Leadership Skills and Styles in International Entrepreneurship

This report discusses the changing leadership skills and styles of managers and leaders in the airline industry after the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the various skills and styles used to improve business profitability and productivity.

International Leadership and
Entrepreneurship

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Explain various leadership skills which adapting mangers and leaders after COVID-19. ........3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Analysis the various leadership styles and model which impact on airline industry due to
COVID-19 situation. ..................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
International leadership and entrepreneurship refers to those which including leaders and
mangers utilising various tools and techniques in order to expand their business operation
internationally and improving work performance after COVID-19 situation. The report is about
the leaders and mangers changing the leadership style and skill after the pandemic situation of
COVID-19 in order to impact the business profitability and productivity of company (Allen,
2016). It includes various leadership styles which refers to airline industry affecting business
productivity and sustainability after this situation because they suffering heavy loss so leaders
and mangers using various tools and techniques which result as increasing profitability,
performance and productivity of company.
TASK 1
Explain various leadership skills which adapting mangers and leaders after COVID-19.
COVID-19 is pandemic situation for all over the country so it affecting various business
model. It including enterprisers faces cries and shut don the business unit so it directly impact on
profitability and productivity of company. On that basis most of organisation has incurred heavy
due to pandemic situation of COVID-19. Most of entrepreneurs face so many challenges so
accordingly formulated new strategies in order to again establishes businesses and operate
business activity (Aziz, 2017). Leaders and mangers of company planning for new leadership
style and skills which have to effectively and efficiently using which are helps to growth and
success for enterprise after this situation. There are ample numbers of leadership skill which
adapting leaders and mangers so which are discussed below.
Providing healthy and safety working environment-: During COVID-19 crisis leaders
and mangers utilising various skill in order to effectively managing performance of company as
well as employees because in surrounding various safety and health risk of employees and team
members. It including enhancing mental health issues due to this situation so leaders providing
psychological help for their employees because they performing business activity effectively.
Online training-: Leaders and manger of the company providing online training for team
members due to pandemic situation mangers developing new strategies and start work from
practices so not affecting work of organisation. It involves leaders imitative to support their staff
in order to fulfilling their al needs and cannot suffered work of organisation.

Support emotional health-: Emotional support which refers to sensitive impact on
employees lives and work so this tacit used by leaders in order to providing comfort and
monitoring which leads to managing stress, social withdrawal and poor performance of
employees. It involves some employees have paying attention to their loved ones so leaders
support them and asking for employees and team members so managing both work and non-
work.
Model health work habit-: Leaders and mangers adapting role modelling supervisors so
they managing their own behaviour and guidance in order to effective accomplished work within
time frame as well as work life balance and engage in self-care during pandemic situation
(Cekuls, 2018). It providing safe and secure working environment to their team mates and
knowing about that all the resources available to their workers so they cannot suffered for any
health issue. They focusing team members work accomplished coordinate in order to flexible
working hours, response time, and family obligations. It including motivating and encouraging
their staff so they work can be performed effectively and cannot take any mental stress.
Promote work-life balance-: It is most important skill and tacit which are including
support to employees in order to reducing work pressure and burden along with easily handling
and managing projects such as flexible deadline, prioritizing task, removing irrelevant task. It
involves leaders and supervisor adapting this skill in order to effectively managing the work as
well as enhancing organisation profitability and productivity of company.
Decisive mind-: It is process which refers to leaders making effectively decision making
process because proper planning of business activity and they have not extra time so conducting
activities due to taking effective decision.
Positive attitude-: It refers to positive attitude towards the work so mangers and leaders
adapting this skill because they helps to encouraging and motivating employees. Positive attitude
helps to building team spirit among the employees and team members which helps to increasing
profitability of company (D’Angelo, 2016).
Focused approach-: Due to pandemic situation of COVID-19 leaders and mangers
utilising this skill because it helps to work completed within specific time frame and according
formulated new strategies which helps to attained the goal and objective of company. It
including focused approach towards the work and accordingly managing work and easily
achieving daily routine targets of company.

