IMPACT OF COMMUNICATION AND LEADERSHIP ON ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE

2020 ◽  
pp. 416-425
Author(s):  
Dr. Ramanababu Karaka ◽  
Dr. Jaladi Ravi ◽  
Dr. Haniefuddin Shaik ◽  
Dr. Shaik Shamshuddin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Organizational Effectiveness ◽  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Middle Management ◽  
Senior Management ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Organisational Performance

This research study examines the styles of organizational leadership and evaluates them in terms of related measures of organizational effectiveness with the objective of exploring whether there is any relationship between leadership styles and organizational effectiveness. Since the undertakings chosen from Automobile Industry there are different categories of employees in the organization. These different categories are broadly classified into five categories namely workers otherwise called as Associates, Junior Management Cadre, Middle Management Cadre, Senior Management Cadre and Top Management. In the Managerial category there are different cadres, they are Junior Managers, Middle level managers and senior level managers. Since “the study is impact of leadership styles on organizational effectiveness” the associates category, staff and operators categories and Junior Managerial category are excluded from the purview of the study as these categories do not possess Decision Making Powers.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on Dimensions of Role Efficacy between Top and Middle Management of Universities in Rajasthan

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaudhary A.K. ◽  
Jain N
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Effectiveness ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Middle Management ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Academic Standard ◽  
Role Integration ◽  
Helping Relationship ◽  
Role Efficacy

Role Efficacy showed higher Organizational effectiveness. This depicts that with higher role efficacy in the organization, the employees were more effectively. The purpose of the present research work is to compare role efficacy of top and middle management employees of universities of Rajasthan. Respondents were directly contacted for filling up the standard questionnaire of Role Efficacy Scale, developed by Dr. Udai Pareek. The ten dimensions of role efficacy namely (Centrality, Self-role integration, Proactivity, Creativity, Inter-role linkage, Helping relationship, Superordination, Influence, Personal growth and Coordination ) were analysed through t-test. The results conclude that there is significant differences on dimension (self role integration, creativity and inter role linkage) of role efficacy of top and middle management. The significance of the study is based on the challenges facing higher education and to improve their academic standard through role efficacy of top and middle level management.

scholarly journals Decision-making structures for successful management in Zimbabwe

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Reinford Khumalo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Middle Management ◽  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Successful Management ◽  
Chief Executives ◽  
Management Level

This article discusses one of the management attributes discovered about Zimbabwe's most successful companies - decision-making structures. Seven most successful companies from among those quoted on the Zimbawean Stock Exchange (ZSE) were selected in terms of financial and macroeconomic criteria in their industrial categories. The research for attributes was mainly qualitative - consisting of interviews of chief executives, departmental managers, skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled employees of the companies. The interviewees were also asked to complete a quantitative instrument, a semantic differential. Data from the interviews were content analysed. The findings showed that these companies have both centralised and decentralised decision-making structures that are in strata. The strata consist of those decisions that concern policy matters and are made at top management level and those at middle management level that take into account the input of the employees. This attribute has had some influence in the success of these companies and could thus contribute to the success of other less successful companies with a socio-economic situation similar to that of Zimbabwe's, the host country in which the study was conducted.

The role of leaders in achieving organisational outcomes

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia Su ◽  
Kevin Baird
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Diagnostic Approach ◽  
Organisational Performance ◽  
Interactive Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical insight into the association between the leadership style of top management (using Stogdill and Coons’(1957) consideration and initiating leadership styles), the approach to using controls (using Simons’ (1995) interactive and diagnostic use of controls) and two organisational outcomes (business unit performance and employee organisational commitment (EOC)). Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through a survey of 120 middle-level managers of Australian service organisations. Findings The findings reveal that both the consideration and initiating leadership styles were associated with the diagnostic approach to using controls, while the initiating style was also associated with the interactive approach to using controls. In addition, the diagnostic approach to using controls was found to be associated with both organisational performance and EOC. The authors conclude that the diagnostic approach to using controls mediates the association between both the consideration and initiating styles of leadership with organisational performance and EOC. Practical implications The findings provide practitioners with an important initial insight into the role of leaders in enhancing the achievement of organisational outcomes. From a practical perspective, organisations should consider these findings when recruiting. Specifically, organisations should work towards ensuring that their top-level managers possess such personal leadership traits. This could be achieved either through installing appropriate recruitment procedures and/or through the implementation of management training programmes. Originality/value The study contributes to the literature by considering the interrelationship between two perspectives of the role of leaders, the leadership style and the use of controls

scholarly journals An Analysis of an Organization’s Budgetary Control System and its Link with Performance Management and Decision Making

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Grace Choge
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Control System ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Depth Information ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Budgetary Control ◽  
Budgetary Control System

