Leadership And Innovation: Organizational Rules, Standards

Leadership and Innovation
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Task One:
Ten leadership traits essential in promoting creativity and innovation are categorized into interpersonal, business, cognitive and strategic skills. In cognitive skills, first, a leader must be a critical thinker. The leaders should be able to think of new ways to do things himself. Second, be an active learner. Here, the leader should be able to listen to other people’s idea and learn from them (Zhou & Hoever, 2014). Additionally, the leader should be able to listen, collect, process and disseminate information. Four, the leader must also possess technical and communication skills that are critical to the success of the projects. Besides that, a leader should also have social and internal personal skills that relate to influencing and interacting with others.
The leader must also possess business and strategic skills. Sixth, leader must have resource management skills essential in controlling and coordinating scarce resource to produce efficiently. They must also portray financial. The leader must manage finance to avoid financial constrains by cutting costs when necessary. Eight, the leader must show operations management skills. They operations must be cost effective, less wasteful and productive. Additionally, a leader must show decision-making skills that are essential in managing, motivating, developing and promoting talents (Anderson, Potočnik & Zhou, 2014). On the other hand, a leader must possess environment scanning skills helping in identifying problems and evaluating the course of action to take. Tenth, the leader must be visionary (Zhou & Hoever, 2014). The visionary leader can utilize mistakes, understand ambiguities and deal with them.
References
Anderson, N., Potočnik, K., & Zhou, J. (2014). Innovation and creativity in organizations: A state-of-the-science review, prospective commentary, and guiding framework. Journal of Management, 40(5), 1297-1333.
Zhou, J., & Hoever, I. J. (2014). Research on workplace creativity: A review and redirection. Annu. Rev. Organ. Psychol. Organ. Behav., 1(1), 333-359.
Task Two:
Individual traits or behaviors that can inadvertently inhibit a culture of creativity and innovation are as follows. First, taking ownership of ideas belong to others or subjects means the employees do not get proper recognition and therefore lose trust in that leadership (Anderson, Potočnik & Zhou, 2014). Second, excessively questioning and testing of new ideas is poor trait because it makes employees think that their ideas are not good enough. Additionally, failure to communicate organizational goals is dangerous because it inhibits employees from having a clear understanding of company’s vision (Anderson, Potočnik & Zhou, 2014). Fourth, the inability to listen well puts workers off from sharing or engaging their thinking. Fifth, intolerance to ambiguity is a behavior exhibited by poor leaders which force employees to avoid mistakes by avoiding ideas because they may expose them to risks.
Organizational standards, rules, and processes that can inhibit a culture of creativity and innovation are as follows. First, the presence of immovable forces like old beliefs,...