Leadership Styles and Theories in Aviation Industry: A Case Study of British Airways

AI506 MANAGEMENT
LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Leadership and what are the style of leadership .........................................................................3
Path Goal Leadership Theory .....................................................................................................5
Transactional Leadership Theory ...............................................................................................5
Transaction and Contingency styles supported successful change in the aviation industry and
How Leadership may need to change post pandemic..................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is the process of individual ability to encourage, motivate and enable other to
contribute towards the success of organization. It is essential function which support
organization resources for improving the efficiency and achieving the goals. Management refers
to controlling the group or set of entities to execute a goal. It is the process of reaching the goal
in efficient and effective manner, also it is aligned with group efforts and ensure the better life.
British airways is flag carrier airline of UK and it is situated in London beside the main hub
Heathrow Airport (Kohtamäki, 2019).
This report will identify the different styles of leadership and comparing two academic
theory and models. It will discuss how such theories are applied to the post pandemic situations'
ad what are the changes which bought in the leadership and management.
MAIN BODY
Leadership and what are the style of leadership
Leadership is all about motivating each other at workplace so that they can cooperate
with team, themselves in order to get certain goal or objective of organization. Leadership is
significant as the leader provide the motivation with economic and non-economic rewards.
Effective leaders provide clarity of goal, motivate and escort the company to recognize its
mission. No matter of the position, knowing the part of leadership can assist in contribute more
significance to the achievement of the organization's objectives (Kang, Kim and Baek, 2022).
Whereas with supervisor he works as providing guidance to the subordinates, in what way task is
to be performed with efficiency and effectively. In absence of leadership techniques the
organization structure can be unbalanced which leads to confusion and frustration among
individual. So the leadership provides range of purpose in ensuring the smooth operations of
organization. The effective leadership and management provide the great working employee and
success to the organizational growth. There are qualities which which enhance the effective
working at workplace. Fulfilling the employee needs where leader role is to prioritize team needs
by building an environment where everyone can learn from each other in most appropriate way.
Influencing employee, employees get influenced by manager discipline which enhance their
performance.

It is essential to know about the leadership and management which as two different
objectives and requires several skill sets. While discussing the leadership theories and
contrasting them what are is the difference between the two major theories of leadership are.
Contingency style of leadership
These are also known as the situational leadership which suggest as based on situations
different leadership styles are required for various situations. On the basis of this theory leader
adapt the best style and provide the needs of employee in the specific circumstances. For the
organization who embraced the behaviour because of this area of study will be helpful to
understand better about individuals in work culture (Witzeman and et.al., 2018). Organization
behaviour is helpful for accessing and predicting the behaviour of employee to better understand
about the situation where the improvement is required and motivate individuals. As in contrast
with transactional theory this theory aims at specific situational factors which directly can impact
the relations between variables of dependent and independent in study of organizational
behaviour. Independent variables are the reason for change in dependent variable on other hand
dependent variables are the response impact by independent variable. Motivation and leadership
are the examples of independent variables of this theory and productivity, absenteeism and
turnover is the example for dependent variables.
Transactional style of leadership
This style is known as management theory, it is task oriented and direct off assumption
which effective leaders must treat their employee and team member transactionally. By this
approach it means taking the authoritatively managerial stance through rewards when
subordinates get the goal and can be penalized if doesn't. Such leader has the strong personality
and can make important decisions. Transaction leadership performs best in situation when rules
are followed and hierarchy is critical. Such qualities can succeed in crisis or in the project which
acquires the specific process, negative exceptions like missing sales goals or getting immediate
attention and production quality targets. So this is the style which can be followed by several
degree of practice and alter by vision and goals (Rosari, 2019). The leadership is responsive who
works in the organizational culture, and they develop employee in achieving the organizational
objectives by rewards and punishments. Thus, this leadership style is viewed as insufficient but
not bad in building the most of the leadership potential. It creates basis for mature interactions
and care must be taken by leaders not practice it exclusively. They are quite effective in directing