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Fundamentals
of Effective
Leadership

Introduction
• Fundamentals of leadership differ on type of
circumstances
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Introduction
• What is a great leader?
• Empowers and influence employee’s ability to
solve problems
• Plays crucial role in ensuring the presence of
culture and trust within the organization
• Avoids favoritism
• Consistently builds trust with his/her
employees
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Employee empowerment for problem-solving
Focus on personal challenges
Leadership and a culture of trust
Articulation of reasons for policy changes
Involvement in policy formulation and
implementation

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Employee empowerment for
problem solving
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Employee empowerment for problem solving
• Parallel structures
• According to Feling &
Zenger (2014), empowering
employees are achieved by
using parallel structures

• Decision-making is
delegated downward in the
organizational structure

• Creation of self-managed
teams
• Create self-managed teams
to replace tradional work
units
• Self-managed teams are
entirely independent,
except that their activities
are funded by
organizational leadership

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Focus on
Personal
Challenges

Focus on Personal Challenges

Tackling personal challenges

What leaders should do?

• During hiring stage, empowerment can begin where
applicants’ achievements and problem-solving skills are
tested
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• The results are used to tackle work problems and
pursue solutions to personal challenges

• Micromanagement should be avoided
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• Leader should maintain consistency in their
response to issues that arise in the
workplace
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Articulation of Reasons for Policy changes
Leaders must clearly
explain the reasons for
the policy changes,
providing employees
with a clear
understanding of the
expected direction

Leaders should provide
reason for
implementing and
institutionalizing
policies

Leaders must
emphasize how
employees will benefit
from the policy
changes
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Involvement in Policy formulation and Implementation

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Leaders who effectively communicate the need for policy changes can also successfully involve employees in the formulation and
implementation stages
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• Leaders can involve employees by entertaining their ideas and feedbacks
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Leaders should refrain from imposing punitive conditions on employees with dissenting opinions
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• Primary role of a leaders are to empower, boost morale, increase productivity,
and ensure welfare of the employees
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• Leaders must engage the employees in changing or creating new policies
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• Leaders must properly explain benefits of new policies

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REFERENCE
• [1] T
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R Zenger, “Research Policy: Closed or open innovation? Problem solving and the governance choice”,
2014
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Foudraine, “Practices to involve Employees in Strategy Process”, University of Twente Netherlands 2015
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Krane, “Policy and Organizational change in Federal Aviation Administration: the Ontogenesis of a
High-reliability Organization”, USA 2012, 98-111
• [4] F
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A Isakovic, “Examining the Impact of Organizational Culture on Trust and Career Satisfaction in the
UAE Public Sectore: Employee Relations”

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