Leadership and Teamwork: Enhancing Performance and Employee Engagement

This document discusses the critical assessment of leadership and teamwork styles, explores the aspect of organizational change in the context of Asda Stores, and applies theories of leadership and approaches to employee engagement. It covers various leadership theories such as contingency theory, situational leadership theory, transformational theory, and trait theory. The document also emphasizes the importance of employee engagement in enhancing performance and achieving organizational goals.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1. Critically assesses leadership and team working style............................................................1
2. Explore to aspect to bring in organisational change in different perspective.........................2
1.Applies theories of leadership and approaches to employee engagement to demonstrate how
you will change things................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The leadership and teamwork is one of main managerial practise that enables for
improving that get to accomplish for positive related outcomes that allows different sort of factor
that helps to improvising skills and knowledge for approaching new business objective to
accomplish. Through making leader design framework that helps to support to get proper
performance standard which creates certain benchmark for positive outcomes. By selecting Asda
(Ayoko, 2020) Stores company for designing reflective report as it is British based market chain
retail base to acquired is having authorised in their retail base associated for Associated Dairies
company of Yorkshire. It was founded in 19 February 1949 and effectively acquired to get better
merger acquisition that enables in listed on London Stock Exchange within having revenue for
21,666 millions through UK grocery market.
MAIN BODY:
1. Critically assesses leadership and team working style.
Leadership and teamwork that having impact towards better ability that enables for
getting proper organise that enables for accomplish objective that every in your team is going in
same direction to attain working style for objective attainment in systematic way for targeting.
These strategy to get overcame strategy for accomplish vision through motivates by assorting
talent that attain high outcomes of goals. In perspective of Asda Stores in developing of skills
and knowledge that enable for building creative with other through work by improvising culture
that people for diverse group. Through work productivity as well as resolve conflicts that enables
for team work which is provide for measuring performance that enables to get achieve all targets
all task accomplish task. Management skills is also plays an important role to developing that for
approaching efficiency utilising time for encouraging staff for advocate on assess all monitor and
and controlling for getting positive outcomes. Leader of Asda (Fair, and Kondo, 2020) Stores
company who reliable for getting approach for unproductive behaviour for improve in systematic
behaviour that enables for improvising towards getting profitability through employees can
contributing build co-operative building team development.
In many situation leaders approach different styles for attempting in different alternatives
for making more better way of task accomplish that matters for team work competency that
enable for attaining get accomplish for matters . Some of skills and knowledge which is having a
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clear communicator where effective leaders towards team member that helps to get overcame for
approaching that helps to perform effectively in maintain objective through goals and objective.
Effective team is having more influencing through better exceptional through which
organisational skills where highlight about objectives towards which leader and team member
get approaches strategies for maintain meeting objectives about company goals and objectives
that Asda Stores leaders focuses to fulfilled. Another factor of enhancing for attempting in
teamwork performances that creates more satisfaction level that helps to gain high competitive
advantages.
2. Explore to aspect to bring in organisational change in different perspective.
Organisational Change: It is refers for attempting actions that enables to commencing
actions a company for better business alters a major factor of components that enhance through
organisation that underlying technologies which they creates mores better infrastructure it uses
for better corporate by assessing (Giudici, and Filimonau, 2019) internal and external changes.
In perspective of Asda Stores company when it allows decides to company emphasis for
attempting market changes to get over growth business reason to implies more change in benefits
for better organisation that allows for different structure that impact in culture through allowing
strategies, culture politics that enables for attempting more business growth. Some of different
factor that support to bring new market change that enables to bring positive change inbuilt Asda
Stores:
 Adapting to market changes: There is alignment of change which bring to build
strategies which helps to implement some sort of changes which impact on change that
bring in overall business alignment proper manner. In perspective of attempting for
implementing modification through Asda Stores company that effective to get optimise
through better structure for more development scope in vast manner.
 Digital transformational and upgrade technologies: This is one of factor that
implement by technology which generates more impact for getting positive outcomes
through approaching digital transformational by enabling digital factor which improvise
in development for Asda company. More advanced based technologies are enabling to
get overcome factor for attempting high organisational implementing that organise for
productive manner that allows different types of solutions.
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 Improves process and procedure: This is one of human resource department that tend
to approach for design or form various type of working premises norms and policies in
which all perspective of work attainment aims and objective get accompanied for getting
new vision, mission and objective that helps (Kerfoot, 2019) to gain each year for
gaining that also permits for getting scope that recover all aspects to get overcame that
enable to get reach for approach high productive risk for reducing.
