Thinking Styles and Leadership Skills of Managers on Organizational Productivity

Author(s):  
Garima Saini ◽  
Shabnam

Psychological aspects, a great concern of managerial psychology, include emotions, thinking, attitudes, and motivation of the employees in managerial positions, which ramifies the productivity of the organization. Managerial thinking and leadership skills are important components in achieving organizational goals. Organizational productivity is a strong indicator for managers in the growth which has direct relationship with organizational performance. Efficacious leadership skills in managers like interpersonal skills, team building, flexibility, emotional intelligence helps in meeting the goals which simultaneously increases the organization productivity and performance of the employees. Strategic management approaches by the managers to increase productivity at successive levels. An executive manager is an agent of change who lets a subordinate work according to him and then he converts the follower into a leader through team quality management (TQM) programs and effectiveness. The managerial implications are discussed which helps to establish cooperative innovations.

2017 ◽  
pp. 1761-1776
Author(s):  
Sema A. Kalaian ◽  
Rafa M. Kasim ◽  
Nabeel R. Kasim

Regression analysis and modeling are powerful predictive analytical tools for knowledge discovery through examining and capturing the complex hidden relationships and patterns among the quantitative variables. Regression analysis is widely used to: (a) collect massive amounts of organizational performance data such as Web server logs and sales transactions. Such data is referred to as “Big Data”; and (b) improve transformation of massive data into intelligent information (knowledge) by discovering trends and patterns in unknown hidden relationships. The intelligent information can then be used to make informed data-based predictions of future organizational outcomes such as organizational productivity and performance using predictive analytics such as regression analysis methods. The main purpose of this chapter is to present a conceptual and practical overview of simple- and multiple- linear regression analyses.


Author(s):  
Lotte B. Andersen ◽  
Christian B. Jacobsen ◽  
Ulrich T. Jensen ◽  
Heidi H. Salomonse

This chapter describes how public managers contribute to public service performance. First, the chapter investigates three critical contextual factors for how public leadership can make a difference to organizational performance: managerial autonomy, capacity, and ability. Second, three leadership strategies are introduced which have been positively related to organizational performance in the public sector: goal-oriented, relational, and non-leader-centered leadership. Third, a new concept with particular relevance for public management is presented—reputation management—and this points to the relevance of considering the nexus between reputation and performance. It is argued that an organization’s reputation and performance may be more or less aligned. However, more importantly, an organization’s reputation per se also provides an important but less studied contextual factor of relevance for public managers’ ability to improve organizational performance. Finally, the chapter discusses how to develop leadership skills that increase public managers’ ability to contribute to public service performance.


Author(s):  
Sema A. Kalaian ◽  
Rafa M. Kasim ◽  
Nabeel R. Kasim

Regression analysis and modeling are powerful predictive analytical tools for knowledge discovery through examining and capturing the complex hidden relationships and patterns among the quantitative variables. Regression analysis is widely used to: (a) collect massive amounts of organizational performance data such as Web server logs and sales transactions. Such data is referred to as “Big Data”; and (b) improve transformation of massive data into intelligent information (knowledge) by discovering trends and patterns in unknown hidden relationships. The intelligent information can then be used to make informed data-based predictions of future organizational outcomes such as organizational productivity and performance using predictive analytics such as regression analysis methods. The main purpose of this chapter is to present a conceptual and practical overview of simple- and multiple- linear regression analyses.


