Leadership in Business

Leadership in Business 1
LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS
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Course
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Institution

Leadership in Business 2
Introduction
In every business, their exits some leaders employed to help in controlling the aspects of the
business activities. Though it is difficult but it keeps most of things very simple. This makes the
owner of the firm not to worry about the leading or the managing employees. For the small
business to grow well, owners are supposed to employ workers who assist with the increased
workloads. One must understand the cons and the pros of the leader that knows limitations which
come with the leadership thus acting with the limitations in mind. Advantage of leadership is that
it increases the productivity of the company. This is because the tasks are delegated efficiently
thus helping workers in productivity increase. Efficient labor division mostly results to high
work output which means the sells will be high hence high profits. When their is inefficient
leadership it reduces the productivity of the firm.
Leadership boosts the morale of the employees. Advantage of good leadership is not only about
high productivity but also it is used to improve the morale of the employees making the workers
more loyal to that firm. Most of the loyal employees put their employees in trust and also their
managers and they are always willing and able to work harder and attached to the company even
in harder times. Recruiting of new employees and training them is every expensive exercise thus
pouring morale into employees can bring a lot of impact to the company. There are some of
disadvantages attached with the leadership. The disadvantage includes fostering clash of
personalities. In most cases subordinates and leaders may not see eye to eye. This is one thing
which is supposed to be avoided because at workplace exits many people of different
personalities.
Question (1)

Leadership in Business 3
Transformational leadership is a process where leaders and the followers raise one another to
higher levels of morality and motivation. According to Bernard Mass Transformational
leadership requires leaders to:
i. Set clear goals
ii. Be a model of integrity and fairness
iii. Encourage others
iv. Provide support and recognition
v. Stir the emotions of the people
vi. Inspire people to look beyond their self-interest.
In reference to the Vodafone’s case study there is quite a number of transformational
leadership styles that Detlef Schultz needed to adopt in order to transform Vodafone’s global
supply chain function. Schultz should have adopted the laissez-faire leadership style. This is
a leadership style where the leader allows the members to make decisions (Wipf, 2016).In
this type of leadership there is:
i. Very little guidance from the leaders
ii. The followers have freedom to make decisions
iii. Leaders provide the resources and the tools needed
iv. Group members have the freedom to find solutions to their problems
v. Leadership is handed to the members although leaders take the full responsibility of the
decisions and actions made by the groups.

Leadership in Business 4
In order to transform then global chain supply this mode of leadership was necessary in the
today’s competitor concern universe because every company must maintain a high level of client
satisfaction through quality networks and coordinated procedures to be successful (Senge,
2015). The laissez –faire style would be effective in realizing this coordination in the expansion
of the Vodafone’s supply chain network across the globe, this is because it empowers the
workers and gives them a free space to find out the effective strategies that could be employed in
marking a good step of success. Providing support and recognitions to the employers would
motivate them to be active to achieve the goals of the business (Ross & Offerman, 2015).
Optimization of the orders and cost reduction in the global market requires a close functional
network between the business and the customers therefore empowering various teams within the
Vodafone business increases high levels of creativity in realizing a global supply chain function
(Padllock, 2016). This gives the team a good chance to explore the global market with high
level of passion and also collect any vital information that can help in establishing effective
supply chain (Mann L, 2016).
Consult style of leadership would also be effective in this case because of its task oriented nature
.Looking at the complexity of the global market and its competitiveness, team agreement would
be important in discussing different points of view (M.Bass & Riggio, 2017). Team agreement
should be given the first priority (Stuart, 2017). Vodafone’s business requires a consultative
framework because it is a specialized type of business therefore all the experts in the different
fields of the operations need to be given chance to present their views regarding any direction
that the business would like to take (Burns, p. 2012). It would also be effective because when
all the key players in different fields are involved in the decision making. It shows them that their
opinions are important in running the business.