...Leadership and Corporate Culture What is Leadership? What is Leadership? Ability to persuade others to do things for the good of the organization make difficult decisions make unpopular decisions deliver results create long-term commitments Why is the Leader Important to An Organization? Why is the Leader Important? Establishes vision Develops and implements strategies Allocates and controls resources Chooses key employees Shapes culture Affects organizational performance Projects image to the public Levels of Leadership (Jim Collins, HBR, Jan. 2001) Highly capable individual Contributing team member Competent manager Effective leader – catalyzes commitment to and vigorous pursuit of a clear & compelling vision, stimulate high performance Executive – builds enduring greatness through humility and professional wills What are the Leadership Traits of Highly Productive Organizations? Leadership Traits of Highly Productive Organizations Attention to details Highly ethical and moral Embracing simplicity & disdain for waste Long-term focus Humility Coaching leadership style Trust and believe in others Management Practices That Work (Nohria, et al., HBR, 2003) Primary Strategy, Execution, Culture, Structure Secondary (Two of Four) Talent, Leadership, Innovation...
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...Leadership, the Determinant of Organizational Culture and Diversity Introduction With the world becoming smaller and smaller from the increasingly intensive business trade, the globalization not only bring huge opportunity, but also bring more challenges to organizations than ever before. Multicultural teams, therefore, are used in workplace, and workforces become more divers than ever before (Schein, 2010). But ethnicity is only one part of diversity, and the concept of it includes some visible ones, for example religions, gender, disabilities and other less visible ones, like social class or sexual-orientation. In organizations, the key issue of diversity is how to benefit from differences and eliminate the stereotype and avoid automatically judge people on the basis of differences (Coleman Marianne, 2012). Therefore, dealing with this issue appropriately can enhance organization’s effectiveness and motivate talents to innovate. There is another topic which is contributed to company’s effectiveness-organizational culture in recent years. Researcher (Schein, 2010) suggested that organizational culture can influence how people set individual and organizational goals, perform tasks and manage resources to achieve those goals. So, identifying the culture of company becomes a popular and effective method to achieve high performance in workforce. Whether a company can value diversity and set strong organizational culture is mostly depend the way of the parties concerned...
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...and Leadership Performance in Corporate Kenya Background to the study Effective leadership is about striving to be significant and seeking to create the greatest impact and influence as a contribution to an organization’s success (Jensen, 2012); hence, the need to identify and define what effective leadership is. Mechanical knowledge, outstanding performance, and reputable practices no longer suffice as the only benchmark of effective leadership. The paradigm has shifted to a position where effective leaders are noticed by how they inspire and motivate others, are able to promote a conducive work environment, understand and manage emotions, build ties, communications, and influence so that the followers are affected positively (Nath, 2013). It is outstanding in an organization and will always be remembered and admired because of its own exceptional style and approach in supporting innovation and initiative and enhancing an organizational culture that promotes integration and collaboration at the workplace; it creates an environment where employees feel secure, and embraces two-way communication and promotes active listening (Llopis, 2013). This kind of leadership is about observing the dynamics around the organization and surmounting them by constantly looking for ways to challenge the status quo and identifying the way out of those challenges (Jensen, 2012; Llopis, 2013). Human influences and effects of emotions at workplaces cannot be ignored in any given leadership situation...
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...How Global, Corporate, and Community Values Servant Leadership Cathy R. Palmer Charleston Southern University Introduction Leadership is all about harnessing people power for the attainment of a desired goal and thus the concept of leadership cannot be restricted to the Organizational context. It pervades through all realms of society, whether it be in politics, religion or the corporate world. I am conducting a case study on the Values of Servant Leadership globally, corporate, and community. I will be taking into consideration the state of global affairs, the state of U.S. corporate affairs, small businesses, and the society around us, what is true value of servant leadership, both to corporate world and to the community at large? Global Affairs Management is no longer constrained by national borders. There is significant importance from globalization, and the world has definitely become the global village. Managers in organization of all sizes and types around the world have to confront the challenges of operating in the global market. Managers face challenges due to an array of environmental factor while doing business. He must effectively plan, organize, lead, control and manage cultural difference to be globally successfully. Creativity is the first step on the road to innovation, and has become vital for an organization to survive given the complexity of global change. Creativity is the ability to produce new ideas through imagination and...
