Emergent Leadership for the Workplace

Emergent Leadership
For The Workplace

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1. Leadership roles and responsibilities with respect to leadership styles and theories .............3
2. Critically analyse the annual report of Whitbread company and compare & contrast the
leadership theory & style in organizational context....................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
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INTRODUCTION
Emergent leadership is also a types of leadership where team members does not elected
for the role of leadership. It will be automatically developed over the time period through regular
interaction with group members. In current scenario, organizations focus on those types of
leaders which create value for the organizations (Gordon and et.al., 2015). It include those
people who does not assigned by the top management or higher authoritative people. These are
those individuals who perform informal leadership role and it is will be appreciated by the team
members. Every leaders required some skills which make them efficient leader in their field.
Leaders should be passionate, have a dream, vision regarding to make society better etc. Without
any passion, leader unable to take any decisions or do not have courage to take any action
regarding any situation. An effective leaders should have various skills which attract their
followers such as communication, awareness about business activities or social activity, should
be creative thinker, motivator etc.
These skills helps the leaders to perform their task in well manner or make them able to
achieve their goals & objectives. This project report based on the Whitbread Plc which is UK
based British multinational hotel & restaurant company. It is founded in 1742 by Samuel
Whitbread and they serve many areas such as China, Dubai, Europe, India, Russia, UK and
Ireland. This assessment cover various topics such as role & responsibility of leadership in the
different styles and critically evaluate the its strength as well as weakness of leadership theories
& models in context of the organization. In addition, it include the critical analysis of Whitbread
annual report of 2018 and compare & contrast the leadership style & approaches which can be
followed by the CEO of Whitbread company.
MAIN BODY
1. Leadership roles and responsibilities with respect to leadership styles and theories
The process of leadership involves motivating the group or individual to act and work
accordingly so as to accomplish the common goal. This process directs, influence as well as
decides the behaviour and ability of an executive to work efficiently and effectively in the
provided situation and time (Mast and Latu, 2016). The quality of leadership enables the high
authority employees and managers to induce the juniors and subordinate with positive thoughts
and zeal. Such type of leaders are required in every organisation to develop and predict future

goals and visions, and to motivate other employee in such a way that they collectively organise
the work in the most profitable manner. The characteristic of leadership are discussed below.
 Influencing and guiding the workers to attain a specific aim requires such inter personal
process and skills in the manger of an enterprise.
 The qualities and abilities like maturity, influencing personality and intelligence should
be incorporated in ideal leader.
 Such process requires a group or at least two people communicating with each other on
daily basis, thus the operation of leadership refers to a group process (Rathore, Chadha
and Rana, 2017).
 The way of tacking provided situation and problems in most unique and creative way, is
one of the characteristic of leadership and such type of qualities are present in the
leaders of Whitbread Public Limited Company.
Roles of leadership
Leadership function being the most important part in motivating and providing guidance,
the roles of leader play crucial role in fulfilling the needs and task, some roles are mentioned
below.
Mandatory at all level: Leadership is a process which is required at each and every level
of management. At highest level, the function is required to get cooperation from subordinates
for successful planning in making desirable policies and plans. At middle or lower stage, it is
necessary for executing and actually implementing the plans and the policies which are
formulated and framed by top level authorities.
Representative of whole enterprise: The manager, that is the leader has been considered
to be the actual representative of organisation. The role of leader is to present the concerns and
ideas related to the future vision and present issues in seminars and meetings so as to pass along
the rationale of the company to the outer public in order to enhance the reputation and funding
for the organisation (Simms, 2016).
Proper guide and philosopher: An ideal leader should posses traits which make the
employee more comfortable in an environment. Such individual must be a friend, so that the
workers can share their feelings, ideas and desires with them easily. The manager should be a
philosopher, who can share their experience and knowledge with the existing associates to make
them understand the way work is being done in given time framework. The person should be a