Subject: Leadership and Management

Question type: Scenario based question

Include the following concepts in answer:

Employee motivation

Employee motivation theory and the 4 drives that underlie motivation

Ways to satisfy those drives

Link the 4 drives of employee motivation to neuroscience

Link the 4 drives of employee motivation to the actions of an ineffective boss

Organizational performance and staff development program

Identify 'Red Ocean Traps' in the workplace

Innovative solutions to problems

• Benefitting from reverse innovations

Reflect on your own professional development

 

Question: 

A core part of our long-term strategy is creating new market share to secure future revenue growth. Winning new market share is contingent on having an innovative as opposed to a traditional mindset. Our last annual report showed we have begun to fall behind rivals on innovation which suggests that some barriers must be holding us back. Explain what those barriers could be and how you would overcome the barriers to improve innovation in the organization?