Effect of Leadership Styles on Employee Performance in UK Retail Industry: A Study on Tesco

This research aims to determine the effect of leadership styles on employee performance in the UK retail industry, with a focus on Tesco. The objectives are to understand the concept of leadership in the retail industry, identify the leadership style used in Tesco, and analyze its effects on employee performance. The literature review highlights the impact of leadership on employee performance and the different leadership styles used in organizations. The timeline of activities is developed through a Gantt chart. The references include academic sources and online articles.

Research
(To determine the effect of leadership
styles in employee performance in UK
retail industry)

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Background information..............................................................................................................1
Research Aim...............................................................................................................................1
Research Objectives.....................................................................................................................1
Research Questions......................................................................................................................1
Literature Review.............................................................................................................................2
Timeline of activities.......................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Background information
Leadership refers to capacity of a firm's management in order to set as well as achieve
challenging goals of organisation, take decisive and fast action when required, outperform the
competitions as well as inspire others in order to perform their task in better manner. Leadership
styles is refers to a characteristics behaviours of leaders in order to direct, motivate, guide as well
as manage groups of people (Zhang, Cao and Wang, 2018). The company need to identify the
best leadership style which helps in improving their employees performance. In the following
research, the organisation is used Tesco, which is multinational retail organisation of UK
founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen. The following research covers project aims and objectives, key
academic sources as well as timeline activities.
Research Aim
To determine the effect of leadership styles on employee performance in context of UK
retail industry. “A study on Tesco”.
Research Objectives
 To understand the concept of leadership in context with UK retail industry.
 To identify leadership style used in Tesco in order to manage and control employees in
the organisation.
 To analyse effects of leadership style on the employees' performance of Tesco.
Research Questions
 What is the concept of leadership in context of retail industry.
 Which leadership style used in Tesco for managing and controlling employees in the
organisation?
 How will leadership style of Tesco effects employees' performance.
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Literature Review
According to the view of Wilde (2019), leaders of a company provide substantial impact
on the employees' performance. The responsibilities of leaders makes it complex and hard in
order to drive the high quality performance in effective manner. Managers are responsible for
creating a positive atmosphere, team success as well as solving complex problems in between the
employees in better manner. This makes leaders to adopt many types of leadership styles for
stabilising the resources of the company. The company need to also ensure that the leadership
style choose by them should be in the favour of their employees so, they perform their task in
better manner. The autocratic, democratic and participative are different types of leadership
styles which helps Tesco in order to manage and control their employees and performance in
better manner. The management of Tesco need to used participative leadership style as it very
useful long term as well as provide positive impact on the performance of employees. This
leadership style create positive work environment in which creativity is encouraged.
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Timeline of activities
The Timeline of activities which is used to conduct the research, is develop through Gantt
Chart. Gantt chart is the visual representation of the project schedules as it helps teams in order
to plan the work according to the deadlines as well as allocate the resources in proper manner
(Xie and Chen, 2018). The primary advantages of Gantt Charts is easy to understand, easy to
schedule the tasks, clear as well as visual representation of time allotted.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Zhang, L., Cao, T. and Wang, Y., 2018. The mediation role of leadership styles in integrated
project collaboration: An emotional intelligence perspective. International Journal of
Project Management, 36(2), pp.317-330.
Xie, N. and Chen, N., 2018. Flexible job shop scheduling problem with interval grey processing
time. Applied Soft Computing, 70, pp.513-524.
Online:
Wilde, A., 2019, [Online]. Available through : <https://www.jazzhr.com/blog/how-leadership-
impacts-employee-performance/#:~:text=Trust%20in%20leadership%20is%20a,with
%20the%20organization%20long%20term.>
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