Solution Culture A positive working culture does not happen spontaneously, but it must be created through different ways including LMD initiatives. Proper training is the most important way to improve organisational culture (Alshammari, 2020). Organisational leaders and managers must raise up to improve their team’s comfort level. If people lack confident to speak to their leaders and managers, opportunities for reinforcing culture may get lost. Organisation values get lost because of lac...

Solution Stakeholder management describes the process of organising, monitoring and improving relationship with stakeholders (Carroll and Brown, 2022). Stakeholder’s management matrix provides a framework in which stakeholders are identified and managed based on their influence and power. Stakeholder management process starts by identifying stakeholders, identifying their needs and prioritising these needs. The importance of managing stakeholders to have positive relationship with them, invo...

Solution Learner engagement The success of a LMD initiative can be reflected by the level of learner’s engagement. Learner engagement reflects the efforts and amount of time participants invest into their learning process (Vulpen, 2021). It means people are taking enough time to process learning material produced and sign up. When employee engagement has improved, it means the LMD was successful. The more people will provide positive feedback about training, the more they are engaged with...

Solution Diversity Diversity in the workplace means having differences in gender, education background, cultural backgrounds, age, religion, abilities and beliefs (Ali, 2022). Diversity in LMD initiatives is integral to achieving equality and recognising that people are different. It is about understanding that there is no one-size-fit for all and hence, learning materials should be designed in a way that recognises individual differences. Some key aspect to consider when designing LMD in...

Solution Learning theories have been a key reference to how and why adults learns in recent years. Learning is a continuous process among leaders and managers and both learning and application are interwoven. They reinforce each other, but how adults learn is different from how children learn. Adult learning is social learning, learner-centred and active learning. Social learning is emphasised in the Knox’s proficiency theory of learning that proposes that adult learning arise from life situ...

Solution Leadership and management development (LMD) initiatives are activities that help leaders and managers to broaden their knowledge, abilities and skills (Quilliam, 2022). Effective leadership and management is widely recognised as a crucial aspect of organisation’s success. Therefore, developing leaders, managers and individuals is a significant part of United LEC learning strategy. In this case, people professionals can support LMD initiatives in different ways: Conducting learnin...

Solution Knowledge CIPD Profession Map outlines various core knowledge and specialist knowledge associated with leaders and managers (CIPD, 2022). Leadership knowledge based on the map include business acumen and culture and behaviour. Leaders need to have business intelligence so that they can set a vision that has a purpose and competitive. When setting a vision, they should understand how culture and behaviours include achievement of the vision. On the other hand, management knowle...

Solution McGregor’s X and Y style Style X managers tends to take a pessimistic view about their subordinates and assume that people dislike work and are naturally unmotivated (Galani and Galanakis, 2022). In this case, they use appraisals and remunerated to encourage results. On the other hand, style Y managers takes a optimistic view about their people and believe that employees enjoy working and are self-motivated, hence they use participative and decentralized management style (Gal...

Solution Leadership as vision and managers follow it Leaders create a purposeful vision for their company and influence their followers to work toward the vision (Samimi et al., 2022). However, leaders are not the only people who make the vision realizable. Managers on the other hand follow the vision and help to achieve it by setting targets that employees should achieve. Managers also manage and allocate resources to ensure people are in align with the vision. For example, United LE...

Solution Importance of leadership Modern organisations need leaders and managers to direct organisation’s resources for the achievement of goals and objectives (Purwanto, 2020). Good leaders and managers set plans, provide clarity of purpose, motivate teams and guide the business to realise its mission and vision. For example, leaders will create a vision while managers will determine how this vision will be achieved. With the dynamic business environment, leaders and managers are req...