Effective Leadership Styles and Practices

The assignment discusses the importance of effective leadership styles and practices in improving employee performance. It highlights the use of democratic leadership styles, communication as a management practice, motivation, and rewards as strategies for motivating employees and achieving business goals. The study concludes that these practices are essential for organizational success and provides recommendations for improvement.

Context of business

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1 ................................................................................................................................................1
Company Background ................................................................................................................1
Rationale ....................................................................................................................................1
LO 2 ................................................................................................................................................2
Vision .........................................................................................................................................2
Leadership style .........................................................................................................................2
Management Practices ...............................................................................................................3
Management strategies ...............................................................................................................3
LO 3 ................................................................................................................................................4
How this achieved and implement in Tesco ..............................................................................4
LO 4 ................................................................................................................................................5
Recommendation for future improvement ................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Context of business is the method to analyse the environment in which business operates.
This is the most important aspect of the business planning. This study is base on the company
Tesco which is the leading British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer. This
study covers the company background and also the vision of the company and its leadership
style, management practices and strategies. And also it covers how Tesco uses and implement
this style to achieve the goals of the organisation. Further it includes various recommendation
that the company must use to improve the performance of the company and work in the effective
way.
LO 1
Company Background
Tesco is a leading British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with
headquartered in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, united Kingdom. Tesco has shop
in seven countries across Asia and Europe and is the market leader in groceries in the UK. In
1919 Tesco was founded by the Jack Cohen as a group of market stalls. Also, Tesco has
expanded its business globally since the early 1990, with operation in 11 other countries in the
world. Tesco has diversified into various areas such as clothing, books, electronics, toys, petrol,
software, financial services, telecoms, internet services, furniture and many more. Tesco has
460,000 employees working in the business. And also the operating profit is £1,644 million and
also the net income is £1,208 million. Tesco has various subsidiaries such as Tesco Stores, Tesco
Bank, Tesco Mobile, Tesco Ireland, Tesco Family Dining Ltd. Tesco is listed on the London
Stock Exchange and also it is constituent of the FTSE 100 indexes (Regina, Joseph and Daniel,
2016).
Rationale
The major reason to select Tesco is because the company has faced many ups and down.
But by that also the company is considered to be on of the leading company in the retail industry.
Also, it has various subsidiaries which help Tesco in many ways. Tesco has various opportunities
which help the company to earn more. It also helps in expansion and diversification of business.
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As in 1997 Tesco announced the purchase of the retail arm of Associated British Foods , which
consisted of the Quinnsworth Stewart and Crazy Prices chains in Ireland and associated
businesses for £640 million. And also its management system and coordination of the company
is up to mark so it will be easy to understand the leadership style, management practices and
different practices of Tesco and it will help to understand the styles which are help in success of
the business (Regina, Joseph and Daniel, 2016).
LO 2
Vision
The vision of the company is to grow the business with full opportunities and innovative
ideas. And also offering customers with high quality products at low price. And the main vision
is to earning trust and loyalty of the customer's, colleagues and communities.
Leadership style
It is a manner in which it provides the direction, implementation of plans and motivating
people. It also refers to the behaviours which is used by the leader in directing, motivating and
guiding or managing the groups of employees. As great leader can influence its employees and
motivate them to perform, create and innovate. In 1939, a group of researchers led by
psychologist Kurt Lewis set out different leadership style which help the business in many ways.
These styles are-
Authoritarian Leadership – it is a style which provide clear picture of what needs to be done,
when should be done and how it should be done. This leadership style focus on the command of
the leader. There is the clear division of the leader and the members. In this leadership style
leader make the decision independently with little very little input of its members. This
leadership style is less creative and have less involvement of group (Donate and de Pablo, 2015).
Democratic leadership style – This leadership style involve the group and one of the most
attractive style in which the leader offer guidance to group member. And also participate in the
group and take their creative and innovative ideas so that members works in more motivates way
(Sudha, Shahnawaz and Farhat, 2016).
Delegative Leadership – In these style the leaders offer little or no guidance to group member
and also the leader leave the decision making up to the group. And also leader shows less
interest. In these the member lack in proper directions and blame each other for mistakes.
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Management Practices
These are the practices which are usually refers to the working methods are innovative ways that
the managers used to improve the efficiency of the member and motivate the members to work in
more effective way. Management practices that are used by the mangers to help the member to
work in more betters ways are communication, training staff, Performance monitor and
responsibility and teamwork (Maak, Pless and Voegtlin, 2016).
Communication – As management is all about communicating to the staff and the clients. The
