Business Leadership and Management: A Comprehensive Guide

Business Leadership and Management
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Table of Contents
1-What is involved in being a successful leader?............................................................................3
2- Can good leadership be developed, and if so, how?...................................................................5
3- What distinguishes leadership from management?.....................................................................7
4-What have you learnt about leadership from your own experiences, on this course and
elsewhere?......................................................................................................................................10
References:....................................................................................................................................12
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1-What is involved in being a successful leader?
A successful leader gives a lot of effort to make the business organisation successful and here is
some of the approaches mentioned below:
Figure 1: Elements of being a Successful Leader
(Source: DuBrin, 2015)
Individual
The leader as an individual should have the ability to lead and inspire the employees. The Great
Man Theory states that the effective leader should have the capability of good amount of
guidance be enthusiastic among their employees. These factors will definitely help the leader to
keep the employees motivated, once the employees are motivated then they will obviously be
able to work in an effective manner. The Katz’s Three Skills Model; Skills-Based Model
states that the leader should have the ability of the self-assurance, he/she should be confident
about the decision or the step they are choosing to take. In order to make an organisation
successful a leader need to make a certain amount of social boldness, that factor will help the
leader to make good contacts The Lewin’s leadership styles states that As per the fact of
keeping the good work environment in mind a leader requires to maintain conscientiousness
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(Northouse, 2018). These approaches of the individual leadership help the business organisation
to be much more successful in the coming days of the organisation.
Contextual
Another approach which considers being very important in the context of being a leader, that is
be able to adjust with all the situational context of leadership. In fact, there are many
technological changes in the organisation in order to improve the situational context of the
organisation. As per as the leader is the one person who has to deal with various types of changes
and need to make the employees understand, what are the reasons after which they should be
incorporated with the new system. In the term of the technological changes, many employees are
unable to understand and accept the changes.
Now in this type of context of the business organisation, the leader is the one person who has the
responsibility to take a solution out, in order to provide a solution in this type of situational
approaches. The image of a brand is quite an important thing, which has the capability to turn
the business organisation to turn into a brand. There is a fact, which no leader can overlook, that
is the potential customers are much more attracted towards a brand, than any other factor
(DuBrin, 2015). The path goal theory stats that, there are various contexts where the brand
name is going through some of the major crisis, at this time the behaviour of the leader
considered to be one of the most important factors in the organisation. Leaders play the most
crucial part in these contexts. The contingency model states different leadership style does have
different approaches towards the work.
Relational approach:
This approach refers to the perspective of a leader to create a proper relationship with their
subordinates. Leadership is based on the framework and that context is composed of the
relationship value (Antonakis and Day, 2017). Relational approach is based on three
components, which are servant leadership, transformational leadership and leader-member
exchange theory. Servant leadership refers to the leadership style that focuses on the well-
being of the subordinates and provides them with power to establish a proper relationship among
the leader and the members. This particular leadership allows the subordinates to lead their own
ways and achieve goals within certain time. On the other hand, transformational leadership
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