Contemporary Leadership Themes

Contemporary
Leadership Themes

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Challenges of leaders during working in an organisation......................................................3
Evaluation of traditional leadership practises and traits along with the advantages and
disadvantages of each of them................................................................................................4
Compare Contemporary and traditional leadership styles......................................................6
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES:.............................................................................................................................11
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Organisations involved in leadership so that they can manage and influence all the members
in an effective manner. It helps in enhancement of the productivity of overall organisation so that
organisation can achieve their goals (Clifton, Schnurr and Van De Mieroop, 2019). This report is
based on Asia world group which is a supermarket company. It was founded in 5 June 1992 and
headquartered in Yangon, Myanmar. This report involves various challenges of leaders during
working in organisational settings. Leadership practises and traits are evaluated along with their
disadvantages and advantages and impact of them on performance. Comparison of different
contemporary leadership styles are mentioned in this report.
MAIN BODY
Challenges of leaders during working in an organisation
Leaders have to focus on various operations of their employees so that they can maintain
effective productivity. Leaders of an organisation should understand the behaviour and nature of
their employees so that they can influence them in desired manner (Irving and Strauss, 2019).
Sometimes the leaders of Asia world face various challenges in their day to day operations
which can be discussed as follows:
Pressure: Organisations involved diversify the activities and operations of which to be
managed by leaders and desired manner which become difficult in some of the situations.
Multitasking becomes tedious for some of the leaders of Asia world as it results in pressure and
stress on their mind.
Cultural issues: Every organisation possesses different work culture which influence the
behaviour of individual in positive and negative manner. Leaders face challenges in managing
operation due to diversified culture which includes gossips, communication issues and
undermining team members. All these factors negatively affect the productivity of individual as
well as overall organisation.
Staying motivated: Sometimes leaders face situations which become critical for them to
handle which results in demotivation (Chon and Zoltan, 2019). Staying motivated is very
important to motivate other staff members so that achievement of goals and object as can be

achieved in effective manner. For example, leaders of Asia world try to fix problems with the
help of various alternative options so that they can maintain their level of motivation.
Managing different people: Organisations hire diversified people so that they can form
and develop effective team for accomplishment of their goals. Managing different behaviours at
same time become difficult for leaders as every individual have their different perspectives. It is
important to handle the situation with kindness and grace which helps in maintaining balance
between negative and positive behaviours of employees.
Evaluation of traditional leadership practises and traits along with the advantages and
disadvantages of each of them
Leadership involves different combinations of the traits, personality of individual,
situations and behaviours which affect the operations. Every organisation follows different
leadership styles according to their business environment so that they can influence their
employs in desired manner (Shoup and Hinrichs, 2019). Traditional leadership styles involve
implementation of plans, directing them in prescribed direction and motivating people so that
goals can be achieved in effective and efficient manner. Asia world also follows various
traditional leadership styles which can be discussed as follows:
Authoritarian or autocratic leadership: In this type of leadership managers do not
involve their subordinates or employees in decision making and plannings. Some of the leaders
of Asia world formulate all the plans and delegate them among their employs in order to
complete the operations accordingly. Close supervision is maintained by the leaders so that
performance can be tracked on regular basis. This helps organisation in enhancing their
performance by eliminating mistakes and errors of the employees.
Advantages:
 Faster decision making: This leadership style helps leaders in making decisions faster
and more accurate so that operations can be completed in limited time duration. It
eliminates delays in operation so that organisation can effectively achieve their
objectives.
 Better communication: Systematic process can be maintained with the help of
autocratic leadership style. Asia world can maintain originality in their instruction
because leaders are responsible for communication of authority.
Disadvantages