Comparing Leadership Styles: Shawn Williams and John Dawson

In this case study, the leadership style followed by Shawn Williams, the new VP of global human capital management at Atlantis Global Corporation, can be characterised as Transactional leadership style. Shawn has decided to follow a new acknowledgement and prizes programs to enhance the job pleasure of the staff (Riaz & Haider, 2010).

The leadership method, followed by John Dawson, the chief executive officer of the company, can be considered as Strategic leadership. Instead of prioritising the employee job satisfaction and recruiting new talented employee, he is concerned about the financial loss of the business organisation (Carter & Greer, 2013).

Advantages:

· Effectively motivate the employees to increase productivity.

· The achievable target for the employee is created by the leader.

· This leadership style eliminates misperception through the sequence of command.

Disadvantages:

· This leadership style removes individuality from the manufacturing procedure.

· This leadership style is discouraging for the employee’s creativity.

· In this leadership style, more value placed on the efficiency of the employee, which affect the output of the employee.

· This leadership style encourages objective thinking.

· Creates a framework for strategic decision.

· This leadership style supports the concept of unity.

· This leadership focuses on the success and profit of the company.

Disadvantages:

· Flexibility is difficult in the Strategic leadership style.

· Predicting the future is difficult in this leadership style.

· To manage the problem of the company, this leadership style develops a plan without addressing the current problem.

Transformational leadership style can be followed by me. As this leadership style shares the vision of the company with the employee to motivate them. This initiative by the leader will develop an ambience, where the employee will be excited to deliver their best effort for the benefit of the business organisation. The leader will be empathetic, self-aware, humble and authentic.

In order to maximise the product market share and improve the market position, Atlanta Global Corporation can follow Transformational leadership. The HRM will train the manager to develop transformational leadership behaviour. The behaviour of the leader contributes to human capital creation through which the company can achieve its target. The transformational leader will motivate the employee to flourish their creativity to maximise the production (Braun et al., 2013).

Human capital management (HCM), a strategic tactic to manage the employee and develop the skills, innovation skills and knowledge of the employee. This organisation has to focus on knowledge and insight instead of standards and metrics. Creating value of the employee and employee management through HCM will help this company. A strategic partner can be a good option for the company. HCM strategy will help the company to identify the human resources and skills, which is essential for the employee to support the company to accomplish its target.

Deloitte Company, an international professional services network, has designed a plan and execute the plan which will help the HR of this company to manage employees (Www2.deloitte.com, 2019). This plan will help the company to achieve its goal without being affected by the economic disruption. The business strategy is developed by putting the employees in the centre so that they can execute the plan of the company to achieve the goal.