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Elon Musk leadership discussion
Describe the leader
task-oriented, high demand from employees effort, ambitious, set high goal which seems to be hardly achieved, short deadline and tight schedule, don't allow failure, bad working conditions in Tesla factory,
Elon Musk: Intellect, passion, leadership and failures
Describe his approach
Skill approach
the skills approach suggests that
many people have the potential for leadership.
If people are capable of learning from their experiences, they can acquire leadership.
the skills approach frames leadership as the capabilities (knowledge and skills) that make effective leadership possible (Mumford, Zaccaro, Harding, et al., 2000, p. 12).
individual attributes:
Crystallized Cognitive Ability
the knowledge he acquired from reading tons of books to learn new skills and knowledge, enable him to step into 3 different industry successfully (Tesla, SpaceX, Solarcity)
motivation
he's willing to take on the responsibility of trying to propel the overall human good and value of the organisation (having vision to improve human's life such as inventing Tesla to reduce the heavy dependence on fossil oil and electricity through creating SolarCity)
personality
he has high self-confidence that makes him fully believe in his vision and trying to develop it into the real world despite any challenges that may occur, hence, the motivation and dedication to transform his vision into reality makes through the difficulties that perform extraordinary leadership performance
competencies skill:
problem solving skills
he is good at solving problems by identifying and making assumptions of the problems. After that, breaking it down into fundamental elements that makes it easier to solve it step by step
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people management skills
he believes that hiring and putting the right person in the right roles would makes them happy and hence, facilitate excellent performance in the organization
he has core engineering skill, he is the chief engineer of SpaceX
leadership outcome
the quality of displayed solutions in addressing the problem that is logical, effective and unique (EVIDENCE)
Critically evaluate his leadership style
Transformational
Idealized influence
Musk acts as a strong role model that influence others to believe and follow his vision
Musk is a highly-inspiring leader. Even when some of his ideas look impossible, he has the ability to get people excited about his ambitions (VISION NOW: travel to Mars in 2024)
Inspirational motivation
Expect higher from his subordinates and has the ability to motivate and push them to achieve results that they can’t imagined on their own
relate to
path-goal theory
using leadership style achievement-oriented, hence he set clear goals throughout the organization, clarifies path, removes obstacles?, provide support (working long-hour)
Intellectual stimulation
He is not only innovative to builds rockets, disrupts the automotive industry, and has his sights set on colonizing Mars.
stimulates followers to be creative and innovative because they are expected to think big and avoid “we’ve always done it this way” attitude
he also encourages failure by saying “If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
Individualized consideration
Musk is known for individualized consideration because he is concerned with employees well being and does not want any injuries to occur. He would take actions to ensure his team works in a safe workplace
He acts as a coach to help his followers because he is highly concern or micromanage his employees’ tasks such as he would go to a factory and check over the small details in the operation
evidence that he doesn't care about his employees well-being
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/13/tesla-workers-pay-price-elon-musk-failed-promises
https://www.businessinsider.com/former-tesla-exec-allegedly-fired-after-raising-safety-concenrs-2018-6
he provide advanced technology to fit employee skillset to achieve higher performance
micromanage can put into behavioral approach, task-oriented
Charismatic leadership
he is able to communicate to people the importance of his vision to the world and making them believe in it
able to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy by introducing the electric car and solar energy as well as building rocket that aimed to send everyone to Mars
this shows that, he is able to link his employees' identity to the collective identity of the organization
he expresses high expectation on his followers leading them to pursue bigger goal. The effect of this behavior increases thier self-confidence and self-efficacy.
Transactional
Critically evaluate how he modify his style according to the current situation
publicly criticize the government to against work from home, forced his workers to return to work from opening the factory despite violating government policies
Tesla factory forced to closed during the pandemic, transition to "minimum basic operations", factories will be provided with paid leave during suspended operations
Justify the effectiveness of the style
examples
Support argument with leadership theory
LMX or Path-goal theory