Leading Competency in Management

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Research Topic:

Discussing The Role Leading Competency InManagement.


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Table of Contents:

A. executive summary .3

B. Introduction ....................4

C. Management and leadership......5

D. The objective of the research paper..............................6

E. Supporting Literature:...........................................................7

F. Discussing the role leadership competency in management..12

G. Recommendations and Conclusion............................19

H. Implications...20

I. References...21

Executive Summary


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The purpose or main ideas of this research paper was to try to understand

the effect of leadership competency in management. The research for our

report tries to define the differences between leadership and management.

In addition, this research paper discusses how the changes in the

atmosphere of handling business in the organizations effect and improve

the leadership competency. Also, this research paper we try to review the

relationship between leadership competency and innovation in face of

new challenges like globalization.

The major outputs of our research indicate that the leadership

competency is constantly changing as long as there are needs for more

creative managers with advanced skills. Furthermore, we find that the top

levels of managers in an organization needed higher skills of leadership.

Also, this research paper indicate that any successful organization mustprepare for the future and that including a long run plan for the changes

in management under vision of the organization.Without any doubt it is obvious that leadership competency had a great

effect in management, this research paper recommends that managers

must be informed about the nowadays challenges like globalization,

managing risk, diversity of stakeholders and economic challenge.

So from that, improving leadership competency it is a great deal to

managers so they can handle their organizations interest very well. It ishard obligation for both the organization and managers to try keep up

with all this challenges, so the managers must try to exploit any

opportunity for enhancing their to develop their experience and

knowledge because at the end it will have a clear impact on the

performance of the entire organization.

Introduction:


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Leadership is one of the most discussed topics and researched topics in

human behavior in a organizational or managerial way. There was a study

in 1999 that there were about 2,000 books published that had Leadership

as a main topic. And there is still much to learn about it. There are many

ways that leadership can be defined, used and implemented.

Leadership is a power to change the environment of the work place so

that everyone can contribute creatively and efficiently in order to solve a

problem. And when it is said that leadership is a power or ability, it

means that a leader gained that power and ability through talent and skill,

where talent is an ability that a human is born with, but skill is

proficiency that can be obtained and taught by experience and training.

Offcource talent helps the person to become a better leader but it isnt

enough, there a many people with no natural leadership ability but by

experience, training and most importantly by being persistence becameone the greatest leaders a person could ever meet.

Leadership is accommodative, meaning that the leader makes the

necessary adjustments to the workplace. It also act as a setting, meaning

that a leader adjusts to the surrounding environment and people, carefully

observing and looking for a way to adapt the setting to make it the mosteffective and efficient. Leadership also empowers others, which mean

that a leader can inspires confidence and self-esteem into others. And

there are many ways to get that inspiration. Some leaders may inspire by

talking boldly or softly to others, and others lead by example.


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There are numerous ways to empower rather than just a single way. All

leadership competencies are behaviors and skills that promote a very high

level performance. Using a competency-based method to leadership,

firms and organizations can find and develop their new leaders. Focusing

on leadership competencies and the development of skills lead to superior

leadership but the skills that is needed to a cretin position may vary

depending on level of leadership that is needed within the organization.

So by using the competency approach, the firm can find specific

competencies at the positions and levels that are required. Researchers

have found and identified some of the important leadership competencies

that are a core value for an organization.

Management and leadership:

The key success factor in being a good leader is to understand the

changes that come along in the business environment, and within thatenvironment comes the important and essential role of management.

Combining leadership and management will help an organization built its

way into a better future.

The role of mangers is to maximize the efficiency of the firm in order to

reach its goals. Leadership and management may look like they are thesame thing and that is not true, they work well together but differ in small

fundamental areas, however they set the same set of skills and tasks.

Management is a general way in the controlling the activities within the

business organization while leadership on the other hand is more

interested in the forward movement or the growth of the firm or the

organization.


