Leadership Styles to Manage the Millennial Generation: An Analysis and Recommendation

This essay analyzes different leadership styles to manage the millennial generation and provides recommendations for effective leadership. It discusses democratic, autocratic, and delegation styles of leadership and their advantages and disadvantages.

Individual Essay

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Leadership styles.........................................................................................................................3
Analyses .....................................................................................................................................5
Recommendation ........................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is related to the ability of a person which is used by them to influence the will and
ability of person towards the achievement of organisational goals and objectives. Leadership is
one of the most important and valuable aspect of the business as it helps to control the workforce
of the organisations. There are many employees are present in the organisation which has
different needs and desires. The leaders of the organisation has great role in the organisation
because they analyse the needs and desires and try to fulfil them so that the attitude of the
employees are motivated towards the achievement of organisational goals and objectives. In the
previous time it is said that the leaders are born not made which means the leadership abilities
are developed in person with their birth and cannot be developed by the individual. This system
proved to be wrong by many persons by developing the leadership abilities in their personality
with the help of efforts and training (Alblooshi, Shamsuzzaman and Haridy, 2020). It is very
important for the leaders that they have developed different types of skills in their personality
such as communication skills, interpersonal skills and leadership skills if they want to become
the successful leader of the organisation. The topic which is chosen here to demonstrate this
report is how the leadership style will have to adapt to manage the millennial generation. This
report provide description related to different leadership style require to manage the workforce. It
also provided different recommendations which has provide direction for the development.
These leadership style helps the individual to become successful leader of the organisation which
manages the employees in effective manner. There are number of leadership skills are required
by the leaders to manage the employees.
TASK
Leadership styles
Leadership refers to motivating others towards the work so that the goals and objectives of the
organisation be fulfilled in effective manner. There are different types of leadership style are
present which can used by the leaders to lead the employees in the organisation. It depends upon
the nature and size of the organisation that which style of leadership are followed by the leaders.
The leadership style helps the leaders to develop effective framework in the organisation which

has their own style of leadership. There are different types of leadership style are present in the
market which are given below:
Democratic style of leadership – It is one of the commonly used style of leadership which is used
by many leaders to lead the people. Under this style of the leadership all the decision are taken
on the basis of group discussion. The employees are free to provided their ideas and suggestion
on any aspect. It is the duty of the leaders that they respect the decision of the followers so that
they becomes motivates towards the goals and objectives (Al-Malki and Juan, 2018). In this type
of leadership style all employees express their ideas which increases the level of accuracy and
innovation which helps to satisfy the dynamic needs of the customers and employees. The
democratic style of leadership are very valuable for multinational organisations which has
multiple business functions. It helps to increase the productivity of the organisation which has
one of the important part of the business. There are many advantages are present with this style
of leadership as it increases the employees motivation and their engagement in the organisation.
It also helps the management of the organisation to increases the creativity of the organisation
and also promotes the development of team in the organisation.
Autocratic style of leadership- It is related to those style of leadership under which the central
authority of the power are the leaders and al the decision are taken by them on the basis of their
personal qualities and skills. All the employees of the organisation has to follow the orders of the
leaders without giving any suggestions. There are many leaders are present in the world which
has used this style of leadership and Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon group has followed in
this type of style. The chances of failure are very high in this style so it is very essential for the
leaders that they have superior skills and qualities in their personality which enables them to
develop effective decisions in the organisation. There are many advantages are present along
with this style of leadership (Rabiul and Yean, 2021). The decision making process of the
organisation becomes fast because only one leaders has take all the decision of the business. The
chances of mistakes in the management becomes minimised because of the fear of leader. This
style of leadership helps to develop effective consistent result in the organisation. There are also
some negative impact of this style such as the strict leadership can lead to development of
employee rebellion in the organisation and it minimises the employee innovation and creativity.
Delegation style of leadership- It is also called laisses faire leadership which is based on the team
work and motivation. Under this style of leadership, the leaders of the organisation has put the

efforts of taking decision on the group of team. It is one of the valuable style of leadership which
promotes team spirit and motivation in the organisation. It is essential for the leaders that they
have developed different types of effective teams in the organisation. All the member of the team
should be of similar mindset so that the chances of conflicts can be minimised from the
organisation. There are different types of advantages can be enjoyed by the organisation as the
employees which are having experience of work can take the advantage of their skills and
competencies (Berraies and El Abidine, 2019). The level of innovation and technology becomes
high in this style of leadership. This style of leadership has developed positive working
environment in the organisation. There are some disadvantages are present in this style of
leadership because in delegation, the adaptability of change are very hard which makes difficult
for the management to make changes in their organisation.
Analyses
All the style of leadership which are discussed above are very valuable and important for the
success of the organisation in the market. It is very important for the managers of the
organisation that they analyse all the style and then choose the favourable style for their
organisation. It becomes essential for the managers that they evaluate the nature and size of the
business so that the effective style of leadership. The leaders should be dynamic in nature and are
having the knowledge of different style of leadership so that they can use them according to the
situation in the organisation.
There are many peoples are present in the organisation as millennial generation who does not
have any goals and direction in their career. Thus type of condition are very dangerous for their
careers so it is very important for anyone to provide them direction and support in the
organisation so that their career remains safe. Leaders are persons which can conduct this
function in the organisation (Adnan, and Valliappan, 2019). They have abilities and skills in
their personality which can influence the behaviour of any person towards the achievement of
organisational goals and objectives. It is the duty of the leaders that they focus on this issue so
that it becomes easy for the followers to deal with these issues.
As per the analyses of all the styles of leadership it is concluded that autocratic style has promote
the employee engagement and innovation in the organisation which is the need of modern
business. There are many employees are present in the organisation and it is very important for
their motivation that the organisation has provide considerable opportunities of taking decision

for the organisation. Delegation style of leadership helps the company helps the company to
satisfy this need of the employees in the organisation (Hansen and Pihl-Thingvad, 2019).
Recommendation
 It is recommended to the leaders that they have knowledge of different style of leadership
so that it can be used in different situations.
 It is recommended to the management of organisation that they have used their leadership
framework of their organisation so that they become more competitive in the market
(Zhang Cao and Wang, 2018).
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from this report that the knowledge of leadership style are very important
for the leaders. This report concluded description related to different leadership style require to
manage the workforce. It also concluded different recommendations which has provide direction
for the development.

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