The importance of organisation changes necessary for companies where their growth and
succession planning attempts to build higher growth which is having better usage where Asda
Stores leaders and manager creates better strategies alliance for mapping overtime management,
leaders and managers for getting accomplish in better manner. Therefore it creates more
beneficial that enables for large range of audience, customer and constitutes through ensures
better long way to create management activities. Some of activities that organise in Asda Stores
such as Training and Development, (Kerns, 2019) Performance Appraisal, Employee
Engagement which support to better attain high positive outcomes in effective manner to gain
high positive outcomes
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1.Applies theories of leadership and approaches to employee engagement to demonstrate how
will change things.
There are various leadership theories that help the organisation and their leaders to
enhance the performance of employees and improve their productivity. Leadership refers to the
capability and skills to influence other people and individual in order to make their work
effective for the organisation. Below are some leadership theory are explained in the context of
ASDA.
Contingency Theory of leadership:
This theory explain various ways of the leadership that leader can choose according to
various situations in the company. Contingency theory explain(Kourtesopoulou, and Kriemadis,
2020) that effective leader take right decision according to the various situation occurring in the
company. This leadership style explain that leaders know how to fulfil the needs and wants of
their follower and they can fulfil it in order to make their work effective. An effective leaders in
the company make their decision making according to the needs and wants of the company.
Situational leadership theory:
This theory define tow different factors first is leadership style of leaders and maturity
level of their employees or followers in order to understand the leadership leader has selected in t
organisation. According to these theory there are various situations that demands different
leadership style in order to make an decision making effective. Leaders must select the
leadership style by judging the situation in the world. It make their leadership style more
effective and it impact the working of the employees. It also help the employees of the company
to understand which style of leadership make an effective outcome.
Transformational theory of leadership style:
This theory of leadership also known as relationship theory, because the leaders of the
company focus on the relationship between them and their employees. This theory explain that
leaders must be effective and inspirational in order to make their employees motivated and
encourage. These leaders encourage their follower in order to transform their tasks into better
outcome. Transformational leadership (Oh,Lee, and Zo, 2019) make the follower motivated and
make them believe in themselves and their abilities to perform task well. These leadership style
make better relationship between employees and the leaders of the company. It help the

organisation to retain the employees in the company and gain their trust in order to make them
loyal employee of the company.
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Trait theory of leadership:
This theory explain that an effective leader have the abilities and capabilities by which
they can make their leadership better and effective in the organisation. Trait theory identify
particular personality and behaviour of the leaders towards their followers and various situation
that they face in the company. Different leaders have different traits in their personality and they
deal with different situations according to their(Seth, 2020) view point. This theory explain that
an effective leader should have various capabilities and skills to fulfil the needs and wants of the
organisation. They should know how to influence people so that they can make them work
according to the wands and needs of the company.
Thus, above discussion on the various leadership style explain that leaders should have an
capabilities and skills to make their leadership style effective. In the context of ASDA the
leaders of the organisation can select contingency theory and transformational theory in order to
make their decision making more effective in the company. Contingency theory helps the leaders
of the organisation to take right decision according to the different situation in the company. An
appropriate leadership style of the leaders of the company can make employees and the staff
motivate and encouraged in order to achieve the goals and objectives of the company.
Employees of the respective company face many problems that can affect their performance in
the company, leaders of the organisation have good skills and capabilities by which they can
solve the problems of the employees and make them work effective for the goals and objectives
of the company. On the other hand transformational leadership style help the leaders of the
ASDA to make better relationship with their employees and gain their loyalty towards the
company. They can better understand the problems of their followers and give an effective
solution to handle those problems.
Employee engagement:
It refers to make an effective work place for every employee of the company so that they
can make their working more effective. The best condition at work place helps the employees of
the company in achievement of (Stedman, and Adams-Pope, 2019) the goals and aims of the
organisation more effectively. Employee engagement helps the company to understand the better
objectives of the employees within an organisation and promote their goals for better
achievement of performance. Leader make their decision making effective in order to make
better employee engagement in the company, they understand various situations faced by the
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employees and provide them solution of those problems. They make effective work environment
for the employees of the company so that they can perform their jobs in most effective way. In
the context of ASDA,(Valdes, Mckay, and Sanko, 2020) leaders of the company make their
leadership most effective so that they can achieve goals and objectives of the company. They
make an appropriate working environment for the employees of the company so that they can
work according to their preferences and workings. Thus the leaders of the company make their
leadership style in most effective way so that they can achieve better employee engagement in
the company and make them motivated towards effective working in the organisation.
CONCLUSION
From the above given information it can be conclude that leadership and teamwork helps the
company to make effective growth and increase the performance of their employees. The team
work and leadership style increase the ability of the company to enhance its performance, and
make en effective outcomes for the company. There are various techniques that company can use
in order to fulfil the needs and wants of the employees and the working areas. In the last there are
various leadership styles that help the leaders to make their leadership effective and also it
improve the skills and capabilities of the employees in the organisation.
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