CSC Leadership
Mike Lawrie is the chief executive officer of Computer Science Corporation. The Corporation provides technology-based solutions for businesses around the world. The success of the corporation has been influenced the CEO’s leadership style. His personality resonates with other employees, thereby helping them to identify with the organization.
The CEO empowers his employees by giving them authority to decide the best way to carry out their day to day activities. When the employees are given this authority, they are able to include their creativity in their work, leading to innovation.
Lawrie uses participative leadership style, meaning that he is not authoritarian. In this leadership style, the CEO involves subordinates in decision making in the participative leadership style (Vandeveer and Menefee, 2009). The contribution of subordinates is taken very seriously because they interact with customers and know their expectations. Moreover, they are involved in implementing the company’s strategy. As such, they know the challenges they face and have insights on to how they can be solved.
The CEO uses transformational leadership style, where he motivates the company’s employees to take ownership of their work and be proud of their contribution. The Leader uses an open door policy where the contribution of every employee is always welcome and treated with utmost respect.
The CEO uses the information received from the employees to plan the strategies of the organization and fulfill his functions. The participation of employees in decision making also helps the CEO to organize resources. He is able to match the right employees with the right tasks since employees know who can achieve certain tasks effectively. Lawrie is able to fulfill his leading function through being an example of what other employees should be.
The leader created the vision that the company’s purpose is to keep the customers ahead in their respective markets with regard to technological solutions. Moreover, the leader promised to ensure that CSC’ solution remain ahead of competitors.
The CEO motivates employees by rewarding those who perform beyond expectation. Moreover, the CEO ensures that information regarding rewards is openly communicated to the whole organization. This way, other employees become aware of what is expected of them. Moreover, those who fail to reach the expected targets are trained so that they gain capacity to attain the expected performance.
The leader communicates the vision of the company clearly and elaborately. Through regular meetings with departmental heads, the CEO constantly reminds them to keep their staff aware of the vision of the organization and to remain focused on it. Moreover, the vision is written in different places within the organization.
The leader is a change agent because he has transformed the organization by giving it new direction and helping employees to identify with it. By being at the forefront of doing his duty, other employees look up to him and follow suit. Through empowering employees and motivating them, the CEO has promoted ownership of organizational goals by employees. The participative decision making process has increased employees’ motivation to conform to the new and better ways of carrying out their duties.
In conclusion, the leader of CSC is transformational, motivates employees and empowers them. He created and communicates the organizational vision clearly through various means. Moreover, he is a change agent and lead to the transformation of the organization to a leading solution provider globally.
Reference
Vandeveer, R. C., & Menefee, M. L. (2009). Leadership styles. New Jersey, NJ: Prentice Hall.
