Literature Review on Leadership Development for Emerald Group

Question: Discuss about theLiterature Review on Leadership Development for Emerald Group. Answer: Introduction Most of the business leaders nowadays focus on the quality of employees in order to foster effective leadership qualities within the individual employees and create a strong employee base for the future (Theisohn, 2013). Therefore, leadership development programs are largely being adopted by the organization. In order to retain the market position and further growth of a business, the business heads consider leadership qualities among business individuals as essential. Leadership development strategies help in developing different leadership styles from the very beginning among the employees so that they develop their individual decision making power. It also helps to structure the framework for development program of leadership keeping the business goal in mind. The development programs not only help the individuals but on a large picture it helps the entire organization (Theisohn, 2013). In order to identify different frameworks of leadership management, a review of different articles has been conducted. The first article that was reviewed consist different theories of leadership and the frameworks of competency. Along with that it also sheds light on the evolution of the theories and frameworks over past seventy years. Among the other three articles which were reviewed, one article highlights the practices of total quality management and the operational performance along with the connection between them. In contrast to them, another article was reviewed that focused on the concept of ethical leadership (Marsh, 2013). It elaborates the perception of leaders towards ethics in terms of leadership as well as the development of ethical leadership in business. The final article is a literature review that analyzed several articles which have res earched in the area of leadership development over last 25 years. Discussion The study by Bolden et al. (2013) explores and evaluates different theories of leadership and frameworks of competency. The article starts by reviewing the theories of leadership as well as it elaborates their evolution over the last seventy years. While elaborating the theories, the study focuses on different notions ranging from heroic leaders, transformational leadership, situational leadership, transactional leadership, trait theories, behaviorist theories and contingency theories. All of these components are essential as they serve to the qualities of a successful leader, but a shift has been observed to the individuals quality of responding to the different circumstances and their role in terms of the relation to the companions from the general attitudes and characteristics of the leaders. The conclusion of the review includes an overview of dispersed leadership. Along with that, the study also sheds light on the difference between the traditional concept of leaders and the procedure of leadership. In the next part, highlights on competency frameworks and the different models of leadership (Theisohn, 2013). In order to discuss on the above mentioned topic, a variety of frameworks were covered. These frameworks are in terms of management and leadership that the organizations are presently using. Through discussing these, the essential qualities of leadership have been defined. To be very specific, the study states the need of basic qualities that people should possess or attain in order to become a leader. In order to support the discussion, wide ranges of public, as well as private and generic frameworks, were mentioned in the study along with different web links. The paper then talked about the selection of initiatives regarding the procedure of leadership development . The development of leadership procedure has also been discussed as the alternative of competency framework of leadership. The purpose of discussing this is to help to understand how an organization, as well as individuals, can gain all the essential qualities of a successful leader by using different techniques. Besides, it also helps in the understanding of the philosophy of the framework of leadership development (Bolden et al., 2013). Meanwhile, the study also discussed the core factors of duties of the directors in terms of law and ethics. While discussing the legal and ethical core factors, different types of values, skills, and attitudes were highlighted as essential requirements to achieve the qualities of leadership. Finally, the paper concludes by discussing the approach of competency framework towards leadership and the development of leadership. a suggestive measure containing substitute ways in order to address the challenges. In the later part of the conclusion, the strength of the approach was included as it gives an individualistic concept of development of leadership. Another study Talib, Rahman Qureshi (2013) explores the connection between the operational performance and the practices of total quality management. It has been observed that most organizations across the world have adopted total quality management approach in order to upgrade the competitiveness in the workplace. A literature review shows the lack of research in this area, especially in the area of effective implementation of total quality management. The research mainly aims to evaluate the practices of total quality management and different manufacturing companies operational performance so that the connection between the practices of total quality management and the organizational performances. In order to carry the research, a survey was conducted over 1200 manufacturing companies of Australia and New Zealand. The validity and authenticity of the operations and those practices were examined during the research. The result of the study revealed that connection among the practic es and the company performance has an influence and therefore the performance varies. Some of the total quality management practices can predict the individualistic performance. The study points out that the customer management, leadership were the most important predictors of organizational performance (Talib, Rahman Qureshi, 2013). However, the findings reveal that the factors related to behavior like empowerment of employees, executive commitment, and the healthy office culture can increase the competitiveness more than the practices of total quality management and other techniques like benchmarking, analysis and improvement of procedures. In order to develop leadership management, different approaches can be taken. One of the approaches is Total Quality Management. To define Total quality Management, it can be said that it is a management system that follows some principals. According to the principals, every member should be committed to their work and should maintain