Positive Leader: Analyzing Leadership and Employee Performance

This essay analyzes the impact of leadership on employee performance and engagement at the workplace. It compares the positive leadership and Psychological Capital literature and highlights the benefits of positive leadership towards employee satisfaction and job performance. The essay discusses the role of leadership in reducing employee turnover and enhancing commitment and wellbeing. It also explains the connection between leadership style and employee engagement.

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Analyze the leadership and/or employee performance at workplace and compare it with
the positive leadership and Psychological Capital literature
Introduction
Leaders play a very important role towards initiating motivation ot the employees for
accelerating their performances and productivity towards the organization. Job of leadership
in performances of the employees is essential as both are emphatically affected by one
another. It is sure that in a competitive business condition, business organizations will in
general rely on their leadership to encourage the change and development expected to
increase competitive advantages. Leadership skills always result on positive organizational
outcomes. The context of the skills and the traits in leadership sometomes remain trival
irrespective of the potential in case the employees of the organization lack motivation for the
factors of the internal organization like inflexible culture of the work, the limited pay scale
and the inaapropriate practice of human resource (Newman et al. 2014). There lies
innumerable researches on the debates regarding the efficiency of the skills of the leadership
as one of the sole need for the enhancement of the organization and the employee
performances.
The assignment explains a detailed interpretation of the skills of the leadership and
the econnection of the leadership to the performance of the employees on the workplace. The
essay furthermore illustrates the basic role of the leadership in the engagement and the
performances of the employees together with the consideration of thefactors such as the white
color versus blue color employees, administrative versus professional employees, the
emotional labour and cohorts and ethnicities of different generation. The essay explains
results from the literature of positive leadership with the respect of the formation of effective
workplace aligning the leadership on employee performnces, the turnover, commitment,
engagement and wellbeing at their employment organization.

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Discussion
Employee turnover has been dependably an incredible concern issues looked by
organizations independent of its districts, size and structure.
In the research study Kimand Mauborgne (2017) explained the context of employee
turover as one of the serious challenges in the filed of the human resource of any business
organization. While performing the study for identification of the connection among the
leadership traits and the voluntary rate of the turovers of the employees, Pruzanet al.(2017) in
their study found a negative relation nd association among the behavior of the
transformational leadership and the intention of the organizational turnover of the employees.
Yıldız, Baştürkand Boz( 2014) in their study commented on staff turnover as one of the
serious issue that tends to bring destructions to the organization in the form of both direct and
indirect costs. The variables identified and analysed in the research study included
ocuupational content, job satisfaction and the styles and the characteristic of the leadership.
The turover of the employyes is highly costly for all level of the business organization and
the quality of the services and the productivity are negatively hampered. High rate of
employee turover furthermore tends to jeopardisze the progress towards the achievement of
the goals and the objectives of the organization. Wei et al. (2015) in their research study
explained the idea of the commitment of the organization that has lately improved and
developed in the management together with the derivation of the significant responses
towards the review of the workplace behavior and the attitudes. It is thus worthy explaining
that the commitment of the business organization includes the loyalty of the employees of the
organization. According to Joseph (2015) employee turnover can furthermore be the result of
the negative relation among the leaders and the employees in the workplace. There lies a
huge concept that the employees tend to be highly influenced by the behavior of leadership.

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The style of leadership plays a very crucial role in the enhancement of the performance of the
employees in the organization.
Leadership is basically defined as the procedure of influencing the others towards
working willingly for the targets and the goals. It is generally illustrated as the procedure of
influencing the people for directing their efforts for the achievement of their goals. According
to a study performed by Northouse (2018.) in his research paper, the success of the business
organizationis mostly reliant on the ability of the leader to optimize the human resources. It is
furthermore mentioned that an effective and a positive leader understands the significance of
the employees towards theaccomplishment of the goals as well as towards motivating the
employees as it is an important factor towards the achievement of the goals. It is a fact found
in most of the studies that effective organization requires traits of effectiveleadership and
hence the performance of the business may get hampered in somewhat direct proportional
towards the negligence of the field. The study also highlighted the facts of leadership as the
most invested organizational variable that has some of the potential influence on the
performance of the employees. The role of the leadership towards the enhanecemnet of the
performances of the employees provides somewhat ideas regarding the specified aligned
leadership and the wellbeing of the employee towards its engagement and performance of the
employees (Clarke2013). Many of the researchers in their study furthermore suggested the
impact of positive leadership with the wellbeing of the employee that furthermore directs in
positive influence of the performance of the employees. The workplace of each and every
organization should adopt positive traits of leadership to enhance the positive emptions
empowerment and the commitment by the employees to wards the organization.
The transactional leadership is an exchange process among the follower and the leader. The
style of transactional leadership notify the particular requirements and the needs of the
employees.

