Critical Thinking in Management in the 21s Century

1. Introduction

This report is dealing of how to manage the organisation in the 21st century. The report will include new forms of leadership that are available to the organisation such transactional and transformational leadership and spiritual, distributed, servant and authentic leadership to ensure they are successful; it will include benefits and limitation of them. The report will also include the importance of achieving the competitive advantage which will show an understanding of knowledge management, the learning organisation and corporate social responsibility.

2. Main Body

2.1 New forms of leadership for organisations to help them achieve organisational success.

The working environment is changing rapidly. According to Sarros and Santora (2001) times are changing rapidly in terms of organisational managing. As everything is moving forward so the leaderships must have their own changes if they do now want to stay behind. Heifetz and Laurie (1997) they have stated that ‘’ identify the pressing demands on leaders to mobilize works through the organization to be adaptive in changing workplace, claiming that: ….instead of maintaining norms leaders have to challenge ‘’the way we do business and help others distinguish immutable values from historical practices that must go’’.’’ (Sarros and Santora 2001: 383). According to Mullins (2007) he states that in recent years where competition growth between business and so the need for the most effective use of Human Resources has resulted in writers on management focusing attention on how leaders revitalise or transform organisations. The come up with two fundamental forms of leadership: transactional and transformational. Transactional leadership focus on the clarification of g...

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...t was stated that in today’s competitive environment, knowledge it is the widely recognised as the main source of competitive advantage. In those days successful firms are just that ones who manage and integrate knowledge into their activities to achieve the organisational goals and to achieve the desired performance. Every organisation should remember about an important factor that ever organisation should follow is an organisational climate which refers to common practices, shared beliefs and value system. It is also important for every organisation to learn from failures to make sure future problems would be detected early before another crisis. Concluding every organisation has a lot to challenge to make sure the organisation is running smoothly, but however they can’t always calculate the risk as it’s depended on many factors that the organisation can’t predict