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Leadership Styles and Theories

   

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LEADERSHIPRunning head: Leadership 0
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Leadership 1Table of ContentsIntroduction.................................................................................................................................................2Interviews identified....................................................................................................................................2Analysis........................................................................................................................................................3Organizational issues...................................................................................................................................7Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................7References...................................................................................................................................................9
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Leadership 2IntroductionA critical analysis has been done on the approach by the leaders on leadership in the workenvironment. How these approaches affect the workers or employees in an organization. Threeinterviews has been identified from successful leaders who have embarked their approach onleadership in Australia that how they have sustained and improved the leadership effectiveness intheir organization. The cases given in the task has been studied and explained thoroughly to clearthe concepts (Holt, 2015). And based on all the aspects which are being compared and contrastedby different perspectives and their resulted outcomes shows how to improve the leadershipeffectiveness in the organization. The issues which are faced by leaders in the organization areidentified and being advised by the current research done in this regard. Lastly conclusions hasbeen drawn and recommendations made that these theories and studies form a few strategies toimprove leadership effectiveness in the organization (Antonakis, 2017).Interviews identifiedThe interviews which are being identified here are of Sam Walsh the CEO of Rio-Tinto which isa largest metal and mining corporation. Where he said that Leadership matters and the interviewwas provided by N2Growth, Gordon Berridge who asks questions and provide a complete viewof his background and how he has inspired everybody. The second interview identified is of AlanJoyce a CEO of Qantas Airlines, he talked about his experiences that how he cope up with all theissues these airlines were having and takes a toll after few years and reaches a new growth in theglobal industry. The third interview is of Scott Farquhar a CEO of Altassian, he is one of the co-founder of this organization and started from the scratch where he knew nothing and got no suchexperience in handling a business on a big scale but started his way out by forming small groupof people and lead them in a direction towards a particular objective (Hathaway et al., 2017).There are many renowned CEO in Australia who are being awarded as Best Australian leader ofthe era and their success is what be the talk of the town. I have chosen these particular CEOsonly and the reason behind the selection is clear as these three leaders have started their journeybeing a CEO from a scratch when companies they took over were on a downturn and havingcrisis, no growth was suspected in the years gone by when all lose hopes of gaining any profit.These leaders are known to have a thick skin as they took high risks and accepted the challenges
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Leadership 3with an open mind. They carry all the good leadership qualities and follows their differentapproach towards their organization. Also in their varied interviews they have explainedthoroughly how to be a strong leader even in complex situations and how much leadershipaffects growth of an organization. They believed in themselves even after facing many criticismby other leaders and took risk (Yammarino, 2013).AnalysisHere are the cases being analyzed on the basis of biographies of these CEOs, they are beingcompared and contrasted critically that how these leaders are constructed and conceptualize theleadership in their organization. There are various concepts of leadership to follow and each oneof them has its own aspect which needs to be match up with the requirements of a particularorganization. Every leadership style has its own functionalities so a leader must go through theorganization structure and ask all the necessary questions required in order to get through theprocesses and procedure being followed by organization from years. It gives a perspective to aleader that what needs to be done to improve the current situation of crisis and plan out the longterm goals. The conceptualization help leaders to form strategies and take risk, providemitigation with the risks in case where mistakes are spotted it can be undone at that point oftime. It is explained below by all CEOs that how they have described their concepts andunderstanding of leadership (Day et al., 2014).One of the renowned CEO in Rio Tinto, which is one of the largest metal and mining corp. SamWalsh who is a widely known name in the industry. He has started his carrier in purchasing andswitched in sales and marketing further into mining, manufacturing later to general managementin a business operation in around 40 countries. He said in his interview that he was lookingaround for a fresh challenge in an international company based in Australia and founded Rio-Tinto as his path to fulfill his and company’s ambition altogether. Rio-Tinto is headquartered inMelbourne, Australia under the name Rio Tinto Ltd. After Sam Walsh took up the seat as CEOin Rio Tinto, the industry reached to a new level of growth and positioned at a very high rank.Comparing to the past records of Rio Tinto when it was in a downward spiral and no growth hasbeen seen over the time. At that moment Sam took over and in the meantime it reaches to thenew level of success. In the interview it was mentioned that his successor, Jean-Sebastian beinggrateful regarding the success of the business even after experiencing such huge losses and was
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