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...Neulijan (Julian) Kore MAN 4720 Prof. Ping Zhang Is the corporate social responsibility conflicting with Wal-Mart’s cost leadership strategy? Is Wal-Mart good for America? Before analyzing Wal-Mart’s corporate strategy, it is important to identify what business it is in. For example, Wal-Mart is in the business of selling consumer goods such as TV’s, sheets, clothes, then it is pursuing a concentric strategy by entering in the food business. However, this changes depending on how you analyze what business Wal-Mart is in. Wal-Mart is in the business of selling everything customers need in their everyday lives. This includes the consumer goods listed above as well as food-service items. Wal-Mart definitely has the business strategy of Low Cost Leadership. They do nothing to really differentiate themselves from competitors and provide no-frills self-service stores that always provide the lowest prices. Wal-Mart has built enough purchasing power with suppliers that they can dictate the prices and go in and change suppliers manufacturing processes in order to wring out more and more savings for the consumer. Everything that Wal-Mart does from calling suppliers collect to having execs double up in hotel rooms, is to save the customer money. While they do try to provide good customer service on top of low prices, Wal-Mart’s strength is low-prices. No one has such a supplier and distribution network like Wal-Mart that allows such low prices. But in the past several...
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...Running Head: Assignment 5: CORPORATE CULTURE / LEADERSHIP ACTIONS FOR STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION Corporate Culture /Leadership Actions for Strategy Implementation By Rhonda Stanley A Paper Presented in Fulfillment of the Requirement for BUS599 Strategic Management Strayer University Professor Joel Nwagbaraocha September 9, 2010 1. Discuss the corporate culture at Southwest Airlines and how it leverages its culture to achieve a competitive advantage. Southwest Airlines was incorporated in Texas in June 18, 1971. Southwest started with only 3 Boeing 737 aircraft and they only serviced Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio. Today Southwest operates 541 Boeing 737 aircraft and they service 69 cities. Southwest became a major in the airline industry in 1989 when it exceeded the billion dollar mark in revenues. Southwest is the US most successful low fare high frequency airline. Southwest operates more than 3,510 flights a day coast to coast making it the largest US carrier based on domestic passenger carried. Southwest maintains the third largest passenger fleet of aircraft among all of the commercial airlines. According to the Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics Southwest carries more passengers than any other US airline. Southwest profitability business model led to a common trend called the Southwest Effect. The Southwest Effect...
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...Assignment #5. Corporate Culture/Leadership Actions Corporate Culture/Leadership Actions for Strategy Implementation Veronica M. Peterson Strayer University Strategic Management - Bus 599 Dr. Donny Bagwell June 14, 2010 Southwest Airlines Discuss the corporate culture at Southwest Airlines and how it leverages its culture to achieve a competitive advantage. Southwest Airlines culture has set them apart from other airlines and companies. Their culture is living the Southwest Way, which means one must have a warrior spirit, a servant’s heart and a fun-LUVing attitude. Another important company value is getting excellent results, which includes: focusing on safety, low cost, and high customer service delivery. Also, demonstrating integrity in all actions: being honest, ethical and trustworthy. They define their culture as the development, improvement, and refinement of the originality, individuality, identity, and personality of a given people. (Southwest) They operative principle is that the “employees come firs and customers come second.” The culture that Southwest Airlines have is the basis for their labor relations, customer service and organizational flexibility. One excerpt from Southwest's "The Book on Service: What Positively Outrageous Service Looks Like at Southwest Airlines" is rather instructive: "'attitude breeds attitude...' If we want our customers to have fun, we must create a fun-loving environment. That means we have to be self-confident...
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...Corporate culture is largely influenced by national culture and sustained by corporate leadership So many civilisations exist today; all rich with individual cultural heritage and each, distinct with unique features, characteristics, and value systems. Therefore it holds that countries have their individual and distinct cultures which are unique and which apply to them. Consequently, these cultures get infiltrated and remodelled to form part of the culture of organizations as well as influences the decision making behaviour of the corporate leadership system or process. Geert Hofstede, considers that ‘Culture is the collective programming of the mind distinguishing the members of one group or category of people from others’. It could be seen a range of values and meanings shared among individuals and entities belonging to a group, body or category. National culture is regarded as shared meanings, [conscious or unconscious] promoted among people existing within or originating from a country or state and is therefore regarded as the basic value system measure from which organizational values and corporate culture [which is understood as the belief systems or set of values shared that governs behaviours and attitudes within a corporate organization or entity] is developed. A company's corporate leadership (which is constituted of the top executives who govern its operations and plot its strategies for the future,) therefore has the responsibility to uphold this value system...
