Company in the current environment

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WOOLWORTH
Leadership
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Concept of leadership......................................................................................................................2
Different forms of leadership style..................................................................................................2
Reasons of challenges looking into leaders.....................................................................................3
Leadership Challenges faced in Organization.................................................................................3
Changes needed for understanding and framing leadership for meeting the challenges in complex
times.................................................................................................................................................6
Recommendations for improving the quality of leadership............................................................8
Recommendations of the limitations of approaches to develop both leader and leadership...........9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
In the current era, it has been found that the dynamic environment affects the working of
the businesses. Leaders of the company are the one who performs the major practices as they are
the one who contributes to meeting the goals and objectives of the company. Leadership is one
of the processes which can direct and influence the behavior of the other towards the attainment
of the goals. One of the leading companies is Woolworths who has its headquarters in New
South Wales, Australia (Woolworth, 2019). The company is one of the retailers throughout the
supermarket merchandise stores as well as petrol situations. There are different challenges which
are witnessed by the Woolworths Company in the current environment.
Concept of leadership
When someone leads with the power and took the major decision in the organization with the
proper authority is termed as the leader. A leader has many responsibilities in the organization
and he also has to motivate the other employees to reach the goals. He is the one who maintains
coordination with the other employees and always boosts the energy level. He has a good
personality which attracts other people and also has good communication skills. A good leader is
the one who has positive vibes and also includes integrity and empathy.
Different forms of leadership style
The Democratic leadership is followed in the company Woolworth so that while making
any effective decisions the contribution or the subordinates are also taken. The power of making
the decisions should be in the hand of the entire membership in the company so that major
collaboration will be there and coordination in the employees can be seen. The communication
lines are open in the organization which gives the benefits to the company while communicating
with the other members. The ideas of other members in the organization freely flow in this
method of leadership.
Autocratic leadership is the leadership style where the decisions are taken by the superior
authority and subordinates have to follow that. The advice given by the superiors is to follow by

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the subordinates and they have to consider their ideas and judgments only. All the control over
the decisions is taken by the leader and it is known as autocratic leadership.
Reasons for challenges looking into leaders
Several leadership challenges occur in the business environment of Australia.
Woolworth’s facing several challenges in the business due to the lack of leadership in the
company. Woolworths facing several challenges in the business environment and the leaders of
the company have a lack of knowledge and they are not able to deal with the problems that
occurred in the process of the leading in the business (Voegtlin, et al., 2012). The several
challenges occur in the leadership of the Woolworths organization that decreases the overall
growth of the business. The main challenge in this process is poor innovation that is very
essential to manage these challenges as innovation is the best way to attract consumers and if the
innovation is poor the sales of the organization get decreased. The leaders of the organization
face several challenges in setting the proper goals of the business and it maintains the short-term
goals. Several leadership challenges create many problems in business.
Leadership Challenges faced in Organization
Woolworths faces challenges related to restructuring. A plan for restructuring has raised
many issues and concerns about future redundancies. The leaders of the company planned to
terminate the old employees and thinking to hire new employees to attain success in business.
There are many challenges that have been faced by the company just because of this step as
warehouses workers have lodged a dispute against it. Apart from termination, the workers also
lodged against the company for a fair work commission. The dispute has been raising a big issue
for the company in terms of survival. The existing workers are also not able or capable to do the
work due to which the quality of services is also decreasing. It is essential for the employees to
get a fair commission on their work for survival.
If the employee does not get the benefits from the organization they decided to leave or
not to do the best for their performances. This dispute also affects the reputation of the company
in the Australian market as they terminate the workers across Australia supermarkets. Fair work