Analysis of Leadership in the Workplace

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Introduction
The essay helps in the analysis of the concept and notion of leadership in the
workplace that should be followed in improving the performance related aspects of the
employees. In the current scenario of the workplace environment, the disparity between
success along with failure in the workplace depends on the overall effectiveness of
leadership. Moreover, the leadership is the aspect which plays a major role in determining
whether the companies will be making profits or losses along with whether the company will
be ultimately achieving the laid down objectives in the organization. The main aim as well as
purpose of the essay is to understand and identify the different situations when the leadership
requires to be changed as it is demanded and it will be helpful in managing the individuals in
the workplace more effectively and tactfully as well.
Overview and Notion on Leadership
As commented by Anderson et al. (2017), leadership is one of the most essential
aspects which should be followed in the organizations as it is the essence of motivating the
different employees along with increasing the productivity in a positive manner as well. As it
has been commented by Bedi, Alpaslan and Green (2016), without leadership, the other
elements of business are dormant as the strong leaders help the companies in maximising the
productivity along with achieving the business goals in a positive manner. On the other hand,
as commented by Babalola et al. (2018), weak leadership hurts the overall productivity and it
puts the health of the entire business in jeopardy as well.
Moreover, leadership is not considered to be one blanket characteristic which will be
curing all the ills present in the company; however, there are different other elements related
to the leadership which should be considered as it will be enhancing the overall efficiency of
the leadership which can be adopted by the companies in a positive manner. According to

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Bergh et al. (2016), the leaders are the ones who have the capability to inspire the other
subordinates in achieving success and gain competitive advantage. For instance- the great
CEO of the company helps in inspiring the individuals to utilize the initiative for the good of
the business that will be helpful in increasing the chance of employees in thriving in the
business along with offering pay raises as well as promotion of different opportunities to
develop the business skills.
In addition, as opined by Bird and Mendenhall (2016), the leadership is one of the
most important functions that helps in maximising the efficiency along with achieving the
organizational goals. As opined by Bush, Bell and Middlewood (2019), the leader is the
person who will be communicating the different policies along with plans to the subordinates
from wherein the work starts. As a leader, it is essential for them to motivate the subordinates
which will be concerning to work. Moreover, they try to motivate employees with different
kinds of non-economic and economic rewards and in the respective manner, the leaders get
the work completed by the subordinates as well.
Analysis of Significance of Leadership in Organizations
As opined by Chen and Hou (2016), the leadership is one of the important functions
of the management that assists in maximising the overall efficiency along with achieving the
different organizational goals. The leaders are termed as the person who starts performing the
different activities through communicating the different policies along with plan to the
different subordinates from wherein the work actually starts. According to Chughtai, Byrne
and Flood (2015), leadership aspect is the interpersonal process between the followers and
leaders which will be helpful in deciding how effectively and efficiently the targets of the
organization will be met in a positive manner.

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In addition, the main purpose of the leadership is to attain the common organizational
goals as the main purpose of the leadership is to guide the different people in the company to
work towards attainment of the common goals and the leaders brings the different people
along with efforts to achieve the common goals and improve the overall performance of the
company in a positive and efficient manner. Moreover, as opined by Collinson and Tourish
(2015), the leadership is termed as the continuous process wherein the leaders need to
monitor the employees so that their efforts are going in the similar direction and they are not
deviating the different goals that will be playing a crucial role in improving the organizational
goals successfully.
Analysis of Leadership on Basis of Ethics, Values, Beliefs and Character in Different
Range of Situations
As opined by DeConinck (2015), the leadership is one of the important functions
which plays a vital role in maximising the overall efficiency along with achieving the goals in
the organization. One of the major aspects of the ethical leadership is to become a proper and
appropriate role model for the subordinates as it will enhance the productivity in the
organization in a positive manner. As commented by Demirtas and Akdogan (2015), both
ethics as well as values go hand in hand and the different values which is adopted by the
business leads to moral compass along with determining whether the practices are ethical.
Furthermore, according to Donate and de Pablo (2015), the ethical leadership helps in
creating awareness of the CSR among the different employees along with shaping the
perceptions of CSR that effects the motivation aspect to act in a more responsibly manner in
the personal lives.
Furthermore, the ethical leadership helps in shaping the organizational trust among
the different employees through making them accountable for the various ethical standards