Leadership Theories: Practices, Strengths, and Weaknesses

Leadership theories
6/7/2019

Leadership Theories 1
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Overview of organisation and activities..........................................................................................3
Activities of company..................................................................................................................3
Practices of Leadership....................................................................................................................3
Weakness and strength of the leadership style................................................................................5
Strengths of leadership style........................................................................................................5
Weakness of leadership style.......................................................................................................6
Issues tackle by Nestle Company................................................................................................7
Less experienced and smaller younger generations.................................................................7
Product related issues..............................................................................................................7
Recommendations............................................................................................................................8
Avoid delegation structure...........................................................................................................8
Measuring performance...............................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

Leadership Theories 2
Introduction
Leadership is terms as the action of leading a group of people or an organisation within the
dynamic environment. It is both a research area and a practical skill encompassing the ability of
an individual person or an organisation to guide or lead other individual teams or the entire
organisation. The aim of the paper is to conduct the research on the leadership theories, practices,
styles that is adopted by the companies in the market. The company that has been selected for
this report is Nestle Australia. The research has been conducted in order to evaluate the
leadership practices and associated issues within Nestle. In the end, it include the suggestion for
the company with the focus that how the practices of the leadership can be optimised for the
maximum impact on organisation. The method that has been conducted in order to gather the
information is secondary research method in which the data has been captured from books,
journals, newspaper and many others.

Leadership Theories 3
Overview of organisation and activities
Nestle Australia Ltd manufactures and markets a wide range of the food and beverages products
present in Australia. The products that are majorly offered by the company include drinks,
coffees, recipe bases, snacks, breakfast and many others. The company came into existence in
the year 1908 with this it has headquarters in Rhodes, Australia (Nestle Australia, 2019). The
company is able to achieve the success in the market because of the effective leadership strategy.
The major motive of the company is that they contribute towards the nutrition, health, and
wellbeing of the people. Nutrition is core of the business in the environment due to which they
are bringing the good food, good life to the entire customers (Nestle Australia, 2019).
Activities of company
The major activity of the company includes manufacturing and selling the products in the
market. Company has wide range of brand through who produces and sells the products in the
market in order to meet the growing and changing demands of the customers. The aim due to
which the activity is performed by the company is to form the Nutrition, Health and Wellness
strategy. The activity of offering quality product and easy available make the company to offers
tastiest and healthiest choices for all the times of the day as well as for entire stages of life. The
company is focused to add the value to their brands and product through the innovation as well
as differentiation. The research and development is one of the activities that are performed by the
company in order to accomplish the success in the market.