Leadership: Understanding the Role and Impact on Organizational Strategy

This document explores the relationship between leadership and strategic management and its impact on organizational strategy. It discusses the traits, behavior, and contingency factors that make an effective leader. It also examines different leadership theories and their influence on organizational strategy. The document provides insights on how to be an effective leader in complex situations and offers a plan to turn complexity into opportunity. Additionally, it discusses the role of leadership in a technology-driven and globalized world.

LEADERSHIP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Scenario............................................................................................................................................2
1. Leadership not restricted to job role and Relation between strategic management and
leadership.....................................................................................................................................2
2. Leadership is complex combination of contingency, traits and behaviour constitutes an
effective leader.............................................................................................................................2
3. Leadership theory impact on organisation and its strategy......................................................4
4. Being an effective leader.........................................................................................................5
5. Development of plan converting complexity to opportunity...................................................6
6. Growing era of technology and globalization, situations where organization would require
leadership.....................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCE ................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is the activity in business or management of company set in order to achieve
challenging goals, taken fast actions when required, beat the competition and inspire other
people in the organization for the motive of withdrawing their highest level that the subordinates
can attain. These practices include setting and achievement of goals, solving problems
effectively and taking measurable steps. The report will state job roles and understanding
between strategic management and leadership and its importance for the employees. Further
justification of leadership with trails, contingency and behaviour will be justified along with
leadership theory and its application for organizational strategy. being effective leader in
situations such as number of projects along with enormous disputes in the organization will be
addressed. Further the study will develop plan for transforming situation into opportunity by
using effective ways and further in technology and globalized area situations will be addressed
when organization require leadership.
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1. Leadership not restricted to job role and Relation between strategic management and
leadership
The relation between the leadership and management where the manager are filled with
lot of objectives and responsibilities and cannot easier tackle through an single attitude in today’s
critical marketplace. Yes leaders are not restricted to their job role only, they work as connection
between strategic management and leadership. They are the responsible person who are the
middle point of employees and higher authorities. They have to make connection with staff and
also have to ensure that organisational goal can get fulfilled. manger understanding the markets,
competitors, supplies, price, government, distributors, shareholders and creditors & the consumer
at worldwide. its vision and mission statement & enable successful execution for business and its
activities. Where the strategic management is link to leadership for an specific objective, policies
and aside resource that ensure for an successful execution of an strategies. the leaders and ability
for best utilize of capability and skills. It includes efficient use of a resource for solve the
problem. Hence such relationship between the management and the leader by use of different
leadership style which make the best of the employees to help the company successes (Cashman,
2017).
2. Leadership is complex combination of contingency, traits and behaviour constitutes an
effective leader.
Traits leadership is the personal characteristics which reflect an range of an individual
foster and differences to consistent leader for an effectiveness across variety of organisation and
group situations. Traits leadership has six traits which makes it as an effective leader as compare
to other leadership. Drive- Leaders are ambitious and have an lot of energy to motivate the
employee. Leader are actively persistent in the activities and showing the initiative. Desire to
lead- Leader have powerful desire to motivate the employee to work with full confident and
make them to achieve an goal of the organisation anyhow and lead other. Leader have an interest
or willing to take the responsibility (Conger, 2015). Integrity and Honesty- Leadership built
relationship among the themselves and the employees by being an truthful and showing huge
consistency between the deeds and word. Intelligence- Leaders are enough intelligent to gather,
interpret and try to solve out the issues and make the correct decision to implement.
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Job relevant skill- Effective leader have huge knowledge about the organisation. In deep
knowledge that allows the leader for to make a well- informed decision so that to understand an
implication of an decisions.
Confidence- For an effective leadership the leader need to have a confidence enough in
order to convince the employees or followers to achieve the goal of the organisation and also
make an decision with full confidence (Covin and Slevin, 2017).
Contingency leadership states that leaders have to react according to particular situation.
In this leadership style, certain factors that include the personality, task of an leader and
composition of group that meant to led. If leaders react accordingly then it will make them an
effective leader, because they will be able to handle situation well and will be able to manage
different things in the firm in effective manner. it mainly focusses on the leadership style and
maturity of being led. It put forth the ideas of a leadership style that hinge on an four behaviours
that are telling, participating, selling and delegating. By this way leader will be in condition
where individual can discuss the problems with employees and will be able to manage critical
things in effective manner. If this things are followed by leader then individual can become as
successful leader and can lead a team in appropriate manner. The maturity level that range from
the incompetence to perform a task, to an ability and willingness to perform For an successful
leader it adapt the leadership techniques to fit maturity level of group question on situational
basis. For the effective leadership is an contingent on situation, people and task involved
(Glatthorn and et.al., 2018).
