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Technology Enhance Leadership Capabilities
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With the improvement in technology, there are many applications areas that it can use. in leadership, technology plays an essential role. This work aims at studying the importance of technology and how it enhances leadership capabilities. There is real-time reporting, higher employee productivity, and greater power and governance without any physical appearance through technology. The work also covers critics' reports on the limitations of technology to leadership capabilities. Also, the significance of the overall study and the recommendations are made.
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I. Title Page
II. Abstract
III. Outline
IV. Introduction
V. accurate and real-time
i. the real-time accomplishment of tasks
ii. automation of tasks
iii. decision-making process
b. higher employee productivity
i. overcome language barrier
ii. improve employee connection
iii. turning over-recurring
c. greater power and governance
i. flexibility to employees
ii. monitor employee remotely
VI. Opposing Evidence
VII. Significance
VIII. Recommendations
IX. Conclusion
X. Bibliography
Introduction
With the constantly evolving technology, all areas of life are being impacted. For instance, technology necessitates a collaborative environment, which assists organizations in achieving bigger goals. Despite facilitating employees' freedom in a workplace to work efficiently, leaders are also empowered to manage the organizational operations from a distance.
With the continued improvement in technology, there have been arguments on the role of technology in enhancing leadership efficiencies. Proponents have associated technology with better decision-making, increased productivity, accurate and real-time completion of tasks, and overcoming the language barrier. Other critics have raised the issue that technology is not efficient in leadership. The primary thesis of this research work is technology enhances leadership capabilities. Therefore, organizations should adopt technology to necessitate leadership capabilities since, with the aid of technology, leaders can receive the data they require and make proper decisions in real-time. This enhances higher employees' satisfaction and productivity and allows for governance and power without needing a physical presence.
Technology refers to any application of scientific knowledge for human beings or the manipulation or change of the human environment. Leadership capabilities refer to a way of feeling, thinking, behaving, and thinking. It is a person's ability to develop a sense of who they are and the goals they want to achieve. The capabilities enable one to set vision, inspire, direct, engage, and teach others effectively.
Accurate and real-time
A leader can be a manager in an organization. When an organization utilizes up-to-date technology, an organization enjoys accurate and real-time reporting through automation and improves decision-making for leaders.
Viewing number of tasks
For instance, this is in terms of viewing the number of tasks accomplished by team members to ensure the smooth running of the organization. The real-time reports allow for overall efficiency among individuals, teams, or departments (Ku, 2018). A leader uses task management tools to track shared tasks, groups, or personal tracks to ensure they are completed within the required time.
Automating tasks
Similarly, a leader can be able to automate the number of tasks within the organization to save time. Artificial intelligence, robotic process adoption, and machine learning can be utilized as a part of a business strategy (Mercer,2021). These technologies improve productivity, better quality service, efficient material use, and high productivity rates. However, there is a need to embrace modern technologies to avoid disruptions that arise with some technologies to ensure smooth flow.
Decision making
Decision-making forms an integral part of everyday life. Through it, leaders can manage gathered data by using the right software to pull essential information from financial, customer, or other documents produced internally (Wilson, 2021). Also, it enables leaders to clean the information through visualization tools and overcome the problem associated with too much information.
Higher employee productivity and satisfaction
When leaders can access the technologies and tools, they can easily do their tasks as required. This offers numerous advantages, such as overcoming language barriers. Also, it improves employees' connections and collaborations. Moreover, it turns recurring and monotonous tasks into powerful computers.
Overcome language barrier
In a workplace, employees may be speaking different languages. Through technology, employees can have access to numerous languages apart from English. The leader may ensure that the organization invests in the right channels to complete the required jobs (Praveen, 2020). With such tools, the productivity of organizations improves, which allows business enterprises to thrive.
Improved collaborations and connections
As employees work towards the organizations' goals, technology ensures connecting and building a culture to communicate with employees in remote areas. For instance, zoom and other platforms provide conducting meetings and can recruit talents (Miller, 2021). This makes employees feel like part of the organization.
Turning tasks to computers
Through tools that automate processes, leaders can utilize them to reduce monotonous tasks and turn them into computers. For instance, platforms such as Keap gather and organize client information in one place (Intelligent Technical solutions, 2020). This encourages employees towards the right actions to take.
Greater power and governance
Technology allows for more excellent governance among leaders without any physical appearances. This is by giving flexibility to employees and motivating them efficiently. Also, technology enhances the remote control of employees.
Flexibility to employees
Technology enhances flexibility, and employees can work wherever they are and allow the smooth running of the organizations' operations. Through devices and software programs, employees can work remotely (Goasduff, 2021). It also necessitates flexible working hours, which reduces monotony.
Monitor employee remotely
There is software that can be used to monitor employees in remote areas. The track file transfers, email, keystrokes, application, and time for every assigned task (Dreyfuss, 2020). Also, the software can take screenshots allowing managers to know the content on employees' screens.
Opposing evidence
Although technology offers numerous advantages to a leader, critics have suggested that there are disadvantages associated with technology and thus does not enhance capabilities among leaders. For instance, using technology indicates a need for new diplomatic, managerial skills that leaders may require for the smooth running of the organization. The new technology may not necessarily accommodate the existing skills. Also, technology affects the managerial function by increasing management responsibilities for the organization's outcomes, leading to an emphasis on decision making, coordination, and planning. Also, technology depends on a leader's intellectual skills, and a lack of proper skills may undermine a leader. This produces strain among the leaders, which affects output, productivity, and morale. Moreover, they suggest that technology affects leadership capabilities by increasing consideration time of the brain and heart, especially when making the decision.
Technology enhances a leader's capabilities. Through it, there is faster decision-making, enabling a leader to be moral sense and compassionate for other people. Similarly, technology has been associated with increasing loyalty to a leader's profession, despite being loyal to their organization. Therefore, it makes a leader enjoy their profession and work hard towards their organizations' goals rather than reducing morale and poor relation with others.
Significance
This work is significant in the field of research. Through it, learners can understand the concept of technology and how it relates to enhancing leadership capabilities. The work covers why organizations should adopt technology and the positive effects on the overall outputs. Through this work, researchers can use it for future reference and carry the recommendations made.
Recommendation
The effect of technology on leadership capabilities is still debatable—this work aimed at researching how technology enhances the capabilities. However, there are arguments by critics that try to prove the limitations associated with the use of technology and their adverse effects on leadership capabilities. There is a dire need for future researchers to carry extensive research on the importance of technology and the disadvantage of each and weigh the side that has the most points.
Conclusion
This work aims at researching how technology enhances leadership capabilities. Technology has numerous advantages in improving leadership capabilities. Through it, it offers accurate real-time reporting and enhances decision making all leaders. Also, it enhances high employees' productivity and satisfaction, especially when they can easily access the technological tools they require to complete their jobs. Moreover, technology allows more excellent governance and power among leaders without needing their physical presence. The net result of technology among leaders is an essential requirement for proper leadership and planning in any organization. "What do leaders need to achieve tomorrow's objectives?" With the question in mind, it is possible to evaluate technology comprehensively as the solution to leaders' capabilities. Through technology, leaders can understand the alternatives available to them to lead and cope with any changes, enhancing their overall capabilities.
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