Leadership and Management: Theory and Practice

Leadership and
Management, theory
and practice
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Case Study...................................................................................................................................3
Critical evaluation upon the effectiveness of Jeff Bezos' leadership..........................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Different theories of leadership with critical evaluation of each................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
A leader is a person within an organization whose main role is to lead the team through
providing them continuous motivation and direction to each employee. Leadership refers to a
quality being present in a person who can act as a leader for the firm and brings huge revenues.
Whereas, the concept of management denotes to effective handling of business affairs which
involves a specific procedure comprising of planning, organizing, staffing, directing and
controlling the actions as well as the human employees of an organization (Al-Hakim, Hassan
and Al-Shammari, 2020).
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TASK 1
The money that is £10 billion which he has generated was during the situation of Covid-19
when the whole world was trying to sustain and survive their business, this made people
shocking. Other than this Jeff Bezos has already earned approximate £74 billion for the year
2021. Oxfam who is the chief of inequality campaign & policy mentioned that how could a
wealthy person can make more money especially when the millions of people across the world
was experiencing high poverty and starving for food.
The leadership quality which is being adopted by Jeff Bezos in Amazon is a Task oriented
or commonly referred as transactional form of a leader. He always tries to find the newest ways
or looks for the scope of innovation on continuous basis in order to attain various organizational
tasks (Ali and Anwar, 2021).
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