Behavioural theory of an leadership is an leadership where it considered an observational
reaction and actions of leaders. It mainly focuses on how the leader assume and behave that an
leader can made, instead of successful and born leadership based. Behavioural leadership is
mainly focus on the particular behaviour of the leader. It is the best predictor of leadership that
influence as a result it is the best determinant of leadership success. By implementing this theory
leader will be able to understand need of employees and will easily handle employees in the
organisation in effective manner. By this way person can become a great leader and can behave
well for staff members and workers as well. It promotes for participation of the team
development & decision making by supporting an individual require & aligning group and
individual objective. Behavioural leadership is an effective leadership as it help manager and
understand and evaluate the behaviour style of an manager and their relation with team &
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promotes contribution & commitment towards the company goal (Hawkins, 2017). If leader
develop bonding and support its peer group members then it will make other happy and leader
will be considered as good leader.
3. Leadership theory impact on organisation and its strategy
Autocratic leadership is the form of leadership where leader control over employees and
ensure that work can get completed on time and people make less mistakes , that is why
autocratic leaders makes effective control or supervision over employees performance. Such
leader has full control on the team, leaving an low autonomy within group. It provides a quick
crisis management benefits where it deal with crisis situation and can easily has to manage the
problems because only one who get call for an shots. And expertise became an asset for a
company.
Autocratic leader makes quick decision and also makes ensure that company’s goal can
be fulfilled on time. (Heifetz and Linsky, 2017). Leaders of Tesco implements autocratic
leadership style, this type of style help the company in meeting its organisational goal and
support in gaining competitive advantage as well (Hoch and et.al., 2018).
The autocratic leadership style is implementing in Tesco from top down manner in which
senior team always instruct to their staff members regarding decision making without asking any
suggestions. This type of leadership style is creating separation between owner of business and
their employees. By using Autocratic leadership, leaders and managers of Tesco are making
decision related environment and culture in which important decision implement without any
discussion. In this way, it has increased the productivity and profitability in global world. In
Tesco, there are large number of young employees which always adopting effective leadership
style. They provide proper direction and also assign specific project, task of particular members.
In this way, it is highly effective due to maintain proper actionable and clear standards that
directly influence staff members of Tesco towards business goals. However, this leadership style
will decrease creativity because peoples are not participated in decision making. They are not
properly share their own innovative idea in the business growth and development. Sometimes, it
effects on the Tesco for decreasing its profitability in global world. It also demotivating their
employee towards goals and objectives. In this way, it can be determined that autocratic
leadership impact on organizations in both positive and negative ways (Komives, 2016).
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4. Being an effective leader.
The current situation of the organisation works under informal practices works with
group of 6 people where they are responsible for the attainment of ask desires and set by the
organization. They tend to organize their meeting and discussions in informal types during lunch
where most of the people are not involved at the time. The main discussion is the working hours
of the group where they work in different times such as some on week days, some on weekends
other on different timings of the day and also they face differences in the personalities and
engage in clashes and dis satisfaction among the team members. The following practices can be
neutralized in following manner for the effectiveness and efficiency for the team.
Establish ground rules
The existence of clarity, roles and values in the team of an organization will help in the
evaluation of performances of team along with efficiencies of individuals. The process involves
teams to ensure them with their requirement and work on them.. Existence of rules will ensure
stability of working conditions for all workforce (Mendenhall and et.al., 2017).
Establish relationship among employees
The practice of being an effective leader starts form enforcing co operation among the
members where they are responsible to work together along with develop effective co operation
and trust among the members. They can withdraw new solutions ensuring new solutions and
empowering their employees where they are concerned about each other interest and take care of
their supportive people too whether their interest is being served in the organization or not.
Establish readership with employees
Being an effective leader must ensure that they work on establishing relationship among
employees so they focus on collective bargaining and ensure they work effectively for common
attainment of task. The task will help them understand work pressure and work conditions to
ensure the timing issues are resolved and employees are established will better and effective
working conditions. The employees rather than offending management will support management
in various cases and establish good and healthy relationship with them ensuring their rights are
never violated so they become loyal assets for the organization and work for their development
and growth (Northouse, 2017).
Flexible working conditions
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Applicability of flexible work practices of employees will lead to the satisfaction of
employees as they are no longer bounded for a particular shift but on the other side employees
with flexible working conditions must ensure that the flexible timing according to employees
convince focus on their overall satisfaction for the working conditions. The practice also ensure
that employees work in defined timings taking justifies and proper intervals and do not work
continuous work and dynamic overtime that resulted in decline of their effectiveness and
efficiency. The practice rather than delivering un expected good performances will become their
effective good practices in organizational activities where employees will develop loyalty
towards the organization and work towards attainment of their goals and objectives.
