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Assignment:
Dr Carl Reimann, Director of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, based on his review of applications for the award, summarised the characteristics of excellent leadership (Omachonu & Ross, 1994 and Besterfield, 2008) as follows:
- An organisation's senior leaders should set directions and create a customer focus, clear and visible values, and high expectations.
- The directions, values and expectations should balance the needs of all stakeholders.
- Leaders should ensure the creation of strategies, systems, and methods for achieving excellence, stimulating innovation, and building knowledge and capabilities.
- Senior leaders should inspire and motivate the entire workforce and should encourage all employees to contribute, to develop and learn, to be innovative, and to be creative.
Apply the above characteristics of excellent leadership to your organization.