Leadership Style and Management Report

RUNNING HEAD: MANAGEMENT 0
“LEADERSHIP STYLE”

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Introduction
Woolworths is an Australian chain of supermarkets and grocery stores, it was founded in
the year 1942, the company is in the retail industry (Jie & Gengatharen, 2019). The company is
specializing in selling groceries and other health, beauty products to the customers. The
estimation describes that in the current year company has 1,024 numbers of locations. In the
year, 2019 the revenue of the company was A$39.568 billion and has about 1,00,000 employees
which conduct various activities for increasing productivity of the organization. The present
report, will discuss the lack of leadership styles in diverse situations (Li & Krasny, 2019).
This organization is selected because there are various leaders which find challenging in
selecting the leadership style it is due to the reason that organization conducts their operations in
highly competitive and dynamic environment (Paul, Moktadir, & Paul, 2019). However, due to
facing various other activities such as managing the workforce diversity, motivating the
employees the leaders find difficulty in choosing the leadership styles which can support the
worker to accomplish the overall objective of the organization. The report discusses the
management theory and role as well as significance of ethics and diversity in Woolworths. The
discussion is also made on defining the recommendations which can support the company to
solve their issue.
Methodology
Leadership style is considered the method and procedure which leaders and supervisor
adopt to provide guidance and direction to the workers. In this leaders perform various activities
which include providing directions, executing the plans, motivating the people and conducting
various other activities (Jie & Gengatharen, 2019). There are various types of leadership styles
which leaders adopt such as autocratic leadership style, democratic leadership style, laissez-faire
style to conduct effective operations. However, it is estimated that in Woolworths there is lack of
using different leadership style it is because through which the motivation of the employees
reduces and also in the current year it also reduces the capability of the company to increase
profitability in the same ratio (Matthysen, Pelser, & Prinsloo, 2019).

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In this report, qualitative research approach is used it is because the findings will be
reveled through non-numeric data, the information collection is done through literature review
method that is by reviewing the existing articles this leads in getting the opinions and perceptions
of different authors. Therefore, for analyzing the data content analysis method is adopted that is
the critical analysis is done to understand the leadership styles adopted by Woolworths
supermarkets and also reveal data about the lack of management leadership styles.
The study revealed that in Woolworth’s supermarkets autocratic leadership styles is
adopted by the company. In this decisions are made by the management group and it is delegated
among the staff members to conduct various activities (Paul, Moktadir, & Paul, 2019).
Therefore, this result is increasing the decision making and this sometimes creates problems due
to less adopting styles of leaders in the company. The estimation also reveal that it lead in
increasing issues and problems that is the company used traditional management styles which
results in creating various other problems to the company, it also reduce the coordination in the
organization (Swid, 2019).
The objective of the study is also to understand the lack of leadership styles in
Woolworths, the estimation reveled that in company this problem arise due to not changing the
leadership style according to the situation (Sambell, et al., 2019). Therefore, in the current year
there is high demand of the innovative and creative leaders through which the employees also
feel motivated and at the same time it also increase the sales of the organization. This is the
problem which raised in Woolworths in the present year due to not deciding to use democratic
and transformational leadership style in the company.
Management theory
The lack of leadership styles in Woolworths increase various issues in the organization;
therefore the issue of the company is linked with the theory X and theory Y of management
theory (Banerjee & Case, 2019). In this theory the leaders of the organization make decisions
and delegates it among the staff members because the commitment and assumptions of the
company is that the workers are willing to adopt the skills and knowledge as well as can perform
various activities which is given by the leaders. The leadership style is autocratic which is used
in the company, therefore, this effects the company in both positive and negative manner because