The Impact of Leadership Style in Business: A Literature Review

Literature Review
(Topic: The impact of leadership style in business)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
KEY ISSUES...................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Theme A: How businesses adapt leadership style..................................................................3
Gap.........................................................................................................................................4
Theme B: Impact of leadership style on productivity and employee morale.........................4
Gap.........................................................................................................................................5
Theme C: How the selection of improper leadership style affects business decision-making5
Gap.........................................................................................................................................6
Theme D: Role of a leader in the success of a business.........................................................6
Gap.........................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is one of the essential aspects of the business which helps the business to
manage its functions. There are leadership styles such as autocratic, democratic, affiliative, and
authoritative and laissez faire. For the organisation selection of appropriate leadership style is of
the major decisions. Leadership plays vital role within business succession and this could also
increase overall productivity of the organisation. When leadership style is not appropriate then
this will lead into ineffective decision making within the organisation and decreased employee
morale.
This can be analysed that businesses are required to take decision for selection of
leadership so that negative impacts over the organisation can be minimised. The scope of
literature review is in terms of role of leader within leadership style so that succession
opportunities to the business can be rendered. The current literature review covers deep
discussion on the key themes in terms of potential gaps and identification of conceptual
framework. The literature review is prepared by critically analysing existing sources so that in-
depth information can be gathered.
KEY ISSUES
The potential themes of the research project are as under:
a) What are the manners in which leadership style can be adopted by the organisation?
b) What is the impact of leadership style on organisational productivity and employee
morale?
c) What are the consequences that can be faced by the organisation by adopting inefficient
leadership?
d) What is the role of leaders within managing business functions in succession manner?