Leadership Styles and Theories Adopted by Jeff Bezos

LEADERSHIP AND LEADING

TABLE OF CONTENT
• Introduction
• About Jeff Bezos
• Leadership styles
• Leadership theories
• Self -reflection
• Conclusion
• References

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is the procedure of influencing individual
behaviour and attitudes of other people. It is considered
as an important function of management that helps in
maximizing efficiency in order to attain overall vision &
goals of business (Capuana, and Bachellor, 2022). The
PPT will cover leadership styles and theories adopted by
the incredible leader Jeff Bezos. In addition to this, self
reflection is provided on my personal traits and skills.

JEFF BEZOS LEADERSHIP

TABLE OF CONTENTS
RECOMMENDATIONS.................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

RECOMMENDATIONS
The style of leadership followed by Jeff Bezos is a combination of transformational and
transactional in which the leader is visionary and wants the employees to also grow with the
organisation and transform themselves on own to meet the organisational objectives, but also
makes sure that the deadlines are met. However, there are certain points on which improvement
can be made. They are as follows:
A) Although leadership style followed by Jeff Bezos is transformational, it has been also
transactional where employees come after customer. This marks value of employee being
less. This has to be changed with an attitude of employee being assets of organisation and
not just employees (Gradinaru and et.al., 2020).
B) It is human to make errors sometimes and there has to be a modified approach in
transactional leadership followed where employees are given chance of recovering from
mistakes rather than giving punishment. This will eradicate the unwanted fear and
motivate employees to be at their best for the organisation (Breuer and Szillat, 2019).
C) Setting high examples is good but one cannot expect every employee to reach them. The
employees can get stress due to this. Thus, they can be assisted through training measures
and a more humane approach. Employees will become self-motivated to reach the
standards set through transformational approach here.
CONCLUSION
The report reflected leadership styles present in leader of a big e-commerce company. It gave an
insight of the two leadership styles prevalent, apart from evaluating leadership theories.
Transformational and Transactional leadership style were described. Transformational leadership
consisting of leader having a cordial approach with employees and motivating them to transform
their way of working to match with organisation’s vision was described. The leader mentioned
making use of transformational leadership in daily routine as well as during covid crisis was
referred to (Gradinaru and et.al., 2020). The leader motivating the employees to gather courage
to attend work through measures like creating a safety distance environment in office or
providing work from home option clicked with the employees and the company could gain
profits during pandemic too. Leader sometimes using transactional leadership in pandemic was