Leadership assessment

Leadership Assessment

Question No.1

Analyze the leadership style (s) of a senior (CEO, CFO, COO, Director, etc) in your current or previous organization who made a positive or negative impact on you.

An employee who is effective in working and contributes to the organization success is a leader in his own eyes. Every leader has a different set of style which he used to incorporate the organizational goals and objectives. The implementation of plans, guidance to the people of the organizational and their motivation is few factors that come under the leader responsibility. Leadership styles or approaches a leader take to solve a certain problem changes in different scenarios. The best leadership style depends on the issues the organization face and its culture (Gould, 2011).

The leadership style that entail in my company of the CEO is situational leaning towards participative leadership style. Such a style requires the leader to be adaptable to the situation and to the abilities of the team. The leaders quickly adjust themselves to the constraints and limitations imposed on them. If a situation arises where the CEO has all the information, he will most surely use the authoritarian leadership style as he is the coach and mentor. In a situation where the information is distributed between the CEO and the workers, he will go for a participative style, to make feel employees a part of the decision and team. Then there might a time come when the CEO is not around or busy some useful stuff in such a case he will use delegative style and delegate the entire task to the employee (Gould, 2011).

Question No.2

Analyze the organizational structure and culture of the company for which you work (or would like to work) to determine its approach to team development and whether that approach helped to enhance your relationship skills in the workplace.

Organization structure of any organization depends on its business or project nature. The organizational goals, work group responsibilities and role of the department members are designed according to organizational structure. In general, there are four types of the organizational structure that exist in our corporate world. They are functional, divisional, matrix and project based structures (Sullivan,2012). The Matrix organizational structure prevails in the company I work for. Such a structure is the one which is a combination of functional and divisional organizational structure. In functional organizational structure the organization is divided into different sections based on its specialty for example, there might be a section of sales, engineering etc (Cichetti, 2012). Where as in divisional structure an organization has a number of divisions categorized from a different point of views, for example, divisions based on a geographical basis etc. Matrix organizational structure gives best results when certain things are taken from both the structures. Each team member has two bosses to report to which ultimately enhances an employee's communication skills and also relationships skills. Such a structure also paves way for team development, as it involves a lot of interaction among employees and also between ...