Purpose: the purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of an organization’s budgetary control system on performance management and decision making.Methodology: The study population consisted of top management and middle level management of SDV Transami in Kenya.  The choice of the top management and middle level management was because budgetary control is mostly influenced by these two management levels.  The study sample was 46 departmental heads. A census methodology was taken since the population was small enough. Primary and secondary data were collected.  Secondary data sources were used to supplement primary data to enable the researcher get in-depth information concerning the topic of research. The information was mined from scholarly works on budgetary control found in text books, magazines, management reports, operations guidelines and previous researches. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to generate the descriptive statistics and also to generate inferential results. Regression and correlation analysis was used to demonstrate the relationship between the variables. The results were presented in form of charts, graphs and tables.Results: Results show that the managers rely on budgets to make decisions and further went to indicate that budgetary control was highly important in making managerial decisions. Budgetary control also influenced decision making in the organization in regards to decision on performance indicators. Trend analysis reveals that budgetary control affects decision making positively. Correlation and regression results revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between budgetary control and decision making.Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: Since a positive and significant relationship was found to exist between budgetary control and performance management and decision making, it is recommended that budgetary control should be upheld. In addition, there should be involvement of staff in coming up with budgets. Furthermore, the organization should ensure that it continues with the practice of involving top management in coming up with budgets. 

Mental Contrasting of Future and Reality

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Oettingen ◽  
Doris Mayer ◽  
Babette Brinkmann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Brief Intervention ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metacognitive Strategy ◽  
Mental Contrasting ◽  
Low Expectations

Mental contrasting of a desired future with present reality leads to expectancy-dependent goal commitments, whereas focusing on the desired future only makes people commit to goals regardless of their high or low expectations for success. In the present brief intervention we randomly assigned middle-level managers (N = 52) to two conditions. Participants in one condition were taught to use mental contrasting regarding their everyday concerns, while participants in the other condition were taught to indulge. Two weeks later, participants in the mental-contrasting condition reported to have fared better in managing their time and decision making during everyday life than those in the indulging condition. By helping people to set expectancy-dependent goals, teaching the metacognitive strategy of mental contrasting can be a cost- and time-effective tool to help people manage the demands of their everyday life.

scholarly journals Impact of cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate condition: a randomised crossover simulation research study of the interaction between two algorithms

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. e030430
Author(s):  
Thomas Ott ◽  
Jascha Stracke ◽  
Susanna Sellin ◽  
Marc Kriege ◽  
Gerrit Toenges ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cardiac Arrest ◽  
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ◽  
Primary Outcome ◽  
Research Study ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Simulated Patients ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Simulation Research ◽  
Simulation Centre

ObjectivesDuring a ‘cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate’ situation, asphyxia can lead to cardiac arrest. In this stressful situation, two complex algorithms facilitate decision-making to save a patient’s life: difficult airway management and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. However, the extent to which competition between the two algorithms causes conflicts in the execution of pivotal treatment remains unknown. Due to the rare incidence of this situation and the very low feasibility of such an evaluation in clinical reality, we decided to perform a randomised crossover simulation research study. We propose that even experienced healthcare providers delay cricothyrotomy, a lifesaving approach, due to concurrent cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a ‘cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate’ situation.DesignDue to the rare incidence and dynamics of such a situation, we conducted a randomised crossover simulation research study.SettingWe collected data in our institutional simulation centre between November 2016 and November 2017.ParticipantsWe included 40 experienced staff anaesthesiologists at our tertiary university hospital centre.InterventionThe participants treated two simulated patients, both requiring cricothyrotomy: one patient required cardiopulmonary resuscitation due to asphyxia, and one patient did not require cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was the intervention. Participants were evaluated by video records.Primary outcome measuresThe difference in ‘time to ventilation through cricothyrotomy’ between the two situations was the primary outcome measure.ResultsThe results of 40 participants were analysed. No carry-over effects were detected in the crossover design. During cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the median time to ventilation was 22 s (IQR 3–40.5) longer than that without cardiopulmonary resuscitation (p=0.028), including the decision-making time.ConclusionCricothyrotomy, which is the most crucial treatment for cardiac arrest in a ‘cannot intubate, cannot oxygenate’ situation, was delayed by concurrent cardiopulmonary resuscitation. If cardiopulmonary resuscitation delays cricothyrotomy, it should be interrupted to first focus on cricothyrotomy.

scholarly journals The creation of a training model to support decision-making of emergency management practitioners: a design research study

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (sup1) ◽  
pp. 558-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora McCarthy ◽  
Karen Neville ◽  
Andrew Pope ◽  
Anthony Gallagher ◽  
Alexander Nussbaumer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Training Model ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Support Decision Making
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