In chapter 12, of the book Organizational Behavior on the Pacific Rim Focus, called “Leadership in Organizational Settings”, the writers discuss on the role leaders play in an organization.
Leaders have the role of managing and controlling issues within an organization for an effective utilization of human, physical, and information resources that an organization have; with an efficient leadership, organizations are able to attain their corporate goals, objective, and target.
The decisions made by leaders determine the success of an organization; they have the role of mentoring and creating a learning environment to enhance the performance of their teams. The main difference between a leader and a manager is that leaders lead people while managers manage tasks; with this role, leaders must develop appropriate mechanisms of enhancing learning and staff participation in an organization.
To have an environment favorable for learning, leaders must create a positive organizational culture that rewards success and efforts of an employee. When employees have invented or innovated something, the management should recognize them; this will motivate them learn more and innovate others.
Within teams, it is area that employees learn a lot amongst and from each other, leaders have the role of developing an orchestrate team that embraces team spirit. This will enhance knowledge and experience sharing that leads to learning of new traits and tactics by employees. The leader should be delegating duties and power effectively to create an urge in his team members to learn and improve their skills.
To have an orchestrate team, leaders have the role and mandate of ensuring they well understand their human resources and note the areas that they can intervene to make them more productive and benefit the company more. They should aim at having the company as a unit with common destination and objective.
Leadership styles
Tom Saunders uses autocratic form of leadership, this is a leadership approach where the leader is the main decision maker, he is the one who controls and makes things move in the way he want them done. The leadership traits has the leader has the center of knowledge and assumes to know precisely the direction that the organization should take for success.
The approach has made Martin to be under his control and serves at his pleasure. Martin uses the democratic leadership approach, this is where he involves his staff members when making decisions and ensures things are done by the staffs through their involvement in the decision making process.
When the above leadership styles are weighed together, then the superiority of diplomatic leadership style can be seen; with this style employee are hardworking, highly motivated and can communicate effectively with the management.
It is a type that is likely to produce high results to the company and ensure that employees become and remain loyal to their employer. On the other hand, autocratic leadership has some elements of dictatorship thus the employees are forced to perform their duties.
Conflicting leader’s solutions
In the differences of leadership styles adopted, the main solution that the organization have for its conflicts include taking conflict resolution classes and the two managers undergoing leadership trainings.
When they are trained on the best approach to leadership, then the company will have fewer conflicts among themselves; the best method of solving recurring conflicts is effective and successful communication among the human capital in the organization. When communication is enhanced, it will be able to point at problems before they erupt.
Elements of a leader
There are different elements of an effective leader which include, the power to effectively communicate, the power to create a favorable working environment, the power to develop orchestrate teams and manage change within the organization. An effective leader should well understand how to manage and utilize the resources that a company has and create high motivation among employees.
In my views, Saunders is not an effective leader; he seems to be short tempered and solves issues with high tone and screaming at his employees. His style of leadership is likely to bring the moods and motivation of employees down a factor that is likely to influence on their performance.
Martin is an effective leader who has managed to create a winning team, he does this through the involvement of his department staffs in decision making and ensuring they are highly motivated; he is the type of leader that commands respect from employees as well as making them loyal and willing to use their intellectualism for the good of the company.
Does Martin have any way out of his current situation? What would you do if you were?
Josh Martin?
All is not lost for Martin, there are still some strategies that he can adopt to make the company more favorable working environment. If I was martin, I would consider enacting effective communication between me and Mr.
Saunders, I would not allow the situations go the way they are without mentioning them and stating what I feel about the situation correctly. Adopting an effective communication method is the surest way that can make the environment favorable for working to both Martin and other employees.
Reference
MeShane, S. Olekalns, M. and Travaglione, T., 2020. Organizational Behavior on the Pacific Rim Focus. Sydney: McGraw Hill Irwin