Leadership Theory and its Role in Organizational Success

Leadership Theory
(Assessment 3)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Leadership is refers to the process of guiding or leading the group of people in a direction
that leads to accomplishment of organisational goals along with personal objectives. The
leadership plays a significant role within the growth and success of an organisation by ensuring
that the effort of employees must be directed in right manner so that they can work over the
vision which in turn contribute toward accomplishment of organisational goals and objectives
(Antonakis and House, 2014). In order to perform this project Marks and Spencer is taken into
consideration which is a larger multinational retailer which deal in variety of product categories
such as clothing, food items, grocery etc. As the organisation operates its store at international
market leadership style plays a significant role as it help in keeping the employees engaged
within the actual goals or target of the organisation. In this report a detailed investigation over
the role of leadership within an organisation along with its positive and negative influence at
workplace has been studied. Along with this it also focuses over analysing the issues that are
associated with a particular leadership style that presently an organisation is facing.
MAIN BODY
Leadership is basically refers to the art of keeping employees motivated for performing
the operations in a particular direction in order to achieve a common goal. In business setting it is
mainly refers to as a directing workers as well as colleagues over the strategy formulated by
organisation in order to achieve certain objectives. An effective leaders is one which ensures
that its follower get directed in a manner that they become able to achieve their personal goals
while the accomplishment of organisational goals and objectives. A leaders is consider to be a
main person behind the success or failure of an organisation as a leaders is one who work as a
mediator between the top management as well as employees. In addition to this leaders is also
responsible of dividing the strategies formulated by top management into set of activities to be
performed by the employees (Tyssen, Wald and Spieth, 2014). This in turn contribute toward
aligning the efforts of employees in the direction of accomplishing the organisational goals and
objectives. In addition to this it also play a major role within keeping employees motivated
toward the work or task assigned to them by providing them direction and influencing or
encouraging them with set of actions such as guiding, appreciating, recognising them while
making regularly encouraging them to perform well through providing several development
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