Leadership and Management Theory and Practice

Leadership and
Management theory
and Practice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
APPENDICE....................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Leadership can be referred to as the ability which involves guiding and influencing the
followers or the other members of the company. It mainly captures the essentials of being
prepared and able to inspire other people. An effective leadership is mainly based on ideas which
are both original or borrowed which are communicated effectively to other people in such a way
that it engages them in order to act as such a leader wants them all to act. A leader is the one
which inspires other people to act together with directing their way. In a business, leadership is
directly linked to the performance so a leader in the corporate context is the one who mainly
increases the bottom line of the company (Oc, 2018). The company chosen in this report is
Burberry, a luxury British fashion house which is headquartered in the city of London, England.
It was founded in the year 1856. this report will cover the reflection on the experience of
leadership together with suggesting areas of development, including action plan.
MAIN BODY
It is very important for an individual to have knowledge of the leadership styles and
theories so that it can play an effective role of the leader. These theories have helped me to
understand the role of the leader and how it carry out its leadership. When I joined the company
Burberry, I was very excited to carry out m job. The slowly and gradually I was given the
responsibility to mange the team of 4-5 members. This gave me the opportunity to explore
myself as the leader and inculcate essential leadership traits in me. As I have undergone the
management course, I got the opportunity to learn about different theories and styles of
leadership which helped me in my experience. The first theory which I leant was behavioural
theory which mainly focuses on how the environment of the person and not its natural abilities
form it into the leader (van Knippenberg and van Ginkel, 2021). One essential concept of this
theory which I learnt was conditioning as it states that the person can lead or act in the certain
style as the result of its environmental responses to the behaviour. One thing which I learnt from
this theory was that the behaviour and physical environment defines an individual as the leader
not its natural competencies and abilities. Second theory is transformational leadership which
studies the effective leadership as a result of the positive relationship between the leader and its
members. The leader inspired from this theory is motivated and inspired from its passion and
enthusiasm (Ospina and et. al., 2020). I thing which I observed from this theory was that the