Importance of Leadership Training & Development for Organisation

Organisations:
Leadership and
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
Leadership and Management Theories...................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8
Evaluation of Leadership Development Programme.............................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is often referred as an art in a person is responsible for bringing together a group of
people who work towards a common goal. On the other hand, a manager takes action to fulfil
these objectives. Leadership is an art in which one person is responsible to motivate a whole
team in order to fulfil goals and objectives of an organisation (Bush, Bell and Middlewood,
2019). When taking business into consideration employees and teams work under such
conditions to meet the requirements of an organisation. While managers are those who are in
position to manage certain departments in an organisation. Managers take decision and others are
required to follow those decisions. It is duty od managers to plan, organise, direct, co-ordinate as
well as control all the things in an organisation.
Managers create goals whereas leaders are responsible to make sure that people in
organisation works towards that goal. Managers work to control risks and leaders takes risk to
fulfil a task. Managers are employees of an organisation and leaders are considered to be coach
or guide in an organisation. Leaders are working towards long-term goal and managers work for
short-term goals only. Managers are dependent on certain skills and qualities and leaders are
focus on developing personal skills. Leaders are also unique in nature whereas managers need to
have a set of qualities which can be similar in each one of them.
In this report discussions are made taking into consideration Tesco, a multinational firm from
Britain. It has a large chain of supermarkets and deals in selling general merchandise and
groceries. Its headquarters is situated in Hertfordshire, England in United Kingdom. When taking
all of the retail industry Tesco is considered to be one of biggest company. It deals in nearly
seven countries including those of Asia and Europe as well. The discussions made in following
report are on a number of theories and concepts of leadership as well as management. Regarding
all the leadership theories behavioural and trait theory are discussed. Importance of training and
leadership is also discussed (Gilinsky and Hager, 2020). Then this discussion is followed by
leadership development programme with its benefit to individual as well as the organisation.

TASK 1
Leadership and Management Theories
In the following report Managerial functions as well as its importance is discussed. It
helps in solving some misleading issues which often exist in an organisation. With the help of
the study leadership concepts and its analyzation have been conducted. In leadership there are
focus paid on two major aspects which is behaviour as well as traits of an individual. These are
two major theories of leadership other than this there are various other theories such as one-
dimensional focus, contingency factor, influence power relations and many more.
When taking Tesco into consideration the two major theories of leadership are discussed below:
Behavioural theory:
In this theory various roles, responsibilities, functions of and managerial function
especially focused on. This theory explains how qualities of a leader can be built within an
individual through right behaviour major focus is on the factor that what kind of behaviour of an
individual will lead him or her to become an effective leader. According to this research the
employees of organisation are asked to rate their leaders on the basis of their behaviour. This
behaviour of leaders is broadly divided into two parts which are initiating structure and
consideration (Jayawickreme, Zachry and Fleeson, 2019). This style of leadership is both
relation oriented and task oriented. Before application of this theory satisfaction of employees
and performance of employs in a group were considered. Behaviour of a leader is distributed into
four parts in this theory which is tasked and relationship oriented, directive an employee
oriented, productive, and participative. This theory has a great effect on the management of an
organisation as well. However, this theory does not help in differentiating between leadership
and management.
There are a number of merits as well as demerits of this theory which are specifically given
below:
Merits of behavioural theory
 Behavioral change: The major advantage of this theory is that there can be brought a change
in behavior of a leader with the help of effective learning as well as training. This is a
demerit in trait theory because traits are inborn and they cannot be taught. Through this
leader can be easily created by teaching required behavior to a potential leader (Ye and et.
al., 2020).