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There are skills that represent management such as keeping track of the

progress and ensuring that the work at hand gets completed effectively,

supervise operation and procedures and making sure that everyone is

doing their work efficiently. While some of the leadership skills involve

maintaining a good relationship within the team and motivating the team

members, leaders should also lead by example they dont always say,

they do. So management and leadership although being different in the

essence, combining the skills of both of them will be a great combination

and will get produce good outcomes for the organization.

The objective of the research paper:

The objective of this research paper is to discuss the role of leadership

competency in management by highlighting and defining the important

parts of both leadership and management such as the skills needed to for

being a good manager and leader also showing the main differencesbetween them and also how combining them can lead the organization to

reach its goal. And by discussing topics that relate to the main theme in

order to present summaries and present Recommendations to managers

and managerial implications.


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Supporting Literature:

Business Implications and Strategy Control New Leadership

Competencies (A study of senior executives views on the future):

This study emphasizing that business changes and strategy drive the

leadership competency. Fluctuating of Leadership Strategies, the

knowledge of economy and globalization causes the growth of

competition that will assure the leadership strategies will be subjected to

significant changes. Regarding the future business environment changes,

we found that all or almost important leadership competencies will have

effective managerial change, developing talent-teams and being effective

maker of collaborator/network. Actually, as competencies should be

motivated by future business strategy, it is important to consider the

major business movements or changes of the upcoming year. Some

future business trends are identified in (CCL), that will affect the

leadership abilities needed to enhance business identified and it will bebriefly explained as following:

1. The increases of Complex Challenges: organizations are facingproblems that are becoming more complicated.

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Innovation Revolution: Organizations are looking to useinnovation in order to stay competitive.

3. Virtual Leadership: technological advances and globalization,leadership will be a business challenge

4. Collaboration Nation: Collaboration across borders will make themarket bigger

5. World of Interruption: the growing problem of Executives workingduring many interruptions.


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6. Authenticity: to be an authentic leader is a huge challenge foeexecutives

Based on forthcoming business movements to form the development of

leadership competencies, all organizations must also consider the exact

strategy and favored business outcomes of a particular organization. By

developing competency models, which will reflect the upcoming years of

strategy of the business and the important outcomes to stakeholders for

example, customers, shareholders, and investors, organizations can

effectively build a leadership brand. The definition of a leadership brand

as stated in Dave and Norm study is to be well recognized for developing

exceptional managers with a unique set of talents, which are uniquely

geared to fulfill what was expected by customers and investors. In

addition, researchers have found benefit from reliable leadership, which

is that; the share price will increase when investors have sureness in the

leadership gift or talent of an organization. By establishing a uniqueleadership brand, organizations will surely gain a competitive advantage

through the leading competencies that produce results to interested party.

Strataplex: what leading skills are needed through organization

level:

A strataplex model for leadership skills was tested conceptually and

empirically by the writer of this study. Cognitive, interpersonal, business

and strategic here are four broad categories of Leadership skills. The

strataplex model shows the differences of four skills, based on

respective of an organizations management levels. In The model of more

than thousand new, middle and senior managers was tested by the

researchers. As a result, the outcomes proved that senior levels of


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management in the organization needed more or higher leadership skills.

Cognitive skill was the most required skill among all the levels of

leadership. They believe on that, this skill is the heart of all leadership

skills because it covers the capability to obtain new knowledge and to

absorb new ways to solve problems. What more interested is that,

business and strategic skills are the two effective skills to acquire when

we move to advanced levels of leadership. Because this research

practically explains that, leadership skills are different at various

managerial levels on ladder of the career, it is very important. Keeping in

mind that to be more valuable at the advanced levels of management or

leading business strategic skills must be acquired. The professionals of

Human Resources should consider into their accounts that the differences

in competencies needed as managers move to advanced positions of level

leadership.

Fairness concepts of managers regarding high potential

identification:

High potentials usually refer as the promising leaders of future for an

organization. Moreover, it is very important to planning of succeeding

and leadership development actions in an organization, the process of

finding high potentials. The identifying of the different ways thatorganizations are taking in mind for the process of finding high potential

leaders, and how the employees observe the fairness of the process was

the purpose of this research. A survey was distributed by the researchers

at a leadership meeting to leaders from a variety of organization sizes and

different industries, the survey had questions about the high potential

finding process as well as the observation of fairness of the process.

