Leadership in HKSAR
Leadership is important to every organization because it is very difficult to success without a good leader. So, many scholars write about leadership and organizational management. Edgar Schein is one of the most famous experts in this field. According to the article "Leadership and Organizational Culture" written by Schein (1996), leaders should be able to create, build, maintain and change organizations. His ideas would be discussed in the following paragraphs. Also, the case of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) would be applied to the discussion and HKSAR Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's performance would be considered. Firstly, Schein thinks that leaders can create organizations. They are taking the role of animator in the stage. Successful leaders should have vision, that means they can foresee the future. Apart from vision, it is very important for leaders to have energy to create the organizations. They would try one approach after another, despite facing repeated failure. This energy often comes from the leaders' strong personal beliefs. More importantly, leaders can transmit energy this energy to their subordinates. Considering the case of the HKSAR, the Chief Executive Mr. Tung Chee-hwa, as a leader
Tung can be considered to be an unsuccessful culture sustainer. Tung as lacking the flexibility that is needed to change organizations. There are some factors that affects Mr. Tung, as the Secretary of Judiciary. The most important feature that the leaders have to demonstrate at this stage is flexibility. Also, they must understand the organization's culture, including strengths and weaknesses, to consolidate the elements that are needed to maintain the ability to function and grow. Also, he has no political experience before taking office. They must be able to create for the organization a sense of "psychological safety". In his policy address, he talked about many plans, but seldom mentioned about the solutions to some social problems like unemployment. Elsie Leung, who is like-minded to Mr. Tung is too long-sighted and not short-sighted enough.
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