Leadership and Productivity

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How Leaders Can Improve Productivity and Profits Simultaneously
http://quickbase.intuit.com/blog/how-leaders-can-improve-productivity-and-profits-simultaneously


Leadership's Impact on Productivity and Engagement
November 2013 -  Gordon Tredgold
https://www.td.org/Publications/Blogs/Management-Blog/2013/11/Leaderships-Impact-on-Productivity-and-Engagement



April 2010

Leadership and its Impact on Productivity
Singapore Productivity Association

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, in his keynote address at SNEF 30th Anniversary CEO and Employers Summit in July 2010, highlighted that “a huge part of the responsibility for improving productivity falls on employers and business leaders”. He emphasised the point advocated by F.W. Taylor that leadership has to take interest, study existing processes and develop new processes to upgrade productivity for businesses.

While management is “getting things done through others”, leadership involves “getting others to want to do things”.

Leadership at Various Levels in Organisations

Self

The first step is leading one’s self. Leaders who can lead themselves meaning who can convince themselves about the utility of a particular action for himself and the organisation,  and possess  the core leadership skills  to lead others would enjoy a high degree of success in leading others in the long run. This calls for an understanding and awareness of strengths and weaknesses, clarity of personal vision, and ability to be creative and curious, understanding others that come in contact with him or have a stake in his activities and a sense of one’s personal brand of leadership.

Self-Team

Middle managers play a critical role in communicating and explaining the organizations programmes to members their teams. It is critical for middle managers to know how to influence others through communication, relationship building and management of tasks entrusted to them.

Team

In the case of senior leaders, who are leading fulld departments,  the  perspective must be
to engage and generate passion in others. Creating a vision for success and aligning all members of the team to that vision is required. It requires an understanding of team leadership and organization dynamics. The senior leaders have to create an environment which maximises the abilities of all team members. Leading for success in the team environment requires a great deal of grace, patience, focus and finesse.


Business Unit
Leaders who operate at this level are responsible and therefore measured by tangible results, which they must produce at the business unit level. It demands leaders who could align efforts of various function with the unit-level business objectives. Leaders at this level must be able to measure performance, improve business processes, create an environment which fosters accountability. They also have to empower functional heads, so that they are proactive, focussed and successful.

Organisation

Leaders operating at the organisation perspective are usually concerned with the strategic direction, enhancing value to the customer, increasing competitive advantage and developing competencies and capabilities for future,   They require the skills and capacity to position themselves and their teams to maximise value today and in the future. These leaders have to monitor the changing marketplace and are react in time to ensure  the long-term viability and effectiveness of the organisation and, business units.


Leaders Drive Productivity:  Are you building a High Performance Environment?
Successfactors article
https://www.successfactors.com/static/docs/SFResearch_LeadershipDriveProductivity.pdf


Updated 20 Nov 2016,  13 August 2016