Richard Young 
Leadership Practices for Optimizing Performance and Job Satisfaction in the Financial Industry 

Scientific Study from the year 2021 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources – Leadership, , language: English, abstract: A company is only as successful as its leaders. Becoming a leader is not always easy, but there are ways to lay the foundation. Core values are essential to create a good working atmosphere in the team. There are various aspects of leadership – such as the role of vision and emotion – that need to be considered. Dr. Richard Young wants to raise awareness on various leadership practices for optimizing performance and job satisfaction on knowledge workers.

What are best leadership practices for managing employee performance in the financial industry? Which methods affect their job satisfaction? And which management styles permit an organization to increase wоrklоаd without negative impact on the team and its members?

To ensure a detailed overview of different management practices and their effects on employees, the author bases his research on qualitative interviews, observation, and document analysis. 200 IT managers and 1000 еmplоyееs in the financial industry were observed and interviewed. The publication is directed to leaders who want to build a healthy and growing company. To achieve this, they have to define leadership principles that articulate and translate the organization’s core values into behaviors. The right tools and training will help knowledge workers to distribute the principles in the company.

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Dr. Richard Young is a seasoned cyber risk executive with extensive hands-on expertise for establishing and maintaining the enterprise strategy to ensure
information assets are adequately protected. For the past 25 years, Dr. Young has shaped and drove strategy work for the implementation of new technologies
and promoting digital transformation through the delivery of business application modernization strategies across organizational application portfolios.
Guiding executives across business function and IT, Richard helps identify business threats, baseline your current security program, and define security
strategy in line with business objectives and technology strategies.

As cyber and data security leader, Richard’s specialized technical knowledge and corporate governance experience helps you build not only a strong cybersecurity foundation, but also the agility to prevent, detect and mitigate evolving threats. Dr. Young is currently a director of Technology Risk at a global financial institution based in New York, and also an adjunct professor in cybersecurity at Harvard X, California Southern University and Ithaca College, just to name a few.

Dr. Young is passionate about building cyber resilience and cyber skills capacity to fight the 21st century cyber incursions. For the past 12 years, Dr. Young has been assisting organizations in the Europe, Middle-East and Asia Pacific build resilience and establishing stronger cyber defenses and teams. The cybersecurity function has a wide range of responsibilities that extend far beyond dealing with firewalls and antivirus software. It should be responsible for providing necessary policy direction to protect the company from emerging threats, and for directly managing senior IT team leaders to ensure they are prioritizing the right aspects of a strategy at any given time.