Advanced Management and Leadership KWL Major Assignment Worth 20 Marks
Advanced Management and Leadership KWL Major Assignment Worth 20 Marks
KWL
Major Assignment Worth 20 Marks
Part one: As we know that leadership and management is gives us the direction and lead us to
what we have planned to achieve it, with least amount of deviations, hence before I was
attending to leadership and management course, I knew about it practically, for example the war
between different armies was about how truly an army is being lead and managed, whosoever
was the winner with least amount of resources, they have put true leadership and management.
Secondly, as I am a project manager in construction projects, I knew the value and importance of
leadership and management, which with the help of leadership style we can keep motivating
employees, for example reward to those who perform well or even punish for those who not
performing up to the level. It is important to have overall direction of organization whether it is
going to achieve the overall goal or not, it’s only possible with the help of true leadership.
While, management helps us how to do the works with the amount of resources we have in our
hand, in management, we plan, organize, lead and control the project. For example when we
have a project to complete, we need to have management skills manage the human resources and
other resource required for successful completion of the project.
In summary, the Leadership and management are complementary to each other, missing of any
those two skills would led to failure of projects or any organization.
Part Two: As I was much deep into dealing with different projects in my company, I become
thirsty of learning variety of skills that would help me in better leadership and management of
my projects.
Hence, I would like to learn and boost my below skills as a project manager from leadership and
management skills.
The most important skill I needed to learn from management Skills is:
1- Problem Solving and Decision Making
Problem solving and decision making is a crucial skill for a manager to own it, when
managers face to problems initially they don’t know how to react with it in order to solve the
problem, hence acquiring this skill at professional level will help the managers to act
effectively and efficiently.
Managers who act professionally:
1- Define the problem: actually, where, how the problem acquired and why it’s happening
2- Prioritizing the Problem: if managers are facing two or more problems at a time, they
need to manage it for prioritizing, in order to save time and energy
3- Understanding my role in the problem: As a manager need to identify your role in the
problem, when you understand your role, you will not blame others to causing of the
problem, instead you keep accountability for everyone.
4- Looking at the potential causes of the problem: identify the real cause of the problem, by
analyzing it, by asking from you peers, employees and your opinion.
Finally, write down a description of causes of the problem by writing it down, by asking
questions such as where, when, how, by whom and why it happened.
5- Identify alternative approach to solve the problem: define different alternative for the
problem.
6- Selecting an approach to solve the problem: select the best alternative as a solution for
the problem.
7- Plan and implement the best alternatives: Making the plan for its implementation
8- Monitoring the implementation of the plan: Monitoring is a must for an effective
implementation.
9- Verification of the problem, whether it has been solved or not. Make sure it solved the
problem or not if not make corrective action, and then check it again until it is completely
solved.
Leadership skills:
The most important skills I needed to learn from Leadership Skills are:
There are no leaders in this world without influence, because influencing is the way how leaders
lead. In my consideration I needed to learn some skills in this course in order to influences
people, groups, organization and a country.
1- How to lead an organization by influencing individuals, groups of people working within
the organization?
How to lead an organization through power? Every leaders lead differently, for a leader to
be an effective leader they need to influence the people through power and there are variety
of powers such as 1-legitimate power, 2-Information power,3-Expert power, 4- reward
power, 5-coercive power,6- Referent power,
Legitimate power: it’s a type of tradition power, which comes through position they own it
by law.
Information power: someone gains information power while others don’t know about a
specific matter within the organization, and they want to be aware of the information.
Expert Power: people who have more experience in specific field than any other person in
organization is called expert power, for example 12 years of experience in construction
company makes you and expert.
Coercive Power: it is a kind of punishment, for employees to act accordingly within the
organization.
Referent Power: It all depends on how strong connection as a leader you have with other
social groups or organization
In summary, for a leader to lead an organization effectively and efficiently, they can use
these kind of power to be successful.
