Role of Leadership in Promoting a Productive View in Amazon Corporation

The Role of Leadership in Promoting a Productive View in the Workplace within the Amazon Corporation
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The Role of Leadership in Promoting a Productive View in the Workplace within the Amazon Corporation
The productivity of employees plays a significant role in the success of an organization. As such, many organizations are always strengthening the factors that aid employee productivity while eliminating those than hinder productivity. As Chen and Sriphon (2021) note, organizations consider employees the most critical assets whose well-being should be catered for to achieve organizational growth. The welfare of workers and their potential to be productive in the workplace are determined by many factors. One such factor is organizational leadership. Organizations that embrace positive leadership experience success in all organizational areas, more so because of the impact such leadership has on employees. According to Khan (2022), positive leadership enhances employees' productivity and commitment to their work, even during difficult times, because it focuses on the strengths of employees and the factors that elevate them. In the last couple of years, the world has faced many challenges contributing to global unrest. Many organizations have had to adapt and adjust in the midst of the global unrest to achieve organizational productivity and growth. Achieving organizational productivity and growth in the midst of global unrest requires strong leadership behaviors that create a positive workplace capable of remaining productive to promote growth. It is imperative to study real organizations' leadership practices to understand leadership's role in promoting a productive view in the workplace during challenging times. Information from such a study can be useful to organizations trying to remain productive during uncertain and difficult times. To this end, this research paper will focus on how leadership promotes a productive view within Amazon Corporation during global unrest.
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Scholars and practitioners have long recognized the importance of strong leadership in driving organizational productivity and growth. Nevertheless, many organizations still face productivity and growth issues, especially during periods of uncertainty, which can be traced back to the kind of workplace environment the organizations’ leadership has created. For instance, during the COVID-19 pandemic, some companies remained highly productive while others experienced declining productivity. Garton and Mankins (2020) reveal that the difference in productivity among organizations during the pandemic was caused by the difference in how leaders managed their workforce. Leaders in companies that remained highly productive during the pandemic were able to keep their employees focused despite everything that was going on in the world. The shift from working in the office to working from home affected employees’ productivity differently, depending on whether they received adequate support from their leaders (Poovaiah & Mathew, 2022). Adequate leadership support, especially through training, enhanced employee productivity.
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