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Development of Leaders to Raise Performance at Nestle’
Table of Contents
1. Background of the study.....................................................................................
1.1 Problem Definition..............................................................................................
1.1 Problem Definition..............................................................................................
1.1.1 Leadership...........................................................................................................
1.1.2 Four Factors of Leadership..................................................................................
1.3 Aim (s) of the Research.......................................................................................
1.4 Objectives of the research....................................................................................
1.3 Research hypothesis.............................................................................................
2. Research Methodology........................................................................................
2.1 Research design...................................................................................................
2.1.1 Data Collection Sources:.....................................................................................
2.1.2 Data Collection Tools/Instruments:.....................................................................
2.1.3 Subjects/Participants:...........................................................................................
2.2 Justification of methods sampling.......................................................................
2.2.1 Field work/Data Collection:................................................................................
2.2.2 Data Processing & Analysis:................................................................................
3. Literature Review................................................................................................
4. Timelines..............................................................................................................
5. Limitations of Research.......................................................................................
References..........................................................................................................................
1. Background of the study
The sequences of work on the research study on the topic “Development of leaders to raise performance at Nestle” is narrated and explained in this particular research proposal. At the beginning, aims and objectives of the research are being discussed by the researcher that he wants to achieve and answer throughout his research process. Further the examination of previous research work in shape of literature review is being illustrated. What different techniques of data collection will be used, what will be the size of sample space and other related issues related to methodology for the purpose of this research are being discussed in the methodology segment of this research proposal. Afterwards researcher had provided a Gantt chart explaining the time frame of different activities involved in this research. In the end, there is brief description of limitations for this research.
1.1.1 Leadership
What is leadership and who can be a leader these are the main questions that need answer before pursuing the main issue of this research. An influential process that helps others in achievement of their goals and organizational objectives and influence the organizational processes to be more productive and efficient, the person having such influence in organization is called Leader and his activities are known as leadership.
In successful organizations, the processes are lead by leaders having all the necessary knowledge, experience and skills in an influential manner and all this is known as process leadership (Jago, 1982). There are some traits which have influence on our actions and are regarded as Trait Leadership, this is for that reasons some people believe that leaders are born leaders and they cannot be made. Following chart will give better idea about the both styles of leadership as discussed above (Northouse, 2007, p5):
Previous research work on leadership and its related theories indicate that the personality traits of a leader influence his skills, experience and knowledge like advantages, ethics, character and values etc. All these traits influence the process he use for leadership, however, his personality features highlights his uniqueness among others.
1.1.2 Leadership elements
Following can be regarded as main elements of leadership today (U.S. Army, 1983):
v To explore the importance of developmental role of leadership to raise performance at Nestle’.
The objectives of this research are as below:
1.3 Research hypothesis
2. Research Methodology
2.1 Research design
2.1.1 Data Collection Sources:
All the data related to this research will be collected from a big food processing organization, Nestle’ throughout the world.
2.1.2 Data Collection Tools/Instruments:
This current study will be a survey type cross sectional quantitative research. the technique of sampling that will be used during this research process is Non-probability sampling technique that will help in selection of sample the objective population of this research.
2.1.3 Subjects/Participants:
Workers working in the food marketing department of Nestle’ will be the population for this particular research work.
Workers engaged at all the levels including working at higher, middle and front line staff belongs to both sex are included in the sample from the given population. The demographic features like age, sex, qualifications and other features will vary in accordance with their designation.
The workers belonging to females are comparatively less as compared to males but their efficiency has greater affects.
2.2 Justification of methods sampling
2.2.1 Field work/Data Collection:
All the information and data for this research will be collected with the help of survey questionnaire having close ended questions allowing no discussion.
A questionnaire will be designed to collect the necessary information. The questions type will be close ended. A cover letter highlighting the purpose of the study and instructions to fill in the questionnaire and a demographic data sheet will be prepared and attached with the questionnaire as well.
2.2.2 Data Processing & Analysis:
Available research software MS Excel and manual calculation will be uses while making analysis on the data collected for the proposed research study if needed. Statistical and arithmetical formulae will be applied as per demand and need of the study. Statistical tables and graphical representations will also be drawn.
