Impact of Leadership Styles on Performance and Productivity of Employees at Sainsbury's

Other Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Overview of the topic.............................................................................................................3
Background of company.........................................................................................................3
Research aims and objectives.................................................................................................3
How to achieve objectives......................................................................................................4
Background of the problem....................................................................................................4
TIMESCALE...................................................................................................................................4
BACKGROUND SEARCH (LITERATURE REVIEW)......................................................6
To identify the importance of leadership within a workplace of Sainsbury...........................6
To evaluate the role of leaders in improving performance and productivity of employees...7
To investigate the best leadership styles which can be opted by Sainsbury's to enhance their
performance and productivity.................................................................................................7
MARKETING STRATEGY...................................................................................................8
IMPACT ANALYSIS.............................................................................................................9
CONSTRAINTS...................................................................................................................10
RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION..........................................................................11
Recommendations................................................................................................................11
Conclusion............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Overview of the topic
The leadership is a quality of the person who is termed as the leader to influence the other
people in order to motivate them in achieving the goals. The leadership helps in increasing the
efforts of the employees of the organisation (Abdullahi, Anarfo and Anyigba, 2020). The
leadership helps the organisation in setting directions, building inspiring vision and mission and
for creating always something creative and new. Leaders create a great impact on their
subordinates with there leadership styles in improving their skills and encouraging them to
always achieve something big. There are various leadership styles in the framework of concept
of leadership that the organisation acquire according to their company's mission and vision.
Hence a good leader with the suitable leadership style satisfy their employees and customer
which ultimately help in gaining larger profits for the company.
Background of company
J Sainsbury plc also known as Sainsbury's is the UK's seconf largest supermarket chain.
Jon James Sainsbury founded the company in 1989 at London, UK. The company has divided its
interest in three areas Sainsbury's Supermarket Ltd., Sainsbury's Agros and Sainsbury's bank.
The company is well versed in selling its products on the online platform from 1997. The is
always trying its best in achieving the top position in UK's market by gaining competitive
advantage.
Research aims and objectives
Research aim
The main aim of this research is “to determine the impact of leadership styles over the
performance and productivity of employees”. A study on Sainsbury's.
Research objectives
 To identify the importance of leadership within a workplace of Sainsbury.
 To evaluate the role of leaders in improving performance and productivity of employees.
 To investigate the best leadership styles which can be opted by Sainsbury's to enhance
their performance and productivity.

How to achieve objectives
The above mentioned objectives are achieved by the researcher by putting forward the
below mentioned research question. The researcher has developed the question as per the
objectives to understand the topic and its aims.
Research questions
 Discuss the importance of leadership within a workplace of Sainsbury?
 Describe the role of leaders in improving performance and productivity of employees?
 Describe the best leadership styles which can be opted by Sainsbury's to enhance their
performance and productivity?
Answers of these questions will help the research in accomplishing it objective for this report
which will benefit the company like Sainsbury's in improving and enhancing its leadership styles
which will benefit the company in increasing the performance and productivity of the employees.
Background of the problem
Each and every organisation requires a good leader who can provide them with proper
guidance and direction to accomplish the task successfully (Alheet and et. al., 2021). But every
organisation face the issue in leading their manpower due to the improper leadership style or due
to the changes made in the organisation. The organisation highly face the issue of employees
resisting to adapt any changes within the operations of the business. Therefore it very important
for the businesses to have a outstanding leaders and with leadership qualities and skills to turn
the company towards the path of success.
TIMESCALE
Gantt Chart: It is the systematic block representation of the respective task according to the
scheduled period of time (Radwan, 2020). A Gantt chart is helpful for the businesses in
designing and coordinating the various tasks to show what work is scheduled at what specific
time and day so that the tasks are completed before the time or on the time. Hence Gantt chart
helps the leader in providing the proper guidance to their employees.