Leadership and Management: The Case of Indra Nooyi at PepsiCo

This report focuses on the leadership and management styles of Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, and their impact on the organization. It discusses her leadership qualities, strategies, and challenges faced. The presentation also explores the importance of technical skills and the integration of different leadership styles for success. The report provides insights on becoming an effective leader and the skills required.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART A...........................................................................................................................................3
PART B............................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

PART A
This report focuses on the leadership and management in which the leadership styles are
explained with the impacts on the management of the company. The key points are evaluated
like leadership definition, its styles, which is appropriate leader who best fits to leadership, its
impact on the organisation, employees performance and how it is better than other leaders. In the
presentation the leadership styles are covered, like which leadership style is appropriate to be
adopted by the businesses to run the organisation smoothly. Leader is the person who influence
other employees to work in achieving the common objective for the organisation. So it depends
on the attitude of the leader how it treats their followers (Conger, 2015). It consists different
leadership style like we took the example of the Indra Nooyi who led Pepsi co at different level
of success, so in the presentation her character, commitment, courage, confidence level,
communication skills, convincing power, her strategies are portrayed. Next to this,
transformational leadership theory which consists 4 I's of transformation are discussed in context
to Indra Nooyi which are idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation,
individualised consideration (Northouse, 2018). All things influence the personal life of the
employees and her consideration for individuals make them more motivated, so they work with
more enthusiasm and find innovative ideas at their workplace. Next to this, technical skills are
focused which is important for the leadership they should have personal skills like technical,
human and conceptual skills. Integration of these skills in one person make him a good and
positive leader which leads the organisation to success.
This study is about the leadership of Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo company in which
lots of areas are covered (Rosenbach, 2018). She worked with innovative leadership ideas which
enhance the skills of the employees and it integrates their talent with the company's target. She
motivates the people and fill them with energy to do their best. In this report the challenges faced
by Indra Nooyi are discussed like she faced difficulties in identifying the talent and skills of each
and every person in their organisation. PepsiCo faced many issues related to skilled employees,
so she made the aim to enhance the productivity by motivating the employees (FEW,2015).
Sometimes leader had to face the unusual situation which aroused due to increment in the costing
of production. So, it had to deal with effectively. Leader have to be humble and generous
towards their employees so she listens to their problems, resolve their issues. Leader do not have
to support the discrimination or inequality at workplace so Indra Nooyi played a major role, by

grouping them and developing mutual understanding in them. Comparing her with other leaders
like Safra Cotz and James Quincey as these are leaders of big organisations, so the outcome of
the comparison is Indra Nooyi (Onyusheva and Dugar, 2019.) is an materialistic and democratic
leader. Safra cotz is straight forward while Indra Nooyi possess 5 C’s of Leadership which
concludes commitment for the mission and vision, confidence, courage and her attitude for
problem handling and giving innovative ideas to solve the issues. She always focused on the
decision-making should be strategic and the implementation of these business strategies are
effective in terms of market competence ((Western, 2019). She used her part experiences to
develop the motivation in their employees and make them perform brilliantly. In this report the
ways of perfect leadership is discussed how it contributes to make successful the business. In
short this presentation gives the idea how to become a leader and what skills and quality should
be possessed by the individual to become a leader (Sokol, 2017). As leadership is a quality which
is in born and sometimes it has to give finishing like Indra Nooyi. Organisations have to choose
their leader like her, as they motivate and builds the moral values of the employees and enhance
the prestige of the company in market.
PART B
The main aim of the making the presentation on the leadership and the management is
that we understand about what strategy is used by the Indra Nooyi as a leader of the Pepsi co in
their business. With the help of the presentation we could understand the power of the decision
making which is used by the Indra Nooyi to get the success of the Pepsi co. we can say that the
the decision she takes reflects the level of the courage and the confidence which leads to the
achievement of the success and growth of the Pepsi co. while making this PPT we can determine
that the proper courage and the confidences increases the chances towards the success of the
company. In creating the presentation we learn from the skills of the Indra Nooyi used to
communicate with the other and guides them towards the goals of the organisation. As a leader
of the Pepsi co Indra Nooyi used the theory of the transformational leadership to guides and
directs the activities of their subordinates. We can say that the leader is the one who could lead
the company towards the specific goals and the objectives of the business. We faces lots of
challenges in making this presentation on the leadership and management of the Indra Nooyi
because it is difficult to find the detailed information of her. We cannot coordinates the activities
properly while making this presentation. On the most of the topics of this presentation we creates

the disagreements. In our presentation we do not have the experienced leader which guides and
directs our activities which does creates the problem of the miscommunication in making this
presentation. We learned that the talented leader is needed for the successful working of the
business. As we faces the problems in making the presentation because there is the lot of
differences in the talent and the skills of the group people. Everyone wants to work as per their
own perceptions so it take lot of time in completing this presentation on the leadership and the
management skills of the Indira Nooyi. Our goals and objectives are not clear for the
presentation. We are not focused enough to achieve the knowledge from the presentation. We
have learned that the effective performance of the team leads to growth of the company. We
about the conceptual skills which is used by the Indra Nooyi as a leader of the Pepsi co that the
company have to achieve the sustainability in the business to reach the success. We can say that
effective styles of the leadership used by the leader helps in the achievement of the goals of the
organisation. We have the proper skills to manage the work with the team members and allotted
the work and completed the presentation on the time. Indra nooyi is the one which makes the
effective image of the organisation with their skills and the talent. We can evaluate that the
personal skills is used in making this presentation leads to the fulfilments of the work on time.
Leader have to use the effective skills to motivates and the inspire the employees of the
organisation which reach to the successful activities of the business. S we uses the knowledge
which is scientific in the nature helps in becoming the good leader.

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