STRATEGIC BUSINESS LEADERSHIP TRANSFORMATION ( SBLT)

Strategic Business Leadership Transformation ( SBLT)



Strategic Business Leadership Transformation ( SBLT)

Introduction

Leadership in an organization has an important role for all parties involved, and has lately taken on an investigative role especially in North America. It has been observed that before the 80's, leadership was based around the trends and development of traits, styles and contingency approach. Since then however, new alternate approaches have been making headway in large scale organizations to characterize leadership traits, motivational factors, perception and achievement of goals and so on( Katz, 1955). Marketing and management philosophies have been helping organizations create strategies and plans which have been tested in theory and hence are applicable on real life situations. These management philosophies can only be defined as a set of ideas that make up the best management practices, and can thus be standardized for others. Although these standard practices cannot cater to every organization out there, they have a true enough affect if the theory is correct. To examine the marketing and management styles and leadership practices in multinational organizations, one must analyze the different and sometimes opposing management philosophies of organizations. Therefore, in this paper, I will be analyzing the American retail establishment Walmart's leadership front, as well as the U.K based, high street retail store Debenhams, in order to examine both their successes and failures.

Discussion

Although a lot of people from diverse backgrounds may find themselves performing the duties of a leader, it doesn't mean that everyone is fit for the role, or that effective in their ability to handle a pressuring situation. Recognizing the needs of a group and catering them is an ability that not many would have, as there are individual personality types that are more able to handle leadership responsibilities. A few features seem to be repeated among leadership n business as well as different industries. A leader must be outstanding, charismatic, ideological and pragmatic. It may not be important to have all of these qualities, neither to undergo a major personality change in order for a leader to be effective. Leadership style analyzes the manner as well as the approach through which direction is sought, plans are implemented and the work force is motivated. There are three styles of leadership, authoritarian, democratic and delegative. While it has been observed that ideological leaders try to utilize all three forms of leadership, it may not come that easily. Bad leaders usually stick to one type and become a nuisance over time.

In an authoritarian style of leadership, one individual is usually in chanrge of overlooking plans and keeping the workforce motivated. The leader will tell their employees what they want done as well as how they should go about doing it, but do not consult them or console them in case of any problems arising. An appropriate situation in which to use an authoritative style of leadership would be when a small workforce is present and all the information needed in order to provide solutions for a ...