Leadership Report: Styles, Models, Organizational Culture, and Diversity Management

Leadership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Leadership styles and models in different situations in a business context..........................3
Organisational culture and the impact this has on leadership styles,...................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Leadership can be termed as the ability of person or group of people of an organisation
influence and guide other enterprise or institution. A good leader is a person who is positive
and encourages praise employee for there good job and brings out the best from each person.
This report comprise a brief analysis of marks and Spencer company (Megheirkouni, 2018). It
was founded by Michael mark and Thomas Spencer in the year 1884. Its headquarter is London,
England and marks and Spencer deals in foods, clothing and homes, M&S banks, M&S energy.
This report includes different types of styles and models such as Autocratic, Affiliate,
Bureaucratic, Coaching Democratic, Facilitative and also impact leadership on institution and its
culture and diversity in management.
TASK
Leadership styles and models in different situations in a business context
Leadership can be said as when one party promotes, movements or change in the other
party through its influential power. Good leader is a person with the ability to make strategic and
visionary decision and has power to convince other to follow his decision. Leader is an
individual with ability to create vision and can work towards on achieving them. Leadership
styles is refereed to as the classification of and individual on how they lead there group.
Leadership is setting and achieving goals , tackling the competitions and solving problems
quickly (Karatepe, Aboramadan and Dahleez, 2020) . Leadership usually provides direction to
the company and its followers an employee needs to know its direction in which he is headings
and company's destination . Leadership shows employees a clear path on which they can walk
and supervising their completion of work It is of 4 type
Authoritarian leadership or Autocratic-
Authoritarian leaders are also know as Autocratic leader. Autocratic leadership is where
an individual person has total decision making power and complete control on his follower or
subordinates. In such case Autocratic leader do not like to entertain any view or suggestion given
by the lower person. Some also call them dictator and this type of environment is not good for
any business organisation or an institution
Participative Leadership -

Participative leadership are also recognize as democratic leadership. Participative
leadership do not work on top-bottom approach of the management in it all the individual in the
organisation work for each other in decision making and can address organisation problem and
even employees can internally vote to the problems or issues. In management like this people get
engage in decision making- process and this make them more motivated and creative.
Delegation leadership-
Delegation leadership is also know as Laissez-Faire. Delegation leadership is where the
leader do not hold power of decision making group member make all decision. Researchers have
showed that the leadership give lowest output from the group members. Members in these
leadership group gets little or no guidance from there leader and that leads to poorly defined
roles and less motivation (Hewitt, Dahlen, Hartz and Dadich, 2021). Laissez-Faire mode of
leadership due to lack of direction employees blame each other for there mistake. In this people
take less self- responsibility and result 's in less productivity and work.
Transformational leadership-
Transformational leadership is also defined as single most effective style.
Transformational leadership where an individual social system is changed by the leader 's
approach it effect positively and valuable as its end goal is to convert all the follower to leader 's.
it was first introduced in late 1970 later expanded by the researchers Bernard
M bass. The leader in this organization are emotionally intelligent ,energetic, passionate they not
only help the organisation to accomplish its goal and also employees to reach there full potential.
Transaction leadership -
Transaction leadership is also know as managerial leadership. Transaction leadership is where
leader uses rewards and punishments to get desired work from its lower member. In this
leadership every member has to obey their leader and that result in low output and less
comfortable working environment. Transaction leadership includes motivating and directing
primarily through their own self interest . The power of transaction leaders comes from the
formal authority and responsibilities . The main goal of the followers is to obey the command
and orders of leader . This style can also be called as telling style .
Situational leadership -