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Discussion 1

Organizational performance is the fifth aspect of the model, reflect on the question, do certain leadership behaviors improve and sustain performance at the individual, group, and organizational level?  Please explain your response.

Leadership is the new buzz word of the entrepreneurship literature in the 21st century. According to Qadir & Yeşiltaş (2020), Leadership plays more vital role in the growth of small and mid-sized enterprises. Even though leaderships of the organization are working towards socio-economic benefits of the society, it interms leading to the growth in the organization (Qadir & Yeşiltaş, 2020). Leaderships cultivate different styles based on the organization to improve the growth of organization, performance of the employees by increasing the employee’s skillset (Qadir & Yeşiltaş, 2020). The growth and performance of the organization is achieved with the help of short term and long-term functional goals and improving business objectives (Qadir & Yeşiltaş, 2020).

            According to Qadir & Yeşiltaş (2020), there is a hypothesis which states organizational commitment can be the driving criteria between leadership and the employees to achieve the organizational performance. There are certain driving forces that keeps employees to stand with the organization; they are: work-related intensions, commitment, and dedication (Qadir & Yeşiltaş, 2020). Hence, leadership has to work with the employees by fostering those factors along with organizational commitment.

            With above stated points, we can infer that organizational performance is directly proportional to leadership style. And it suggests having the style of leadership that gives award and feedback can motivate the working individuals or a group to deliver the organizational commitments with more quality and also with increased performance.

There were two types of innovation addressed this week (product and process innovation), please note your own personal definition of these concepts and offer an example of both.

Product Innovation: Product innovation tells about a change in the product or producing a new product. Both kinds comes under product innovation. If a new product is launched into the market or if some enhancements are done to the existing product, both are considered as product innovations (CHOPRA, n.d.).

            Product innovations are clearly visible to the end users. For example, we see newer iPhone models are coming out every year in which new iPhones are released or some features are added to the existing models.

Process Innovation: Process innovation talks about the change in the process of producing the product. The product can be a physical thing or the it can be a non-physical entity like organizational performance (CHOPRA, n.d.).

            Process innovation may or may not be visible to the end user. We can take an organization which adopted Agile methodology in the development process of their product. This process innovation may lead to better quality product and high performance in the development.

 

References

CHOPRA, A. (n.d.). Is Product Innovation More Important Than Process Innovation? Retrieved from http://ankushchopra.com: http://ankushchopra.com/product-or-process-innovation/#:~:text=There%20are%20some%20significant%20differences,process%20innovation%20targets%20cost%20improvements.

Qadir, K. H., & Yeşiltaş, M. (2020). Effect of leadership styles on organizational commitment and performance in small- and medium-sized enterprises in Iraqi Kurdistan. Social Behavior and Personality.

Discussion 2

Organizational Performance Changes Leadership and Behaviors

Organizational performance involves analyzing how well a company is doing compared to what its objectives and goals were. Any organizational performance focuses mainly on three outcomes. Many types of professionals including strategic planners focus on organizational performance, the term will have a similar meaning to organizational effectiveness. However, organizational effectiveness covers a broader area. The organizational learning literature has suggested that learning when experience is limited is difficult, and unfavorable outcomes are common. Resolution of these competing claims is especially important in the context of strategic decision making, where the costs of unreliable learning are significant. (Musaji, S., Schulze, W. S., & De Castro, J. O. 2020). Leadership theories emphasis the traits and behaviors that individuals can adopt to boost their own leadership abilities. There are several theories for a leader. According to the theories, a leader has charisma, they are intellect, they are confident, they have great communication skills and social skills, they state that the ability to lead inherent. Leaders always motivate the staff or teams below them, hence any individual, group and organizational level get motivated and idealize the leaders with their work or qualities.

                                    Product and Process Innovation

Product innovation involves a launching a lot of new or better improved products, which can include services as well as goods. Process innovation which is all about finding better improved, more efficient ways of the processes that are involved in delivering products or delivering services. Transparency of the public sector is still widely seen as the main outcome of these efforts. Such a simplistic view, however, misses the rich variety of innovations resulting from open data use. We conceptualize these innovation outcomes across two dimensions: internal/external and product/process.  Product and process outcomes are much more varied than just increased transparency. The main innovation outcomes are improved decision making, economic development, improved collaboration and participation. Many city administrations engage in product innovations; few seek process innovations. (Mergel, I., Kleibrink, A., & Sörvik, J. 2018). In order to illustrate the concept, some of the benefits of product innovations, a business that can be effective as a product innovator, this all deals with first move innovation, but it also doesn’t mean if you are not the first move initiator, you cannot be a product innovator. However, an early or first innovators of a product can always gain an advantage over the others, customers adopt the products relatively early and start to become loyal to it they perceive greater added value and as a consequence, they are prepared for any kind of situations that might arise. Process innovation on the other hand is little different, it deals with how can we innovate in the business processes that are required to deliver the products the goods and the services. The introduction of product innovation may cause the development of process innovations, and process innovation can stimulate the production of product innovations. (Gómez, J., Salazar, I., & Vargas, P. 2016).

 

                                                References

Musaji, S., Schulze, W. S., & De Castro, J. O. (2020). How Long Does It Take to Get to the Learning Curve? Academy of Management Journal, 63(1), 205–223. https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2017.1145

Mergel, I., Kleibrink, A., & Sörvik, J. (2018). Open data outcomes: U.S. cities between product and process innovation. Government Information Quarterly, 35(4), 622–632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2018.09.004

Gómez, J., Salazar, I., & Vargas, P. (2016). Sources of Information as Determinants of Product and Process Innovation. PloS One, 11(4), e0152743. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152743