...Core Values: The Foundation of Leadership James Jarrett, Professor of Leader Development Introduction The United States of America began by establishing its core values in the Declaration of Independence, which reads, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”1 The core values of equality, freedom, and opportunity were established for this Nation in the Declaration of Independence. These core values provided the focus by which this country moved towards greatness and created a source of contention from within to ensure that all citizens receive equal and fair treatment. From the example of the United States establishing core values, leaders must determine their own core values. Identifying and establishing individual, as well as, organizational core values is a critical function if leaders are to bring their organization to high performance. Leaders‟ goals, decisions, and actions must be aligned with their core values to obtain personal and organizational success. This chapter examines the importance of establishing core values and posits that the process for establishing them should be a vital part of individual goal setting and organizational goal- and vision-setting. In On Becoming a Leader, Warren Bennis writes, “Until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, and know what you want to do and why...
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...Developing a Culture of Leadership Development Preamble Leadership has been defined as “the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improve the organization” (Sewell, 2009, p. 93). Arguably, it is this type of effective leadership that is the requirement of every high functioning organization. In order for an organization to achieve high levels of leadership success, an organization must foster and sustain the correct environment, provide the correct tools and supports, and ultimately ensure that culture supports the development of future leaders from within. It is the focus of this paper to provide an overview of the valuable elements and techniques supporting cultural development that will lead to effective leadership development for any high functioning organization. The Leadership Environment In developing a culture for leadership development, an organization must understand its inner workings, specifically the existing culture of the organization. “A culture can be defined as the norms, practices, history and values of an organization — in other words: ‘how things are done around here.’” (Osak, 2014, p. 1) These subtle nuances will help to share the thoughts, values and behaviours of organizations employees. Values “Values are what support the vision, shape the culture and reflect what the company values. They are the essence of the company’s identity – the principles...
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...Leadership and Strategy Dr. F.M. Sahoo Leadership starts with a dream – a vision of where and what we want to be. If leadership is about showing the way, then what is ‘the way’? The way is the strategy. So leadership necessarily entails strategy. And strategy concerns choices that determine whether an organization survives, prospers or dies. The difference between ‘what we are’ and ‘what we want to be’ creates what Vansina (1999) calls ‘psychic tension’. This tension lies in the feasibility of moving from what we are to what we want to be. This requires both will and coordinated actions. The key to realizing a vision or fulfilling a mission is strategy Vansina presents two positions. A mission becomes feasible through strategy. And a mission is possible when we believe in our capacity to design an appropriate strategy to reach it. It requires self-efficacy to decide the latter. Today’s leaders, contemplating mergers and globalizations, frequently have great visions, but getting from A to B is often mysterious as sailing off to an unknown waters in the age of exploration. Hence strategic thinking is a crucial cognitive competency of leaders. What is Strategy? The word ‘strategy’ comes from the Greek, strategos, which originally referred to a general in command of an army. Its meaning evolved over several centuries BC to successively the art of the general, managerial skills as well as oratory and power, and ultimately to employ forces to defeat opposing forces and...
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...company) that is too broad and vague. 2. The core business mentioned in the field of gas utilization is less clearly illustrates the direction of the business enterprise 3. Do not give a positive image that can convince the prospects for future business 4. Not memorabel, because there is no specific thing delivered 5. Not illustrates that this company is a state enterprise, which must carry the vision of social (change agents) 6. Statement of the vision does not provide a clear direction how to achieve the desired expectations of future Mission Statement To enhance the value of the organization for stakeholders by: • Strengthening the core business in natural gas transportation and trading • Developing gas manufacturing businesses • Developing operational, maintenance and engineering businesses associated with oil and gas industries • Profiting from the Company's resources and assets by developing other businesses Effective Elements Shortcomings Identifies the firm’s product or services. states that run the company's core business is the transportation of natural gas mission of the government as majority shareholder are not mentioned: do not show “who we are” Related mission what to expect stakeholders unexplained mission statement does not explain “why we are here” mission statement of the business conducted less focus The Statement “ Profiting from the Company's resources and assets by developing other businesses” is not clear : what the...
