Impact of Leadership on Organizational Culture and Diversity Management

Leading People
(Essay)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Critically evaluation of the statements given by two CEO's and business leaders during the
current Covid-19 pandemic by drawing attention to different leadership styles and theories....3
Assess the impact of leadership on organizational culture and diversity management..............5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leadership approaches and theories are the tools and measures that are used by leaders to
develop a effective and motivating environment around in their teams and keeping people
motivated to work with utmost talents and efficiencies (Blanchard, 2018). Leadership has a
strong influence on people behaviours and their working styles while assigned respective tasks
and goals. Therefore, leadership is defined as a process of keeping employees satisfied and
happy within the organisation and making the best use of their capabilities. The chosen
organisation on example basis for the assignment is Microsoft and the reference of its former
leader and leadership styles of Bill Gates. The report will be evaluating the range of leadership
styles and models along with it the impacts placed on organisational culture and diversity
management in regards to leadership is evaluated.
MAIN BODY
Critically evaluation of the statements given by two CEO's and business leaders during the
current Covid-19 pandemic by drawing attention to different leadership styles and theories.
The first statements was given by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of FaceBook which was given
by him for appreciating his employees around the globe working with FaceBook from different
regions and handling the operations on behalf of the organisation. The statements given was “I’m
very proud about how our teams around the world have pulled together to support people getting
accurate information, fighting misinformation, supporting small business and their recovery
making sure that important social and communication services that people rely on to keep in
touch with the people they love, stay stable and running.”
According to the statements it is determined that Mark is a leader using Laissez Faire
style of leading staff around the globe in different regions where the organisation has established
its operations. FaceBook is working on mass level with huge workforce, hence it is important for
Mark to trust people and assign them power, duties and responsibilities accordion to their skill
sets and capabilities (Herring and Elton, 2016). With the use and help of Laissez Faire leader
style Mark placed huge trust in his employees around the globe in the situation like the
pandemic caused known as Covid-19.
As a leader Mark believe that assigning jobs and opportunities to people for growth and
their personal development will be leading the people more closer to the goals of company as