Evaluation of the Leadership and Management Style
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Evaluation of the Leadership and Management Style
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Evaluation of theleadership andmanagement style ofMichael O’Leary
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3Is O’Leary a manager or a leader or both? Set out your rationale underpinning your answer.. .3The characteristics and skills that have helped him drive the company forward...................4What could be the consequences of taking his style too far?.................................................7Will O’Leary be the right person for Ryanair during the times ahead, or does the companynow require more of a ‘manager’ than a ‘leader’? ................................................................7CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFRENCES...................................................................................................................................9
INTRODUCTIONLeadership is the ability within individual or group for influencing as well as providingguidance to followers and other staff members of an business firm. Whereas, management is thepractices related to managing each and every activity within organisation (Harrison, 2018).Although purpose behind management is to accomplish goals and objectives within effectivemanner by continuing activities like planning, organising, leading and controlling. This report isbased on individual named as Michael O'Leary who is chief executive officer of Ryanair. It islow cost airline company founded in 1984 and its headquarter is in Dublin Airport, Ireland.Respective report will going to discuss that leadership as well as management style of MichaelO'Leary which he implement in their day to day working.MAIN BODY Is O’Leary a manager or a leader or both? Set out your rationale underpinning your answer.Great man theory and trait theories explain that people inherit specific qualities as well astraits which make them better suited to leadership. Although, there are several inborncharacteristics within individual which help them in becoming leaders (Are Leaders Born orMade? A True Story, 2019). In other words it can be said that, by teaching skills and knowledgecannot be build in individual but inbuilt knowledge don't require any type of classes to learnanything again. Thus, Michael O'Leary is born leader and he believe in autocratic leadershipstyle which believe that leader will give rules and regulation and rest of the staff member have tofollow that. In such type of leadership style, leader world for the welfare of organisation only notfor the staff member working with them (Whitehead And et. al., 2019).Michael O'Leary is an Irish businessman as well as the chief executive officer of Ryanair.He is born in 1961 on 20th march and one of the wealthiest businessman within Ireland's. He isleader by birth because it is in the nature of respective person to control other people. MichaelO'Leary follows Autocratic leadership style while working within Ryanair which is an Irish lowcost airline industry organisation founded in 1984. its headquarter in Dublin Airport, Ireland aswell as slogan of the respective organisation is Low fares, made simple. Under this leadership style, a leader is willing to take decisions for the betterment of anorganization on their own without receiving the feedbacks and suggestions from their existingemployees. It is also known as authoritarian leadership due to putting control over all decisions
and little input from their existing employees. Autocratic leadership involved absolute involvesabsolute, authoritarian control over a group (Reddy And et. al., 2015). Using such leadershipstyle brings more beneficial outcome in the situations when the time available for the leader islimited. While those who rely on this approach to heavily are often seen as bossy or dictator-like,this level of control can have benefits and be useful in certain situations. It assist an organizationto grab competitive opportunities by taking quick decisions which brings them ahead their rivals.On the other side, this style demoralizing the employees which can leads to high level ofabsenteeism and staff turnover. In the given scenario, an individual named as Michael O'Learywho is autocratic in nature believes on the decisions taken by himself and doesn't invest time toget ideas and suggestions from others as it consumes more time which may put behind him fromothers (Wandling And et.al., 2016).But the leadership style using by Michael O'Leary is not suitable as Ryanair. Because allthe time it is not possible that leader always take correction decision there is requirement of otherstaff member involvement also. So that, decision will be taken in effective manner along withsome fresh ideas which can improve efficiency of organisation. The characteristics and skills that have helped him drive the company forward.While working in an organisation, it is required for a leader to influence positivelyto their subordinates. As Michael O’Leary is a enthusiastic leader who influence positively totheir co-workers by the help of his characteristics and skill. On the basis of these kind ofpractices organisation can attain its target objectives and goals in effective manner. There aresome characteristic and skill of Michael O’Leary are determine below as: Characteristics of O’Leary:Confidence: For an individual it is required to have a courage to be confident towardstheir decision and working practices. As Michael O’Leary, is a confident personality thatreflect in the success of their venture. To become effective leader like Michael O’Learyan individual must have enough confidence so that other follow commands. Optimism and positivity:Michael O’Leary have quality of viewing difficult task orsituation as opportunity to become better. To influence other leader first should haveoptimist and positive attitude. This will help in motivating oneself as well as others todeal with challenges with energy and positivity.
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