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...environment have brought around a need for businesses to become aware of the type of culture they provide to current and prospective employees, as well as their customers. This has become a piece of the workplace that new applicants are taking into consideration when looking for a new job or career, current employees use this as a reason to stay, and company leadership uses this as an opportunity to build employee and customer loyalty. While it is the desire of many companies to create the right culture, it is a major challenge for companies and their leaders (John & Sons, 2007). Interstates Company and Goodwill Industries (specifically looking at the Sioux City, IA location) have worked hard to create cultures that support their employees and their customers. While they produce and/or sell completely different products, the choices they have made about their work environments have some similarities. Culture can be challenging to define since it may vary greatly from one business to another. Steven McShane and Mary Ann von Glinow in Organizational Behavior defined culture as: It is the basic pattern of shared assumptions, value and beliefs governing the way employees within an organization think about and act on problems and opportunities…It (culture) defines what is important and unimportant in the company. You might think of it as the organization’s DNA—invisible to the naked eye, yet a powerful template that shapes what happens in the workplace (John & Sons, 2007). This definition...
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...Examine what changes I want to make in own leadership style, and give reasons why. Give examples of how this will affect my work going forward. Examine what changes I want to make in own leadership style, and give reasons why. Give examples of how this will affect my work going forward. Plagiarism Declaration I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is to use another’s work and pretend that it is one’s own. Allowing another to copy my work and use it as their own is also plagiarism. This assignment is my own work. I have not allowed and will not allow anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work. I acknowledge that working with someone on my assignment is allowed, but only if a mutual effort is made and different examples and, where necessary, wording is used. Signature: ....868.... Plagiarism Declaration I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is to use another’s work and pretend that it is one’s own. Allowing another to copy my work and use it as their own is also plagiarism. This assignment is my own work. I have not allowed and will not allow anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work. I acknowledge that working with someone on my assignment is allowed, but only if a mutual effort is made and different examples and, where necessary, wording is used. Signature: ....868.... Introduction If someone asked me before I started my MBA what changes...
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...Affecting Change Organizational Leadership LDR 531 April 2, 2011 Joseph A. Bucci LDR 531 Affecting Change Change is something that is inevitable and cannot be prevented. Many organizations undergo change every day in order to remain operational as well as to take advantage of opportunities within their industry. There are times when employees do not accept change positively. In situations like these, how do managers cope with resistance? Leadership is defined in many different ways but the most common definition is the ability to influence a group towards a common goal (University of Phoenix). An effective manager is responsible for motivating employees through change to accomplish organizational goals. Smith and Falmouth is a midsized Teleshopping network with operations in the United States and Canada. S & F was motivated by its industry forecasts an immediately moved to become a major player within their industry. Their first move was implementing an e¬tailing division, S & F Online, six months ago. The success of this division was crucial to the company’s growth over the next three years. The CEO, Irene Seagraves, appointed members of a new division to implement the strategy of S & F Online. Seagraves appointed various members of the team to positions within the management leauge. Irene also appointed a Chief Operating Officer of S & F Online to increase the sales and to make the company a profitable long-term company (University of Phoenix). Control methods Organizational...
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...Assessing Your Own Leadership Capability and Performance Introduction Established in 1858, Cambridge Assessment is an international exams group designing and delivering assessments to over 170 countries worldwide. Cambridge Assessment operates three exam boards; CIE, Cambridge English and OCR (Cambridge Assessment, 2015a). Group Print and Operations operates as the role of service provider to the exam boards from two large distribution centres (DC10 and DC20). The purpose of this assignment is to review what is seen to be the prevailing leadership style within Cambridge Assessment. Throughout, the review will explore how the constraints and demands imposed by the business units on DC10 have an impact on the prevailing leadership style. Understand Leadership Styles within an Organisation At Cambridge Assessment the concern for task is always the main focus, which is evident in: • The setting of key performance indicators (KPI’s) and the close monitoring by managers to ensure all targets are being met. • The traffic light systems used by all departments to ensure tasks are running on time and within budget. If a red light flags a problem, managers can reorganise or increase their teams to get back on track. • The planning matrix, for a ‘busy session’, details every report to be despatched at DC10 from start to finish date so departments can organise the staff and number of shifts required. • SOP’s being enforced so that best...
