Authentic Leadership in Tesco: A Contemporary Perspective

Introduction
Authentic leadership describe as a management style in
which leaders of an organisation are transparent, genuine
and self-aware. The authentic leader of an organisation has
an ability in order to inspire loyalty as well as trust in their
workers by consistently showing who he really is as a
person along with how feels about their employees'
performance.
Authentic Leadership
Overview of Business
For the following poster presentation, selected organisation is Tesco
which is a multinational retailing company based on UK. The
company is founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen and its headquarters is
in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
Leadership style of Tesco
Leadership describes as an art of motivating a group of
people in order to give their best efforts for achieving a
common goal. This also describes that workers and
colleagues should by direct with a strategy by their
leaders in order to meet company's needs in effective
manner. Tesco follows democratic leadership style.
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Recommendation
• Provide equal opportunities to both men and women
• Leader should also work according to cultural conditions
• Provide empowerment in the organisation
• Moral and ethical leadership
• Team management in leadership
Contemporary issues in
Leadership
• Gender issue: Do males and females lead differently-
• Is there a biological basis for leadership?
• Effects of national culture in the choice of leadership
style
• Affects of current popularity of empowerment on the
way of managers lead
• Lack of effective followers of leaders
• Moral dimension of leadership
• Training for leadership
• Team leadership rather than group management