Various theories and approaches towards management are developed to face the business challenges in market in various situations (Daft, et al., 2010). Brakes group is recently taken over by the Sysco Corporation, a big company in Texas (Cash & Carry Management , 2016). Therefore new leadership needs to choose the management approach to face the challenges and succeed in the local environment. Therefore, the leadership needs to know the history of management thought and different Contemporary and seminal theories of management. This would assist the leadership to select the right approach in current situation in the current market scenario. Since, around three thousand BC traces of management are visible. The classical management perspective
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A political scientist, Burns explains transactional leadership as the exchange between a manager and subordinates. For example, psychological or material reward and recognition given by a leader to subordinates in exchange of the performance delivery to achieve organisational goals by the subordinates. He further explained transformational leadership as, fulfilling higher order psychological needs of employees such as self-actualisation and self-esteem. However, in 1985 Bass explained the transformational leadership as transforming perceptions of employees about themselves to motivate them to perform exceptionally well. (Schedlitzki & Edwards, 2014). In Brakes group employees know that the work they are doing have a lasting and big impact on the business. Therefore, their self-esteem is high after knowing that the work done by them makes difference. Brakes Group have a culture of strong teamwork and social employees, which help self-development of the employees (Bright Network , 2016). In addition to this, in the current situation in the Brakes Group, new leadership is sceptical about the performance (Cash & Carry Management , 2016). Therefore, leadership and management in Brakes Group need to continue with the transformational leadership theory in practice more efficiently and effectively to motivate the employees to overcome self-doubts and …show more content…
The hard management skills include achieving the organisational objectives with the effective and efficient operations management by budgeting, change management, efficient implementation of new technology, staffing decisions, project management, strategic planning and team building and development. Hard management skills could be developed by on the job training to the employees and promoting them (Bowman, et al., 2014). However, classroom training is not efficient way to teach hard management skills (Carmichael, et al., 2011). Therefore, in Brakes group instead of appointing new staff for new management positions, promotion of the existing employees is
A political scientist, Burns explains transactional leadership as the exchange between a manager and subordinates. For example, psychological or material reward and recognition given by a leader to subordinates in exchange of the performance delivery to achieve organisational goals by the subordinates. He further explained transformational leadership as, fulfilling higher order psychological needs of employees such as self-actualisation and self-esteem. However, in 1985 Bass explained the transformational leadership as transforming perceptions of employees about themselves to motivate them to perform exceptionally well. (Schedlitzki & Edwards, 2014). In Brakes group employees know that the work they are doing have a lasting and big impact on the business. Therefore, their self-esteem is high after knowing that the work done by them makes difference. Brakes Group have a culture of strong teamwork and social employees, which help self-development of the employees (Bright Network , 2016). In addition to this, in the current situation in the Brakes Group, new leadership is sceptical about the performance (Cash & Carry Management , 2016). Therefore, leadership and management in Brakes Group need to continue with the transformational leadership theory in practice more efficiently and effectively to motivate the employees to overcome self-doubts and …show more content…
The hard management skills include achieving the organisational objectives with the effective and efficient operations management by budgeting, change management, efficient implementation of new technology, staffing decisions, project management, strategic planning and team building and development. Hard management skills could be developed by on the job training to the employees and promoting them (Bowman, et al., 2014). However, classroom training is not efficient way to teach hard management skills (Carmichael, et al., 2011). Therefore, in Brakes group instead of appointing new staff for new management positions, promotion of the existing employees is