Leadership and Leadership Styles - Assignment

Applied Concept

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Leadership and its style .........................................................................................................3
Reflection.............................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

Introduction
Leadership is the capability of individual to influence group of people
to perform their work in single direction in order to meet their targeted goals
and objective. An effective leader is the one who inspires and motivate its
team member to make them work harder to meet vision of company. It can
be said that leaders often uses various tools and techniques according to the
interest of individual to influence them for placing their efforts at highest
level (Schyns and Schilling, 2013). This present report is based on
Leadership and its different styles which are adopted by leaders in their
regular based working pattern. It also includes detailed description about
leadership style along with their advantages and disadvantages. At last, this
report also includes detailed reflection about the overall experience of
individual with which they have through completing this research.
Main Body
Leadership and its style
Leadership refers to art of individual to motivate overall team or group
of people in order to achieve common goals. It is a skill of individual which
basically influence people to work in the same direction (
12 Different Types
of Leadership Styles, 2018.). It includes sharing of vision and mission with
the manpower in order to make them work for the same thing willingly. It
can be said that leadership is an effective skill which helps employees to
perform their job responsibility in the effective manner in order to achieve
targeted goals and objective of the company effectively. As a result,

organisation easily increases their number of opportunity which enhances its
profitability too. There have been different leadership styles which are
adopted by leaders to execute their business activities effectively. Some of
the main leadership styles which are adopted by leaders are described below
along with advantages and disadvantages and it application in the business
operations as well.
Transactional leadership: This leadership style mainly focuses on the
outcome of employees performance, it has been realised that leaders who
follows the same this leadership style gives rewards to employees on their
performance whereas they punishes employees on low productivity (Renko
and et. al., 2015). This leadership practice strictly follows clear cut vision,
commands, chain of action, etc. which helps in leading employees to follow
same instruction in order to achieve targeted goals and objective. It has
been analysed that leaders are quiet strict according to this style as they
only believes in increasing productivity of the employees. They simply
motivates employees by giving something back to them in exchange. In this,
employees of the company always requires someone to motivate and
instruct them in order to make them work effectively and attain their
targeted goals and objective in appropriate manner.
Advantage: Leadership style contributes in achieving short term goal
of organisation in less period of time. Along with this, employees are aware
of the certain about reward and penalty system which motivate them to
perform business activities in less period of time