What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a leadership matrix?

In his book Leadership in Organizations, Yukl (2013) conceptualises leadership by organisational level. These levels can be viewed as a hierarchy as depicted below: General Managerial Work Functions Level (Yukl, 2013) Chair, Board Director, Chief Executive Officer Organization Senior Manager Group Supervisor/Team Leader/Line Manager Dyadic Knowledge and understanding: Please consult academic textbooks to define and explain all the key terms in the essay. 1. Use intext citations to identify the source of your explanations, definitions, assertions, discussions, arguments etc 2. The important academic concepts for this essay are listed below and need careful explaining and discussing using academic literature to demonstrate your knowledge: a. Yukl’s leadership matrix (e.g. what is it? What is its purpose? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a leadership matrix? Are there any limitations to its application and use? Has any other academic considered a leadership matrix to analyse different levels of leadership in an organisation? (see Howieson and Northouse e.g) If so, what similarities and differences does it have?) b. Environmental turbulence What is it? How is it defined? What explanations can be found in the literature? 3. Find examples to demonstrate the understanding of the different leadership levels in practice? E.g. search quality newspapers Analysis Consider how leadership at the different levels (organisation; group and dyadic) has responded to environmental turbulence (rising inflation) in a banking institution. 1. Describe the environmental turbulence of rising inflation. 2. Provide a paragraph on each of the three leadership levels in the question (organisation; group and dyadic) and discuss how those three levels of leadership responded to the environmental turbulence 3. Finally, consider how effective/helpful the leadership matrix itself is applied it to a real banking organisation responding to turbulence of rising inflation. List some of the weaknesses and strengths of the theory. Provide an opinion? Is it good / helpful or does it have limitations? If so, what are they? Provide References.

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