The Role of Leadership in Retaining Employees: A Literature Review

RESEARCH PROJECT
(literature review )

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
LITERATURE REVIEW ...............................................................................................................3
What is the concept of leadership within an organisation?....................................................3
What is the importance of leadership for retaining employees?............................................3
What are the factors that affect retention of talented employees?.........................................4
What are the strategies that are pertaining to leadership that impacts retention?..................4
OUTLINE OF METHODOLOGY .................................................................................................4
Discussion/Findings.........................................................................................................................5
What is the concept of leadership within an organisation?....................................................5
What is the importance of leadership for retaining employees?............................................5
What are the factors that affect retention of talented employees?.........................................5
What are the strategies that are pertaining to leadership that impacts retention?..................6
Conclusion/Recommendation..........................................................................................................6
REFERENCES ..............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is considered as the ability which is undertaken by the organisation so that to
lead people in such a way that overall business objectives can be acquired. The major purpose of
leadership is to render support to individual so that they can be motivated and at the same time
they can manager their given roles and responsibilities in easy manner. In other terms this can be
said that leadership is one of the method which is used in order to provide guidance to employees
so that they can perform in the better manner (Pudyaningsih, Dwiharto and Ghifary, 2020). The
role of leadership is related with examining goals for the team member so that confidence level
can be boosted and at the same time they can implement different strategies to acquire business
objectives. For an organisation this is imperative that to have effective leadership so that
business objectives can be catered and at the same time right path can be provided to employees.
The current research report is based on examining role of leadership in retaining employees so
that the research is of high use for different organisations.
LITERATURE REVIEW
What is the concept of leadership within an organisation?
According to Bratton, (2020), of leadership is defined as the ability to lead people or
group of people in such a way that organisational mission can be aligned and attained in
collaborative manner. Leadership is the process which is used for the purpose of influencing
people so that they can directed in the direction of attaining business objectives in cohesive and
coherent manner. Leaders carry out different attributes with themselves so that motivation can be
rendered within the organisational employees and their skills can be used in managing all the
aspects of the organisation.
What is the importance of leadership for retaining employees?
According to Anitha, (2016), leaders within the organisation are associated with
managing their team in such a manner that roles and responsibilities can be defined in clear
manner and along with his all the activities within the business. With the help of effective
leadership high performance environment can be created in the organisation and at the same time
employee engagement and retention can also be developed. That is why leadership is important
for retaining the employees. With the help of leadership motivation can be provided to the
employees so that they can work harder and acquire higher incentives from their organisation.