Goal: When making decisions managers need to be able to evaluate the quality of information on which the decision will be based. This evaluation often has to be made in a timely manner. This task will...

Leadership Coaching

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Article- LEADERSHIP COACHING, LEADER ROLE-EFFICACY AND TRUST IN SUBORDINATES. A MIXED METHODS STUDY ASSESSING LEADERSHIP COACHING AS A LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TOOL.
Question 1
Q1-Critique the sampling strategy and respondent selection used in this study.
Answer- The leadership program to maintain the quality relationship between the leaders and their subordinates, trained and judged by a coach. Respondents here means the leaders and the subordinates in the leadership development process. The process was coached by an experienced person having required skills to coach both the respondents, evaluate them and finally assess them after a complete 6-month session. Both pre-process, and the post-process records are compared to see the progress of the group (Risser, Cates and Sayegh, 2010).
The sample size for this evaluation task is pretty small, i.e. 24 respondents, such that this evaluation might not be efficient enough for the other set of people that are not taken into consideration and are left out of this group. This is a general evaluation that cannot be supposed to be 100% accurate and hence cannot be applied to the other instances related to such decision-making tasks, but as it is an evaluation process, that is itself involving a small set of people, it is quite sufficient for only this type of group that is in consideration at that moment (FISHER and MERLI, 2014).
As there is the shortage of systematic investigation, it doesn't guarantee its correct applicability and is not a reliable system to assess the leadership coaching as a leadership development tool. This shows that the practice of leadership development by this method somehow falls short of the evidence to prove it a robust system in this concern. It does not assure that the theoretical and practical aspects are falling at the right place, and hence it may eventually become an expensive program, that too may not give effective results and can even slow down this development theory. Therefore, it is required to evaluate and validate the components of this development program with scientific methods and by using the reliable theories in this respect (Schonlau and Liebau, 2010). 
The leadership coaching program is actually a very promising development program that can be widely used for the intervention of the leadership program, that is a very effective integration strategy, which helps people to relate themselves to other people, mutually put efforts in doing a task, build and complete the promising commitments taken by them so that they can develop a wide social network, thereby applying a corrective and self-understanding organizational as well as social aspects. But, it is essential not to look into the manual samples only, but it also requires to take into account the scientific theories and methods.
Now, as the developing process starts, the persons involved in the program are from different working backgrounds, having different skills and working styles as well their learning style might be very different from one another. The system ensures a common program, but including separate starting points for every person, that is a challenging task itself, so, this does not ensure a productive result. Also, in addition to some earlier described gaps, this system doesn't assure the correct and intended evaluation of this specific leadership development tool. So, there is a need to fill these loopholes, that can be done in both ways, theoretically and empirically, by considering the rigorous systematic​ evaluations of the system to work effectively (Lochmiller and Lester, 2016).
When addressing the program qualitatively, the system provides the insufficient evaluations. So, there is a need to identify the areas in which improvement is required and to assess its effectiveness, compared to other leadership development initiatives. 
There are no universal criteria to have a successful outcome, the only thing that can be done is to ensure adding the evaluation results into its knowledge base that can be helpful in this concern (Lochmiller and Lester, 2016).
Question 2
Q 2- Evaluate the data analysis strategy used in the quantitative part of the research.
Answer- The data is gathered by performing a step by step procedure, by enquiring the respondents and their opinions are evaluated, then their output is compared to get the final results.

The study was performed by using both the qualitative and quantitative elements of the development method. However, the quantitative data analysis is done by adopting a two-way sequential design, that was explorative enough to answer the questions such as:
1. The generic criteria that must be adapted to calculate the effect of the leadership coaching.
2. Addressing the effect of this outcome criteria and answered that it has positively affected the method. 
3. Referring to the extent to which the facilitative behavior of the coach influenced the effect of the method deployed (Tárnok, 2014).
This procedure involved the designing of the group and included the multisource data within it. It came out to be a comprehensive tool for the leadership development. This was a step by step procedure:
1. Conducting a Group Discussion with the experienced coaches, so that the valuable outcomes come together, both theoretically and practically. 
2. Then an experiment was organized on the field after a 6 months coaching program to study its effect on the subordinates in the presence of leaders. 
The...