Introduction:
Leadership is a vital component that leads effective teamwork. According to Mullins (2010), a good leader will influence his talented staff and their actions will lead the good performance. This report is going to examine the influences of the Ma Yun’s leadership on the Alibaba Group.
Business environment
Nowadays, high-speed development of the technology has changed the daily life and the computer and the Internet have become the mainstream in China markets. The expansion of the Internet rapidly leads the e-commence to develop and change the operation way of Chinese business. At present, there are many people who want to start-up a business on their own. Ma seizes the opportunity to establish a great stage ‘Alibaba’ for
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Currently, there are more than 20000 people who work for the Alibaba Group. There are more than 70 offices in China, Singapore, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. Alibaba is focused on building a collaborative and prosperous e-commerce ecosystem that benefits merchants, consumers and the economy as a whole.
Size of the Alibaba group is large, however, it can also be considered as an enterprise. Alibaba develops its organization success and rapid growth on entrepreneurship, service range, creative, and innovation.
Jack Ma is the most successful Chinese Internet entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Alibaba Group that has lots of subsidiary corporations and it is a successful group with a wide range of business scopes such Alibaba.com, Taobao.com, Tmall.com, Alipay.com, Juhasuan.com, AliExpress and etc. Ma is a leader who has an entrepreneurship. According to Shane (2003), entrepreneurship is an activity that involves exploring, estimate and discovery of opportunities to build a new organization with new ideas, services and productions through business efforts that are not exist previously. The proud achievements of Alibaba are due to Alibaba’s employees’ efforts and the charming leading of Ma. Ma is the charismatic and transformational leader. Numerous media researchers identified that the Alibaba’s success is due to the Ma’s leading ability and they
Businesses also have a variety of different leaders controlling the organization. Some executives attain a high-level position, placing them in a leadership role. However, there are many leadership positions that do not actually “lead” a team. A leader does not decide to be a leader overnight. A leader possesses a particular set of qualities and
Leadership at times can be a complex topic to delve into and may appear to be a simple and graspable concept for a certain few. Leadership skills are not simply acquired through position, seniority, pay scale, or the amount of titles an individual holds but is a characteristic acquired or is an innate trait for the fortunate few who possess it. Leadership can be misconstrued with management; a manager “manages” the daily operations of a company’s work while a leader envisions, influences, and empowers the individuals around them.
How does Alibaba group create corporate advantage? (Why are the businesses under one roof?) Is this corporate advantage sustainable?
Leadership can be defined as the process of identifying a goal, motivating others, and make them to achieve the mutually goals (Giltinane, 2013). According to Humphreys (2002), successful leaders do this by applying their leadership knowledge and skills. A good leadership is not only good at management, but also use different leadership styles in different situations. A successful corporation must has a good leader who have the flexible ability which can provide a suitable leadership to make the company successful. Furthermore, there have no perfect leadership styles in the world. Different leader have different leadership styles which also have the different strengths and weaknesses (Ali & Waqar, 2013). Leaders need to consider
Founded just before the turn of the millennium in Hangzhou, China, Alibaba Group has to date become the largest online retail website worldwide in the planet, its total transactions surpassing the sum of both Amazon and eBay’s (Erickson, 2013). The report explains its business and operation model and market strategy, before moving to explore the reasons for Alibaba Group’s success such as its established market share in the large market of Mainland China and its efforts to promote the perception of the reliability and security of e-commerce. Comprising of its future plans in logistics improvement, expansion into developing nations, integration with social networks, venture into mobile
The leadership models/theories that will be demonstrated are skills-based leadership, situational leadership, and leader-member exchange theory.