Author(s):  
Ridha Hanafi

[Id]Dalam era kompetisi bisnis yang semakin tinggi dan tuntutan customer yang semakin meningkat, organisasi semakin dituntut untuk mencapai kinerja yang optimal dalam usahanya mencapai tujuan organisasi. Pencapaian kinerja organisasi sangat ditentukan oleh bagaimana organisasi mengoptimalisasi potensi sumber daya yang dimilikinya. Sumber daya utama yang dimiliki oleh organisasi dalam pencapaian tujuan organisasi adalah Sumber Daya Manusia (SDM). Agar SDM yang dimiliki oleh perusahaan dapat dimanfaatkan secara optimal dan fokus pada pencapaian tujuan organisasi maka perlu dilakukan proses manajemen kinerja pegawai yang baik. Secara strategis, kinerja pegawai harus dapat diselaraskan dengan kinerja organisasi untuk pencapaian tujuan strategis organisasi. Untuk mengakomodasi hal ini maka konsep Balanced Score Card sangat potensial untuk diakomodasi dan diimplementasikan. Pada level operasional, pengelolaan kinerja pegawai yang meliputi proses perencanaan kinerja (performance planning), pelaksanaan dan monitoring (performance tracking) dan penilaian kinerja (performance appraisal) harus dapat dilaksanakan secara komprehensif dan aplikatif sehingga realisasinya benar-benar sesuai dengan apa yang diharapkan organisasi.Implementasi proses manajemen kinerja organisasi pada umumnya dan pegawai pada khususnya seperti yang dijelaskan tersebut, akan sangat sulit pelaksanaannya apabila masih dilakukan secara manual. Semakin kompleksnya parameter kinerja pegawai yang ingin dicapai, semakin besarnya jumlah pegawai, semakin dinamisnya perubahan bisnis dan semakin banyak kesibukan pekerjaan akan menyebabkan implementasi manajemen kinerja pegawai secara manual tidak efisien dan efektif untuk dilaksanakan karena proses bisnis yang kompleks, mekanisme pelaporan dan monitoring kinerja akan sangat memakan waktu dan sulit dilakukan. Implementasi sistem informasi manajemen kinerja pegawai merupakan suatu solusi yang potensial untuk diterapkan untuk menghadapi permasalahan tersebut. Apabila permasalahan tersebut dapat diatasi maka diharapkan pencapaian kinerja perusahaan dalam mencapai visi dan misinya dapat terealisasi. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, maka perlu dilakukan perancangan sistem aplikasi manajemen kinerja pegawai yang dapat memenuhi kebututuhan organisasi dan pegawai. Implementasi sistem ini diharapkan dapat mendukung berjalannya proses manajemen kinerja organisasi sehingga secara strategis tujuan organisasi dapat tercapai..[En]In an era of increasingly high business competition and customer demands, organizations are increasingly required to achieve optimal performance in an effort to achieve organizational goals. Achievement of organizational performance is largely determined by how the organization optimizes the potential of its resources. The main resource that the organization has in achieving its organizational goals is Human Resources (HR). In order for HR can be utilized optimally and focus on achieving organizational goals it is necessary to conduct an excellent employee performance management process. Strategically, employee performance must be aligned with organizational performance for the achievement of organizational strategic goals. To accommodate this concept, Balanced Score Card is very potential to be accommodated and implemented. At the operational level, employee performance management that includes performance planning process, performance monitoring and performance appraisal must be implemented comprehensively and applicable so that the realization is exactly what the organization expects.Implementation of the organization's performance management process in general and employees in particular as described, will be very difficult if it is still done manually. The more complex the performance parameters of employees to be achieved, the greater the number of employees, the more dynamic the business changes and the more busy work will lead to implementation of employee performance management manually inefficient and ineffective. This is because of complex business processes, reporting mechanisms and performance monitoring will be very time consuming and difficult to do. Implementation of employee performance management information system is a potential solution to be applied to face the problem. If the problem can be solved, it is expected that the achievement of the company's performance in achieving its vision and mission can be realized. Based on this, it is necessary to design an employee performance management application system that can meet the needs of the organization and employees. Implementation of this system is expected to support the running of organizational performance management process so that the strategic objectives of the organization can be achieved.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-43
Author(s):  
Temitope J. Owolabi ◽  
Oluyemi T. Adeosun

In any organization, human resources stand as vital assets for success; these are to be highly valued in order to achieve the competitive edge. Therefore, human capital policies and practices should be tied to organizational goals. The impact of practices of HRM can be the channel that fuels sustained competitive advantage; therefore, enhancement of organizational performance should be the focus for an organization. Performance management comprises setting expectations, assessing behaviors and results of the employee, giving coaching and feedback, and performance evaluation over time to use in decision making. The aim is to line up individual efforts to achieve organizational goals. To this end, this study attempts to examine result-based management which is synonymous with performance management system, and how it drives employees’ productivity. Utilising the purposive sampling technique, staff within an educational institution were selected in Lagos. It was revealed that setting targets and performance standards would engender the desired productivity in employees. The study therefore recommends a comprehensive performance management system which should also be automated in order to capture key performance indicators of employees.


Author(s):  
Bulent Akkaya ◽  
Semra Tetik

Strategic skills of managers, which are closely interrelated concept with organizations' performance, have effects on organizations' performance. In this context, this study aims to examine the role of strategic leadership skills of managers of manufacturing SMEs operating in Turkey in in perspective of first-time leadership in Industry 4.0 age. Two questionnaires were used to get data on a five-point Likert scale. The data were collected from 225 employees from SMEs. Data was analyzed with the help of SPSS (V.22.0.) program to apply Descriptive Analysis, Correlation Analysis and Regression Analysis. Results of the study revealed that strategic leadership skills of managers have important role in manufacturing SMEs for competitive advantage and sustainability. Finally, strategic leadership skills significantly can improve organization climate and performance of organizations. Therefore, the current study has vital importance for practitioners to enhance organization performance through leadership skills, organizational performance and organizational climate in Industry 4.0.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 118-138
Author(s):  
Rupa Shrestha