The outcomes of that survey showed that 69 percent of time was


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consumed to identify high potentials by competencies. Moving toward

these outcomes, communication skills, strategic skills and being a

decision-maker were the most important competencies used in purpose of

identifying the high potentials. In addition, the high potential

identification process, the communication and evaluation of that process

were all significantly connected when we come to feelings of observing

fairness, this also was found in the survey. This case explains how

leadership competencies can be helpful in the work. Finally, when we are

finding high potentials a fair process might lead to higher observed

fairness for example, a competency approach.

The impacts of applying strategies of competition and performance

of business unit:

Investigated in this study. They believe on that these competitive

strategies have positive benefits to firm performance.This article showed that more than two hundred organizations were

included in the research sample from a range of industries. The findings

stated that transformational leadership was significantly linked to market

orientation. The authors define market orientation in terms of culture

based on this study. In more depth, the organization culture simplifies

values and basis that positively contribute to customer satisfaction andworth. Transformational leaders are believed to influence and help form

the culture of organization. Moreover, transformational leadership was

also positively connected to differentiation and low-cost strategies in

marketing. Consequently, market diversity was positively related to firm

performance indicators. Furthermore, it was found that the competency of

transformational leadership has a positive effect on firm performance

over market diversity. One way to improve market orientation is to


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develop the competency of transformational leadership was absorbed

from the outcome. Also, this research shows that leadership competencies

can have an influence on the least (bottom) line of organizations via

competitive strategies. The professionals of HR can inspire firm

performance by identifying and improving important leadership

competencies in the organization.

Competency in management is a real and helpful in the world today. It is

of prime importance that managers and workers embrace togetherness

making the world like a one united village. If competency is used

objectively, it will enhance organization wealth, manger, employees and

international organization. Leadership has the biggest role in it. It is clear

that if the leadership of various countries doesnt enact proper

government policies that encourage international business, international

culture, and international relations then competency management cannot

overcome. Leaders must remember that they must have a vision and workfor the dream tirelessly. Sometimes they have to go an extra mile so that

their dreams of a prosperous nation can be realized. The clich a blind

man cannot lead another blind man is true in the sense that leaders must

be brilliant people who are informed and ready to work in a vision that

they have. Thinking to reach and acting locally is a great quote for all

leaders because local makes global. Leaders must factor in allcompetency factors before implementing any action for the firm. The fact

that human beings have common basic needs is a clear driver of why

people should share the world resources through organization.

The reason for this assumption is that, competency in management makes

it possible to sell or buy commodities that one cannot produce in his/her

country.


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Discussing the role leadership competency in management:

The role of leadership competency in management comes alliance with

near to leadership it could be shown as a carries on promises to

reasonable and simple process of choosing a set of measurement and

development for leaders it not only just can reveals of the difficulty to the

leadership. For more details we illustrate on two sets of data an

examination for the leadership competency structure and an analysis of

contributor report from a reflective leadership development studies. A

clear clarifying with comparing the two data sets things to see as a

considerable different to the relative important places on it. Relationship

and emotional are point of leadership. The behaviors of these diversities

are considered as are habits in which the competency moves toward it

could be allied more closely with the present and future wants of leaders

and organizations. In exacting, we discuss that more discursive come near

that helps to reveal and defy fundamental organizational assumptions isprobably to be more useful if organizations are thinking to move ahead of

unusual ideas of leadership towards more comprehensive and collective

figures. Logical problems are also tend to raise around the relative studies

of actually incommensurable copies.

