With the selection of a new Executive Director for Asia Division within Biotech,

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With the selection of a new Executive Director for Asia Division within Biotech, it is time to look at how the new division will function within Biotech. There will be many factors for the Director to consider while planning the future, to include both short and long term plans. There is a need to begin the process of establishing a strategy for the division specifying goals and objectives they will need to follow to see success early on in the project; but they should also know nothing is possible without the proper personnel in place to see this strategy to fruition.

GoTo Consulting has been retained to continue its partnership with Biotech and the startup of the Asia Division with the same group that assisted Melanie now assisting the new Director. They will be traveling extensively with the new Director to the other major divisions spending time directly with the directors and getting to know their strategies for maintaining a well-oiled group while meeting the mission and vision. Getting to know their leadership teams will be critical as well; this will allow the GoTo group to help with vetting of potential leaders. The new Asia Director has asked the group from GoTo Consulting to help identify the types of leader qualities the organization will need to have in place to help the new division align with the mission/vision of the organization as well as Melanie’s desire for a more sustainable future by being an environmentally and human friendly company.

For this Learning activity write one paragraph for each statement below:

Define leadership and explain the difference between leading and managing.

What leadership styles will best fit the new Director’s style of leadership; a multi-cultural workforce; and the goal of having a sustainable, green, and human friendly product line on the forefront of innovation within the cosmetics industry?

What can the new Director do to ensure the mission and vision are met?

Explanation / Answer

1) Leadership is an ability to set direction to the followers for a common enterprising goal. In business management, leaders are the person who lead a team of employees, who set strategic direction of the company etc.

Managers are the people who do things right by providing their managerial experience and knowledge to a particular domain. Managing means completion of task with the resource constraints and with limited manpower.  

2) Director should adopt Democratic or participative style of leadership. It will enable him to manage the diversity of the people , collecting the feedback from employees and then make decision which will satisfy organizational interests above all. Even , he will motivate people to show creativity and innovation and report directly to him. It will really work better to gain the momentum by the organization in terms of an organization where people believes in leadership that their performance and suggestions will have some importance to the organization . Employees will feel pride to work with such Democratic organization.

3) The new director should make a team of people who will responsible to oversee the works of each department in line with organizational vision and mission. He should some times visit the production areas or randomly take feedbak from any middle level managers from different department like human resource and finance etc. He should daily offer a quote to his employees which will motivate them to be concentrated on to their respective goals. He should regularly meet with the functional heads to remind the organizational long term vision and routine wise mission adoption.  

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