Leadership Management of the Virgin Group

The London Academy for Higher Education: Extended Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Course Manual 2011 / 2012

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Recommendations for managers who demand to be leaders are to appearance compassion. To be a leader a person needs to see the world as an opportunity to change. They need to accept the employees ' dilemmas. Respect the assessment of the advisers and accomplish decisions that will be acceptable not only for them but the

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The bureaucratic era has been the traditional form of organization for more than a century, in simple terms described as hybridity, standardized operations and none flexibility inside the organization. The change to the post-bureaucratic is shown through personal influence, high trust relationships and the importance of the individuality of everyone (McKenna, Garcia-Lorenzo & Bridgeman, 2010). According to Kernaghan (2000) the characteristic of the bureaucratic era is “position power” and of the post bureaucratic “participate leadership”.

I want to thank all my friends for keeping me on the right track in life. I moved here in sixth grade and the friendships I’ve made here will last a lifetime. We’ve had our up and downs, but everyone has. I want to thank them for all the times that I’ve needed their advice or maybe I just needed to talk to them about something.

The bureaucratic model of leadership is based on the concept of fixed duties that are maintained through a hierarchy of authority. Max Weber (1800) believed that organizations had one critical weakness and that was closely interacting with employees and simulating a family or community like environment. He believed that the only way that and organisation could be run was by separating work and pleasure and ensuring that employees followed a stick code of conduct which would be enforced and managed by more trustworthy and higher ranking employees. However while prominent for over a century the bureaucratic management model has become scarcely used in the last few decades as more and more organisations seem to be gradually reverting to pre bureaucratic values. Organisations like Valve and Google have cause the diminishment of the

As we know that, leadership is nothing. But the influencing flowers. Leadership includes three fundamental clusters of skills creating vision, garnering commitment to that vision, an managing progress toward the realization of that vision. powerful and effective leaders plays very vital role to reach the maximum production for any organization.

A bureaucratic leader is a leader that “centralized decision making, with the leader making decisions and using power to command and control others (Kelly, 2014, p. 5). Gene Kranz is the NASA director

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They inspire team members with their passion and enthusiasm for achieving the defined objective. I am use this leadership style on the meetings e.g. when I shared that we need to make some energy savings – Green Plan.

Controlling is a part of management that is not considered to be as important. Like planning, it is a continual process; like organizing, it involves translation like leading, it involves diplomacy. Controlling is monitoring work progress to the company goals, and taking corrective action when required. (University of Wisconsin Whitewater, July 5, 2006, chap. 1)

I would like to articulate a special word of thanks to everyone my friends for their support particularly to Charles Fluster who cheered me up when the time got worrying also are forever present intended for recommendation, helps and laughter.

According to Yukl (Yukl, 2013) one of the many definitions of leadership is “the ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and enable other to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organization”. Therefore it is of importance to have an effective leader in an organization to guide the company in the correct direction, in order to achieve the company’s’ main goal.

This work is dedicated to my family, friends and course mates who have offered me support through different situations in my life.