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...Strategic Management-2 Case Study Synopsis Of Case:-1) Competitive Advantage in new patent regime 2) Strategic leadership and competitive advantage 1) Competitive Advantage in New Patent Regime: A Study of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry In the global business environment, traditional factors e.g labour costs and superior access to financial recourses and raw materials can still create a competitive advantage in the current competitive landscape. In the current landscape, the recourses, capabilities and the core competencies in the firm’s internal organization likely have a stronger influence on its performance than do conditions in the external environment. The IPI is one of the largest and most advanced among the developing countries. It is the 4th largest by volume i.e. around 8 percent and 11th largest in terms of value i.e. around 1.5 percent. The Indian pharmaceutical industry is a heterogeneous mixture of firms split between the organized and unorganized sectors. The control and support of the Indian government plays a critical role in the competitiveness of the IPI. According to Sampath (2006), areas of government support critical to the IPI include speed of processing of patent applications, R&D conducive environment, and reduced price Control, access of land for expansion and the patent amendment act, 2005. The government can also help increase the potential of the nascent venture capital industry in India, with an emphasis...
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...Abstract H5: What are the effects of human resources outsourcing on leadership performance and employee commitment? “Human resources outsourcing evolve from hiring payroll processing companies in the 1990s to delegating tasks previously performed by human resources assistants and specialist, such as recruiting, coordinating benefits and handling unemployment climes. Some small businesses outsource entire human resources departmental: however, money companies outsource singular processes. Small businesses to large corporations decide for one reason or another that outsourcing human resources functions is a way to improve efficiency and minimize staffing costs”(R. Mayhew,p 1). Outsourcing HR is a good strategy for business start-ups, and young businesses to early on develop high-quality hr management policies and practices. This allows businesses to spend more time and energy developing their products and customer bases. However, I do believe that business culture and values should not be determined, nor evaluated by an outside source. In the long run, companies should recruit their own talent and manage hr internally. So basically, outsourcing HR can have positive impacts on leadership and employee commitment in the short-term, but may not improve or have negative impacts on leadership and employee commitment in the long-term. HR outsourcing is shaping the future of human resources management. It is becoming an Increasingly attractive option for many organizations...
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...America believes successful global leadership development is a mix of three essentials: global consistencies, cultural distinctive and individual ownership. Aligning, teaching and developing key leaders from across the enterprise are main facts of their consistent approach. According tone of the articles of Carter (founder and CEO of Best Practice Institute and the author of several books, including Best Practices in Leadership Development) at Talent Management’s web site, “Participants of their Accelerated Development Program include 80 to 100 high-potential leaders identified from a pool of 5,000 nominees as the bank’s next generation of senior leaders”. The author Carter adds that “The curriculum is a blend of self-paced, Web-enabled content, instructor-led classroom learning, assessment, coaching and ongoing, virtual instructor-led learning”. Carter asserts that, program participants are assigned to coaches from Bank of America’s HR community who know the company culture and live and work in the same region or business unit as those they are coaching (Carter, 2012). Bank of America's overall philosophy of talent management and development is determined by seven base doctrines that create a mindset which penetrate across the company’s executive line. This company has always kept the leadership in talent management in the banking industry. Knighton &Krupp have juxtaposed these doctrines in their article (Next-Generation Leadership at Bank of America) as follows: ...
