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Effective
management is a primary objective for leaders across the globe.Better
leadership helps build stronger communities, businesses and
organizations.Management principles serve as guidelines for the decisions and
actions of leaders that help them function on a daily basis. Without guiding
principles, leaders can quickly become disconnected from the organization’s
vision and mission. There are 3
effective management techniques that can support the changing landscape of both
local and global organization, they are ethical leadership, strategic vision
and trust.
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Ethical business
behavior is an essential leadership responsibility. In
business, ethics are the values, morals and principles that an organization and
its leaders use to govern business practices, actions and behaviors. Because we live in a
world of diverse cultures, business practices can vary greatly depending on
country, region or customs. In addition, everyone in an organization will not
hold the same beliefs, integrity or level of loyalty and conscientiousness with
regard to business practices. It is imperative that leaders employ the ethical business principles
defined by their organizational management. These principles should enable
leaders to act responsibly and with integrity, respect, dependability, and
transparency. Establishing the management principle of ethical leadership
identifies an organization to its employees, stakeholders, customers, and
prospective clients as a business that offers trustworthiness, competency,
reliability, and security. People feel confident working for and doing business
with leaders who value ethical behavior as a consistent priority.
Strategic vision links
the current position of your organization with its future. It has often been compared to a roadmap for a journey. Without a
roadmap, the organization can get lost, accidentally take detours, or end up in
a completely different place than it planned to go. A strategic vision
outlines the path to the goal. Even if your team must make a detour at some
point, a strategic vision will serve as the consistent definition of the
initial goals, so that you and your team can consider alternate routes but
still achieve the desired results.Creating a clear vision for your organization
is an important first step for communicating organizational goals. It is a
leader’s role to craft a clear, simple and memorable vision as well as a
roadmap to achieving it, so that everyone in the organization can understand and
follow.
Trust affects everyone involved in the organizational relationship. Leader
must consistently build trust as a guiding principle of management. It is imperative for leaders to assess how their personal behaviors
establish trust among those they lead. Employees must see leaders as
authentically reliable, dependable and respectful in order to consider them
trustworthy.Building, nurturing and maintaining trust in all organizational
relationships is essential as a guiding management principle. When leaders
establish trust, they foster more authentic communication and loyalty among
team members, colleagues, stakeholders, customers, followers. It takes time and
intention to build trust; but one untrustworthy behavior can diminish or
destroy organizational relationships.
In conclusion, with these 3 principles of effective management
guiding you, you will raise the standard of leadership in your organization and
inspire those around you to lead ethically, clearly, trusted, and with a focus
on achievement.Businesses that deliver fast-to-market products may establish
management principles around innovation. And while the management principles in
organization may evolve over time, most organizations are built upon a
foundational set of management principles that steer organizational growth and
effectiveness.
[Source]
Leadercast. (2016). Leading Manager Principles. Source: https://northcoasttraining.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Manage.pdf, accessed on July 2019.