Contents

• INTRODUCTION 2
• TOYOTA 3
• OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY 4
• SITUATION LEADERSHIP ISSUES 5
• LEADERSHIP FOLLOWED BY TOYOTA: 5
• LEAN LEADRSHIP 5
• BENEFITS OF LEAN LEADERSHIP 6
• MATERIAL HANDLING 6
• CUSTOMER BENEFITS 6
• INVENTORY BENEFITS 6
• DECREASE THE MANPOWER IN AN ORGANISATION and THRUSTS INVOLVED IN LEAN LEADERSHIP 6
• TOP LEVEL 8
• MIDDLE LEVEL 8
• FRONT LINE MANAGEMENT 8
• THREE ATTRIBUTES OF LEAN LEADERSHIP 8
• ACTIONS IN EFFECTIVE LEAN LEADERSHIP 8
• LEAD LEADERSHIP IN BATTLEFRONTS 9
• KEY RULES TO LEAD AN ORGANISATION IN LEAN REFINEMENT 9
• DO NOT IN LEAN LEADERSHIP 10
• LEVELS OF LEAN EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP 10
• LEAN MODEL OF TOYOTA for EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP 12
• REVIEW of LITERATURE 13
• Organization and Leadership Theory 13
• Just in time theory 14
• Advantages of JIT 15
• Behavioral Theory or Consumer Behavior Theory 15
• Consumer buying decisions through flow chart 16
• Benchmarking / Best Practices 18
• Integrated low cost differentiated strategy 20
• Flexible manufacturing system 21
• Hiejunka 21
• Ccc21 or construction of cost competitiveness in 21st century 21
• Toyota Supply Chain Management: A Strategic Approach to Toyota's Renowned System 22
• SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 22
• SOLUTION 23
• PERSONAL EXPERIENCES 24
• Conclusion 26
• Reference 27

Description

This assignment is based on the following description –
Analyse some contemporary writings relating to effective leadership in modern business organisations, or an individual organisation, and critically evaluate different strategies and approaches to leadership within a modern organisational context. Using your findings and conclusions as a model or benchmark, evaluate your own leadership style to ensure you can effect improvements in work performance both at an individual and at a company level.
The purpose of this assignment is to give you the opportunity to critically review some current papers and writings as well as contemporary themes, on leadership. You will then identify some relevant issues that will enable you to put forward some ‘best practice’ models in contemporary organisations. You will use your findings to benchmark your expertise and capability and assess some learning goals and needs for yourself to ensure that you achieve your personal leadership goals – please do not devote more than 1000/1500 words to this latter section.
You will identify key trends in academic and organisational thinking on effective leadership and then use these insights to derive conclusions about capabilities, In this paper you will, identify some key leadership issues for organisations in a diverse and complex business environment. You will find that there are changing interpretations and understandings about leadership in modern organisations. John Storey (2004) points out that these contrasting assumptions can be further analysed into differential assumptions about what specifically is ‘effective leadership’ This analysis will enable you to critically assess your own leadership development needs and propose a set of short and medium term actions that will improve your chances of achieving these goals. You may invite your employer to comment on any aspects of the assignment but there is no obligation for this to happen. The deadline for submission of this assignment will be at the end of the MBA programme. The learning outcomes covered focus on 4 and 5 as well as 2 and 3.