Practices of leadership contribute to managing communication in the post-bureaucratic era.
Evan Karagiannis | 11690955 | Managing People & Organisations (21129)
Introduction
In this essay, I am going to argue that the practices of leadership contribute to managing communication in the post-bureaucratic era. The post-bureaucratic era has emerged through the shift from industrial production to post-industrial gradually from the 1970s. This has resulted in new work ethics and characteristic based on shared responsibility, fairness and new control methods. Shifts in bureaucracy has evolved from traditional ‘rulers’ to post-bureaucratic ‘motivators’ and ‘leaders’ with strong management and communication practices. Communication is the most important characteristic to good, effective leadership in the post-bureaucratic era. The goal of communication and effective leadership is to create a shared forum between message sources and receivers. Effective communication in the post bureaucratic era results empowerment, shared responsibility and trust between leaders and followers. The shift from the industrial age to the knowledge era has created new challenges for leaders to transform workplaces from traditional tiered levelled organisations to networked and social organisations. Summarising my overall argument, it is evident that while the need for leaders has not changed the need for good leadership has (Bass 1990). For this reason, it is important for the twenty first century leader to ensure they utilise the full capability of effective communication.
Linear Leadership
Historically, leadership has been documented through strong, commanding dictating like figures (Gill et al. 1998). Leadership in the post bureaucratic era i...
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...hey are as follows:courage, counsel, clarity, and coaching
Courage fights fear and promotes steps of action. Counsel from people we trust or seek out to help uncover brutal facts will help determine if our action is making helpful progress. Clarity in alignment means specifity. We fail to align when we fail to focus. Finally, coaching leads to us discover things we may not be seeing which leads to acknowledging our strategy has blindspots. Therefore, the circle repeats and coming away from coaching we are meant to take a step of action.
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Encarta Dictionary within Microsoft Word defines leadership as,” the ability to guide, direct, or influence people.” Expanding upon that definition, my personal definition is influencing people to follow to achieve a goal, regardless of how unpleasant. Leadership is not something that happens overnight, it needs to be cultivated over time. During that process, it is necessary to identify delinquencies and make adjustments. Reviewing the feedback provided by my LPI/360 assessment, the three areas identified I need to improve on are, praising people for a job well done, actively listening to diverse points of view, and becoming more visible within the workplace.
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