Leadership Issue and Practice in the Fast Food Industry

2. Existing Leadership Issue & Practices

Many people use the concept of leadership and management synonymously. But what people must know that both of this concept is different from each other. The contrast between leadership and management are leadership is more into creating value, build influence as well as leading people, while management is more into counting value, creating power and managing work (Nayar, 2013). Nowadays, the problem in organisation is that there are too many people doing management and too few providing leadership especially visionary leadership which make the organisation experiences failure to cope with a crisis.

In this section, we will go through a leadership issue and practice in Fast Food industry. When we want to analyse about an organization’s leadership, it is very crucial to go through with their organisation culture. This organisation or work culture is basically about everything that related with the company work system (eg: how the job is being done, whether the company promote autonomy to the employees or even the company regulation or benefit that is offer to their employees such as Work Life Balance). This organisational culture may also lead to a further motivation to the employees as well, when they share a similar culture and value. The organisation culture and motivation that we will mention below show us the current existing leadership practices in the Fast Food Industry.

Corporate Culture:

After doing some further research into a common corporate culture in Fast Food Industry, we found that most of the managers are practicing the managerial leadership style. Managerial leadership is a leadership practice that is more focusing on day to day activities, which also means that they are...

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...ion might cut their own profit in the future or how their low cost production might affect the food quality that might impact to their customers health in the future.

- As the leaders are only focusing on the symptoms of the issue and not the core of the issue, the issue will keep occurs to the company which make the leaders forget to achieve the company long-term goals which makes the employees become depressed and caused their moral and job performance low.

In conclusion, if the leaders in fast food industry do not start to change these habits, fast food industry will face a big problem in the future that is accumulated by the time. Leaders must look at the core of the problem and not just overcome the symptoms of it. If the leaders are only focusing on the symptoms or short-term solution, they might end up in a problem circle that will be recur again and again.