the quality of their work in the entire operation of the company. A framework of management is followed by all the members of the organization (Antonakis Day, 2017). The focus of this framework remains on the improvement of the company keeping customer satisfaction in mind. By implementing Total Quality Management practices organizations can achieve long-term successful outcome. In the meantime, another research by Marsh (2013) highlighted on the concept of ethical leadership. The research mainly discussed the perception of the business individuals towards ethical leadership. Along with that it also explores the development of ethical leadership in business. In order to carry out the research survey was conducted over 28 business individuals. During the survey, the business executives shared their experiences. They recollected the critical situations regarding ethical issues they faced in their work life and they discussed how their real-life experiences had an impact on while taking the ethical decisions. The business individuals spoke about their personal stories, which helped them in solving critical situations in term of ethics. All of these personal experiences of the business individuals were analyzed and then compared. While comparing the data, two models have been developed. Firstly, how a structure of ethical leadership throw light upon the aspect of values of ethical leadership and how individual perspective of values works while taking ethical decisions. Secondly, a model was mentioned explaining how the business individuals developed their ethical frameworks in the workplace based on their life experiences (Antonakis Day, 2017). In the concluding part of the report, one of the three main approaches to normative ethics that is virtue ethics has been discussed. A short overview of experiential learning was also given. Meanwhile, the study briefly discussed the development of human resource. To conduct the survey, the research adopted qualitative data collection as the methodology. In addition to that, a qualitative procedure was undertaken towards the theoretical formulation of the data. The participants of the survey included higher ranking senior level executives who are at the position of directors or of the same level. The executives of 38-year-old to 73-year-old were interviewed (Marsh, 2013). The business individuals were asked about the situations in which they had to face an ethical dilemma, what was their take on from that incident, what was their decision, what was the process they had to undergo in order to make a decision and about the values that supported them in taking the decision. Finally, the individuals shared what impacts most according to their ethical perception. However, the research is not free from limitations. The business individuals who participated in the survey were selected based on the nomination of business experts who themselves believe to be ethical leaders and no additional evaluation was done before interviewing them about their actual success as the leaders. Meanwhile, Day et al. (2014) analyzed several research works that have been published over 25 years in order to analyze the development of leadership behaviors and effective leadership programs to improve the leadership qualities in business. During the review, the studies were analyzed from two different perspectives. Some of the studies were on the leadership theories while other parts of the research papers were the study of leadership development. The challenges and issues regarding internal as well as external were identified and examined during the research. These are the internal and external issues in terms of the concept of leadership development during the course of effective leadership. The paper mainly discusses how the development of leadership management has changed over time, what is the process that enhances the quality of the individuals to become a successful leader (Simons, Palanski, Trevino, 2013). The review includes different aspects of leadership development such as personality and development of leadership qualities, self-development frameworks, skill development, and learning from experience and authentic leadership qualities and so on. The review mainly aims to figure out the future scope of research in the area of leadership development. It identified contributions of different scholars who have conducted research in the area and given suggestive measures towards the improvement of leadership management. The paper comes in the conclusion after analyzing a large number of research works that the development process of leadership qualities in an individual generally starts at a very early age and therefore, parental modeling tend to have a huge impact on it (Day et al., 2014). The paper in the later section states that importance of leadership development in business and along with that it identifies an area where research needs to be done. The area, therefore, will be how the leadership development can be done in an effective manner so that the business individuals will be able to become successful leaders. However, the limitations while reviewing the articles cannot be neglected. In order to review a large number of research papers, the review covered many aspects of leadership development but it has failed to maintain the comprehensiveness. The readers might feel difficult understand a wide range of aspects mentioned in the review. Despite the limitations, the paper has successfully identified all the developments of leadership management over the past 25 years and the areas where attention need to be given for further research. Conclusion In conclusion, it can be said the literature review tried to discuss all the aspects of leadership development frameworks and theories. It covered one of the major aspects of leadership qualities that is ethical leadership. On the other hand, it also reviewed the article which had shed light on the relationship between practices of total quality management and the operational performances. The review includes the article that discusses the different frameworks and theories of leadership development. Besides, how the concept of leadership and the development of leadership have been changed was also elaborated in the article. The final part of the review consists of the research that itself a literature review on theories and frameworks of leadership management. The paper has covered a variety of aspects in terms of leadership development. The study critically analyzed the four research papers on leadership development program and it has added references to maintain the credibility of the paper. References Antonakis, J. Day, D.V. eds., (2017).The nature of leadership. Sage publications. Antonakis, J. House, R.J., (2013). The full-range leadership theory: The way forward. 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