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Leadership Traits and Attributes for Strategic Decisions
Developing and implementing strategic decisions is a challenging task for corporate leaders. The top Management team's informed judgments, diverse perceptions, and orientations must be integrated to develop strategic actions. Failure is part of strategic decision-making as leaders are faced with complex, unstructured decisions. One of the essential traits and attributes of a leader in building trust with the management team to facilitate learning from the failures. Trust is a fundamental trait for a leader. In this case, the leader's psychological state must instil a sense of confidence in the other management members to learn from the failures (Carmeli et al., 2010, p. 35). According to Carmeli et al. (2010), a national leader needs to go beyond organizational outcomes and demographic variables to build a productive relationship with the top management team.
Differences in Charismatic and Transformational Leadership and Leadership Styles' Impact on Organizational Effectiveness
Difference between Charismatic and Transformational Leadership
Leadership, through communication, can be analysed in terms of content and rationality. A leader's effective communication skills improve follower's level of satisfaction and confidence in their leader. A leader influences their subordinates either through task-oriented or rational-oriented behavior. Rational leadership is associated with rational-oriented behavior, where the leader utilizes effective communication skills to keep followers committed to achieving shared goals. In contrast, transformational leadership exhibits rapport building to improve the organization (Madlock, 2008, p. 64).
Leadership Styles' Impact on Organizational Effectiveness
Both task- and rational-oriented leadership styles increase employee communication satisfaction. Charismatic leadership, in particular, is associated with stronger employee communication satisfaction compared to the supervisor task leadership style, which is similar to the transformational leadership style. Nonetheless, the transformational leadership style is strongly associated with adopting innovative technologies in the production process.
Work Characteristics and the Traditional Versus High-Performance Focus
For top managers such as CEO, unique work characteristics are needed to make strategic decisions. On the one hand, the leader must have the ability to build and maintain team trust to foster strategic decisions. Team learning skills are also needed to guide the team to obtain valuable lessons from failures. Focusing on team learning processes exhibits traditional focus where the management team is entrusted with planning and coordinating organizational goals (Carmeli, 2010, p. 45). One of the distinctive characteristics of traditional focus is that decision-making is highly centralized, making it suitable for strategic decisions.
Furthermore, employees are considered as tools of management to meet targets. Employees are rewarded based on their performance and guided policies that are strictly enforced. In contrast, high- performance focus is customer-centred and teamwork-oriented. In other words, planning and coordination of goals are carried out by a team.
References
Carmeli, A., Tishler, A., & Edmondson, A. C. (2012). CEO relational leadership and strategic decision quality in top management teams: The role of team trust and learning from failure. Strategic Organization, 10(1), 31-54.
Madlock, P. E. (2008). The link between leadership style, communicator competence, and employee satisfaction. The Journal of Business Communication (1973), 45(1), 61-78.
Discussion 2
Discuss and identify leader traits and attributes that are most beneficial in implementing the best decisions in an organization.
Accountability. A strong leader who needs to implement and make the best decisions in an organization should always be ready to account for the teams results whether they are pleasing or not. This brings about a sense of responsibility and do not blame each other which creates a sense of togetherness in the company.
Humility. great leaders aim on solving problems and team or group spirit that putting themselves ahead of others. A leader will not manage to make a meaningful decision if they are only concerned about their wellbeing and ignoring that of others. They need to be humble.
Resilience. The definition of a true leader cannot be given according to how he performs during good times but the way he organizes his team and gives results when things are tough (Heracleous & Klaering, 2014). Leaders should always have positive attitudes and be on the frontline no matter how difficult the circumstances are. Resilience is a leadership trait that goes hand in hand with experience.
Vision. John C. Maxwell stated, “people buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
A firm's vision can only go the far the leaders influence is concerned. A visionary leader sets the direction and makes crucial decisions on the new ideas so that he can be in a position to ensure his team understands and values the objectives and mission that is ahead of them.
Influence. A leader should be bold enough to influence his people such that he can manage to earn respect be4cqause of his influence. This also helps him when making key decisions.
Communication skills. A great leader is one who is in a position to talk or communicate effectively to his people by using the right language even when correcting mistakes. This upgrades his relationship with the members of the organization.
Explain the differences in charismatic and transformational leadership and how both leadership styles impact organizational effectiveness. Please note how these leadership styles affect implementing new innovative technologies.
In charismatic leadership, personal vision of a charismatic leader highly depends on the influence of the leader to his or her audience. Similarly, Charismatic leaders speak more about their passion instead of an already existing method of transacting business.
In transformational leadership the leaders mainly focus on making decisions, establishing strategic plans, and more on facilitating collaboration decision to meet the mission and vision of the organization (Chaturvedi, Arvey, Zhang & Christoforou, 2011). Additionally, the leaders encourage and motivate employees so that they can manage to perform in ways that can create and meaningful change and also attain the objectives of the organization.
different innovation stages and types bring about different ultimatums on the top office that is the leadership. Different leadership styles work in a divergent or dissimilar way in varied innovation types and stages. The success of any innovation technologies highly depends on the type of leadership that is in place.
Review table 8.1 in the reading this week, note the work characteristics and the traditional versus high-performance focus, note which focus is best for strategic decisions and which is best for operational decisions. Please explain.
The best focus for strategic decisions is the high-performance best focus. This is because it gives enough qualities on what one should consider before setting up a business. The company need to strategize on the following characteristics: quality of the products, the place where the business is situated(decentralized), the availability of frequent customers. The best focus for operational decisions is the traditional focus which has the following characteristics: leadership style in the company, cost of starting and running the company, availability of labor and resources for the business to remain functioning (Russell & Mizrahi, 1995). Additionally, the capital which a very crucial factor in starting and running of a business is in the traditional focus.
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