Assessment 2 Information
| Subject Code: | MBA401 | ||
| Subject Name: | People, Culture and Contemporary Leadership | ||
| Assessment Title: | Individual Video Presentation | ||
| Assessment Type: | Video | ||
| Presentation Length: | 5-7 | (+/-10%) | |
| Weighting: | 30 % | ||
| Total Marks: | 30 | ||
Create an individual video presentation that explores the topic of “effective leadership” within a contemporary business environment
In recent weeks you have been exposed to a range of content exploring people and organisation’s; leadership and performance; leadership behaviours, styles development and effectiveness and strategic leadership.
For this video presentation, you are required to select a business leader of your choice (it can be from Australia or overseas). However, it cannot be from the organisation/company that you chose in Assessment 1. You CANNOT select Political, Religious or Sports Leaders. Your choice of a “business leader” will provide you with an opportunity to analyse their contribution to the success of the business. Your presentation should address the following questions:
Assessment Instructions
To ensure the success of your video presentation, you should take account of the following:
1. You are required to appear on the screen and ensure that your voice can be clearly heard;
2. Record the video in a quiet location so that background noise and interruptions are minimized;
3. You are required to create a series of Powerpoint slides with talking points to assist your presentation;
4. Talk to the camera instead of reading notes or your Powerpoint slides;
5. Be creative, a good presentation is not just about the content but the way that you present it; and
6. Practice numerous times beforehand and/or with a friend so that you are confident.
You should refer to at least three (3) relevant theories/concepts that you have covered in the subject in your presentation to support your answers. You are required to demonstrate your use of references/resources in your video. Discuss with you lecturer ways in which you can do this.
People, Culture and Contemporary Leadership
Sundar Pichai-Google
Introduction
The purpose of the assignment is to discuss the people, culture, and contemporary leadership which can affect the business and its workings.
Pichai Sundararajan (born June 10, 1972), Sundar Pichai (/ˈsʊndɑːr pɪˈtʃaɪ/), and how there can be Indian American business executive, and the obligation to the basis of the chief executive officer (CEO) that would be Alphabet Inc. which is the subsidiary Google LLC. The CEO held the position the materials engineer and was a management executive in 2004 (King, 2019).
By background, Sunder Pichai is known as the computer engineer and the current CEO of Google Inc. The company CEO is known as the engineering genius who is by the background of IIT Kharagpur from the Masters from Stanford and even held the position the MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The CEO is known as the mastermind who has even launched the Chrome Browser in 2008 and even shown the popular browser (Nahavandi, 2017).
TWO KEY FACTORS
Transactional Leadership style
The leader would be based on the essential quality for successful management that would result in the organizational changes. The leader also follows the transactional management which can also obligates the transformational cycles through efficiency and obligates the key people in an organization to develop the appropriate skills and obligates to the leaders (Shane, 2018).
Attention to detail
Handling failures along with compassion and through the proper care
Successful leader
Sundar Pichai believes in the success of others and even obligates how the people can foster good successful relationships and following the teamwork.
The leader has a broad vision and even follows as to what people want and how to achieve them. It helps to follow a set of communication and having a vision that can obligate the entire organization to achieve what they want.
Sundar Pichai has a willingness to take new challenges, and further also obligates the decisions, considering the obligation which can be followed by the leader.
Transformational leaders and the communication to follow the vision, expectations, and having a set standard.
Measure the Effectiveness-First key factor
Failures Optimistically
The leader believes in the failure introduces which would follow the perspective, to also focus on the setback and also derive the valuable learning from it (Williams, 2017).
Empower People & Build a Strong Team
The leader focuses on the nurturing team and would help in deriving success and can help to make progress in the overall success story. The leader is rightfully informed about the team activities and also focuses on delivering the best (Shane, 2017).
Measure the Effectiveness-Second key factor
Passionate
Sundar Pichai has always been extremely passionate about making a difference in the lives of people with technology. He emphasizes in utilizing powerful computer science to solve problems.
According to Google Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, “Sundar Pichai brings humility, passion for technology to our users”.
Attentive
To survive and to work in the organization, Sundar Pichai focuses on the environment to focus on the people and provide them opportunities. for example, the company wanted to make the “Meet” during the COVID 19 an app to connect with the people online. Sundar Pichai allowed the employees and the enginers to take the decision and also to follow their opinion.
Performance of the Leader
the leader is known by his attributes, Sundar Pichai not only obligates to serve humanity but also focus on the fulfillment of the roles as an exceptional.
This humanity manifests itself in compassion, understanding, and a willingness to obligate the company to foster the same set of relationships. The company obligates and focuses on the employee overall productivity and gives them the freedom to exercise their opinions, views, and ideas.
2) Understated
Sundar Pichai is the underrated focuses on constructive results to stand out and even doesn’t believe in setting out. The leader is understated as he obligates his employees and follows their direction.
Contributed to organizational success
Theory- 2
Transactional Leadership is defined as how the leaders can originate, transition, and even react with the constructive results, functions, and with the given set of punishments. It helps to foster the team members to follow and further motivate a team. The leaders are also obligated to have a short term goal and would have a structural basis of imposing the leadership in the direct environment. The leaders are more focused on the favor rigidity and even following the set policies, that can help to derive the high satisfaction with the high efficiency. The leaders also prefer to motivate inspire their team and can substantially produce the results for the task performed. Transactional leaders also seek to find an alternative solution more efficiently and look for a constant change and innovation
Reactive Vs. Response Theory
This theory is famously propounded as the cockroach theory, which helps to understand, what are the reactions and the responses to the set problems. While one can be highly reactive in a given situation, the other can be positive, calm, and even be less responsive to the same problems. As each of the individuals are reactive and faces the obligation to perform, it is necessary to be calm, composed, and less reactive to the given problems.
Concepts-2
Referent Power – Depending on the followers' identification and how one can like the leaders the concepts help to understand the leader's liking and how it can be liking for the leader. Sudar Pichai has a liking of constantly innovating and prefers loyal employees to make decisions, on the company's behalf.
Expert Power – As the followers perceive how the leader is adaptable and show competence, it is necessary to obligate the expert power and follow the set direction.
Reward Power – Sundar Pichai believes in the power to exercise the capacity which can further obligate the rewards to others (Shane, 2017). A leader can obligate the supervisor to give rewards to high productivity and the quality leader.
Information Power – To obligate as per the information and attaining the power to command.
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