competitors with strong leadership, communication, and organizational structure that encourage success. This paper will evaluate the Google Company paying close attention to the leadership traits of CEO Larry Page. This paper will also explain why teams play such an import role into the success of Google as a leader within the industry. Finally, Google’s organizational structure will be explained to show the characteristics of the company that lead to its current success. DISCUSSION: What leadership style best represents Google’s CEO Larry Page? The text defines leadership as the process of influencing others to facilitate the attainment of the organizationally relevant goals (Ivancevich). Leadership styles are the different ways in which leaders influence others to motivate a group or team to attain organizational goals. These leadership styles include telling, selling, participating, and delegating. CEO Larry page uses all of these styles to a certain degree depending on whom he is communicating with and when he is communicating. When the CEO is communicating with members of his team he has been known to use the participating style, which is where leaders and followers share in the decision s about best to complete a high-quality job. This style was evident when Larry Page urged his team to “dream big” at the Google Faculty Summit in 2009. He told his team to believe in audacious ideas...
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...In exchange, the leader expects loyalty and trust from employees, as well as conformity. Trust that the leader will always have an employee best interests. The employee is listened to, but the leader is making the final decision. When paternalistic leadership was carried out successfully, it gains the loyalty trust from the employees to be an effective leader.Larry page was using democratic style to manage the company. (Bhatti,...
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...Lilian Shehayeb Leadership and Change Management Coursework 1 Instructed By Dr. Maya Azoury From reviewing the dictionary definitions, at first glance it may be seen that the two do not appear to be vastly different. Management is defined as: “The act or manner of managing, handling, direction, or control.” On the other hand, leadership is described by the dictionary as: “An act or instance of leading; guidance; direction.” According to Dr. John P. Kotter, both management and leadership skills are essential in order to be able to drive success in organizations, and one cannot function without the other. What he claimed summarizes the differences between the two, as Kotter saw it. Some of these areas can indeed be described as being “opposites” where others show more of a difference in emphasis between the two. Managers: - Seeks order and consistency - During planning and budgeting – establishes agendas, sets timetables and allocates resources. - With relation to staffing – provides structure, job placements and defines rules and processes. - Focuses on control and the solving of issues by taking actions to correct issues, creating solutions and defining incentives to reward good work. Leaders: - Seeks change and movement - Establishes a direction – looks at the big picture, clarifies the situation, creates a vision and determines strategies. - With relation to people – aligns people, communicates goals, builds teams, and looks for commitment. - Focuses...
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...Leadership is an ambiguous concept. There are a vast array of styles, theories, and traits which may or may not work for each leader. Not every style works in each specific situation and not every style works for each leader. Transitioning these textbook leadership concepts to real world situations may work to unnerve employees more than actually inspiring them. Some of these styles are downright archaic and are terrible for any situation. In his article, “These 5 Leadership Styles Have Never Worked for Anybody”, author Larry Alton sets out to explain why these concepts need to be forgotten immediately. The first style that Larry believes is unnecessary is “micromanaging”. Everyone has had negative encounters with micromanagers. It can be difficult for leaders to be self-aware enough to tell the difference between consistent support and micromanagement. Larry believe that there is no universal answer for this. Each employees needs to be treated as a unique individual and some need more support than others. The real issue is a blanket micromanaging style in which each employee is being consistently checked in on even if they are the fiercely independent type. The second style that Larry explains is “absolute rule”. Although it is the leader’s job to set the direction for their team, it is not a totalitarian dictatorship. When a leader believes that their vision and direction are the law of the land, they tend lose the respect of their team. In a business setting each...
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...Leadership is an often debated topic. Everyone has their own opinion of the types of characteristics leaders or management should possess. Employees and staff often have their own views about their managers or supervisors leadership style. Many leaders have their own style of leadership. They have their own special way of motivating a group to achieve a goal. There are many types of leadership. What type of leadership brings success? What factors motivate employees to exceed expectation? What must a supervisor or manager do to increase performance and exceed goals? What leadership skills or traits affect the company’s culture and ethics? Can leadership style be demonstrated through the organization? Management uses several ways that lead to successful performance such as initiating structure, emotional intelligence, and thoughtful and ethical leadership (Robbins & Judge). Leadership has been defined as the ability to influence others. “We define leadership as the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or a set of goals.” (Robbins & Judge pg.368) A leader can use his or her power to affect the behaviors of others. In this report we will compare two companies, Enron and Google, with vastly different cultures and the effectiveness of their leadership style. Our goal is to determine whether different leadership styles affect the company’s culture and overall performance. Leadership and Motivation Style in Google Larry Page and Sergey...
