Leadership Structure and Culture in Real World Scenario Case Study 2022

Running head: LEADERSHIP, STRUCTURE AND CULTURE IN REAL-WORLD
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Leadership, Structure and Culture in Real-World Scenario
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Introduction
Leaders and their values provide vision and direction towards which people, community
or an entire society plan to propagate. In an organization, a leader or a leadership style governs
the operation and the structure. The vision helps to conceptualize the strategies which are to be
opted to ensure success and growth. There are four different types of Leadership dominantly
which include Authoritarian, Democratic, Transformational and Laissez-Faire styles of
Leadership. An authoritarian or autocratic leader chooses to handle situations by giving
commands and orders which the subordinates are supposed to carry out without any discussion
and consultations. A democratic leader encourage participation of people before using legitimate
power. It seeks acceptance of the people it serves and take their opinions into account before
enforcing policies. Laissez-Faire leadership is of a non-authoritarian style which allows the
leaders to make decisions. This allows freedom which reduces the team productivity and
performance as it is often taken for granted. The transformational leadership is more adaptable as
it acknowledges the changing needs of the situation, organization and society and makes
amendments accordingly.

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Case Incident 1: Sharing is performing
What kind of obstacles can you foresee in taking a shared leadership approach? How
might they (or can they) be solved?
Shared leadership has proved to be more effective in the recent years as it enhances the
performance of a team. Whereas the execution of the same can be more strenuous, as it requires
the participation of more than one leader in the process of decision making, in order to
implement an idea. The approach can pose obstacles as a process requires equal participation of
everyone involved and cooperation of all members. The executive leaders should implement the
democratic leadership style so as to be able to ensure equal and active participation.
As shared leadership negative the very idea of vertical leadership and hierarchy, it widens
the scope for negotiation and accommodation of all the members involved. This can easily be
resolved with cooperation, dedication, mutual respect and honesty among the leaders. The
leaders should be able to exhibit traits of transformational leadership within the team so that
members of all layers of hierarchy can be incorporated in the actions, involved. Competition
among leaders who is opinions our values equally can lead to negativity (Bauer & Ege, 2016).
Hence it should be regulated and monitored to avoid conflicts and disputes. It also provides
better scope of evaluation and cross examination of strategies because it rules out the traditional
way of one person being at the helm. Shared leadership rules out the chances of centralization of
power with figurehead. It provides opportunities of servant leadership, where the seniors and
experienced members of the team would be able to take up an active role.