How Amazon Use Proper Leadership to Create Success

How Amazon Use Proper Leadership to Create Success
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Introduction
Leadership involves being accountable and doing the right thing with a high level of integrity. It’s an act of motivating individuals to work towards attaining a common goal. In a business environment, leadership is all about analyzing strategies and implementing plans that ensure that each stakeholder is towards achieving the organization's goals. It needs cooperation and being able to display knowledge and capability of leading a particular people. Leadership involves inspiring persons to meet their end tasks and engage themselves in a more engaging activity. In leadership, it’s about motivating and inspiring; many people have taken it for an advantage. Many are using leadership opportunities to exploit people and benefit from them. Effective leadership involves making others follow the orders and contributing ideas that help each party.
Amazon has, however, been the leading company in the current world due to proper leadership by Jeff, and the company is growing while generating high revenues and ensuring customer satisfaction. Amazon is successful because its decisions are strategic and involve critical analysis of all undertakings. However, many theories support leadership roles and explain its significance.
Proper leadership has created success in Amazon, and many people in the current world are buying products from this company since they have a detailed plan are towards satisfying the needs of the customer. Enhanced practices, timely products, and reliable goods have made Amazon grow significantly and meet the needs of many individuals globally. Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, has ensured its growth and success through proper leadership in undertaking the processes and ensuring adequate work. Leadership is essential for the success of the company and requires a frequent review of goals and procedures implemented.
Theories and models of analyzing problems
Many methods have been set across to emphasize leadership and explain more. The plans have been a source of many studies, and it has tried to explain how leaders stand on their own while ensuring sound management and effectiveness. The theories of leadership are:
Great Man Theory
The theory emphasizes that leadership is intrinsic, and it’s in the person and born to lead and provide sufficient judgment. The method depicts that attaining leadership is through various situations and scenarios (Marshall, 2017). The approach shows that leaders are born and have the character of leadership, and they will only know through the occurrence of various actions. The theory indicates that these people will always lead even though they have adverse effects. However, this theory is essential in that leadership is built through social conditions. Amazon leadership needs to realize various traits of its stakeholders and measure them accordingly.
Behavioral theory
The theory focuses on the behavior of the leaders rather than their mental perspectives. It states that leaders are made and not born as they have the right conditions for meeting the objectives intended. The theory specifies leaders into two categories; the ones concerned with the objective and others concerned with the people. In the research undertaken, the study has measured various aspects of the related effect of specific behaviors of individuals from leaders. Amazon is successful since it is concerned with the people and its stakeholders.
Contingency theory
The theory emphasizes that various situations and circumstances determine the right leadership in that others can perform well in specific tasks and poorly in other jobs. All people have minimal performance in certain circumstances, and leadership is related to the situations in which the leaders undertake their functions (Komives, 2016). Contingency theory states that leaders are likely to express their leadership roles when they need to and that their subordinates will be responsive
Transformational leadership theory
In this theory, a person formulates a relationship with a group and then builds trust, then leads people, and its motivation is in an extrinsic and intrinsic way, and all people follow and listen to the message they share. The importance of this theory is that leaders in Amazon can transform their members through the nature of inspiration and charismatic personalities (Spears, 2016). The group norms and behaviors guide the rules and principles in this theory, and it provides a sense of belonging as they can quickly identify with the leaders and for the personal good.
The success of Amazon
Amazon is successful because it operates internationally and serves a variety of people in a large geographical area. Strategic decisions made and implemented by the company make it successful since this decision is strategic and organized to meet the needs of all stakeholders. The CEO does a great job of ensuring accountability and integrity among employees by allowing teamwork and feedback on decisions. Amazon will be and is unbeaten since it makes international trade and helps in risk diversity. The goods and services delivered to a variety of people, creating customer satisfaction. It is also successful since it values the advancement in technology and is towards enhancing its activities.
Amazon is famous because of its comprehensive used products, and many people prefer this company because goods are delivered to the doorstep and are a bit cheap than other products found in the market. The proper leadership makes Amazon strive towards creating the value and work towards satisfying the customers. Leaders made amazon successful by involving stakeholders in decision making and setting principles that all people adhere to. They also enhance feedback from the customer and advance with the growing technology making it more competitive in the market.
Adequate plans with proper leadership have made Amazon be successful and be towards attaining its goals through working towards the mission and objectives of the company. Amazon produces products and supplies internationally through a website where customers can order the products they want. It makes it successful since customers can choose from a variety and are not limited to specific goods.
Through this, the organization can track what customers prefer more and innovatively produce more to meet the needs of the customers. It ensures customer satisfaction and the goods ordered delivered in time, and this makes the company successful and famous. Jeff solves issues with the stakeholders and provides measures to handle conflicts that arise in the market, making leadership more appropriate and towards meeting the goals of the organization.
Presentation of problems.
In leading people, there is a need for involving them in decision making and working in the best interest of each individual, and Amazon looks towards solving this problem. However, in the current century, this is not true as many people are becoming greedy about money and leadership roles. Leadership has made various people act on their interests and violate others while taking advantage of the resources given. The problems associated with leadership in Amazon are:
Inadequate communication
In leadership, it involves sharing ideas and exercising on them every day to be able to deliver quality work, and it requires clarity and discipline, which is hard for many people to maintain. It requires consistency in the messages shared among the teams and the willingness to keep it daily in ensuring effective communication (Rosenbach, 2018). Many CEOs need to communicate daily and effectively to the junior departments, and they have to talk frankly to ensure that the message is well portrayed and understood by every individual.
In ensuring adequate and transparent communication, then Amazon has to think beyond the people they lead and ensure that the decisions they make reflect the well good and that it reflects all the interests of the stakeholders. Structured communication is vital to connect and secure a connection with each individual and that there is a well presented in work done.
Lack of accountability
If plans set are not working or structures set across and implementation, then it shows that there is a lack of accountability in the workplace, and there is inadequacy in leading the people and directing them (Blanchard, 2018). In being accountable, it requires focus to ensure that the laid plans are met and implemented while avoiding distractions. Accountability requires self-discipline among the leaders to achieve the desired results. Amazon provides that each individual has a responsibility, and issues solved that pertain to the processes taken.
Problem analysis in Amazon
Amazon ensures sufficient and successful leadership through the encounter of several problems so that the pla...