Collaborative Leadership

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p Collaborative leadership

Collaborative leadership plays crucial role in any success of any organization as it helps in collective efforts channelized effectively for improving the firm 's productivity (David Chrislip , 2002 . Leadership is required for providing right direction for the business house . It may be strategic or collaborative or both depending upon the circumstance It has to consider the problems of the organization in carrying its daily trade and identify the challenges or threats and formulate the strategies for addressing these problems . Collaborative leadership also provides enough scope

for the prioritization of opportunities and making all possible efforts for making it a successful venture in future

In the present case study , Intercargo is a big shipping logistics company located in Hong Kong with more than 20 years of experience . It has the capacity to ship more than one million packages and more than 30 ,000 pallets per month and more than 1400 different shipping optimizations . It also claims that it has a right fit for all their customers ' products and shipping logistic needs as well as the expertise to save the customer 's time and money . It also offers service direct to consumer (B2C ) or business-to-business (B2B ) or both as its shipping logistics experts are able to help with all facets of your shipping needs . More over , it has experience in less than truckload (LTL , full truckload (FTL , common carrier (USMAIL , importing , and international shipping . But the main challenge faced by Intercargo is how to improve the service efficiency in future in the required rate . Moreover , it has to face a tough competition in the future due to several global changes It makes its job complex in serving as a third party shipping logistics and to secure all their customer 's products for their shipping in time and with accuracy . The enhanced competition also requires it to expand its service area to air shipment , customs clearance , and etc . Hence collaborative leadership has to be applied successfully to meet all the objectives of Intercargo . It should provide strategic thinking and decision making for addressing the challenges and for formulating ideal management strategies

It forms the action plan in the form of following objectives

To identify the problems faced by Intercargo at all levels

To identify the opportunities for its business expansion in future

Problem identification

Collaborative leadership mainly concentrates on problem identification Intercargo faces the following nature of problems

1 . Severe competition

It is well accepted fact that increased competition affects the productivity of any business enterprise . Intercargo is not an exception It faces tough competitionfrom different shipping companies in terms of commodity trade . Hence collaborative leadership concentrates on this problem and formulates necessary strategy

2 . Changing global environment

People 's consciousness over the quality of the products has witnessed tremendous change . They are particular about the good quality but in reasonable costs . In case of China , the articles are being produced cheaply but the poor quality made the customers dissatisfied . Hence the export of goods from China to USA...