Leadership Theory and Internal Environment of Sainsbury

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INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS
INTRODUCTION
Business environment is generally mixture of internal as well as external factors which impacts the
operations of organizations directly or indirectly. Sainsbury is retail organization being established in
1869 by John James Sainsbury and headquartered in London, U.K.
This poster gives a brief about leadership theory and internal environment of organization.
Leadership style
Transformational leadership
Leadership is basically the process of guiding as well as influencing behaviour and the activities of
others for accomplishing the specific task goal or objective. The most widely known theory of
leadership is transformational leadership. This is the theory in which leaders mainly works along with
teams for identifying the changes and for designing vision to accomplish goals. In this, leaders mainly
encourage the employees for innovation and helps in their growth (Birt and et.al., 2020). There are various
leadership styles which are followed by organizations like autocratic, participative, democratic
leadership, laissez-faire leadership. The leadership styel which Sainsbury uses is participative
leadership. In this, the management of Sainsbury solicit the input from employees and hence
encourages them to provide their feedback for the effective decision-making.
Departments and divisions
HR department
Although the scope of HR department is wide but the main role of HR department in Sainsbury is to
provide the effective training to employees and retain them and focus on workforce planning. Leadership
plays an important role within this department. The effective leaders in this department in Sainsbury drives
the productivity of employees and hence helps to build the positive environment within organization
(Brondoni,2018).
Finance department
The major role of finance department in Sainsbury is to manage the funds of organization and effectively
plan the expenditure of funds. Besides this, it is also responsible for managing the financial performance of
Sainsbury. Leadership has a great role to play in finance department in this organization. The leaders help
to take the strategic decision for company which will be beneficial for achieving financial goals of
company and provides the clear view of various opportunities and challenges.
Marketing department
Marketing department basically plays a great role within the organization and the
main role of this department is oversee the various sales activities of organization
and thus promote the products as well as take the brand message to the wider
audience. The leadership style as well as leaders plays a prominent role within this
department in Sainsbury. The style of leadership which leaders mainly adopts helps
to motivate the employees for attaining goals and objectives (Allen and Imrie,2016).
Leaders in Sainsbury have a crucial role in motivating as well as encouraging their
team members to attain the sales target. Besides this, leaders are also responsible for
managing the overall marketing budgets.