Leading in a Changing world-zou feifei

The Challenge of Managing Diverse Teams According to research, diverse teams produce better results when well-led and coordinated. It is the mandate of leaders to ensure that they bring people from different cultures, backgrounds, religious orientations, and generations together for a common purpose. Employing people from different backgrounds not only brings about ideas and competence but also creates diversity within the workplace. These diverse ideas, work ethics, and business strategies provide businesses with the right environment and attitude to thrive and meet their goals. Through understanding the diversity and competence of diversity in the organizational setup, employers can attain a competitive advantage over their competitors. This essay strives to analyze the challenges of managing diverse teams within the organizational setups.  Part 1 Leaders are tasked with the mandate of embracing a diversified approach and managing the diversity of skills to improve the efficiency...

Introduction This paper focuses on ethical leadership in analysing the statements “Ethical Leadership is defined as “the demonstration of normatively appropriate conduct through personal actions and interpersonal relationships, and the promotion of such conduct to followers through two-way communication, reinforcement and decision- making,” and “ethical leaders will foster employees’ work engagement, which in turn enhances pro-organizational and decreases counterproductive work behaviour." The first part describes the debate on two areas of ethics associated with this statement. The second part considers various real-life examples of ethical and unethical behaviours in companies. Part 1 The first part of the statement focuses on how leaders demonstrate ethics through their actions and interpersonal relationships. Here, there are two sides of the debate that could be explained by two leadership theories. There are trait and process theories of leadership.  Under the trait theory, l...