Background: 'Employee Engagement’ has been a considerable topic in the public sector. It is a buzz word that managers think they understand, but face difficulties and challenges while practicing. Objective: This study aims that employee engagement impacts on organizational performance in some extent. Drawing on theory “Employee Engagement and Higher Work Ethic", (The Gallup Organization, 2013), this study examines the relation between employee engagement and organizational outcome. Methodology: Based on descriptive analysis, this study consisted officer level employees from Tribhuvan University from 49 campuses and offices as respondents. The data was collected through 115 set of structured questionnaires during last three months of 2075 BS and It used descriptive and inferential statistics tools to analyze the data. Result: It was hypothesized that the employee engagement was positively related to the organizational performance with liking of work force diversity. It is revealed that majority employees of TU are engaged with work and organization as well. During the analysis, the hypothesis was supported with 0.505r2 (50 percentages). It was also found that explanatory and dependent variables are correlated with 0.696. Conclusion: It can be concluded that there is significant relation between organizational performance and employee engagement. Employees, who are engaged with jobs can understand social cues among the others thus they can choose the way to improve social skills in order to achieve organizational goals. This study also complies that the relation between employee engagement and performance is diverse as per work force patterns in work place. Implication: This research stimulates researchers to begin to think about how employee engagement relates to HR and organizational outcome. Public enterprises should always try to make employees engaged and transform not engaged and disengaged employees to engaged ones which ultimately leads to enhance organizational culture.  


2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanan AlMazrouei ◽  
Robert Zacca

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate leadership competencies of expatriate managers working within the UAE and identify if these competencies are unique from those needed in their home country. Additionally, the paper aims to identify how new competencies expatriate leaders have developed while in their current position and how this enhances their ability to better manage staff in the UAE. Leadership competencies are skills and behaviors that contribute to enhanced performance. While some leadership competencies are essential to all firms, some distinctive leadership attributes may be particularly relevant to organizations possessing a large expatriate community. Design/methodology/approach – Personal interviews and stratified sampling were used to examine the qualities and skills relating to expatriate managers’ success in leading UAE organizations. The research design did not differentiate between the origins and ethnicities of the leaders. The leaders, whether American, European, Indo-Pakistani or Asian, were treated as one entity. Findings – Factors such as communication ability, team building qualities and ability to handle local nationals were found to have a significant effect on expatriate adjustment and success in managing UAE organizations. Practical implications – By investigating specific competencies and skills that expatriate managers need to lead organizations in the UAE and the broader Gulf region, the study informs organizations on how they can better identify and develop leadership skills that lead to enhanced performance. Originality/value – The study focuses on leadership competencies within the expatriate community of the UAE.


Author(s):  
Lenka Pucikova ◽  
Paul Woolliscroft ◽  
Milos Cambal

Abstract Recent years have seen a lot of new management approaches for improving organizational performance such as: total quality management, flat organizations, empowerment, continuous improvement, reengineering, kaizen, team building, and so on. Business leaders today are forced to focus even more on the profitability of their business. During the last several years, companies have initiated Performance Management (PM) systems to improve the quality of their management. In many companies they have succeeded, but in quite a few they have failed. This article presents the importance of Human Resources Management (HRM) and employees as a key factor on success of the company. Authors report that people in organization are a key resource of performance of company. The aim of the article is to analyze literature review and findings of researches with the purpose of completing the PhD theses of authors.


2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Rahmat Hidayat

Organizational performance is the end result of the work done to achieve organizational goals that have been established. All that is determined by the existence of good labor productivity. There are several things that affect the productivity of labor, including the provision of wages and discipline work. One way to reward and acknowledge the existence of manpower is through the provision of wages. In addition to wage factors, labor productivity can also be influenced by work discipline factors. This study aims to determine the effect of wages and discipline of work on the productivity of labor at the company's Duta Trans Jaya Jakarta. The population of the research ani there are 40 employees, so researcher uses saturated samples by using all the popolation. So the sample in this study is 40 people. Based on the above data it can be seen that the value for wage variables, and work discipline (simultaneously) has a significant effect on work productivity, where the significant value of F of 0.000 <0.05 so it can be concluded that Ha accepted and Ho rejected this means that there is A significant influence between wage and work discipline variables on work productivity at PT. Duta Trans Jaya Jakarta. Kata kunci:Provision of Wage, Discipline Work, Productivity of worker


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