Business Case Study: Rasgas Company Limited

RasGas Company Limited (RasGas) is the case and comes about as among the premier integrated liquefied-natural gas (LNG) enterprises in the world. It is referred to in the paper as RasGas. It has enviable reputation in being safe as well as reliable LNG supplier. This company has transformed this regional resource into major component of global energy-mix. RasGas has a number of managers. It operates 7 LNG trains, two facilities of production of sales gas and two plants of helium and long-term charter-fleet of twenty seven LNG vessels. RasGas manages construction of Barzan Gas Project as well. The Barzan Gas Project is aimed at fuelling Qatar’s major development and further contribution of RasGas to all the four pillars of development.
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To achieve this requires good leadership. Considering the RasGas management structure, there is no doubt that the Company has knowledge of the essence of good leadership and how it relates to management of strategic change. To become world-class, RasGas needs to have very effective leadership even if it means transforming a few areas of leadership in the Company. The structure of leadership of companies helps in producing results which can enhance creativity as well as innovation. It is also worth noting that not every type of leadership can be effective as far as creating opportunities is concerned. Investments in some styles of leadership as well as models have capacity of producing results which generate creativity. The successful companies have uncovered that shared as well as collaborative leadership, instead of heroic as well as authoritarian management gets to unlock the companies’ potential better. Companies which operate from authoritarian, hierarchical and command as well as control model, in which topmost leaders control work, information and decisions as well as allocation of resources, usually produce employees who are less-empowered, less-creative, and less-productive (University Alliance 2016).This model kind emphasises leadership as extension of action of top leader and will. This heroic leadership model was very popular throughout the 19th C. However, it continues even now in several
However, it cannot be said that it is only the top management that should take credit for that. It can be argued that for RasGas to manage an output of over 2 billion standard cubic feet (Bscf), it must have employed effective leadership. However, since it spells out in its plan that it wants to expand, improving leadership skills comes as a necessity to it. They cannot depend on the C.E.O alone. Companies still express modern version of this leadership approach where followers perceive leaders as those people that have all great ideas as well as who can achieve great success in the company single-handedly. It means that in these organisations, leaders take central places and followers believe leaders should be ultimately responsible in case of any outcome, and ensure organisational processes operate