Transparency Leadership Skill

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I chose this image because it shows how simple everything becomes with the transparency of the water since everything else is blurred which can be translated to how clear everything can become to employees if the managers are transparent about everything that is going on with the company. The image also represents the opposite side with how blurry it is for employees if managers are not transparent.

This source talks about how transparency in management goes hand in hand with trust and how the main benefits of transparency are building trust, dedication, teamwork, and efficiency while the main drawbacks are slowed-down decision-making, and backlash.

This video states that effective management of transparency requires managers to carefully balance transparency with the need for secrecy. It describes the complex nature of transparency and demonstrates three ways to balance transparency with secrecy; rationalized, ceremonial, and decontextualized

This video also talks about trust and transparency, but in a specific field: an engineering company. The speaker talks about transparency through giving employees autonomy over their responsibility so that they know everything about the project they are working on.

This video talks more specifically about ways to be more transparent in an organization. It especially highlights three key things that an organization can do which include being clear about three main things: company decisions, company compensation, and company performance.

This source talks about how transparency in management goes with trust and how the main benefits of transparency are building trust, dedication, teamwork, and efficiency while the main drawbacks are slowed-down decision-making, and backlash.

This article talks more about the paradox of transparency and how to avoid those downsides of transparency by creating boundaries for the backlash employees can give on the information they are told in the effort of transparency.

This article also talks about how transparency goes hand in hand with trust when it comes to the workplace and that if your employees trust you, you also need to trust your employees which can be shown through transparency.