Leadership and Management: Understanding the Role of Elon Musk's Transformational Leadership Style

BMA6115 Leadership and
Management

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 2............................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
SUMMARY.................................................................................................................................3
REFLECTION.............................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

PART 2
MAIN BODY
SUMMARY
Leadership has been defined as the ability of an individual or a group to influence others
or guide others who are their followers or members of an organization (Al Khajeh, 2018).
Leadership is part of something which also involves decision- making, sometimes difficult,
decisions, for the creation and articulation of clear vision and establishment of achievable goals
for providing the followers the knowledge and tools which are essential for achieving the
collective goal (Leadership, 2018). There are many definitions of the leadership and each of
these definitions has a theory that all the great leaders have the ability to make a strategic and
predictive decision for convince of others to follow. Leadership is considered to involve a
creation and articulation of a visionary and inspirational idea or concept onto which others want
to work towards. However, the leaders are considered to be not been working and are needed for
turning the vision into a reality. The leaders have been seen to have different responsibilities
which helps them to be the efficient in their practices. Responsibilities of the leaders are
supervising the followers about their daily work. Their responsibility also involves those
encouraging activities which help the organization to reach collective goals (Rudolph, Rauvola
and Zacher, 2018). They are known to be the key towards the conflict management of an
organization. Their management is known to be disciplining to the employees, and they are
considered to be the person responsible when the employee are facing and issue inside the
organization. There are different styles of a leadership in some leaderships style the leaders
prefer to be the role model of their followers and lead by example. There as in other leadership
styles they do all their work through the communication motivating the employees to be success
in the organization. The most important aspect of leadership is about being accountable and
responsible for the actions and decisions which are taken.
Elon Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneur known to the modern generations.
He has been a great leader showing its success with different organization like Tesla, Space X
and OpenAI. Musk is both found and CEO of these organizations (Archwell and Mason, 2021).
He has been able to become the worlds the richest person. His leadership style show effect all of
its organization. The leadership style shown by him in these organizations is transformational. In