FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company

Alan Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company

Introduction

Leadership is the set of capabilities that a person has to influence a group of persons, making this team work with enthusiasm in achieving goals and objectives. It is also understood as the ability to take initiative, manage, hold, promote, encourage, motivate and evaluate a group or team. In business management leadership is the exercise of executive activity in a project effectively and efficiently, be it personal or institutional management (within the organization's administrative process). According to the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (1986), leadership is defined as the direction, leadership or leadership of a political party, a social group or other community. The Dictionary of Behavioral Sciences (1956) defines it as "qualities of personality and ability to promote the guidance and control of others." Other definitions are: - "Leadership is an attempt to interpersonal influence, directed through the communication process, the achievement of one or more goals" (Durbin, Ann, Kirshner, 2011).

Discussion

Discuss the role of leadership and how it can impact organizational performance.

Leadership is essential for managers, especially with globalization and decentralization of decision-making power of managers in medium and large businesses. This mechanism of globalization ensures that the ability to conduct a business without having in hand the power to rally and bring people together and direct them to one direction would be almost impossible. Steve Jobs is a great example of a leader in its field and is able to delegate leadership to others, "When you hire really good people you have to give them a piece of the business and let them run with it". The effectiveness of the method used by the leader in a particular situation may vary according to circumstances. The leadership has in common with the beauty that is recognized easily, but that it is difficult to define. Some define leadership as the function of guide and influence and others as leading to achieve ambitious goals. For others, the leader is a coach that trains individuals to be assisted them in performing their duties (Isidore, 2010).

To fulfill its role, the manager must be able to bring people under his authority to achieve their goals by using his power and influence. A small part of the work of Max Weber on the relationship between ethics Protestant (especially Puritan post Calvinist and his assertion that individual material success is a sign of predestination and divine grace) suggests that it is the spirit of capitalism that has developed and flourished from northern Europe between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. To complement its array of categories defining and explaining social phenomena, Weber develops, next to the ideal types of organization, conceptual models of "social" and "ethical" and "domination" (Isidore, 2010).

Discuss Mulally's leadership style at Ford Motor Cpmpany and provide examples of how his actions fit this style.

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