5. Development of plan converting complexity to opportunity.
Employees in the organization are suffering from de motivation and frustration where
they developed feeling of losing their interest from working conditions along with assuring that
they will come up with a plan to eliminate demotivation of employees along with assuring
motivation and effective work practices and conditions in working environment in working
conditions of the organization (Northouse, 2018).
Complexity Strategy Time scale
Demotivation among staff Tesco should give rewards to
its workers so that their needs
can get fulfilled. This will
encourage people and they
will be loyal towards the
brand and will feel motivated.
1.5 month
Eliminate motivation killers
The type of function
will focus on attainment of
task through elimination of
people who are being obstacle
for the communication process
in the organization. The
practices by firms assuring
that they will attain test of
2 month
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individuals assuring different
people who are responsible for
affecting the working
conditions of the organization
in eliminating them and
ensuring rest of the people in
the organization work
effectively for attainment of
task required for effective
work practices in the
organization. These people are
responsible for poor
communication, posses lack of
in defined vision of the
organization along with the
addressed as the one who lack
skills of innovation and are
unhappy with the practices of
the management and assure
that these elements no longer
sustain in the organization and
don't decrease motivation of
their current working
employees of the
organizations (Priest and Gass,
2017).
Gamification motivation
The type of practice for employees will lead to practices where they ensure that tasks in
the organization such as completion of reports along with contribution of ideas for effective
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practices in policies which include using of badges, leader boards, rewards, game elements
ensuring representatives are effective and quantifiable in organizational activities.
Establish clear goals to provide feedback
Employees in the organization must know that are motivated towards to the fact they
know what they need to achieve and gain in their organizational activity and tasks alongside. As
know with defined goal and objective will lead to effective encouragement of employees for the
development and betterment of their working conditions and work places respectively. The act
will support in proving feedback and show the types through with employees will be motivated
for their working conditions in the practices of the organization (Robertson, 2016).
Responsible use of technology
Technology is responsible for increasing efficiencies in the organization where they
ensure that there practices not just cover the use of computers and internet facilities bur also
important to learn about different hardware's along with involve use of different hardware and
software ensuring practices in their expertise fields along with their practices for development
and betterment of their further business activities for expansion and development for their
betterment and development tin their different expertises fields.
Setting standards and managing development of skills
Establishing standards are important for every business activity where they ensure they
perform their desired and expertise roles in expected fields and areas for the betterment of
activates of business configuration. With un clarity on roles and responsibilities of roles and
responsibilities people tend to ascertain by providing opportunities to individuals for skills
development and making advancement in their professional endeavours. The practices will lead
to performance of roles and responsibilities effectively and efficiently. The management in this
case ensure employees seek challenge, and want to be segment in the organizational working
conditions for the business conditions. The employees in case must realise that they need to
make progress in effective and major field to know and they are motivated for the attainment of
goal, responsibilities ad practices of good and defines culture (Spears and Lawrence, 2016).
Effectively and efficiently communicating
The practice of effective and efficient communication practice has led to the fact that they
musty ensure employees in the organization communicate well and effectively practices will lead
to elimination of practices that must know that effective and efficient practices of
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communication will lead to development of such factors where effective and efficient
communication practice will lead to development of their business process and conditions. Such
practices in organization will lead to effective work conditions and practices that will lad to the
effective working conditions for the development tof plan and practices that ensure their working
conditions are affected and violated in effective means and ensuring the practices of
development of organizations and their respective fields (Storey, 2016).
6. Growing era of technology and globalization, situations where organization would require
leadership.
The growing and dynamic change in relating to development of technological practices
will lead to development and better modification in working conditions of any enterprise for their
succession and growth. The growth of any individual or a business institute in monitored by
individual which will lead the organization towards those practices. In cases leaders of Tesco are
responsible for the acceptance of changes in the organization by ensuring employees follow right
path and direction and identify the areas where they require proper training and development for
attainment and achievement of organizational tasks and practices.
Up-dation in technology
The growing and never ending advancements occurring in today world developed for the
purpose of benefiting the practices and simplifying the work of the organization and human
beings where they can use these technological advancements and develop higher satisfaction in
working conditions does not come easy. These practices in the Tesco require training where
employees are introduced to new technologies along with their uses and benefits, further they are
responsible to provide or arrange learning session for the use of machines or even call for an
expert who will ensure he will train those employees in such a way that they can attain advantage
of update technology. Leading for change from advancement of technologies from round the
world is major role played by leader for the attainment of competitive advantages among their
rivals and boost the productivity and efficiencies of their employees. These practice lead to
judgement of needs and requirement if the need of technology is actually applicable along with
implications as known that advancement of technologies are not always beneficial for the
organization. This in such case leaders of tesco must ensure they putting their investment and
resources in right technologies and will get assured and ascertain results on their investments
(Stuppy and Mead, 2016).
