Project Outline
This project will focus on enhancing the productivity of employees within an organization through effective leadership and communication. It is the role of the human resource department to ensure that all the employees perform the roles and duties that have been assigned to them as per the set standards and requirements of the organization and to the best of their abilities.
Thus, the HR department should have a clear understanding of the capabilities of its employees, determine their strengths and weaknesses, and come up with measures that will lead to the improvement of performance of all employees of an organization.
Overall Project Deliverable
To achieve its goals and objectives, this project shall focus on a number of realms within the human resource department of an organization. These segments include:
- Communication and leadership style assessment
- Motivating Project Team Strategy
- Project Conflict and Stress Assessment
- Conflict Management Strategy
- Consensus Decision Making
- Communications Plan
- Project Leadership Strategy.
A clear understanding of these areas will lead to the formulation and implementation of effective and efficient leadership and communication styles that will lead to the increase in the performance of all employees within an organization. This will in turn lead to the realization of short term and long term goals and objectives of an organization.
SWOT Analysis
The article presented by Bolton (2007) clearly brought out the type of leadership styles that I always advocate for; leadership in changing working environment. This is due to the fact that the environment in which organization operate in is always dynamic.
Therefore to be better prepared, the leadership style of an organization has always to conform to these changing needs and requirements. Given this, the following SWOT analysis summarizes the results of my leadership with regards to the article mentioned above.
The noble communication style clearly brings out the form of communication that I would advocate within an organization. This form of communication allows for vertical and horizontal flow of information within an organization (Bass, 2010). With regards to this communication style, information can easily flow within all levels of management without being distorted.
At the same time, the management can easily get feedback from the employees from lower levels. By adopting the participative communication style, barriers that may arise in this form of communication can be eliminated. This is because, participative communication is characterized by low task-high relationship behavior within an organization.
This removes the tension and any negative aspect of communication and understanding within an individual and the organization at large hence proving to be effective in project management.
Communication and Leadership Style Assessment
Organizations are driven by the goals and objectives that they aim to achieve in the short run and in the long run. Usually, business entities aim at being profitable and sustainable in the short run and in the long run. However, to achieve this, such entities need to come up with effective and efficient managerial techniques and practices (Jovanovic, 2011).
Leadership and communication are examples of practices that the management of any organization needs to adopt to ensure that its employees operate in an effective and efficient manner to achieve the goals and objectives that have been set by the organization as well as their personal goals and objectives.
Leadership is an essential aspect for the success of any organization in the world. This concept has been in existence for thousands of years. All through the history of humanity, we have read about great leaders, the influence they had on people, and the success that was accrued from their leadership.
In modern history, the concept of leadership has been integrated in the management of various firms and organizations. These firms have discovered that strong leadership is an essential factor to their success. As a result, organizations have been looking for individuals with desired leadership skills to lead their organizations.
Communication on is an essential aspect of an organization. Effective communication plays a critical role on the success of an organization both in the short run and in the long run. Organizations are usually made up of levels of employees working in different department. Each level of employment and each department usually have different goals and objectives.
Additionally, each individual usually has a different view on the matters that affect the running and management of an organization. Therefore, to synchronize all these considerations to achieve the goals and objectives that have been set by and organization, it is essential for the management to come up with an effective and efficient method that can be used to decimate information within the organization.
For efficiency, this mode of communication should always allow information to move in all directions within the organization. With such a mechanism in place, the chances of an organization operating in uniformity and understanding are always high (Mischel, 2008).
Finally, employees are also an essential aspect of an organization. According to Jago (2002), employees are the vessel through which an organization uses to achieve its vision, mission, goals, and objectives. Therefore, each and every employee needs to perform his duty as per the expected standards and requirements of the organization.
It is thus essential for the management of an organization to ensure that the productivity of all its employees is maintained at an optimum level. An organization can achieve this objective using several strategies.
However, leadership and effective communication are the best means through which the management of an organization through its human resource department can use to maximize on the productivity of its employees (Jago, 2002).
References
Bass, B. (2010). From Transactional to Transformational Leadership: Learning to Share the Vision. Organizational Dynamics, 18(3), 19-31.
Bolton, E. (2007). Leadership Styles and Leadership Change in Human and Community Service Organizations. Web.
Jago, A. (2002). Leadership: Perspectives in Theory and Research. Management Science, 28(3), 315-336.
Jovanovic, M. (2011). International Handbook on the Economics of Integration: Competition, Spatial Location of Economic Activity and Financial Issues. Sacramento: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Mischel, W. (2008). Personality and Assessment. New York: Wiley.