leading

Examples of leading in the following topics:

• The Impact of Interpersonal Conflict on Team Performance

  • Conflict can also lead to process improvements, such as when it reveals a deficiency in how the team communicates, which can then be corrected.
  • Clashes of ideas can lead to more creative solutions or otherwise provide perspectives that persuade the team to take a different approach that is more likely to lead to success.
  • While sometimes conflict can lead to a solution to a problem, conflicts can also create problems.
  • Communication can suffer when people withdraw their attention or participation, leading to poor coordination of interdependent tasks.
  • Tension and heightened emotions can lower team members' satisfaction, increase frustration, and lead to bad judgments.

• Personal Biases

  • Personal biases can be divisive forces within a decision processes as they often lead to less than ideal outcomes for decision makers.
  • Groupthink: This is a bias within group decision making that leads the group toward harmony rather than a realistic evaluation of alternatives.

• The Importance of Motivation

  • Motivating employees can lead to increased productivity and allow an organization to achieve higher levels of output.
  • However, it is widely accepted that motivated employees generate higher value and lead to more substantial levels of achievement.

• Hazards of Teamwork

  • The following pitfalls can lead to team dysfunction and failure to achieve important organizational objectives.
  • Lack of trust can also lead to miscommunication and misunderstandings, which can undermine the group's efforts.
  • Poor team composition can lead to delays, higher costs, and increased risk.
  • Groupthink can limit creativity, lead to poor choices, or result in mistakes that might otherwise have been avoidable.

• The Role of Management in an Organization

  • Management operates through functions such as planning, organizing, staffing, leading/directing, controlling/monitoring, and motivation.
  • These functions enable management to create strategies and compile resources to lead operations and monitor outputs.
  • First-level managers include supervisors, section leads, foremen, and similar positions.
  • Management operates through four main functions: planning, organizing, directing (i.e., leading), and controlling (i.e., monitoring and assessing).

• Fulfilling the Leading Function

  • Managers lead their organizations and can vary their style and approach to achieve the desired outcome.
  • Good leaders use their own inner mentors to energize their team and organizations and lead a team to achieve success.

• Expectancy Theory

  • Individuals make choices based on estimates of how well the expected results of a given behavior are going to match up with or eventually lead to the desired results.
  • the individual's expectancy that effort will lead to the intended performance
  • To improve the connection between effort and performance, managers should use training to improve employee capabilities and help employees believe that added effort will in fact lead to better performance .

• Interpersonal Skills of Successful Managers

  • As a result, businesses often speak of "leading," or guiding, people rather than giving instructions for every action.
  • Leading people represents a central component of human skills.
  • Management characterizes the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible).

• Diversity Bias

  • This can impair the integration of diverse perspectives and lead to misunderstandings.
  • While stereotypes do not necessarily lead to prejudice and/or discrimination, expectations and beliefs about the characteristics of members of groups perceived as different from one's own can lead to misunderstandings, inflexibility, stifled innovation, and potentially damaging group behaviors.

• The Importance of Organizational Diversity

  • The business case for diversity is driven by the view that diversity brings substantial potential benefits, such as better decision making, improved problem solving, and greater creativity and innovation, which lead to enhanced product development and more successful marketing to different types of customers.
  • It is widely noted that diverse teams lead to more innovative and effective ideas and implementation.
  • A group of similar individuals with similar skills are much less likely to stumble across a series of new ideas that may lead to innovative progress.