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Training and development
The practice of globalization in the context of business practices in today world need
assurance that an employee or tesco’s ascertained about the factors of the organization. The
growing technology and advancements from round the world required lot of up-dation of
knowledge, practices along with practical applicability where people are compatible enough to
cope up with these technological advancements where leaders of the organizations are
responsible to train their employees to cope up with the advancements and ensure effective
growth for the organizations. The practice will lead to evaluation of programme by the leader
ensuring they are being productive in the right way focusing on their ultimate objective for
motivating staff for effective working conditions leading to effective production in the tesco.
Ineffective operational activities in business context will lead to ineffective working conditions
where employees will eliminate effective working conditions and will fail to sustain in such
working environment. Leaders at time need to play the role of motivators well ensuring that
employees in growing ear of technology and globalization are trained well and effectively
assuring that they are not directed towards in efficiencies and learn advantageousness of
technologies ensuring their practices are regulated in right and effective manner. Leaders of tesco
can also get feedback from their training practices of the organization and if require will change
and modify those practices and development where employees are directed towards attainment of
organizational goals and practices (Taylor, 2018).
Business expansion
The advancement in technology and business being operated in global boundaries has led
to expansion of activities of business of any kind by exporting and availing of goods and services
from all round of the world. The practices of business expansion of any organization or firm
require resources in many countries. To manage activities such as planning for business
activities, controlling operations of workforce along with require specialist responsible for
managing practices of employees along with their working conditions will impact the working
where leaders are responsible to ensure employees responsible and engaged in activities of
expansion are well trained and have enough of knowledge for handling global operation across
the borders. Leaders in world of innovation, technology and globalization act as change agents
who study the environment and practices of foreign land ensuing their effective working
conditions such as monitoring of policies, laws, taste of customers, employment rates etc. for
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expansion of their business activities will lead to effective practices ensuring leaders are
responsible enough and develop situations where business can work effectively in such foreign
lands. The practice will lead to evaluation of programme by the leader ensuring they are being
productive in the right way focusing on their ultimate objective for motivating staff for effective
working conditions leading to effective production in the Tesco. These practices in the
organization require training where employees are introduced to new technologies along with
their uses and benefits, further they are responsible to provide or arrange learning session for the
use of machines or even call for an expert who will ensure he will train those employees in such
a way that they can attain advantage of update technology ensuring will lead to expansion of
tesco and their effective practices (Verba, 2015).
Conflict management
Current practices in business world is addressed and operated by advancement and global
effects in today's business environment. These practices of business operating in global context
of business lead to focus on operations of business operations of particular nature to around the
world. The practice ensure that at time of global [practices of business individuals tend to
perform their duties in international border where they face challenges and difficulties regarding
to culture, practices, beliefs of individual in different sector of the world. The type will develop
situations where employees find it difficult to communicate and involve in each other culture.
Leaders in case act as mediator who is responsible for developing and managing similarities
among them and developing practices and activities where they enforce employees to enjoy in
foreign lands and to consider their point of view for healthy relationship. Leaders also need to
ensure that in efficiencies between employees in the organization will lead to un necessary
disputed and conflicts that will affect the working environment (Wildavsky, 2017).
Sustainability
Sustainability ensures business framing decisions for years and decades that ensures their
activity of business environment and conditions in market that aim on giving them situations and
advantages where they focus on ensuring their position in market for longer period. The practices
lead to tesco for the purpose where and individual investing can assure his position in the market
for certain amount of time for running its business operations and earn effective and sufficient
profits for further needs and development along with ensuring effective and efficient returns on
their investments. Leadership of individual will develop state and practices at time when
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companies or businesses are facing competition in global terms and attain factor of sustainability.
Leaders of tesco will develop effective practices where they will ensure and imply practices for
the individuals to cope up with the change and make effective use of available resources
ensuring they lead their effective practices I global market and attain advantage of earning profits
in such lands. The type of leadership will also help attainment of role of responsibilities of
individual ensuring that firms can maintain sustainability in market and their position and types
is protected and guarded by the effect of these practices in effective organizational means along
with employee development and retention (Mendenhall and et.al., 2017).
CONCLUSION
The above study concluded practices of being effective leader that must possess activities
such as establishment of ground rules for business activities and conditions, along with
responsible for maintaining of relationship with employees and fellow employees and work
towards effective working conditions in the organization. Further development of plan is
implemented that contained elimination of motivation killers, gamification for techniques for
motivation, establishing of goals, setting standards' foe working conditions, and managing
inundation of technology for effective communication practices. Further the report addresses the
development of era through technological advancements such as up nation process in
technology, training and development for the purpose of motivating the employees for the
business process along with managing conflict management so that employees in the
organization are satisfied and ensure they work for the ultimate objective which will benefit the
organization in effective and efficient means. The report also reflected the work of sustainable
advantage through technological advancements.
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