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Literature Review Assignment on Leadership

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Literature Review Assignment on Leadership

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Table of ContentsLiterature review..............................................................................................................................3Introduction............................................................................................................................3Different leadership theories..................................................................................................3Conclusion..............................................................................................................................72
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Literature reviewIntroductionLeadership is known as the action taken by a leader for leading a group of people or anorganisation, or the ability to do this. On the other side manager is the person who is responsiblefor controlling or administering a firm or a staff. A leader adopts different types of leadershipstyle in order to guide and leads employees. From the beginning of 20th century theories ofleadership took place. There are different types of theories such as great man theory, excellencetheory etc. were proposed and discussed primarily by management science. In the presentliterature review different range of leadership styles and theories will be identified and cruciallyevaluated.Different leadership theories According to the view of Northouse, (2018) McGregor formulated two theories that are X andY which recommend 2 aspects of human behavior at work. It can be stated as the view ofdifferent employees one which can be negative that is known as X theory and another one ispositive which is Y theory. As per this theory, the perception of managers on the nature of theindividual is based on different assumptions. D’Innocenzo, Mathieu and Kukenberger, (2016)summarised theory X that the traditional view of management in a number of characteristics ofassumption in which autocratic leadership style is selected. It is critically analysed thatemployees who are covered in Theory X need a close supervision and proper direction due tothis reason autocratic leadership style is preferred by management. Further, this theory is startfrom the assumption that by nature people are lazy and they try to avoid work as much aspossible. Further, they do not like to take any type of responsibilities related to work and want tobe supervised by leader or manager. In this context, autocratic leadership style is considered asone of the most appropriate leadership styles in Theory X. Hence, the system of punishments andreward work best under this theory. The Muslim, Dato’Yahya and Majid, (2016) argued thatTheory Y starts from the assumption that people have different needs and wants. Further peoplelike to work and they also get motivated through the purse objectives. Under this, employees donot need to provide reward and punishment as because they are self-motivated and like to takeresponsibility for works (Hartnell, Kinicki. and Doyle Corner, 2016). They used creativity andlike to take a creative problem-solving approach. In respect to this, democratic leadership style3
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