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Leadership Theories in Business : Report

   

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................3Critically discuss two leadership theories........................................................................................3CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................4REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................52
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INTRODUCTIONLeadership can be defined as the person who controls and monitors the employees in theorganization. According to the Alan Murray, the leaders helps the employees in inspiring andmotivating to perform well in the organization. It is considered as the important aspect for theorganization through which management can runs effectively and efficiently (Allen and Kusy, 2011).This report will further, demonstrate the two leadership theories which will be applied in the businessenterprise to accomplished the goals and objectives. MAIN BODYCritically discuss two leadership theoriesLeadership has the various theories which is used by the organization to maintain the smoothmanagement system in the organization. The two theories of the leadership are the trait theories andcontingency theories. Trait TheoryThis theory mainly focuses on the leader personality through which they able to manage theirbusiness operations effectively and efficiently. Here, the company wants some qualities in theleadership such as intelligence, initiative, interpersonal skills, self confidence, responsibility factor andpersonal integrity. In addition to this, this theory states that there should be tolerance for stress in theleaders so that able to do take the workload and managed it properly (Bolea and Atwater, 2015). Here,this theories has made some assumptions such as leader are born and they have special characteristicsand traits which comprises of intelligence, honesty, self confidence, appearance etc. here, this theoryasserted that there are difference between the behaviour of followers and leaders. However, on theother hand, no characteristics properly define the traits of the leader. Other aspect is that traits plays assmall role in the leadership and considered as the non- dominant factor of the organization. Moreover,The trait leadership theory believes that people are either born or are made with certain qualities thatwill make them excel in leadership roles. That is, certain qualities such as intelligence, sense ofresponsibility, creativity and other values puts anyone in the shoes of a good leader (Hansten andWashburn, 2016). As there was many limitations in the trait leadership theory but later on, it is doneproperly in the behavioural approach. This theory is about the traits which should be posses by theleaders in managing and monitoring the management of work nad employees effectively andefficiently. Contingency TheoryThe other theory in leadership is contingency theory which mainly focuses on theunderstanding of both the leader and the various leadership situation. This theory has asserted some3
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