Leadership: Styles, Theories, and Functions

LEADERSHIP
Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Leadership styles....................................................................................................................2
Theories of leadership............................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leadership is defined as the process of art that help a group or number of people to
motivate for their work. In context with leadership there are number of strategies are followed in
business setting to achieve common goal. In other words this can be explained as directing with
colleagues and workers by complying a strategy to meet the company needs. Leadership this is
demonstrated as process of social influence further which could maximize the efforts of
individuals towards the accomplishment of goals ( Robinson, Gray and et. al., 2019).
MAIN BODY
Leadership
Leadership this is defined as the ability to develop vision which motivates group of individuals
to move towards their passion in order to achieve common goal. Therefore this is a process in
which person influence others to achieve goals and objectives as well as leads the organization in
such a way to make it more coherent and cohesive. In the relevance of leadership is very helpful
in achieving common task.
Leadership is known for both practical skills and research area which encompasses the ability of
an individual, and in addition guide the individuals as well as shows them the right vision and
direction.
Characteristics of leadership
 A leader should have followers
 This is a working relationship between followers and leaders.
 Leadership, this is a power relationship
 Leadership
 usually exercised in a given situation
 This is continuous process
 Leadership, they have important aims of accomplishing common task and common goals.
 A leader always influences his followers by their own willingness not by forcing them.
Factors of leadership
Leader – A leader is that who have honest understanding about what individuals are and what
they can do , to get a successful path leaders should convince their followers not their superiors,
this means you are worthy of being followed.

Follower- They must know their people , and further the most fundamental point is to have a
better understanding of human nature which includes motivation, emotion and needs.
Communication – The bad communication may harm the relation between leader and employee.
Situation- Peoples must use their judgement to decide the best course of action and which
leadership style is needed for each and every situation. Whatever is done in first situation will
not work in another situation.
Leadership styles
 Authoritarian or autocratic
 Free reign and delegative
 Participative or democratic
Autocratic
 A leader can create alienation and de-motivation of staff
 A leader always makes decisions without any reference to anyone else.
 This might be valuable in certain types of business where decisions should be made
quickly.
 They commonly have high degree of dependency on the leader.
Democratic