Leadership Style of Jeff Bezos

This report explores the leadership style of Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon Company, including his progressive approach, research orientation, skill development focus, motivation orientation, issue-solving, goal setting, and performance-based incentives.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................3
Leadership style of Jeff Bezos...........................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is defined as guiding employees in company towards achieving the
common objectives of business. This report is based on the case study of Amazon Company
CEO Jeff Bezos in respect to his leadership style. Company was established in the year 1994
by the founder Jeff Bezos. Headquarter of the company is located in United States of
America. This report will be a reflection on the CEO of Amazon Company about his
leadership style. Precise approaches of the leadership of the Amazon Company’s CEO will be
projected in this report.
Leadership style of Jeff Bezos
Progressive leadership style
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos follow the progressive leadership approach to meet the
objectives of leadership. Progressive leadership style allows CEO to guide employees of
company in such a direction which will guide the organisation to achieve its overall business
objectives. Progressive style of leadership has moved the CEO towards various employee
development campaigns which involves training like skill development training, personality
development training and other forms of training that can support the growth of employees in
company. In his progressive approach of leadership he always supported the suitable work
culture and atmosphere that can serve the best quality of work experience (Beyan and et.al.,
2017). In his leadership company has also achieved the low employee turnover rate which
indicates that company has achieved the best level of work atmosphere and employee
satisfaction in organisation. Progressive leadership guided him to take decisions that can
favour the company like aggressive level of research and many others.
Research oriented approach

Jeff Bezos has given huge focus to research related to the product development and
market. He has given huge motivation to company’s employees towards conducting immense
amount of market research related to products and other associated factors. Research has
allowed him to expand the business of Amazon Company in so many directions. Research
over product development has allowed company to continuous develop the products in such a
way that Amazon Company could cope up with all different needs and demands of the
customers in market (Bormann and Rowold, 2018). Today Amazon Company is associated
with plenty of different market sector and research played a huge role in that. Research
oriented leadership of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has contributed allot for the company in
achieving such vast product portfolio of company.
Skill oriented
Leadership style of the Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is also skill oriented. Skill oriented
leadership always prioritise skill development campaigns. He channelized various skill
development training in company tat involve multiple skills like communication skill,
research skill, innovation and various other skills (Lamm and et.al.,2016). This approach of
the CEO has guided the employee’s part of the company towards developing all these skills
so that high level of proficiency can be achieved. High level of customer satisfaction and
employee satisfaction is also the consequences of this leadership approach of the CEO Jeff
Bezos.
Motivation oriented
The leadership style of the CEO of Amazon Company Jeff Bezos is motivation
oriented. He always likes to motivate employee’s part of the company towards achieving the
business objectives. Employee motivation plays a crucial role in improving the employee
morale in company. Motivation always supports employees to guide them in right direction
so that all different employment objectives can be meeting. He likes to lead the employees of
Amazon Company from the front.
Solving employee issues
As a leader Jeff Bezos gives huge emphasis on solving different issues of employees
at work place. This is also an important aspect involve in his leadership approach to solve all
the issues associated with company’s work force. Dealing with issues of employees play a
huge role for the company to achieve the best level of work culture in organisation (Smith,

Minor and Brashe, 2018). This has also supported company to improve the employee job
satisfaction in the organisation. This is one of the reason behind company has achieved such a
massive success in very limited time spam.
Goal setting approach
Jeff Bezos has also followed the goal setting approach in his leadership. Goal setting
approach allows employees in company to achieve the targets set by company. This approach
has guided the CEO to push the limits of employee’s part of the organisation. This approach
of the Jeff Bezos probably one of the reason why the company has achieved the massive
success across the globe. His approach of leadership has enabled him to motivate employees
of company to push the limits. This leadership has supported the CEO Jeff Bezos to achieve
all different objectives for the business operations company has undertaken. Goals setting
approach has allowed him to expand the potential of employees part of the organisation.
Performance based incentives
Jeff Bezos has started the practice of providing performance based incentives. This
practice of CEO has guided the company towards enhancing the potentials of all employees’
part of the company. This approach has motivated employees towards performing more
productive operations in company. This has also contributed for the company in achieving the
overall objectives of business.
CONCLUSION
Leadership play huge role for the company to achieve all objectives behind the
business operations undertaken by company. Leadership motivated the employees of Amazon
Company to expand the operational efficiencies so that company can boost its growth
potential in the market. His leadership has involved employee development, issue solving,
skill improvement and various other approaches that can serve the best level of work culture
at organisation. He has also given huge emphasis over research that can suggest new
directions to company.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Bormann, K. C. and Rowold, J., 2018. Construct proliferation in leadership style research:
Reviewing pro and contra arguments. Organizational Psychology Review. 8(2-3).
pp.149-173.
Lamm, A. J. and et.al.,2016. Examining Leadership Style Influence on Engagement in a
National Change Process: Implications for Leadership Education. Journal of
Leadership Education. 15(4).
Smith, G., Minor, M. and Brashen, H., 2018. Spiritual Leadership: A Guide to a Leadership
Style That Embraces Multiple Perspectives. Journal of instructional research. 7.
pp.80-89.