Part Three: Leadership and management skills are very important for a leader or manager
to possess it, in order to lead and manage effectively and efficiently.
And here are some important topics to talk about it, such as Treat Theories of Leadership,
Concept and Elements of Management and Leadership, and Theories of Motivations
Concept of Leadership: is the process by which a person influence others through power or
any other source for accomplishment and giving direction to the overall organization.
There are various types of leadership style, which can be applied to different organization
structures according to the goal the have planned, for example in military bureaucratic type
of leadership is required for successful accomplishment of goals.
Elements of leadership: In leadership context we have several elements for success for true
leadership, anyone who follow according to this context would become a successful leader.
1- Transparency
2- Learn from Failure
3- Trust
4- Confidence
5- Decisiveness
6- Humility
7- Creativity
Transparency is a good elements for successful leaders, whosoever possess it, they keep
themselves accountable for their actions and, they will let the people in what ways their
decision making would affect them, and whenever there is success they involve others for the
success and take debt for the failure of ideas, concepts, or projects.
Learn from failure, as we know all the great experiences comes from failure not from
success, a true leader always takes responsibility for the failure, and when the fail they can
learn who to trust and finally make them more decisive while making vital decision to his/her
people.
Trust is one of the core principle of true leadership, in other centuries the leadership was
based on the power, but nowadays only element that can be vital for surviving of the
leadership is the trust, leader must make great deal of risks in order to t the people’s trust, for
example when there is conflict between two tribes as a leader he/she must take risk to
become as initiative pace in order to solve the conflict and take full responsibility of the
consequences of the outcome from his/ her decision.
A good leader must have self confidence in order to become successful in whatsoever he/she
is doing for example leaders always have vision to complete, and it will be completed when
they have self confidence in their vision for the good sake of the people.
Decisiveness is an elements that earn people’s trust, it mean keep in mind a good concept
and turn it into a vision and then look forward for its accomplishment, until its completed,
but if you keep changing your ideas constantly and not accomplish it you will lose trust of
people as a leader.
Humility this is important for a leader to be grounded and keep their connection with the
people, and having integrity and honesty to always listen to their people, eventually it will
pay off, for example if as a leader you keep listening to your people and then do whatever
you can for your people you will earn their trust.
Creativity is important for complex situation, finding new ways of doing things for example
in technology industry it is required to think in innovative ways in order to stay in dynamic
environment of business if you as leadership board in your company don’t think out of box
for the solution you will fail.
Maslow’s Need Hierarchy theory: It is one of most famous and important theories of
motivations, it’s based on human needs, and it classified the human needs into hierarchy
from lower to higher the human needs increases, for example psychological need, safety
needs, social need, esteem need, self-actualization.
According to the category of people the need varies, for example lower class people is at the
bottom which is psychological need and higher level is self-actualization.
Psychological need is the basic need for human survival including food, clothing, and
shelter, once the psychological need is fulfilled the other need are coming up, for example
need for safety.
Safety Needs after satisfying the psychological need, the next need is safety need, it mean
economic security and safety from physical danger, for example someone who is in this level
they try work hard to earn money for their survival.
Social Need, as human is a social well-being, they need to interact with other people in their
environment, for example they need to have entertainment, it is not possible without social
interaction or they need to help each other in society, it is not possible without social
interaction.
Esteem Need is referring to the self- stem and self-confidence, and fulfillment of self-esteem
contribute to confidence, strength and capability of doing good thing for the organization,
inability to be useful to the organization lead human to feel inferiority, and weakness.
Self-actualization are the highest level in Maslow's hierarchy, and refer to the realization of a
person's potential, self-fulfillment, seeking personal growth and peak experiences. Maslow describes
this level as the desire to accomplish everything that one can, to become the most that one can be.
Individuals may perceive or focus on this need very specifically. For example, one individual may
have a strong desire to become an ideal parent. In another, the desire may be expressed economically,
academically or athletically. For others, it may be expressed creatively, in paintings, pictures, or
inventions.