first management practices is that the manager should use clear and effective communication to
the staff and clients. Effective communication is the major tool in the successful management.
The manager must use good and best skills to communicate with its employees so that the roles
and responsibilities are clear.
Training staff – The second management practice is to provide good training to the staff. So that
the employees perform in the better way. And also work in the right direction.
Performance Monitor – The third practices which are use by the manager is to monitor the
performances of the employees and rate them accordingly. And try to motivate them in order to
work in more effective way.
Responsibility – This help to encourage the people to initiate tasks. This help to build the trust
between the manager and employees. This helps to achieve the organisational results easily.
Management strategies
Management strategies provides overall direction to a business and helps the business to
achieve the goals of the business and develops policies and plans to achieve those objectives and
then allocating resources to implement the plans. There are mainly three strategies which are use
by the manager are Motivation and rewards, Decision making and structure culture.
Motivation and rewards – The first management strategies is that it is important to motivate the
employees so that they work in more efficient and effective way. Motivation is very important in
the organisation as by the help of motivation the organisation run in the better direction. And
also rewards plays a major role in success of the organisation as employees work hard to attain
the goals of the business (Shrouf and Miragliotta, 2015).
Decision Making – The second management strategy is that is use b the manager is to involve
the employees in decision making process and also it will be beneficial for the organisation as
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employees gives their innovative and creative ideas. And also the decision making of the
business will also improve.
Culture - The third management strategy is that it is important to provide good culture to the
employees so that employees work in the positive way and also there will be fewer chances of
conflict. And also it is important for the manager to respect the culture of the employees .
Culture include value, attitude, behaviour of the employees (Asrar-ul-Haq and Kuchinke, 2016).
LO 3
How this achieved and implement in Tesco
The leadership style, management practices and management strategies are implemented
in the company that affect the whole organisation and also the working of the company. To
achieve the goals and objective of the company it is important to implement the style and
practices in the positive way. These practices and style helps the employees to work in the right
direction and also it motivates the employees (Nawaz and Khan_ PhD, 2016).
In Tesco leader implements the democratic style as it help the company to work in
effective way. As this leadership helps to give the opportunity to the employees to participate in
the decision making process and also share their innovative and creative skills in order to
improve the decision making. In these style the group members feel more engaged in the
process. By this leadership style Tesco will achieve its goals as all the members are motivated
and work more hard. As it gives member a chance to share their opinion freely. It helps Tesco to
improve the productivity and increase the morale of the group. And it also facilities the
coordination as member are free to share ideas and there are fewer chances of conflict. It will
make team members much more committed to overcome barrier which they feel in the growth of
their business. For example if company feels that employees are more expert in particular field
than it will involve the members in decision making process (Shrouf and Miragliotta, 2015).
Tesco use communication as a management practices. As it is considered as one of the
tool in the success of the business. Effective communication helps the company to achieve the
goals in much faster way. It helps to increase the coordination between the employees and the
manager. And also by the help of communication it clears the roles and responsibilities of the
employees. The manager of Tesco use this practices as it gives fewer chances of conflict and also
increase the productivity of the company (Anderson and Sun, 2017).
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Motivation and rewards are the most effective strategies as Tesco implement this
strategy. Motivation plays a key role in the success of the business. As motivated employees
work in more positive attitudes. For motivating the employees Tesco gives various rewards so
that employees work I more effective and efficient way. Motivation helps to encourage
employees to participate in the organisation matter and also they show interest in the goals of the
business (Yahaya and Ebrahim, 2016).
LO 4
Recommendation for future improvement
Tesco have a leading position in the retail industry because of its effective leader in the
company who leads the people and motivate them to achieve the objective of the company. And
also by applying different strategies, practices and leadership style it helps the business to run in
the effective way. But there are some recommendation that Tesco 's manager and leader must
considers that will helps to improve the performance of the business.
 It is recommended for the Tesco to use autocratic leadership style as there is no confusion
about the direction of the company and also the mission and vision of the business are
clear and everyone knowns there jobs very well. As in this theory the leaders formulates
the policies and plan and make all the important decision. This will help Tesco to make
faster decisions as it doesn't require participating the members (Bititci, Cocca and Ates,
2016).
 Tesco is the leading company and it is important for the workforce of the industry to feel
that they are the most important part of the company. So it is recommended that to use
performance monitor in which the leader and the manager will be aware that there is need
for improvement in the performance of the employees and also it is important to reward
them. Thus, it is important to review the performance so that it will help Tesco .
 It is recommended to involve the employees in the decision making process so that
employees feels that they are more important in the organisation.
CONCLUSION
From the present study it is concluded that the leader and the manager plays a great role
in the organisation. Leader and manager uses different styles and practices to work in the better
way. As it is concluded that democratic leadership styles is the most effective style that is used
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by most of the leader. Further manager uses communication as a management practices
improving the working of the business. And also it uses motivation and rewards as a strategy for
motivating the employees and achieve the goals and objective of the business. Further there are
many recommendations to improve the performance of the company.
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