Therefore, It includes various skill and tacit which utilising by leaders and supervisor of
company in order to again increasing profitability and productivity of company after COVID-19
situation. All this skills helps to mangers in order to managing the business activity and
improved performance of employees as well as organisation. It includes various external factors
which also affect the business so enterprisers analysed and formulated strategies in order to
achieving organisation goal and objectives.
TASK 2
Analysis the various leadership styles and model which impact on airline industry due to
COVID-19 situation.
Leadership is important concept without that business cannot survive at the marketplace
for long time. During pandemic situation of COVID-19 affecting the profitability and
productivity of organisation. It includes they are ample numbers of enterprise are close down
their business due to lock down period of this situation business cannot gaining profit and they
not survive in the market. Most of organisation again start their business unit after lock down
period so they utilising effective tools and techniques which helps to easily achieving
organisation goal and objectives. In relevance of airline industry, it involves highly impact on
their business because in UK travelling are banned and travel restriction during lock down
period so affecting their profitability and sustainability of business (Hamdan, 2018). Leaders and
mangers of airline organisation after this situation using various leadership style which are
discussed below.
Democratic leadership-: It is leadership style which using by organisation after this
pandemic situation in order to leaders are not taking all the decision solely but in it includes their
team members which helps to taking effective decision making. In context of airline industry, it
includes business model difficult to survive so their leaders effectively using this style in order
improved performance of company.
Autocratic leadership-: Most of the enterprises utilising this because after this situation
they incurred heavy loss so leaders utilising this it is just opposite the democratic leadership
because not involving team members in decision making process so they cannot consult with
their employees (Lawal, 2017). This style helps to managing work pressure and helps to
achieving company goal. In relevance of airline industry, it includes leaders and mangers

adapting this style because the effectively managing work so changes the hours of work shifts so
helps to increasing profitability of company.
Transactional leadership-: Leaders and supervisor using this style in order to
encouraging and motivating employees towards the employees in order to performing reward
their employees on the basis of their work (Majed, 2019). It involves employees and team
members work effectively and efficiently so it helps to improved performance of company as
well as enhancing sustainability of company. Airline industry mangers using this style because it
motivating to their employees on the basis providing attractive incentive and perk towards the
work.
Transformational leadership-: This style helps to transforming and improving the
organisation conventions. It includes employees set their task and goals in order to achieving
within specific time frame. Leaders and mangers using this style in order to pushing their team
members they work for outside comfort zone and achieving their regular base. It considered as
leaders and mangers fixed the deadline of projects which result as work performed effectively
and help them to achieving organisation goal and objective of company.
Bureaucratic leadership-: This style which known as employees and team members
formulated new strategies in order to performed the business activity and this kind of style
mostly use larger, older and traditional company (Matriano, 2019). Airline industry mangers and
leaders utilising this approach because it including developing new strategies in order to gaining
competitive advantages and sustainable business model after the COVID-19 situation.
Behavioural Theory :
This theory which utilising by leaders and mangers in order to managing their teams
effectively which helps to achieving the goal of company. After the situation of COVID -19
most of organisation changing their policy and strategies so leaders and mangers using various
leadership theories because improved performance of company. It includes success and growth
of leaders depends on behaviour rather than features. It involves leaders managing situation,
observing, and then reacting on specific situation. This theory not believe in order to leaders are
born but made so using this skill so anyone personality became leaders and managers. It involves
leaders promotes their idea and suggestion of team members because it helps to able and capable
to developing learning as well as improving performance of employees at workplace. It consider

as leaders and managers focusing on their behaviour so which helps to enhancing productivity of
company and morale of team members (Renko, 2017).
Contingency Theory:
This theory which refers to focusing on different situation and leaders applied on various
situation at workplace (Paudel, 2020). Due to COVID-19 situation managers utilising this theory
of leadership in order to increasing effectiveness of organisation and helps to success and growth
of external environment. It involves which refers to stagnation facing tuff situation so gaining
competitive advantages so using this theory on the basis of particular situation formulated
strategies which helps to enhancing profitability of company.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that, it including pandemic situation of
COVID-19 faced by organisation so it affecting their profitability and productivity of company
during lock down period. It involves organisation change their policy and strategies after this
situation. It includes organisation using changes their leadership skills and adapting effectively
which result as improving organisational performance of company as well as employees and
involves leadership style which result as enhancing company profitability and productivity.

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