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In case of productivity and loyalty. A satisfied employee may not be th best employee
in the organization. It is furthermore considered as the example for the individual who has
been attached with the organization emotionally and have certain passion for the activities of
the organization. According to Zhangand Zhang( 2016) these types of individual is generally
committed towards his value and tend to go beyond their limit of the fundamental area.
Leadership and its style is fundamentally significant since it tends to affect the situation of
the workplace. The traits of the leadership plays a very essentiall role towards the influence
of the engagmenet of the employees. The direction and the clarity of the goal are identified as
the the two major important factors that tends to influence the level of engagement of the
employees. In the context of the employee enegagenet and leadership Simonand
LaCava( 2014) identified the important drivers of the engagmenet of the employees that are
readily connected to the behavior sof the leaders. The attitudes and the nature of the
leadership in the necessary levels can directly influence the engagment of the employees.The
creator of this research study has additionally expressed the way that the capacity of senior
leadership in driving the association towards a correct course and in addition transparently
impart the condition of business to some relational variables like approaching the employees
of the organization with respect and perceiving the achievement could get significant
increment of employee commitment towards the business.
The senior leadership effects the engagement via different levels.
In account of the impact of the senior leadership traits on the commitment and the
engagement of the employees of the business organization, the skills and the traits of the
senior leadership does not feature the top driver of the engagement of the employees in the
organization. According to Pruzan( 2015) senior leadership with some of the top most
effectiveness does not tend to fit such of the criteria. Towards the drivers of the engagement
the senior leaders are generally not necessarily visible through out. On the other context,

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Denhardt( 2015) commented on the issues and the difficulties towards the provision of the
employees towards the exposure to the senior laedersfor the reward strategy of the
organization. It is furthermore worth stating the fact that effective and long term
implementation of the initiates may furthermore be considered as some of the visible
investment and commitment from the leaders in the senior position in the business. With the
consideration of the support it is evident that in case of the culture of the business
organization, the commitment and the productivity of the employees, there are no significant
options but to target on the behavior of leadership.
The performance of the job of an employee tends to incarese with some of the great
satosafcation of the job as weel as the commitment towads the job. One of the most
significant roel of the business is to maximize the performance of the job of the employees
and compete in highly competitive atmosphere.
Most of the theories of the leadership that are being illustrated in the esaerchstucy by
the tresearchers focuses on the connection among the style and the charecteristics of the
leadership with the job performance of the employees and thor engagement towards the
organization. According to Wong and Laschinger (2013) leaders of the organization tend to
put all of their efforts for the provision of full encouragement and support for the employees
that work under tehirinstrcutions. In the study Strom, Sears and Kelly (2014) illustrated the
style of the leadership and its imoirtance towards the outcome with respect to the
performance of the employees. Regrading the basis of these fact it can furthermore be
mentioned that the charecteristics and the style of the leadership varies under varied working
conditionds as a whole. It can be noted that the transformational leadership style is thus
capable towards the communication with the semse of responsibility, intellectual inspirations
and tasks.

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The benefits of the positive leadership towards the wellbeing of the employees are numerous
in nature. These includes perceived inclusion, social neyworks, intimacy and other
participations in the development of others.
In this particular context, Grumanand Saks (2011) illustrated how the positive
leadership traist can hekp in the decription of the satisafaction of the job among the
individuas who are generally not targete oriented. It is furthermore stated that some of the
great attention is needed for the influence of the leadership and some of the emotional
constricts on the state of the motivation. Bedarkar and Pandita (2014) in their study argued on
the significant target that allow the business to effectively understand the complex nature
towards the association of the leadership dealing with some of the ultimate tangible outcomes
of the performances. The author of the study mentioned the notion of the authentic behavior
as one of the fundamental tool that enhances the encouragement and the engagemenr by the
employees that ais generally given by a mediating actor as a whole.
Conclusion
Leadership skills always result on positive organizational outcomes. The context of
the skills and the traits in leadership sometomes remain trival irrespective of the potential in
case the employees of the organization lack motivation for the factors of the internal
organization like inflexible culture of the work, the limited pay scale and the inaapropriate
practice of human resource. There lies innumerable researches on the debates regarding the
efficiency of the skills of the leadership as one of the sole need for the enhancement of the
organization and the employee performances. It can thus be concluded that skills and the
traits of the leadership plays a very important role in significantly influencing the
performance, work behavior and the prosuctivity of the employees. The studies explained
above demonstrated the style of the leadership that tends to enhance the level of the employee

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engagement and reduce the turoever of the employees by the factors of motivation and
communication among the laeders and the employees of the organization.

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