Comparing Leadership Theories and Organisational Culture

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................3
Comparing leadership theories..............................................................................................................3
Organisational Culture...........................................................................................................................8
Power and politics.................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Leadership and management are inseparable terms to understand the concept of achieving the
organisational goal through effective management. Leadership is a crucial component of
management whereas leadership behaviour stresses on building the environment through
which employee can excel and develop. Leadership is defined as the potential that can
influence the group efforts in order to accomplish the organisational goal. Every
organisational leader follow a particular leadership style or a mixture of leadership styles to
run the business and achieve the organisational goals. It is important for the organisational
leader to a follow a style because leadership is crucial function of management that helps to
maximise the efficiency through initiative action, motivation, guidance, building confidence,
and coordination. The report brings out the comparison of different leadership theories
followed by the leaders of the company. Moreover, it describes that how organisational
culture has been affected by changing the current leadership theory. Apart from this, the
report also discusses power and politics assessed by managers in such a way that how a
leader access his power to have a positive culture in the organisation.
Comparing leadership theories
Richard Goyder have been leading Wesfarmers as a managing director. He has carefully
observed the purchase and transformation of Coles that drive Bunnings to the pre-eminent
market position and it will deliver a certain level of return to the shareholders. He admits that
his personality has a relative lack of ego as its key attribute. He admits that Goyder surrounds
himself with the good people but it also highlights the high egoistic leaders that tend to do
opposite (Wesfarmers, 2018c). The most important aspect that he have highlighted top-level
management of Wesfarmers as very supporting. Even during Global Financial Crisis, at the
time of acquisition of Coles when people started doubting on its share price fell to $14 late in

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2008 (WESFARMERS, 2018d). He strongly believes for leadership lessons, which shows a
remarkable correlation between the business activities. At last, Goyder says that there do not
exist any magical recipe for leadership. Best leader always use strengths, identify the
weaknesses and he has been surrounding themselves with great people. When analysing the
responsibility of top-level management, the company provides numerous job-specific and
career development-training opportunities that includes customer service, technical work,
teamwork, and leadership too (Wesfarmers, 2018e). At Wesfarmers group level, talent team
should focus on the ability of leadership teams and general manager, which ensures that they
have ability to focus on the highly abled potential leaders. Wesfarmers launched a group wide
investment by awaking and capability building that is associated with data analytics while
focusing on single strategic areas. When acquiring Coles, many market researchers and
industrialists made some controversial statements, as Coles is also a great brand in
supermarket industry. Richard was a confident leader and the team that Wesfarmers has can
deploy more effective resources that can better Coles and can give good returns to the
organisations. Today, the company is at remarkable level Coles (a subsidiary business) that
has effective leadership traits with the combined efforts of management team.
Authoritative leadership Democratic leadership
As the traits, This leader dictate and control
the policies and procedures and decide what
goals need to be achieved.
These leaders are participative leaders in
which team members get involved in
decision-making process and this type of
leader can be applied to any organisation.
An autocratic leader retains control, power,
and authority and ultimately reserves the
right to create all the decisions in a proper
way.
It motivates the subordinates to create a
positive organisational culture at workplace.
Moreover, it also allow the team members
to remain very active during the decision