Organisational Leadership: Theories, Challenges and Approaches

Organisational
Leadership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Leadership and its nature............................................................................................................3
Leadership versus management..................................................................................................4
Power, politics and conflicts.......................................................................................................4
Leadership challenge...................................................................................................................5
Leadership theories and approaches............................................................................................6
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERNCES.................................................................................................................................12
Books and Journals:..................................................................................................................12
Online........................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is one of the practical skills that is needed by an individual to direct, guide,
inspire and motivate followers and subordinates to reach a particular goal of business. In a
workplace setting, the leadership can be used by a leader or a manage to direct co-workers and
subordinates with a strategy to achieve the business goals and predetermined targets. Leadership
involves the being able, together with prepared to inspire other people in the business setting.
Effective leaders utilises both fresh ideas and idea taken from other leaders. It is necessary that
leaders must be personable enough for others to obey their orders. Leaders must be able to
critically think and visualise certain things for the betterment of an organisation. Moreover,
leaders must be capable enough to use human, financial or any kind of resources in the most
effective and efficient manner (Bratton, 2020). Tesco Organisation is considered to complete this
assignment. It is a UK based retail organisation, with headquarters in Welwyn Garden City,
England. This is one the global retail firm which has its stores in five countries across Europe.
John Cohen was discovered the firm in 1919. It has diversification into many sectors such as
retailing of toys, clothing, software, internet and financial services, furniture, telecom services,
electronics and much more. It has overseas expanded their business, since the early 1990's. In the
present report, one challenge will be identified in the leadership contexts. Leadership is different
from management and how it will be shown in this report. Some of the main theories will be
used to overcome the identified challenge in the organisational contexts.
MAIN BODY
TASK
Leadership and its nature
Leadership is one of the activities that is done by an individual to direct, inspire and
motivate others with some key strategies so that they can work for the common goal and
objective. An efficient leadership has a significant contribution to evolving the personality of the
individuals working in the company. A leader binds a group of people all together with a
common and shared goal. They tend to cater clarity, vision, direction and representation for all
involved, while restricting the uncertainty as well (Ogunsanya, 2020). They are committed and
courageous to what is they desire to get and are highly inspirational to those that follow them.

They have fair and positive attitude, honest and open and can adapt their style to altering the
needs and various stakeholders. In context to Tesco, the nature of leadership is discussed below:
 Leadership is important for managing, the competency to lead effectively is the reason to
being an effective management as they have to collaborate resources while leading a
group of people to realise the targets.
 It derives from power and is kindred to, yet different from management. Leadership and
management are two different aspects. Leaders can lead an unorganized group, but
managers can only lead organised groups. Hence, it can aforementioned that a manager
need to be a leader, but a leader may not be a manager.
 Followership is the essence of leadership (Latta, 2019). In simple words, it can said that
it is essential that people must have willingness to follow an individual that makes that
individual a leader.
 Leader can inspire other's behaviour in some manners. They can influence employees
either to do sick or well for the organisation.
Leadership versus management
Leadership Management
 It is the virtue of directing group
through encouraging them.
 It defines as the skill of inspiring
others.
 It requires foresightedness of an
effective leader.
 It establishes principles and guidelines
for the followers.
 It contains the process of managing the
business activities.
 It refers as the quality of ruling.
 It has short-term vision.
 It implements policies and procedures.
Power, politics and conflicts
Leadership can be influences by power, politics as well as conflict. Power leadership can
be defined as the utilization of power, instead of causing to motivate others to behave and act.
Leaders with powers or authorities can influence others to act, but do not necessarily alter the
mindset of people and how committed they are (De Oliveira, Cavazotte and Alan Dunzer, 2019).