Leadership Report: Styles, Models, Theories and Impact on Organisational Culture and Diversity

leadership report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
Leadership styles and models......................................................................................................4
Vroom expectancy theory...........................................................................................................6
Importance of leadership for organisation culture and diversity................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leadership refers to the process of social influence which maximises the efforts of others
towards the achievement of a goal. It is basically the ability of an individual or group of
individuals to guide and influence followers or other members of an organisation. Leadership is
very important at organisational level as they help in terms of directing an organisation's
resources in order to improve the efficiency and achievement of goals as well. In the present
report, Unilever is taken into consideration(Hughes, Ginnett and Curphy, 1996). Unilever is
basically the British multinational consumer goods company which is headquartered in London,
England. Their products are majorly available in around 190 countries. Unilever products
basically include food, condiments, well being vitamins, ice cream, mineral and supplements etc.
The present report will cover discussion about leadership styles and models and also about
impact of leadership on organisational performance and business practice as well. In addition to
this, the report will cover analysis about the impact of leadership on organisational culture and
diversity management. Moreover the report will cover discussion about evaluation on leadership
theories, styles and models and their application to different situations.
MAIN BODY
TASK
Leadership theories
There are six main leadership theories and they can be applied on organisational level
into successful manner and some of them are explained into the following manner:
Behavioural theory: This theory of leadership basically focuses on this factor that in which
manner person's environment forms an individual a leader. The key concept of this theory is
conditioning. Conditioning is that situation where an individual will be more likely to act or lead
in a certain style as a result of environmental responses to behaviour. In context to Unilever, they
have to create such an environment where leader can take effective decisions with support of
their team members.
Transactional theory or management theory: This theory of leadership also known as the
management theory(Leithwood and Seashore-Louis, 2011). This theory studies leadership in the
form of rewards and penalties. The leadership is viewed in the form of result oriented manner
and hierarchical way as well. These kind of leaders mostly prioritise order and structure over

Leadership Report
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Leadership styles and models..................................................................................................................3
Impact of leadership on organizational performance...............................................................................4
Leadership models...................................................................................................................................5
Evaluate and understanding their leadership theories and theories of motivation....................................6
Impact of leadership on organizational culture and diversity management..............................................7
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The term leadership is a capability to influence group of people and motivate other
people in business organizations to accomplish their goals and objectives (Abasilim, Gberevbie
and Osibanjo, 2019). To be an effective leadership in business organization their vision, mission
and objectives towards accomplished in particular systematic manner and creating a planning to
secure resources to improving their errors. For this assessment, selected organization is Tesco is
a British multinational retailer which is given number of goods and services to its customers and
it includes a food product, clothing product and many others. This report covers leadership styles
and models focus on theorist and different leadership styles understand their leadership theory
style, application different situation, how they can impact their organizational performance and
business practices and also impact their organizational culture and diversity management for
their business organization.
MAIN BODY
Leadership styles and models
Leadership style should be determined that they can provide a direction and
implementing their plans for a leaders to accomplish their goals and objectives and motivate to
other people in the business organization. It should be consist of various styles such as
authoritarian, participative, democratic, Laissez-faire and many more.
Autocratic leadership style: A leader who adopts this type of styles it could be
determined that there are various policies and procedures are direct their work towards
accomplish their goals and objective without looking for anything for input from them. It would
be expected that complete their task under supervision and less creativity for their leadership
styles (Bean and Migliore, 2021). This leadership style makes decisions on behalf of
subordinates and what is to be done but also how those tasks should be accomplished. In case of
Tesco, leaders are extremely task oriented with low interest the collaborative decision making
there are full control over their team in motivating teams to the rules and regulations according to