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...Running head: Corporate Culture/Leadership Actions for Strategy Implementation Corporate Culture/Leadership Actions for Strategy Implementation Assignment #5 Southwest Airlines Strayer University BUS599016VA016-1116-001 Strategic Management September 4, 2011 Abstract This paper examines the corporate culture at Southwest Airlines. The paper will also evaluate the company’s financial performance. Strategic decisions Southwest management should take in order to sustain their cultural strength will also be discussed. Corporate Culture/Leadership Actions for Strategy Implementation Assignment #5 Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines is a major domestic airline. They provide short-haul, high-frequency, point-to-point, and low-fare service. Southwest has one of the best overall customer service records and they are among the lowest cost structures in the domestic airline industry. Discuss the corporate culture at Southwest Airlines and how it leverages its culture to achieve a competitive advantage. Corporate culture is defined as being created by corporate vision, values, principles, and rules (p. 92). The corporate culture at Southwest Airlines believes their employees are the company’s greatest asset. Most companies say customers come first, but at Southwest Airlines their operative principle is , “employees come first and customers come second.” They believe happy employees will keep customers happy (C-419). Southwest employees come first...
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...Organizational Behavior ANALISA PENGARUH LEADERSHIP TERHADAP PERUBAHAN CORPORATE CULTURE Studi Kasus : Bank Rakyat Indonesia Disusun oleh : Kelompok IV MMB 20 Arrifan Kartawidjaja Budi Sardjono Esther Tiara Alexandra Herry W. Habeahan Inez Marcheani Nafilah Bab I Pendahuluan Topik pengaruh leadership terhadap perubahan corporate culture di Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) kami pilih dikarenakan ketertarikan kami dengan strategi yang dipilih dan dilakukan BRI di tahun 1998, untuk melewati krisis moneter yang melanda perbankan Indonesia. Upaya penyelamatan yang dilakukan oleh BRI dalam menghadapi krisis moneter selain transformasi manajemen, transformasi strategi, transformasi struktural, BRI juga melakukan transformasi budaya berupa reorganisasi dan transformasi nilai – nilai dasar (core value) atau corporate culturenya. Urgency yang ada di tahun 1998, menyadarkan Chief Executive Officer (CEO) BRI akan pentingnya mengubah corporate culture lama, yang telah berurat akar selama 100 tahun lebih sejak BRI berdiri di tahun 1895, yang cenderung berkesan birokratif, menjadi corporate culture baru yang lebih sesuai dengan kebutuhan bisnis, Pemilihan strategi ini dikarenakan CEO BRI menyadari pentingnya peranan corporate culture sebagai pengikat seluruh karyawan dan pimpinan BRI dalam mencapai tujuan perusahaan. Perusahaan dengan corporate culture yang sejalan dengan visi dan misinya cenderung lebih sukses dibandingkan dengan perusahaan dengan corporate culture yang tidak sejalan dengan...
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...Running head: LEADERSHIP STYLES 1 Leadership Styles Student Name LET1 (Task 2) WGU August 21, 2013 Course Mentor Name LEADERSHIP STYLES 2 Abstract Leadership is a series of actions by which an individual inspires others to achieve a task and leads the corporation to make it more coherent and cohesive. Leadership means the willingness and ability to lead and influence others. A leader can be the CEO of a corporation, or a leader who leads his or her team to success behind the scenes. The ability to lead effectively is based on a number of key skills (Xaxx, n.d.). Three styles of leadership will be discussed, identified, and evaluated to understand these styles better and to decide which style would best replace a retiring CEO of a corporation. LEADERSHIP STYLES 3 Leadership Styles Leadership styles have substantial effects on the corporate world. These styles can affect every person from higher management to the most recent employee. They generate the culture of a corporation that can influence the corporation’s operations. The culture of a corporation is normally an effect of the leaders’ personalities. Corporations need to be aware of the type of leadership they are presenting if they desire to manage the types of activity and communication they produce in their corporations. Leadership styles have strong influences on corporate culture because employees seem to mirror their leaders in their actions. The expression "the way we do things"...
