Leadership and Management Styles of Shront and Condit in Boeing Company

Literature Review on Leadership

What The Organisation Is And Does ? Background To Two Managers In The Case Study. 

Evaluate And Critique The Leadership And Management Styles Of Shront And Condit. Apply Leadership Theories To Your Critique.?

Discuss The Different Leadership Styles Of The Two Main Characters In The Case Study Together With The Effects On The Organisation?

Strategic leadership could be referred to as the potential of a manager for expressing the strategic vision for the company for motivating others to obtain the vision (Conger 2015). Boeing Company is one of the most popular American MNC, which designs and manufactures the rockets, satellites, telecommunications, missiles and equipment in the entire world. They provide different product support and leasing services. It is amongst the largest global aerospace manufacturers and is the 5^th largest defence contractor. The CEO of Boeing Company is Philip Condit, who had provided some of the most significant and important changes in the organization. Moreover, the predecessor of Condit, Frank Shrontz has also been responsible to ensure that the organization is getting higher success.

An organization has to manage change and ambiguity for ensuring that better effectiveness and efficiency is gained (Bolman and Deal 2017). For successfully dealing with the changes, the manager or the leader has the major responsibility for making the staff understand about the significance of these changes within the business. Leadership is the procedure, through which an executive could easily direct, influence and guide the work and behaviour of others for subsequent accomplishment of the goals and objectives for a specific situation. It is the core capability of the manager for inducing the subordinates to work with high zeal and confidence (Daft 2014). Moreover, leadership is also referred to as the potential to influence behaviours of other individuals.

The leaders are needed to develop the futuristic visions and even motivate the organizational members for achieving the visions. It is the inter personal procedure, where the manager is involved into influencing as well as guiding the employees for successful achievement of the objectives. Leadership also denotes few qualities that are needed to be present within an individual that involves intelligence, personality and maturity (Antonakis and Day 2017). Leadership is a group procedure and it involves two or more individuals to interact amongst one another. The leader is included in shaping as well as moulding the behaviour of the entire group for successful achievement of objectives. Leadership is completely dependent on tackling of various situations and hence ensuring better effectiveness and efficiency in the organization or situation.

Evaluation and Critique of The Leadership and Management Styles of Shront and Condit with Leadership Theories

Leadership is the practical skill that encompasses the capability of an individual for guiding or leading any other person, organization or even a team (Cameron et al. 2014). Various approaches are eventually present for this particular aspect and hence it helps in ensuring that social influence could easily enlist the support and aid of others for achieving a common task. Different traits of leadership include situational interaction, charisma, power, values and vision, function, intelligence, behaviour and several others. Major dependency is placed on intelligence for understanding the level effectively (Chemers 2014). It is the distinct capacity of the organizational management to set as well as achieve the most interesting goals and taking conclusive and faster activities, whenever needed for outdoing the high competition and motivating others to perform at the highest level as possible.

It can be extremely difficult to place a specific aspect on leadership as well as qualitative aspects of the company, which are commonly being tracked for comparing between the companies. The individuals with stronger leadership skill within the company also rise to certain executive position like CFO, CEO and chief officer, president or even chairman (McCleskey 2014). It helps in providing direction for the organization as well as its workers. As a result, this particular skill can easily provide direction to the organization and its workers. The respective employees require to learn about the direction, where the organization is headed and reaching out to the destination.

Both Philip Condit and Frank Shrontz are the CEOs of Boeing Company.  They have ensured that the respective organization is obtaining maximum advantages without any type of complexity. These two leaders are responsible for providing maximum effectiveness in the business. Boeing jets eventually represented 2/3^rd of the dollar values of every commercial airplane that was ordered in the year of 1995. Condit had made his mark, as soon as he oversaw development of the most recent airplane of Boeing (Grint et al. 2016). The commands of these two managers were taken into consideration, as they followed proper leadership and management styles, as compared to others.

Philip Condit has followed strategic leadership style for his work and for ensuring that there remains a proper interaction within the main operations of the organization and the growth scope. Strategic thinking majorly provides support to numerous categories of employees and the leaders, who are operating in similar method, could easily set out a basic precedent with respect to the number of people, supported and provided direction in the most effective manner (Rosenbach 2018). In spite of such strategic approach, Condit has a casual approach, which allows him in maintaining a friendly approach towards its subordinates. He is even casual in his dressing sense and dresses casually, sometimes without ties.

The management style of this particular leader, Philip Condit is democratic style. He is able to plan, prioritize as well as organize working efforts for the purpose of accomplishing objectives in a business organization. It is the most significant method, by which the managers can go for accomplishing the goals (Saeed et al. 2014). It eventually encompasses the method they make up decisions for planning and organizing work. Condit is following collaborative democratic style for managing his work. As a result, he is communicating extensively with the staff and also making decisions by the majority. Condit believes that involvement of every individual and making the team taking ownership would eventually result in the most effective decisions, taken by him. One of the most significant disadvantage of this specific management style is that it is highly time consuming and the final decision is being undertaken by the manager itself (Antonakis and Day 2017). However, Condit takes inputs from all the staff and hence the decision is being taken after proper communication.

Frank Shrontz, on the other hand had a different leadership and management style than Condit in Boeing Company. He had eventually hammered at reduction of cycle time for cutting expenses to the highest point and Boeing had to deliver an airplane within ten months of the original order as compared to previous order of 18 months. Moreover, he had pushed towards better standardization of the parts, after reducing the total work force from 161700 to 108000 in the year of 1990.

The leadership style that Frank Shrontz had followed in this work was autocratic style. As a result, he made decisions without even taking input from any staff, who reported to him (Baillien et al. 2014). Hence, the team members in Boeing were neither consulted nor considered prior to any decision taken, however they were expected to adhere to the decision at one time as well as the speed stipulated by the leader. He even followed a persuasive management style in his work. With the help of this particular management style, the management makes every decision for the staff, however then convinces the staff that the decisions were being made for the betterment of the team (Chan, Sit and Lau 2014). He had reduced order time by 8 months and convinced the team that it is an effective method to attract more customers in the business and they would gain more profit.

Conclusion

Therefore, a conclusion can be drawn that strategic leadership is needed for influencing any other individual in willingly making decision, which enhances the prospect for the organizational long term success and also preserving short term financial stabilization. Various approaches of leadership have positive impact on the direction of growth and vision of the organization. This literature review has analysed the case study of Boeing Company for understanding the management of its two managers, Philip Condit and Frank Shrontz.

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