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...Relationship/Transformational Leadership These focus upon the connections formed between leaders & followers. Leaders who fall into this category help others see the good & importance of the task. These leaders are focused on the performance of group members. “A real leader faces the music even when he doesn’t like the tune (Arnold H. Glassgow)”. Contingency Theory This method of leadership focus on variables related to the environment that may determine which particular style of leadership is best suited for the predicament. Servant Leadership Servant Leadership is a somewhat paradoxical approach to leadership called servant leadership. Servant leadership emphasizes that leaders should be attentive to the concerns of their followers & empathise with them in a paternal way. Robert Greenleaf argued, “Leadership was bestowed on a person who was by nature a servant” Businesses believe who follow this theory believe this will make the individual more autonomous, knowledgeable. Analysis Entrepreneurs Indra K Nooyi Indra Nooyi is current chairman & CEO of food & beverage kingpin “PepsiCo”. As of May 2013 she was ranked in the top 10 most powerful women in the world according to Forbes (Forbes, 2013) Larry Page Larry Page is the co-founder of “Google” which is the world’s most popular Internet search engine. As of September 2013 Forbes ranked Larry Page as the 17th most powerful person on the planet (Forbes, 2013). Leadership Styles...
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...Larry Page: CEO of Google Larry Page is the co-founder and CEO of Google. He cofounded the company in 1998 with Sergey Brin while they were both Ph.D. students at Stanford University. He was the first CEO of the company until 2001. From 2001 until 2011 Page was the president of products. In 2011, he reclaimed his position as CEO. He has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University (www.google.com). Larry Page has an innovation leadership style. An innovate leader is one who develops both vision and strategy, sets up processes to materialize it, and creates an organizational culture that helps to facilitate the creation of ideas and implementation (Bel, 2010). Larry Page has done this as co-founder and continues to innovate as the CEO of Google. Page consistently pushes the envelope at Google, encouraging ideas that most would deem unthinkable. The role of an innovative leader is to inspire by generating ideas, vision, strategy and design, and building the organizational structure, culture, and processes that support them (Bel, 2010). Innovative leaders have the ability to recognize opportunities and develop them, something Page has succeeded at doing at Google. Page has the creativity to come up with ideas and the discipline to develop them. Page encourages risk taking and can handle risks well. Page empowers and facilitates Google employees’ work, which has led to a large number of...
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...Assignment 5 Dr. Laura Pogue Contemporary Business: BUS 508 March 11, 2012 Rosalind R. Smith Microsoft and Google are two names that automatically come to mind when you think of computers and the internet. Microsoft launched Bing a search engine in 2009 that competes with Google. Beyond that one item, you will find that the two companies are very different and their products and services are noncompetitive with each other. Microsoft has 8 products and services that it focuses on. As they are listed, I guaranteed you that more than half of them will be familiar to you. They are: (1) Online Services Division which include the search engines BING and MSN (2) Server and Tools Division which includes infrastructure software such as Windows Server (3) Microsoft Business Solutions (4) Microsoft Office Division which includes the software Office, Exchange, Project and Visio (5) Interactive Entertainment which include X box, X box360, Kinect for X Box 360, PC and mobile interactive entertainment (6) Windows Phone Division (7) Windows and Windows Live Division and (8) Skype (Our Commitment to Our Customers, 2011). Google on the other hand has 6 services that it focuses on. They are (1) Search Advertising which is an advertising source for businesses (2) Display Advertising which gives companies the ability to advertise across more than one internet site through Google products (3) Mobile Advertising which has evolved with the wave of Smartphone’s and I phones (4) Tools...
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...Organizational Behaviour (OB) involves how people, individuals, and groups act in organizations. This is done by something called a system approach. Organizational behaviour and culture combines people-organization relationships in terms of the whole person, whole group, whole organization, and whole social system. By doing this it allows the company remain successful in its present and future projects. The main goal is to build stronger and positive relationships by tackling all the major issues that may affect an organization or business, this would involve human objectives, Business projects, and social objectives. Organizational behaviour and culture deals with a wide range of issues within a business, these issues are very important to the well-being of a successful organization. 1.2 The relationship between an organisation’s structure and culture can have affect a business’ performance in a negative or positive way. Coca-Cola has its own culture within the company, this is potentially a reason why the company has been doing so well and still maintaining a high level of service for many years. Coca-Cola’s culture believes in the importance of teamwork, and empowerment. This allows for the employees to be motivated and encourages them to feel valued to be working apart of a team and using personal abilities and talents alongside contributing ideas and opinions regarding tasks and projects. Employees at Coca-Cola are encouraged to voice their opinions in regards...