In today’s competitive world, leadership skills are crucial for both personal and professional development. Leadership is an important function of management which helps an individual or a business to maximize efficiency and to achieve goals. Leadership has different meanings to various authors.Most commonly, leadership is defined as influence, that is, the art of influencing people so that they will strive willingly and enthusiastically toward the achievement of group goals. (Koontz). Leadership is the process of influencing the activities of either formal or informal group in the task of goal setting and goal achievement. A leader is one whose magnetic personality innervates people for some cause. Not by words, but by their actions is
This era has become very competitive and in order for organizations to be successful they need leaders to establish and manage relationships and lead their subordinates accordingly in order to achieve the company’s mission and objectivity. Leadership overall plays a very important role in the success of a company because the leader controls their subordinates behavior. If subordinates have uncertainties that are not directed accordingly it can result in an unhealthy environment, and in turn it will affect the growth of the organization, therefore good leadership is necessary.
As explained how important Leadership above, it is regarded as vital factor that determines the company’s growth. Describing into Samsung’s case, until early 1990s, Samsung group wasn’t enough to be leader of any business markets that they entered. Samsung group got into 8 types of business include electronics, but Since Lee kun hee seats for CEO of Samsung, he has started to manage and rebuild all of the business types where already running on. His leadership style has shown to the public while reconstructing processes, it was very straight forward and unelaborated. His charismatic and aggressive leadership has performed this rebuilding process, but media aggravated about Samsung executives’ decisions, even some economic acknowledged experts’ doubts about his leadership; his experiences and abilities are enough to lead big company like Samsung yet. He is just son of Samsung’s former.
A leader is defined as a person with responsibility to influence one or more followers and directing them to achieve a set objective (Sethuraman, 2014). In order to achieve that set of objectives effortlessly, effectively, and efficiently, the most important and valued trait of a leader is an effective leadership styles. Effective leadership styles are required in every organization at every level to be successful. The success or failure of an organization depends on the quality of leadership particularly on the part of top management. An effective leadership style can be developed on the basis of understanding of the situations (Sethuraman, 2014). Top management should know which leadership style is needed based on the situation to be most effective to gain trust and respect from their employee. There is no single method of influencing the behavior of employees for every situation. The employee’s level of knowledge on the task and can determine which leadership style that will be most effective for the situation. Preparing leaders to lead
There are always chances and possibilities to become a good leader regardless the odds against you, gender, age, race, education, previous experience, etc. This paper defines what leadership is and it explains the relationship between leadership and influence. It also highlights the importance of finding opportunities to develop skills and creating strong to become a good leader. It is also emphasized the power of influence that comes from motivating your team, to improve performance and satisfaction and that setting a clear goal is mandatory for good leadership. The conclusion summarizes all the topics under discussion.
For decade’s individuals, companies, and organizations have spent an unprecedented amount of money on researching, molding, modeling and working to define what a leader is and what characteristics make successful leaders. Despite all the research, there is not a quick answer or even full agreement as to what makes an individual an effective leader. The definition of a leader is “someone who can influence others and who has managerial authority.” (Robbins, Decenzo, Coulter, 2015. P.370)
Alibaba Group is one of the world’s most successful Chinese multinational corporations originally based in China. It is an e-commerce company that provides consumer-to-consumer, business-to-consumer and business-to-business services through web portals for both international and domestic China trade. Alibaba launched various sites including Alibaba.com which was the first China’s commercial website launched in 1999. The purpose of Alibaba.com site is not just to connect Chinese supplier
Alibaba is the largest leading e-commerce companies of B2B online retailer in China and it is giving a trading platform that associates worldwide purchasers to huge number of small medium enterprises to conduct business in their network. The market operate by Alibaba
Jack Ma is no doubt an extremely successful entrepreneur in the world of the entrepreneur and his journey has never been a bed of roses. As the Chinese saying goes “one minute on stage required whole ten years of practice down the stage” which in other words mean that the public may have seen the Brightside of the successful entrepreneurs, however, they will never know what the entrepreneurs have gone through in the past in order to get to this point of their life. Jack Ma’s personality and the way of living demonstrate and reflects some of the graduate attributes which our University UCSI recognize the absolute importance