Leadership Styles and Skills Needed by Leaders

Leading and Managing
Change

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
Leadership styles....................................................................................................................1
Skills needed by leaders.........................................................................................................2
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References:.......................................................................................................................................5
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................5

Introduction
Leadership is defined as the capabilities of an individual to influence the behaviour and motivate
the employees towards the attainment of common goals and objectives. Leadership in the
organisation is very crucial as it is the styles of leaders that direct the efforts of the employee
through mapping out the path to be followed towards common goals. Employees are loyal to
their work if leaders are confident and caring towards them and build healthy relations with
them. Below mentioned report covers the detailed description of the distinct leadership styles
used and skills needed by the employers to become an effective leaders at work place (Mufti and
et. al., 2020). In order to gain the trust of employees leaders must be committed, perseverance
and competent at workplace to create a positive and healthy environment.
Main Body
Leadership styles
Transactional leadership style: Under thus kind of leadership style, leaders use transactions
which is referred to as the rewards and punishments to get the job done. Leaders through this
type of leadership demands high level of productivity and engagement from their employees.
Leader sets the clear goals for each employee and pay rewards to them as per their efforts and
compliance. Through this transactional leadership style, leaders encourage the team members
through incentives and brings changes into the organisation.
Autocratic leadership: Autocratic leadership as the names suggests exerts more power on the
employees and is based on the concept “do as I say”. Authoritarian leaders have generally all the
power, authority and responsibility in an organisation. This is an extreme form of transactional
form of leadership style where employees are barely involved in decision making process and
given less opportunity to express their even if it is in the interest of the company, rather they are
forced to implement the decision made by the leaders (Purfarzad and et. al., 2020). This type of
leadership style is resented by millennials and major consequences of this style is absenteeism,
low productivity and high employee turnover rate.
Charismatic leadership style: Charismatic leadership style is effective in bringing changes and
transformation into the belief and attitudes of an employees as leaders fills their employees with
zeal and energy at workplace which inspire and help the employees to work towards the common
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