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...ASSIGNMENT #1: ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP Introduction This paper analyzes and describes the founding leaders, their leadership styles, and major business principles. It also describes founding leaders with profit orientated and social responsibility orientated approaches. Finally, it gives resources or tools available through Small Business Administration (SBA) and Service Corps of Retired Executive (SCORE) that would be most useful to the type of entrepreneurial approach identified with. Founding Leaders, Leadership Styles and Major Business Principles In the profit oriented leadership style, in which the primary goal is to provide a product or service to consumers and to make a profit, the founding leader is Adam Smith. Adam Smith is identified as the father of capitalism. His leadership style is based on the capitalist model of Laissez Faire. Laissez-Faire leadership style is a non-authoritarian leadership style. Laissez faire leaders try to give the least possible guidance to subordinates, and try to achieve control through less obvious means. Capitalism is an economic system in which the primary motive is to make a profit with little or no regards for the welfare of the population. For example Adam Smith said, “Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely” (Smith, 2005, p.18). Adam Smith described the concept of capitalism in his book, The Wealth of Nations, published...
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...hope.” -Lawrence Larry Page Born in Michigan in 1973, Lawrence Larry Page, an American computer scientist and internet business visionary(Biography, 2014) teamed up with his graduate school companion Sergey Brin to launch “Google”, a search engine and one of the most innovative startups in internet technology space, in 1998, which eventually became the most influential company in digital era (7).It is an unconventional company, set up benchmarks by attracting billions of users for applications like Chrome, Google Maps, Youtube and Android. The company started with a vision statement “To organize the world information, and make it universally accessible and useful” (14). Early years – Google as a startup As a research activity at Stanford University, Page and Brin created a search engine that recorded results according to the reputation of the pages, after concluding that the most reputed result would obviously be the most useful. They named the search engine as "Google" after the mathematical term "googol," which refers to the No. 1(Biography, 2014) followed by 100 zeros, to mirror their aim to organize the enormous amount of information accessible on the web. Both developed a search engine that recorded results, based on prominence of the pages, calling it "Google”, which became one the main web crawlers today. The evolution of Google, after the early years happened in four distinct phases. Phase I– Founding (1998-2001) Both Larry Page and Brin incorporated...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION 3 BODY 3 Diversity Management 4 Ethical, Social, and Legal Responsibilities 5 International Business 5 General Planning & Strategic Planning 6 Organizing Work and Synergism 6 Organization Structure and Chart 7 Work Team Utilization 8 Staffing 8 Employee Training and Development 9 Motivating Employees 9 Leadership and Management 10 Managing Conflict and Stress 11 Managing Change 11 Controlling 12 Appraising and Rewarding 13 Operations Management and Plans 13 Operations Control 14 CONCLUSION 15 REFERENCES 16 INTRODUCTION September 27th marked the twelfth birthday of search engine empire Google. This “easy to use, searchable directory” (Goldman, 2008) initially operated out of a couple of dorm rooms and a garage serving Stanford University’s needs. Now, the monster processes over 150 million searches a day—a number that grows with every day that passes, has about 10,000 employees and is headquartered out of their “Googleplex” in Mountain View, California. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin baptized their baby with the name Google which derives from “googol—a mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros” (Corporate Overview...
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...Assessment Brief Distribution date: w/c 20/05/2013 Submission deadline: 29/07/2013 Result and feedback date: 4 weeks from the deadline Assessment Brief Unit Details: Unit Code: Organisations and Behaviour (Unit 3) Programme Name: BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business Awarding body: Edexcel Unit Level (QCF): QCF-4 Academic term: May - July 2013 Course Details | Course Name | BTEC Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business | Unit number | 3 | Unit Name | Organisations and Behaviour | Credit Value | 15 | Lecturer | Antonios/Hillary/Ousman/Raazia/Sunday/Victor | Hand Out/Issue Date | w/c 20.05.2013 | Submission Deadline | 29 July 2013 | Introduction Students are expected to write a report covering the points listed under each of the learning outcomes. To achieve a pass in this unit, you must successfully address all of the assessment criteria listed (P1-P12). We expect all students to achieve their potentials and would encourage you to address all pass criteria, merit and distinction descriptors. For certain tasks students are encouraged to use real life examples and/or the scenario provided below. There is not set format for this report. However, like all business report you should have an introduction and a conclusion. Scenarios A Coca-Cola Great Britain People often assume that The Coca-Cola Company bottles and distributes its own beverages. For the most part, it does not. The Company's primary...
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