Leadership Styles and Effectiveness for Performance Improvement

Business Foundation
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Table of Contents
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Leadership styles and their effectiveness for improving performance........................................3
Effectiveness of motivation in improving productivity of companies........................................5
Areas of discrimination in a work place along with strategies for mitigating them....................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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MAIN BODY
Leadership styles and their effectiveness for improving performance
Leadership styles are the behaviours and characteristics of the leader which it utilizes
during the motivating, guiding, directing and managing its followers. With the help of proper
leadership leaders can inspire changes in the organization and increase the performance and
bring social change to the company. There are different types of leadership styles,
Autocratic Style:
Autocratic styles are the most dominant styles of leadership. Leaders in this style take all
the decisions in the organization. While practising this style of leadership, a leader may come out
as rude and dominant in nature but this style has its own advantages. In a situation of emergency
where a decision must be taken instantly an autocratic leader can be useful (Somprach, Tang and
Popoonsak, 2017).
Authoritative Style:
Authoritative leader sets the style of confidence among the followers creating
expectations amongst the followers. In this style leader get them engaged and excited about this
achievement. Leader takes the whole team together for achieving the targets and to find out the
results of the targets.
Pacesetting Style:
This style well describes the nature of the leader who always creates a rush among the
team members. Leaders set the goals very high and push their team members to rush through to
achieve these goals. Pacesetting style of leadership may be effective and get great results but it
can be very stressful to the employees (Purnomo, Supriyanto and Dami, 2021).
Democratic Style:
Democratic leaders share and take reviews of the employees about any topic which
affects the work responsibilities. This type of leaders allow their employees to express their
opinion on final decisions. This type of leadership style generates trustworthy employees and
promote team spirit and involvement of the employees. It has a room for creativity, growth and
development. This is the leadership style which is used by Primark (Gandolfi and Stone, 2018).
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