Blog 4: Leadership and Change

To thrive in today’s increasingly competitive business setting, it is highly crucial that organizations be able to adapt to the ever-changing environment (Mullins 2016). The inevitable changes arising from globalization, economic factors and technological advancements can lead to organizational growth if managed well (Rizescu and Tileaga 2016). However, managing change is not always fruitful as … More Blog 4: Leadership and Change

Blog 3: Most effective Leadership & Management Styles & approaches

Leadership and management are terms oftentimes used interchangeably as they both essentially create relationships and networks to facilitate peoples’ actions (Algahtani 2014). However, both concepts have distinct sets of activities and are better acknowledged as complementors of one another (Sharma and Jain 2013). Kotter (1990) describes management as a tool to deliver predictable and orderly … More Blog 3: Most effective Leadership & Management Styles & approaches

Blog 1: Leadership and Ethics

Leadership is the process in which leaders socially influence subordinates to seek their voluntary participation to achieve organisational goals (Nanjudeswaraswamy & Swamy 2014). Ethical leadership on the other hand differs as it involves leaders to demonstrate normative appropriate conduct through interpersonal relationships and actions (Kar n.d.). This also includes promoting these conducts to subordinates through … More Blog 1: Leadership and Ethics

Blog 2: The challenge of managing diverse teams

With today’s rapid globalisation, workplace diversity is an essential strategy to enhance organisational competitiveness (Green et al. 2015). Organizational diversity, as defined by Gardenswartz and Rowe (1998) through the Four Layers of Diversity model, is an individual’s variation in personality, internal factors such as race and gender, external factors such as religion and also organizational … More Blog 2: The challenge of managing diverse teams