Leadership Style Assignment (Doc)

Running Head: CRITICAL LEADERSHIP ANALYSIS
CRITICAL LEADERSHIP ANNALYSIS
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Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................2
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Justifications of the choices of the Chief Executive........................................................................3
Biography and leadership style of Kate Carnell..........................................................................3
Biography and leadership styles of Manny Stul..........................................................................4
Critical perspective, comparison and contrast each leader..............................................................5
Conceptualization of the three leadership approaches.....................................................................8
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................11
References......................................................................................................................................13

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Executive summary
The purpose of this article is to critically analyze the leadership style and approaches of
three chosen chief executive officers, that are; Manny Stul, Gillon Malachlan and Kate Carnel.
The article justifies the reasons for the selection of the three leaders and further conceptualizes
the factors that led to their success contrast and compare their styles of leadership, by looking at
the educational background, work experience and leadership styles.
Introduction
Organizational success depends on the type of the leadership style and approaches
portrayed on the followers (Chapparamani, 2012). Leadership is definable as the practical and
social skills that encompass the capability of an individual to offer guidance to people who
voluntarily participate in certain activities of an organization. All the leadership approaches and
theories, according to the path-goal theory developed by Robert House in 1971 poses different
types of behaviors on the leaders (Ahrens et at., 2015). These leaders’ behaviors, either directly
or indirectly influence the participation, satisfaction, motivation and the overall performance of
the followers. The theory identifies the following; achievement-oriented, participative,
supportive and directive as the leadership approaches that are more influenceable to a successful
organization as leaders are flexible and ready to change their styles depending on the situation
(Owen, 2015) Leadership theories and approaches acquired by the leaders are always essential to
every organization that they lead and they are always differing according to the situation. The
article, therefore, looks at leadership styles and approaches of three different Chief Executive
officers in Australia, those are; Gillon McLachlan, Kate Carnell and Munny Stul. The article
exploits the effects of each of the leadership approaches and theories on the work related
environment, the biography of each leader, the overall behavior of employees, and

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conceptualization of their success, organizational issues, and recommendations on how to
combat such problems.
Justifications of the choices of the Chief Executive
Gillon McLachlan is an Australian, born in 1973 and currently the Chief Executive
Officer of Australia Football League in 2014. After the university education, Gillon worked as
the management consultant with the Accenture and then worked as a strategy consultant in 2000
with the AFL (Hopkins, 2011). In 2003, Gillon got an appointment to be the General Manager of
the Commercial Operations of which later in 2008 became the Chief Operating Officer. In 2012,
Gillon got an appointment as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer during which played a
significant role in delivering stadiums for both the GWS Giants and Gold Coast Suns. In 2014,
got an appointment as the Chief Executive Officer of the AFL replacing Andrew Demetriou.
Biography and leadership style of Kate Carnell
Kate Carnell born in 1955 is an Australian businesswoman and also an advocate for the
small business owner a former Liberal Party politician who was a Chief Minister of the
Australian Capital Territory (Haber-Curran & Sulpizio, 2017). After the graduation from the
University of Queensland with a degree in Pharmacy, Kate served as the inaugural chair of the
ACT Branch of the Australian Pharmacy Guild between 1988 and 1994 then as the Vice-
President of the guild from 1990 to 1994. Along with that, Kate served in various positions such
as the chairman of the Southern Pharmacists Company limited between 1982 to 1992. Vice
President of the Retail industry and Training Council, ACT between 1987 to 1991, Member of
ACT Board of Health between 1990 to 1991 and Member of the Pharmacy Restructuring