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Assignment on Understanding Leadership Theories

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Assignment on Understanding Leadership Theories

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ORGANIZATIONALBEHAVIOUR
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1ACTIVITY 1....................................................................................................................................11.1 Evaluation of leadership theories.....................................................................................11.2 Impact of managerial styles on organizational effectiveness...........................................21.3 Motivational theory informing employee motivation......................................................31.4 Theories relating to work relationships and interaction...................................................4ACTIVITY 2....................................................................................................................................5Covered in PPT.......................................................................................................................5ACTIVITY 3....................................................................................................................................52.3 Impact of organizational structure and culture on company's effectiveness....................5ACTIVITY 4....................................................................................................................................54.1 Approaches to organization decision making...................................................................54.2 Management approaches to risk and uncertainty in decision making..............................64.3 Effectiveness of organizational decisions........................................................................7CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1
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INTRODUCTIONOrganizational behaviour can be defined as a study of individual and group performancewithin business enterprise. Further, it analyzes the human behaviour within particular workenvironment and shows its major impact on performance, job structure, motivation, etc. (Robbinsand et.al., 2013). In relation to the above scenario, organization undertaken for the present studyis Sainsbury which is the second largest chain of supermarkets in UK. Further, the operations undertaken by mentioned retail venture is in three divisions i.e.Sainsbury supermarket, convenience stores and banks. This present study will focus onunderstanding the leadership theories and also the impact of different managerial styles onorganization performance. Moreover, this document will evaluate the characteristics of differentorganization structure and also the importance of organizational culture theory in developingorganization effectiveness.ACTIVITY 11.1 Evaluation of leadership theories Leadership theories plays a crucial role as it helps in motivating employees so that theycan work with best of the efficiency to achieve individual and organizational goals andobjectives. Trait theories can be taken into consideration as it is an approach which studies thehuman personality. Further, these theories majorly emphasize on measuring the traits which canbe considered as habitual pattern for thought, emotion and behaviour. Great man theory is the 19th century theory as with the help of it, history can be explainedwith an impact of great men or heroes who influence individuals due to their personal charisma,intelligence, wisdom as well as power. These great men are usually the influencer who motivatesindividuals to achieve their individual as well as organizational goals and objectives. Thesetheories generally have certain assumptions in the form that leaders are generally born and notmade and they also possess certain traits.Contingency theory is the theory which asserts that there is no best way for leading acompany or to make strong decisions. Further, in this theory, their course of action is alsodependent on the different internal and external situations exists for business venture (Suppiahand Singh Sandhu, 2011). Further, the role theory is considered as a psychology whichcomprises of the daily activities which need to be acted out of socially defined categories.1
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Further, each of the social roles comprise of set of rights, duties as well as responsibilities whicha person has to face and fulfil.Transactional leadership can also be taken into consideration within the cited retailventure as this theory emphasize on role of supervision, organization and group performance.Further, it is a leadership style where the leader within the venture focuses on giving feedback toemployee's either through rewards or punishments. On the other hand, transformationalleadership style is something different where leaders focus on changing the organization cultureby implementing brand new ideas.These theories play a significant role for the success of business venture manager withinSainsbury should simply the best in order to improve their organization performance andproductivity.1.2 Impact of managerial styles on organizational effectiveness Organization’s effectiveness can be described as a concept that how effective anorganization is in order to achieve their goals and objectives. Organization’s effective groups arethose which directly concern themselves with different key areas. Effectiveness can be in theform of talent management, leadership, development, organization design as well as thestructure. Cited firm has to use skilled employees so that they can perform their operations welland achieve their goals and objectives respectively.Leadership plays a crucial role within the business venture and it is more thanmanagement as it focuses on motivating employees. Further, different types of leadership styleshave been discussed down under:Autocratic: This style comes into play when close supervision is needed by someemployee's who want to improve their efficiency and performance. Moreover, this styleis more suitable for new employees who have been recruited by mentioned retail firm(Inesi and et.al., 2011). However, this style has some major negative aspects as well andmost of the business venture avoids using this style.Democratic: In this style, top management of Sainsbury will play a crucial role as theywill focus on changing the policies and structure of the business venture. Further, this isone of the most effective styles eventually which help employees to accept the changes inthe best possible manner because the decision which is taken by venture includes the2
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