Mt302 Unit 8
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MT302 Organizational Behavior
Unit 8 Assignment
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The present paper focuses on presenting ways to apply a model of leadership to Leadership Today, which is an international consulting firm based in Singapore. It also focuses on offering advices to this company on how to change its leadership practices to turn the company around. Before starting it must be said that, Leadership Today has been loosing shares in the market to their competitors due to an efficiently poor leadership. The mid-level managers complain they do not have time to make proper decisions and the employees complain that their work is never recognized and celebrated. According to Robbins and Judge (2011), leadership is the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or set of goals. Seems like the leadership from Leadership Today is not able provide this influence. In order for this company to achieve success it must change the way it is being lead. Thus, in order to this Kouzes and Posner (2010) consider that a number of 10 enduring truths about leadership will help the company or the leader to think, decide, and also to act more effectively. The first truth is about inspiring or making the leader to think that he posses skills through which he can have a positive impact on other, believe in him self and in his ability to make a difference. The next one is called “credibility is the foundation of leadership” and refers to the fact that the others need to have trust in the leader as well in order to make things flow. The third truth is called “values drive commitment” and refers to individuals wanting to know what the leader is standing for, what he believes in and what are his values. The fourth truth is about the ability to vision exciting future possibilities, take future perspectives, and earn insight from evaluating the past and developing outsight by analyzing the context, while the fifth truth makes the
MT302 Organizational Behavior
Unit 8 Assignment
Date
School
Professor
The present paper focuses on presenting ways to apply a model of leadership to Leadership Today, which is an international consulting firm based in Singapore. It also focuses on offering advices to this company on how to change its leadership practices to turn the company around. Before starting it must be said that, Leadership Today has been loosing shares in the market to their competitors due to an efficiently poor leadership. The mid-level managers complain they do not have time to make proper decisions and the employees complain that their work is never recognized and celebrated. According to Robbins and Judge (2011), leadership is the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or set of goals. Seems like the leadership from Leadership Today is not able provide this influence. In order for this company to achieve success it must change the way it is being lead. Thus, in order to this Kouzes and Posner (2010) consider that a number of 10 enduring truths about leadership will help the company or the leader to think, decide, and also to act more effectively. The first truth is about inspiring or making the leader to think that he posses skills through which he can have a positive impact on other, believe in him self and in his ability to make a difference. The next one is called “credibility is the foundation of leadership” and refers to the fact that the others need to have trust in the leader as well in order to make things flow. The third truth is called “values drive commitment” and refers to individuals wanting to know what the leader is standing for, what he believes in and what are his values. The fourth truth is about the ability to vision exciting future possibilities, take future perspectives, and earn insight from evaluating the past and developing outsight by analyzing the context, while the fifth truth makes the
References: Kouzes, J., & Posner, B. (2010). Leadership Truths. Leadership Excellence, 27(8), 15. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Robbins, S. P., & Judge, T. A. (2011). Organizational Behavior, 14th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/ Prentice Hall.