Program Portfolio (Capstone) Project: iTech Plus Leadership Policy
While there is no magic combination of policies that makes a successful leadership as different actions matters in different situations, iTech plus will employ a diverse leadership policy that will incorporate team building for all its assets, customers, and employees. Nevertheless, the management will continuously review the various approaches in this leadership policy to make the right approach for each situation in a transformational leadership manner. The iTech Transformational leadership will show integrity, know how to develop an inspiring and robust company vision, motivate their teams to achieve the vision, manage its delivery, and build ever strong and more successful teams. The following core leadership theories (Oakland, 2011) will form the backbone of our leadership policies.
Trait Theory
The iTech Plus will employ trait theory in identifying traits and qualities such as empathy, integrity, assertiveness, likability, and excellent decision-making skills that will enhance leadership in the company. The traits form internal behaviors from the things going on within the leader’s mind, which prompts internal beliefs and processes essential for effective leadership. The trait will be identified during the recruitment of iTech Plus’ employees in the management rank as well as the other workers.
Behavioral Theory
For behavioral theory, iTech Plus will focus on leaders’ behavior, such as when to dictate and when to involve their teams in decision-making and encourage support and acceptance. When decisions need to be made quickly, when there is no requisite for other’s input, or when team agreement is not necessary for s successful outcome, the leadership will employ autocracy by making decisions without consulting their team. However, when there is a need for team agreement and a few divergent ideas and perspectives, the leadership will employ democracy and allow their team to provide the necessary input before making decisions. Moreover, the iTech Plus leadership will, on some occasions, be laissez-fair by not interfering and overly allowing members within their teams to make most of the decisions. However, laissez-fair leadership policy will only apply in situations where the team is highly motivated, capable, and does not need close supervision.
Power and Influence
The power and influence policy in iTech plus will take a different approach entirely as it is based on the various ways the management uses power and influence to accomplish its goals. First, the policy will employ the French and Revan’s five forms of power (French, Raven & Cartwright, 1959), including the positional powers like coercive, legitimate, and reward as personal powers like referent and deferred powers. The iTech Plus suggests using personal powers as the better alternative and requires its leaders to expert teams of power.
Team Building Framework
Team building skills incorporate knowing how to enable individuals to work in a cohesive group where all the participants feel invested in the accomplishment of a team. For iTech Plus, all team members will have significant inputs towards developing the company’s goals and defining the steps take to achieve each goal. While the company wants all of its workers to have team-building skills, they will be more specifically significant when recruiting managers, supervisors, and outsiders such as consultants that will oversee the group of employees. The skills will include collaboration, proactivity, adaptability, and cooperation, and reliability.
References
Oakland, J. (2011). Leadership and policy deployment: the backbone of TQM. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence, 22(5), 517-534.
French, J. R., Raven, B., & Cartwright, D. (1959). The bases of social power. Classics of organization theory, 7, 311-320.