The Assignment on Organizational Behaviour

Running head: Organizational behaviour
Organizational behaviour, culture and leadership
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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
1. In light of leadership theories, analyse the leadership of Kate and
Philip. Compare and contrast their leadership styles. What
recommendations would you give them to be better leaders?
Leadership styles can be expressed as the behaviour and attitude of a leader toward the
group members working for a particular organization having common aim and objectives
(Antonakis and House 2013). Moreover, the leadership style adopted by different leaders are
different and are the results of personality, experience, philosophy as well as value system of
a leader. Depending on the business or service provided by the organization, the leadership
style is varied. There exists different type of leadership theories such as, autocratic,
Participative or Democratic, transformational, transactional, partnership leadership and many
others (Odumeru and Ogbonna 2013). Following are some important leadership theories that
the organisational leaders follow to achieve success and fulfilling the goals and objectives of
an organization.
Great man theory of leadership
The Great Man theory of leadership come into focus around the middle of 19th century.
Even though there was no idea of identifying which human nature, characteristic or behaviour
are responsible for selecting a great leaders (Sethuraman and Suresh 2014). This theory of
leadership explains that the behavioural trait of leadership is intrinsic. In simple terms, it
describes that “great leaders are born... they are not made”. This theory assumes that
efficient or great leaders are destined by birth for becoming a leader. Moreover, this theory
also have a belief that all the great leaders will rise when the appropriate situation will be
confronted. However, the particular theory came in to focus by Thomas Carlyle.
Trait theory

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ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
It is an important leadership theory which believes that individuals are either born and/or
made with different qualities for being exceptional leaders and playing successful roles. The
main qualities of becoming successful leader are sense of responsibility, intelligence,
creativity and values (Amanchukwu, Stanley and Ololube 2015). In addition to that, this
theory of leadership emphasizes on analysing the physical, mental as well as different social
characteristic for gathering higher understanding of what exactly needed to become a
successful leader. According to this theory, a person must have creativity, flexibility,
emotional and mental intelligence, confidence, integrity, honesty, energy, tenacity, charisma
and higher knowledge of the business for becoming an impactful leader (Sharma and Jain
2013).
Behavioural theory of leadership
In relation to the trait theory of leadership, behavioural theories provides a different
perspective towards successful leadership. This theory emphasizes on different behaviours of
leaders in contrast to their physical, social and mental characteristics. The concepts of this
theory totally discards the great man theory concept and according to this, leaders are made
not born. According to this theory, there are two kind of leaders: those individuals who were
concerned with the given tasks and those who are more concerned about the people (Nawaz
and Khan 2016). This theory shows concerns about the observable reaction and actions of the
leaders as well as the followers in a particular situation. It again emphasizes on how exactly
the leaders behave and thinks that a successful leadership mainly depends on learnable and
definable, behaviour of the person. It focuses on specific behaviours of the leaders. For the
behavioural theorists, the behaviour of a successful leader can be identified as the effective
predictor of the leadership influences (Orr and Cleveland-Innes 2015). Furthermore, this
theory focuses on what actually the leaders are doing rather than what are their qualities.