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...The role of Leadership in Organizational Integrity, and five modes of Ethical Leadership Components of Ethical Leadership. Ethical leadership begins with the way leaders perceive and conceptualize the world around them. Ethical leadership, organizational ethics, and social responsibility are inseparable concepts. They are developing concepts, to be sure, but inseparable. How ethical leaders relate to and come to understand the world around them involves judgment and action. These can be developed. In sum, the leader's role is to guide the human potential of the organization's stakeholders to achieve organizational aspirations in ways that liberate rather constrain their imaginations and judgment. Ethical leadership must, then, be effective, efficient, and excellent if it is not to waste human potential. It is not enough to be ethical in one's individual actions to be an ethical leader. To be effective, efficient, and excellent, four components of ethical leadership must be understood and developed: purpose, knowledge, authority, and trust. The relationship between these four components can be visualized as interrelated components, as described in the figure opposite. Attention to any one component alone is incomplete and misleading. * Purpose-The ethical leader reasons and acts with organizational purposes firmly in mind. This provides focus and consistency. * Knowledge-The ethical leader has the knowledge to judge and act prudently. This knowledge is found...
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...Facing the China’s Telecom Equipment industry double-digit grow and becoming the largest telecom market in the world, all leading firms in each subsectors of Global telecom equipment take this opportunity to invest in china. Huawei, a Chinese challenge, was starting its challenge to Cisco insurmountable leadership position in international telecom equipment industry. Besides, to succeed its challenge Cisco in this industry, Huawei’s needed to show it pin-point company strategy on its capabilities and core competencies, generic competitive strategy framework and international strategy to against Cisco. Huawei’s Capabilities and Core Competencies Huawei’s Resources audit First of all, Huawei’s existing finance funds is large included working capital such as investment on more than US$370 million for its own Code-Division Multiple Access Technologies. On the other hand, Huawei’s have its “guanxi” relationship network to raising funds. For example the bank will give financial support and give favorable credit limit for the company. This showed Huawei’s have enough finance resource to supporting it strategy. Secondly, Huawei’s human resources own total 24,000 employee’s majority of staff have high education level such as bachelors, master or Phd. Furthermore, the overall standard of the staff training is higher because all new employees were put through intensive military-style training for few months. In addition, it affects the intangibles resources such as the morale...
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...Running Head: ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS PAPER Environmental Analysis Paper University of Phoenix June 29, 2009 Introduction: Environmental Analysis This paper intends to present an environmental scan that outlines the major issues that are important to the continued future of public education within a large local school district. The objective in using this scan is to use the data found in a manner where educational administrators as well as those stakeholders in education can strategically plan for the future. Environmental scanning is the process where internal interaction concerning external factors regarding an organization can have an impact on an organization’s decision making (Ringland, 2002). There are many benefits in using an environmental scan. First, it allows organizational members to determine the strengths and challenges affecting the organization. This process is useful for several reasons. Environmental scanning helps identify strengths and weaknesses; is an essential element of effective strategic planning; and more importantly, raises awareness about potential issues (Ringland, 2002). Environmental scanning is a strategy that organizations should use in order to identify opportunities and changes that may affect future success. The information obtained from an environmental analysis enables organizations to forecast events, plan for the future and predict changes. There are three external environmental components within an organization and they...
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...Developing a Shared Vision Developing a Shared Vision at Grand Park Alternative School Research has shown that a critical factor among successful leaders is a clear and focused sense of values (Peters, 1987). I believe that becoming an effective leader is an inside-out process. Therefore the first step in implementing a change in my work environment is ensuring that my values are appropriate for student success at my school (Sarason, 1982). Without firm core beliefs, any leader is perceived as inconsistent and untrustworthy and unlikely to be willingly followed. So answering the internal question “Who am I?” is a crucial to developing a shared vision at my school. Who am I? During the course of my personal “value” inventory I determined that I am an educational leader who promotes the success of all students by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of learning that is shared and supported by the school community. I strive to reach a balance of head, heart and hands that will allow me to engage and to inspire students and teachers to accomplish phenomenal things without hurting their chances for success. With my personal values identified, I can better initiate a process of determining who we are as a school and how things will be done here (Hord, Rutherford, Huling-Austin, & Hall, 1987). The Shared Vision The next step is to create a shared vision with others. The purpose of creating a shared vision is to involve...
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