Leadership and Management Theories and Practices: A Critical Evaluation of Jeff Bezos' Leadership Qualities

Leadership and
management, theory and
practice

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Trait and Behavioural Theories...................................................................................................1
Situational and Contingency Theory...........................................................................................2
Transformational and Transactional Theory...............................................................................4
Distributed leadership..................................................................................................................5
Ethical leadership and Critical leadership perspectives...............................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leadership and management practices are essential elements of successful organisation.
The term leadership is demarcated to individual’s potential for influencing, enabling and
stimulating others for making contribution in success of company (Burfeind, 2019). Likewise,
management refers to controlling set of people or entities so to accomplish an objective. The
presentation is prepared on Jeff Bezos who is founder as well as CEO of Amazon.
The presentation critically evaluates the effectiveness of leadership qualities of Jeff
Bezos from perspectives of the theories and practices.
MAIN BODY
Trait and Behavioural Theories
Trait leadership theory is propounded by Thomas Carlyle as well as Francis Galton who
states that a leader possesses certain kinds of traits which makes them effective leader. As per
trait leadership theory, good leaders have pattern of characteristics which support their
competence to mobilise resources for shared vision (Calvo, 2020) (Gobble, 2017). Jeff Bezos
have certain traits that serves as benchmark to lead group of human resources for making claim
of credibility. Traits of Jeff Bezos to manage an enterprise that is Amazon are as follows:
Desire to lead: It is trait of effective leaders that they have strong desire towards roles
and functions of leadership. In case with Jeff Bezos, the personality has strong desire to lead the
team of Amazon by themselves.
Integrity: Effective leaders demonstrate trait of high integrity and honesty level, Jeff
Bezos have confidence and trust in working that inspire them to lead others effectively.
Open mindedness: Leader such as Jeff Bezos has trait of open mindedness for new
experiences and ideas. As per Jeff Bezos, innovation is valuable and they consider ideas from
others to take leads.
Extraversion: Leaders have trait of extraversion which tend to being social as well as
outgone personalities that guide them to take lead together with act initiatively. Jeff Bezos is
extraversion in nature that helps them to connect and inspire others through relationships.
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Behavioural theory is developed by Dr. Rensis Likert who argues that leader’s success
is based on their behaviour despite of natural attributes. It involves observing together with
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Jeff Bezos

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Situational leadership theory..................................................................................................1
Contingency Theory...............................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3