Essays on Supportive Leadership

The process of promoting employees involvement in the activities of the company takes some time and involves the company undertaking some measures. The steps outlined below provide a glimpse of what the company should do to motivate its employees to become more involved with the affairs of the company.

Providing supportive leadership

Empowering the employees to be better Creative a positive working environment Encouraging teamwork to achieve faster Recognizing and rewarding their efforts since such actions motivate employees to keep up with the good work Knockout boredom to ensure that the employees stay involved focused and motivated to do their job. Eliminate ...

Part A

A major engineering firm has introduced virtual teams around the globe to resolve client emergencies. Although some of these emergencies are routine (they occur often enough that the engineers have ready-made action plans), several are novel. Furthermore, information about the client emergencies often comes second hand from employees of the client, so some of the details are missing or ambiguous. Although the company plans to eventually offer a variety of communication media that these virtual teams can use, engineers are currently limited to email, telephone, fax machine, and an instant messaging program that was recently introduced.First, discuss media richness. ...

Introduction

The situational leadership theory implements a repeatable procedure that leaders can use to leverage and effectively influence their subordinate’s behaviour. The theory helps leaders understand the relationship between the degree of readiness subordinates exhibit and an effective leadership style for completing a specific task. The style of situational leadership chosen by a leader utilizes a combination of supportive and directive behaviour. Supportive behaviour can be characterized as providing guidance and support and directive behaviour can be described as an order. Hersey and Blanchard described 4 different leadership styles on the basis of supportive and directive supportive behaviour. These ...

Relationship between the strengths and opportunities

The longevity of the hospital implies that the stakeholders are sure of its long term existence in the foreseeable future. At the same time, the hospital remains trusted within the community. These strengths can be enhanced and used to tap the existing opportunities. Any organization poised to exits in the long term and has public trust can easily win partners and build strategic alliances. The public confidence also offers a perfect chance for benchmarking opportunities where the key sources of the Hospital’s strengths are used as benchmarks for reorganization. This will help it retain the existing level of public ...

- Since its inception, Google has been at the heart of providing its users with the best user experience that they believe is possible to them. Whether it is launching a new browser or creating new looks to any of their products homepage,

(a) Google has been at the forefront of ensuring that the experience best serves their clientele rather than their own goals.

(b) They have also managed to focus on some of their best strengths and really spend much of their work on creating the best for the users of Google. For instance, their major strength is in search. From ...

A good leader is not one thing. To be a good leader a person must be capable of being many things as the situation calls for it. In question is the decisions made by a particularly manager I once had when I worked as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. This is an example of a bad leader, but by identifying the flaws in a particular manager’s leadership style, it is possible to use this as a counterexample to understanding what good leadership is.

One of the allures of the Mexican restaurant was the fact that patrons could get unlimited chips and salsa. On an average ...

1. The leadership style of my supervisor is supportive. My instructor has played a motivational role in a way that he has tried to encourage all the students to participate in the class, and making them confident so that they can become productive as well as self-sufficient. My instructor has persuaded the students that they have the capability of accomplishing the task assigned. He has assigned the tasks to students, and provided support to student when they needed. My instructor has also tried to reduce the stress of students, so that they can easily and confidently ask questions and remove the ...

Management

Introduction In his book, “Supportive Leadership: The New Role of Leaders in the 21st Century”, Gunther H. Schust declares that the paradigms of management and leadership are changing in an increasingly globalized world. Schust points out that leaders could get the job done with blunt tactics of hiring and firing. However, the need of the hour is for leaders to professionally select employees, support them in their endeavors, challenge them in the work environment, make them further qualified and enable them to function seamlessly in a networked world. Schust (8) uses the new requirements of leaders to call for ...

Analysis of Two Leaders Leadership

Introduction Studies done on early leadership revealed that leaders were different from other individuals and initiated the search for characteristics or traits which differentiated leaders from other people. Early leadership research studies indicated that great men such as Jefferson, Washington, Roosevelt and Lincoln had different traits as compared to average people (Bryman, 1996). As implied by the great man theory, leaders have specific in born characteristics or traits which separates them from other people. This led to the classification of the traits into three classes namely; physical traits (which includes muscular build, height and appearance), abilities (including speech ...

Executive Summary

Police force leaders have come to realize that the authoritarian styles of leadership are no longer effective in dealing with subordinates. Contemporary police leaders are urged to promote attitudes that facilitate innovative and creative thinking in a bid to form organizations capable of incorporating change in a transforming society. Though transformational style of leadership is recommended for the leaders in police, it is necessary for them to adapt their style to suit the context and this includes being in a position to offer active, directive leadership in certain situations. The traditional ‘leader as commander’ style of pervasive police leadership has been replaced ...