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...JTB_Journal of Technology and Business. October 2007 Ethical Leadership Makes the Right Decisions Magdy Hussein Faculty, Northwestern Polytechnic University ABSTRACT This paper defines business leadership, review different types of leadership and examine how leadership ethics add great values and weight when making a business decision. The ethical scandals that have occurred in the last ten years have shaken the image of Corporate America. Leadership is on the test when business operators make competitive, strategic and tactical decisions that affect both stockholders and stakeholders such as downsizing and outsourcing. Ethical and moral obligations toward both parties require more than leadership with management skills and influential charisma. It entails visionary wisdom that makes possible moral decisions in the best interest of everyone involved. Key words: Leadership, Managerial Leader, Charismatic Leader, Transformational Leader, Strategic Leadership, Ethical leadership, Stakeholders, Corporate Social Responsibility Ethical leadership combines ethical behavior and ethical decision-making and is required by both individuals and organizations. One major responsibility of a leader is to build a foundation of ethical organizational behavior through ethical decisions and to differentiate between leadership compliance with codes of ethics and leadership values of business ethics’ practice. There is a need to synthesize these differences and evaluate the degree to which...
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...market through bribe. However, it suffered serious challenged and shocked. Overall revenue and corporate image were significantly fall. Decision level should consider to establish the corporate social responsibility in order to enhance the company image and employee morale. Here is the second plan to report you that CEO should change leadership style to transformational leadership, it is able to improve organisational productivity and enhance organisational development capabilities. Finally, I would like to thank you for the opportunity this report gave me to provides the new leadership strategies for Siemens, and to develop my research skills, which will be invaluable for future projects. Regards, Chun-Chang, Tseng Executive Summary This report provides a described about the negative impact from the wrong leadership decision-made in Siemens. It provides two plans to solved the scenario and discuss how to access the two plans. Methods of solved the scenario are establishment corporate social responsibility and changed the leadership style to transformational leadership. Both the plans are able to improve the worst situations. Results of case analysed show that to help organisation transform reforming is an important direction for the company to reinvigorate. The report finds CEO is the helmsman of a company in future course. The correct leadership decision-making is the key to survival and development in a company. The role of CEO is not only...
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...Leadership Traits Most Valued Across Sectors A Research Paper Patrick Jinks University of Richmond October, 2008 Introduction: Leadership is a topic as broad as education or health care. Books, articles, workshops, lectures, and keynote speeches abound – not only in the area of business, but across sectors that include government, civic, academic, and charitable organizations. Leadership topics are limitless, as evidenced by the vast expanse of information available in bookstores, libraries, blogs, and corporate leadership schools. For the purposes of this paper, the focus is on the highest-profile trends embraced by thought leaders in the leadership arena. Specifically, this work centers on the similarities – and differences – in the way the different major sectors view and define the important competencies of their leaders. Questions prompting this research include the following: 1. What are the most valued concepts delivered in training sessions to leaders of non-profits versus leaders in the military? 2. How do governmental nuances determine the areas in which leaders must excel? 3. Do leaders in different types of business view the concepts of leadership differently, or do the trends relate to the same basic tenets? 4. Is the area of ethics limited to Fortune 500 CEOs or non-profit directors? The following outlines the key principles that appear to be the most valued leadership concepts and the most significant concepts imparted to each sector’s...
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...employees: To attract the best people, the organizational values need to meet the needs of potential new employees who are choosing to work in organizational cultures that align with their personal values. Existing employees: To retain the best people, the organizational values also need to meet the needs of existing employees and support them in finding personal fulfillment at work. • • • Employee Fulfillment Whilst attention to all stakeholders needs are important, the most critical are: (a) How existing employees feel about their organization, and (b) The ability of the organization to attract the best employees. Both these issues can be addressed by building a vision-guided, values-driven corporate culture that focuses on employee fulfillment. Research shows that: • • Corporate performance, including financial success is strongly correlated with employee fulfillment – 39% of the variability in...
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