Alan Mulally, Ceo Ford Motor Company - Essay 2
Running head: Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company
Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company
Dysheka Johnson
Strayer University
Dr. Joseph Pionke
Organizational Behavior
July 7, 2011
Abstract
This paper presents a discussion about Alan Roger Mulally who is an American businessman who was hired as CEO of Ford in September 2006(Hellriegl and Slocum, Jr. 2011 p .543) This paper examines Mulally’s role of Leadership and the goals that he has set forth for Ford to avoid bankruptcy, overcome struggle and to become a successful and profitable company during and after the recession that has occurred in the late 2000’s.
Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company
Discuss the role of leadership and how it can impact organizational performance. Leadership is an art, and like other arts, it requires discipline, good techniques and self expression. Leadership ability is always the lid on personal and organizational effectiveness. If the leadership is strong, the lid is high. But if it’s not, then the organization is limited (Maxwell, p.8). Leadership actions must be developed which fits the individual and group personalities and bring effective results when it is used by an individual in a particular manner. Drucker (1996) found that, “Every knowledge worker in modern organization is a “leader” if, by virtue of his position of knowledge, he is responsible for a contribution that materially affects the capacity of the organization to perform and to obtain results.”
This is not intended to indicate that knowledge of leadership pattern is not important. But on the contrary, the greater the knowledge of the leader, the more probable are the chances of selecting and developing a pattern which means success to the individual leader. If a leader is not effective then the organization will suffer greatly. The organization will have a record of poor performance to include, lack of morale, poor performance, not profitable, consequences such as failure and
Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company
Dysheka Johnson
Strayer University
Dr. Joseph Pionke
Organizational Behavior
July 7, 2011
Abstract
This paper presents a discussion about Alan Roger Mulally who is an American businessman who was hired as CEO of Ford in September 2006(Hellriegl and Slocum, Jr. 2011 p .543) This paper examines Mulally’s role of Leadership and the goals that he has set forth for Ford to avoid bankruptcy, overcome struggle and to become a successful and profitable company during and after the recession that has occurred in the late 2000’s.
Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company
Discuss the role of leadership and how it can impact organizational performance. Leadership is an art, and like other arts, it requires discipline, good techniques and self expression. Leadership ability is always the lid on personal and organizational effectiveness. If the leadership is strong, the lid is high. But if it’s not, then the organization is limited (Maxwell, p.8). Leadership actions must be developed which fits the individual and group personalities and bring effective results when it is used by an individual in a particular manner. Drucker (1996) found that, “Every knowledge worker in modern organization is a “leader” if, by virtue of his position of knowledge, he is responsible for a contribution that materially affects the capacity of the organization to perform and to obtain results.”
This is not intended to indicate that knowledge of leadership pattern is not important. But on the contrary, the greater the knowledge of the leader, the more probable are the chances of selecting and developing a pattern which means success to the individual leader. If a leader is not effective then the organization will suffer greatly. The organization will have a record of poor performance to include, lack of morale, poor performance, not profitable, consequences such as failure and
References: Drucker, P.F. (1985). The Effective Executive. New York, NY. HarperCollins Publisher, Inc. p.5 Maxwell, J. C. (1998). The 21 irrefutable laws of leadership: Follow them and people will follow you. Nashville, TN. Thomas Nelson, Inc. p.8 Maxwell, J.C. (2008). Leadership Gold: Lessons learned from a lifetime of leading. Nashville, TN. Thomas Nelson. Inc. p.53 Hellriegel, D. & Slocum, J.W. Jr., Organizational Behavior, 13th Edition. Cengage Learning. Mason, OH. p. 543-545