Optimizing the Effects of Neuroleadership During Organizational Transition

Optimizing the Effects of Neuroleadership During Organizational Transition

Copyright: © 2024 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-1785-3.ch015
OnDemand:
(Individual Chapters)
Available
$37.50
No Current Special Offers
TOTAL SAVINGS: $37.50

Abstract

Managers and other leaders have a responsibility to facilitate the adjustments that are required to improve workplace happiness and productivity in the months following the pandemic. Human resources remain the primary determinant of a company's performance in the modern world, although there are other elements as well. Competent and efficient management of them plays a unique role. The notions of neuromanagement and neuroleadership are covered in the text. Employee work is coordinated with the aid of neuroleadership, which takes cognizance of the workings of the human brain into consideration. In organizations where the majority of people think that facts and figures are essential when deciding things and where logical justification gives authority, neuro-leadership is a helpful instrument for fostering more capable behaviour. Increasing public knowledge of the systematic foundations of individual behaviour through the use of brain examination, neuroscience, and additional data allows for alteration. Specifically, the secret to bringing about change is to pay close attention.
Chapter Preview
Top

I. Introduction

Human resources remain the primary determinant of a company's performance in the modern world, although there are other elements as well. Competent and effective leadership of them plays a unique role. The notions of neuromanagement and neuroleadership are covered in the text. Employee work is coordinated with the aid of neuroleadership, which takes cognizance of the workings of the human cognitive system into consideration. While it is more challenging to conduct business in accordance with neuroscience principles since we have to consider other people's perspectives, a company that uses neuromanagement can improve employee engagement and alter the dynamic between managers and assistants.

The interdisciplinary topic of “neuro leadership” aims to improve choices, leadership efficacy, and overall organizational performance by fusing ideas from neuroscience with traditional leadership theories. It first appeared in the early years of the 2000s, and as scholars and professionals investigate the connection between neural science and managing, it has grown in popularity.

To help leadership theorists improve those leadership traits that are characteristically regarded as “soft” talents or “soft scientific research,” neuroscience offers evidence-based, “difficult science. Since it is “soft” research, leadership dexterities growth has traditionally been written off as being outside the purview of conventional industry training and instruction. Administrators and instructors of management have also made little application of the substantial and important “hard-science” proof on actions related to and useful to efficient organizational and management practices provided by both psychology and neuroscience (Akşahin et al., 2023). Additionally, leadership development initiatives can be made much more effective by figuring out which physiological “ingredients” are present in those treatments. Finally, neuroscience offers the rigour required by science to encourage future research into the creation of new and significant knowledge about the nature of leadership.

Following the worldwide epidemic, society is calling for a more equitable and sustainable global economy. A few benchmarks are established under the 2030 agenda to accomplish environmentally friendly objectives (Brown, E.C., & Brüne, M., 2012). Professional and individual well-being is essential components to achieving objectives. In this situation, companies must improve their leadership in order to change with the times. In an effort to improve workplaces, the pursuit of well-being has contributed to the implementation of ideas like happiness administration (Cuesta-Valiño, P et al., 2022). It is the responsibility of business leaders to implement the changes required to create healthier and happier environments for workers.

Businesses are becoming interested in developing a leadership team that is focused on making decisions in order to enhance the workplace. This is due to the growing awareness of emotion management in work environments and, in particular, the mental procedures that are linked to it. The goals and uses of neuroleadership are receiving a lot of consideration in light of the contemporary environment, which emphasizes the effects of Industry 5.0 and the Great Recession of 2008.

Knowing the neurological processes behind decision-making is made possible by the neuroscience of cognition and management. Moreover, neuroleadership can assist in identifying capabilities that are required for successful management but cannot be recognized (Dawra et al.,2022). For instance, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, two former lofty-level Gallup managers, utilized neuroscience to clarify why employees are more inclined to achieve when managers support them in focusing on their muscles more willingly than their problems. As a result, research on neuroleadership is becoming more and more popular. By examining the neural underpinnings of conduct, researchers can generate more insightful theories and leadership styles (Du Plessis, A. & Badenhorst, C., 2016)

While research on management and executive leadership has greatly advanced the comprehension of human behaviour in work environments over the past century, new advances in neuroscience have the potential to make huge advances in this field that are mostly unexplored. Based on the rapidly expanding body of neuroscience studies, particularly social and cognitive neurological research, there are plans to formalize a new field that will be devoted to studying the brain processes that underpin or contact relationships, and behaviours in the work and afterward.

Complete Chapter List

Search this Book:
Reset