3. Literature Review
Leaders are born or not and at what stage of childhood they became leader that varies according to the views of different researchers (Solly, 2003). The participants like school students observed their senior teachers and school owners as the leaders but the explanations were wider from the excellence centres and nursery schools. The environment in which teachers and other educators were working was different from the other; therefore, they consider they should have different leadership styles. For instance according to Osgood research on this issue results were like for the private educational organizations, they were following business like policies and managerial styles and in case of non-trading educational institutions they were having friendly non-business approach (Osgood, 2004). Private organizations were having such a business like approach only because of their business leaders and they were found not to be collaborative and there approach was not so friendly for the community (Osgood, 2004).
According to the results of the research on the nursery teachers’ ideas about leading that was held in Scotland western area, it was found that managers working with dominant nursery teachers who were found aware of their great responsibilities does not realize that how actively they were playing their role and were distinguishing their role of leadership as compared to that of being a manager (Dunlop, 2002; Dunlop, 2005). These particular leaders were teaching differently and they re-engineer different managerial tasks like teaching plans and plans with reference to other managerial issues, observation of students, evaluation and appraisal system, highlighting the needs of team work, importance of records making, helping parents by working with them, managing time, assets, space and work with others in organization. They designed a framework for reporting to the top management and flow of instructions till the bottom.
At the beginning of the year workers with their unique knowledge, experience and skills were a part of a huge working team. The diversification of the work force was identified by the Solly (2003) as according to his observations the workers working in the sectors were mostly young having less amount of experience and highlights that leaders need to manage diversification of this work force in respect of sex, culture, profession and society. There were more than 30,000 individuals were working in the nurseries of Scotland at the beginning of the year 2004 as the results were being observed from the review of employees at the beginning of the year and the press release highlight all that in June, 2004 (Scottish Executive, 2004). Following were the major five important areas that were highlighted in the review:
What should be the role of leadership at the beginning part of years; there are different comments of the researcher. There was a close association between working efficiencies at the early stages of childhood environment and the certifications of the centre managers as it was an observation of an educational project on conditions on before school education (Muijs et al, 2004, p7). A specifically new filed of leadership was invented due to the diversity of these employees (Osgood, 2004; Rodd, 2005). Moreover, it can be said that early childhood managers were not trained properly and found un-prepared for their role. According to results of the study conducted to highlight the importance of training to early childhood leaders, it was found that they were hired accidently therefore; they get fewer opportunities for their training as they were hired accidently and it is for that reason they have less awareness about their role (Ebbeck and Waniganayake, 2003; Rodd, 2005). The researchers like Ebbeck and Waniganayake tried to define the roles of early childhood and the obligations towards those roles, moreover, they highlighted the ways through which managers can manage effectively at that stage and can control.
The significance of relations and sensitivity of this relationship at the beginning stages of childhood practice was identified by Dalli (2005) in her work of reflection on professionalism. She further explain that the concept of early childhood profession is being changed now as they are more behaving like educators as compared with the role of childcare employees and researchers are taking this debate as a base for their further research work on the topic. According to her observations, love is an integral part of early childhood practices. She added comparatively new ideas to leadership styles with reference to childhood professionals of child care that are completely in accordance with the professional duties and roles. According to her survey on professionalism and ethical issues related to professionalism there were three features of professionalism according to her definition of leadership with reference to childcare in New Zealand, which include mutual managerial relationships, skills and field knowledge, pedagogy.
In this last theme teachers felt it was important to be able to demonstrate leadership by exhibiting management knowledge and skills, being able to articulate concerns in a confident manner, demonstrating knowledge of current educational research, and being aware of the educational political environment. 29326
Additionally, Scrivens, also working in New Zealand, highlights that women prefer a model of leadership which, citing Hall (1996), embraces ‘power for’ rather than ‘power over’ someone. Nevertheless, women in leadership roles appear both to be able to share leadership and to take the lead when required (Scrivens, 2002).
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4. Timelines
Time is an important element of any research design, to measure the time span.
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5. Limitations of Research
This research countenances a few restrictions. This study observed the significance of leadership development to raise organizational performance. The scope of this research is narrow as the phenomenon of leadership to raise organizational performance is a vast concept and this research has only managed to illustrate a short glimpse of the debate of whether effective leadership is essential to increase the organizational performance successful. This study is based on change occurring in only one organization, the Nestle’. Hence, the lessons learnt may apply to every business organization as the requirements for leadership may be similar for large and worldwide organizations. The researcher chose primary data methods to study the organization. Researcher will access to carrying out survey through questionnaire with key personnel at the Nestle’.
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