Leadership in Business

Leadership in business

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Contents
Contents................................................................................................................... 1
Introduction............................................................................................................... 2
Difference in types of leadership styles............................................................................. 2
Impact of certain types of leadership/management styles on people performance productivity..........4
Determination on who will how will the individuals follow certain types of leadership styles..........6
Evaluation of personal leadership capabilities using the Seven Leadership Mind-sets theory...........7
Personal statement for ideal job...................................................................................... 9
Conclusion.............................................................................................................. 10
References.............................................................................................................. 11
Appendix................................................................................................................ 13
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Introduction
This report is particularly written to demonstrate how different types of leadership style differ
from each other and how they impact the performance of the people. This report will also
determine the leadership challenges and problems and the capability of the leader that impact
upon the organisation as well as the system. This report will include the evaluation on how
the different leadership styles can be implemented to make the team members follow the
leaders as per the strategic direction of the organisation. This report will include the personal
leadership capability and the requirement for future professional development while
determining the strategic direction of the organisation along with the attachment on personal
statement for an ideal job.
Difference in types of leadership styles
In this global competitive environment, the effective leadership style is required to reduce the
attenuation rate. To achieve the organisation goal in a productive manner, the effective
leadership style plays a prominent role as it impacts on the productivity and employee
performance. The leadership is a social impact process in which the leader puts a voluntary
participation on the goals of the organisation. It has been studied that the leaders following
the democratic style are more productive as they involve all the team members in discussion
and thus, can create the small team with high motivation. The leadership style mechanism
defines the link between different leadership team, innovation and style with the mediating
impact of team communications and knowledge sharing. The link between the leadership
style and organisational culture can be explored through the transactional leadership,
transformation leadership and culture. There is an impact of leadership style on the job
satisfaction of the employees and it can be measured through the aspects like workplace
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flexibility, job security, and salary. It has also been found in the literature that the
transformational leadership style has a strong link with the job satisfaction. It has been
identified by the Chung that the leadership styles impact the work satisfaction and
organisational commitment and the leadership is largely oriented with the culture by
embracing the values, norms and beliefs. As per the study of Goh Yuan, the leadership style
is impacted by the leadership leaders and the extended tribe, clan and family. There is a link
between the business ethics and organisational leadership which impact on the wider
community. The leadership style is divided into transactional leadership and transformational
leadership by Bass (Gillis, 2011).
The transformational leadership has the features of intellectual stimulation, individual
influence and the leaders take the individual into consideration while creating the aim,
trusting the staff to meet the goals, give attention to the potential of the staff members. The
transformational leaders take into consideration the individual team members, creates open
culture, establish vision and aim and trust the staff to reach their goals
(Nanjundeswaraswamy & Swamy , 2014).
The transactional leadership is emphasized on external demand of the staff members and
defines the link between the subordinates and the leaders in order to attain the goal of the
organisation while maintaining stable organisation. It has been studied that transactional
leaders use the punishments and rewards to gain compliance from the individual and accept
the culture, structure, and goals of existing organisation. The difference in different
leadership styles is attached in the appendix section of this report (Shanmugam & Haigh ,
2016).
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