Management change and solving the problem with setting vision andstrategy:

Management it could change from time to time with the new era in matter

affect management should provide studies that show the effective part

with executive them so they can used their variety resources so they can

lead their organization to higher levels of performance. Using life

examples, such as General Electric, Aramco, Sabic, and sumo, these


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companies has adapted the changes with good standing of Leading with

mixing the latest advances in managerial leadership, continuous

improvement, strategic change, and with learning the new ways for

adapting the latest development. Belasen offers an amazing view of how

high performance leaders use managerial learning to get breach

performance. He strongly discuses that managers who stay away from

questioning their operating factory today will find themselves without

market share tomorrow. "Leading the Learning community" is an

excellent examination of a different of current companies' matters,

including adjusting to the market, interacting in the value chain, leading

themselves, communicating, learning, and developing competencies;

managing the value-based organization; and initiating transformational

learn. However each manager face in his path some difficulties, so he

should take chances for making decisions for each problem he may face it

through his employees or through his company deals or through himself

as they your life is like a path filled with difficulties try to managementthem right, in the leadership management competency a manager should

set a goal for his company and it should be in the market place, with

putting plans and strategies for the next five or ten year.

Managing politics and influencing others and taking risk and

innovation:

Modern managers, affective by new developments in the government

rules in this case he or she should take some action for his organization

with fully riskiness it known that as affirmative action as for the public

policy can be a risk with a smart move of success which can lead the

organizational higherlevel. As a manager he should face three major

problems: first, basic misunderstandings about the riskiness of


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management and policy effect; second, the procedure which can be

problem situation; and third, the management of a catalytic it came

of matter management and policy manipulate after moving from the

political problem he should take some risk for huge changes for his

organization like the say in the business with massive risk comes with

huge profit.

Enhancing business skills and knowledge and management team

work:

in this part when analysis the organization base to the economy condition

with comparing to it data and the team work in it .it reflects on the

transaction and the communication with each member in the team which

it can tend to be the set measurement of microeconomic analysis, and it

defines the team work and transactions as one for which it can be a single

executive entity distances both sides of the process, some form of thesesubs may can be succeed and, usually, combined with each

other.however, we eplains thats advantages of the process come close to

by showing three problems: vertical integration, insurance, price

discrimination and. Develops the concept of the managerial not a success

structure, and we shown thats why it is always the mixture of labor with

environmental factors, not either choosen by itself, that causes theseprocess of problems. this report also elaborate each part of this

operational relations of interest, and explains the compensations of local

organization with value to the operational circumstance. The data

elaborates why the primary work group teams of the peer group arise.

The same processer causes which stay on the way of autonomous

contracting and between individuals also slows market exchange between

scientifically independent work groups. however groups can be cooperate


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as an internal operational response to the rasping of intermediary product

markets, while we concentrated on management competency deals with

all elementary subject in the system on the organization sense hence, it is

proper to look at how leadership has affects especially the growth of

organization.

We first concentrate on leadership and team work in the company. For

team group members to become successes, it has to be multinational,

multiracial, and multicultural. To achieve

that, the group must define a strategy in which they will reach different

kinds of people. They should be able to devise a means through which

they will reach the goals and capture their objective

For that to be effective, it will depend greatly on the leaders. In an

economy, the executive and the legislative arm of government make

decisions which will affect the economy directly. They will have to make

a decision on whether to concentrate the income of the economy likedevelopment of communications as different to company production or

education for a particular period of time. developing infrastructural sign

posts throughout the management as a result of the missionary system

that fuels its economical expansion. In fact, the local company is a unit

of the global network in different national territories worldwide. This is a

brilliant idea that can only be implemented by the leadership of theorganization mangers. Those who think locally can never go local but

those who think global and act local do so by acting local in different

locations. The result is a operational network which essentially enhances

the globalization


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Understanding and navigating the organization:

From consideration of the psychological perspective presented in this

paper, and the position of a number of researchers, including Clancey,

Spiro, Schmalhofer, Garrod,as well as ourselves, there is agreement that

creating vocabularies and organizations for concepts, and then see in how

people use them, may not be the best way to proceed. It is instead argued

that we first have to better understand the epistemology of medical

knowledge and how meaning is negotiated in actual practice. The

capacity of people to learn to adapt to and regulate evolving structures

and situations in a flexible way is a critical consideration. In human-

human interactions we are adept at this. In designing interactions among

human and machines we must also allow for this type of flexibility. The

ideal of having one standard vocabulary for everybody may not be

feasible. In this article, it has been discussed that just

storing and retrieving concepts that are contained in a system will lead toproblems. Indeed, this is very static view of how knowledge is used in

