Leading in a Changing World

  Introduction Sets of duties and actions are required to management and leadership. While managers and leaders are related, they both influence others by utilizing specialized powers to achieve specific goal (Algahtani, 2014). Despite the similarities, there are differences between them. Managers are focused on direction and control their resources including subordinate and organization systems, also managers aim to meet short-term objectives, avoiding risks, and use standardization to increase efficiency (Kotterman, 2006).  While leadership focused on an individual characteristic, skill, and relationship. Leaders strive to achieve long-term goals, influence their followers to follow their vision, and take risks to achieve common goals (Northouse, 2021).   Adair’s Leadership Model The famous Leadership Model proposed by John Adair in 1973, which the model is focused on action-centered leadership and used to elaborate more functional approach in leadership (Acka...

The term "diversity" refers to the differences that exist among employees due to their origins and cultures. These backgrounds include things like age, gender, race, ethnicity, and physical ability (Inegbedion et al., 2020). Businesses benefit from team diversity in terms of flexibility, innovation, and creativity. It will have positive repercussions such as information sharing, providing solutions, and enhanced team performance. (Hofhuis et al., 2016). This blog will discuss some benefits and challenges of diversity in a team, including supporting theories and real case implementation. Benefits A workplace diversity team may be able to assist firms in improving their critical thinking and problem-solving abilities. People with diverse backgrounds and experiences can contribute a variety of viewpoints to the workplace (Cletus et al., 2018). Resulting, employees within a firm may stimulate critical thinking by giving diverse ideas and techniques for problem-solving and, ulti...