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Junior and Middle Management Leadership Skills in Profibre Products (Pty) Ltd Implications to Management Practice

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Title Junior and Middle Management Leadership Skills in Profibre Products (Pty) Ltd Implications to Management Practice
 
Creator Karodia, Anis Mahomed
van Deventer, Rene
Cowden, Richard
 
Description This paper is an evaluation of leadership skills amongst the junior and middle management team at Profibre Products (Pty) Ltd. The central findings are firstly that leadership skills amongst the junior management team at Profibre Products (Pty) Ltd are lacking. There is a lack of confidence and initiative amongst the team. They have no direction and appear to be unaware of where their boundaries are in terms of authority and disciplining their subordinates. They are more often than not found standing in for absent employees or being middle management’s assistants, than leading, guiding and taking control. In order to evaluate their leadership skills, the research methods used in this evaluation would consist of quantitative research methods. As part of the quantitative study, leadership skills are assessed using a Likert scale assessment and variables such as age, race, years experience, education and other data will be collected from both the junior and middle management team. The target population is 45: consisting of a middle management team of 20 and a junior management team of 25. The findings of the research project indicate that the junior management team do lack leadership skills. The findings show that the root cause of their lack of confidence is due to not having been given clear guidelines such as job descriptions. They may lack training and development in their roles and functions as team leaders. Those who were exposed to previous leadership training interventions were more confident and assertive as leaders however the skills that reflected to be their weakest, where people-orientated skills. Moreover, formal Job descriptions need to be drafted and discussed with junior management in a formal meeting. Appropriate training interventions should be arranged to develop leadership skills and awareness, and a coaching and mentoring could be initiated to assist junior management in ongoing professional and personal development.
 
Publisher Institute of Leadership in Management
 
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Date 2014-12-23
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/41
 
Source Journal of Leadership and Management; Vol 2, No 2 (2014): Journal of Leadership and Management
2391-6087
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://leadership.net.pl/index.php/JLM/article/view/41/19
 
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