practice. In contrast, interest should be the organization has concentrated

on understanding and navigating the organization. sense hence, it is

proper to look at how leadership has affects especially the organization of

companies. We first concentrate on leadership and understanding it. For a

firm group to become managerial,it should focused on how the term of knowledge is become in many

levels, including how to navigate it, each situation in every level and at

the level of communication among groups. there for impacted on

understanding it so by enhancing its may growth through free movement

of the ambassadors of management. The workers can be able to meet

anywhere in the world and congregate and share what they belief in

common. Through satellite Television, televangelism has led to


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expansion of good teamwork organizations because people get

converted easily as it is easy to reach them at the same time. However,

there is nothing that has only the best. Some of the competencies leaders

have ended up take in their followers into contributing money for projects

that do not exist. The money obviously, ends

up in their pockets. These are some the undesirable effects of navigating

in worse shape.

Leadership Competencies in a Global Level:

During the last decade everything in the world changes rapidly. In all

aspects of life we can touch this changes and the information technology

had a great portion of this changes, which make us live in a smaller world

with all those different means of communication. Nowadays we can

observe how the debt issue of Greece had dragged the whole Euro Zone

to the bottom, which in turn had strikes the economics of all the tradepartners of the European countries. From those observations we can

acknowledge how the role of managers had become harder to deal with

such an aggressive environment.

Since the appearance of the multinational corporations the managers are

forced to deal with all different culture, values, beliefs, and people from

the different countries around the globe. The managers of themultinational corporations must acknowledge the critical different skills

and competencies required to meet the different challenges in a global

level. The most important challenge for those managers is to deal with the

diverse group of employees from different countries. In addition, the

managers must balance between being flexible and fair at the same time

so they can interact with their employees who have different intellectual

backgrounds without causing undesired conflicts. In the other hand, the


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managers of the multinational corporations must be aware of the diverse

legal activities in a global standard to be safe from violating any law.

Also, the leadership of successful organization must implement diversity

policies and at the same time have a strong commitment towards those

policies.

So we can say that the managers in a global level should accrue more

broad knowledge and skills from those in a domestic level. Also, the

managers in a global level they must know how to reflect a bright image

about their countries and cultures. In addition, the global managers have a

great responsibility to deal with a large portion of stakeholders from

different countries around the globe.


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Recommendations & conclusion:

Competency in management is a real and helpful in the world today. It is

of prime importance that managers and workers embrace togetherness

making the world like a one united village. If competency is used

objectively, it will enhance organization wealth, manger, employees and

international organization. Leadership has the biggest role in it. It is clear

that if the leadership ofvarious countries doesnt enact proper

government policies that encourage international business, international

culture, and international relations then competency management cannot

overcome. Leaders must remember that they must have a vision and work

for the dream tirelessly. Sometimes they have to go an extra mile so that

their dreams of a prosperous nation can be realized. The clich a blind

man cannot lead another blind man is true in the sense that leaders must

be brilliant people who are informed and ready to work in a vision that

they have. Thinking to reach and acting locally is a great quote for allleaders because local makes global. Leaders must factor in all

competency factors before implementing any action for the firm. The fact

that human beings have common basic needs is a clear driver of why

people should share the world resources through organization. The reason

for this assumption is that, competency in management makes it possible

to sell or buy commodities that one cannot produce in his/her country.


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Implications:

Our report illustrates that the developing of diversity policies can help the

organization to maintain a strong position in the market against their

other competitors. The implementation of diversity policies will provide a

creative environment for the employees to be more productive. The

leadership of successful organization must know the best ways to use

their organizations resources efficiently, which increase the productivity

of the organization and in the meanwhile reduce the cost. Our report adds

that when the leadership of an organization imposes more aggressive

competitive strategies, which in turn will have a positive effect on the

organization position in the market as a major player against the other

competitors. Furthermore, we find that when the leadership of an

organization decides to take more broad markets that eventually will lead

to raise the level of Quality of the organization output.


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