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Leadership Theories and Styles

   

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ORGANIZATIONBEHAVIOR
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3TASK 3............................................................................................................................................3(a) Impact of different leadership style on motivation during the change...................................3(b) Comparing different motivational theories............................................................................4(c) Usefulness of a motivational theory for managers.................................................................6TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7(a) Nature of groups and group behaviour...................................................................................7(b) Factors promoting/restricting the development of effective teamwork.................................8(c) Impact of technology on team functioning.............................................................................9CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................102
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INTRODUCTIONThe study of performance and activity of group and as well as individual in anorganization is known as organizational behavior. This basically studies the impact which anindividual, groups and structures have on the behaviour of human in an organization. This is ainterdisciplinary field which includes sociology, psychology, communication and managementas well. Present report describes the the roles of Junior Manager at Innov8 which is a softwaregame development company based in UK. This company is initiating change and Junior managerhelps in identifying the change by comparing it with other countries. Further, this report alsodiscuss the relationship between organizational structure and culture. Moreover, this alsodescribes the different approaches to management and leadership and also about the use ofmotivational theories. Furthermore, this report covers the development of effective teamwork inan organization.TASK 1Covered in PPTTASK 2Covered in PPTTASK 3(a) Impact of different leadership style on motivation during the changeThere are basically three types of leadership style which impacts on the motivation of anemployee in the organization when change is taking place in the Burberry (Adeniyi, 2007). Thethree types of leadership and its impact are describes below:Autocratic Leadership Style:This style describes that leaders solely takes the decisionand does not involve any of the employee or team member. This style is adopted in suchcases when the change is immediate and it is compulsory to adopt that change. Further,due to this style, employees get demotivated as their consent are not taken (Bergin,2009). This leads to the resistance and also the turnover of employee. In the case ofBurberry, when the company has to regain focus on its competitive strength that is iconicouterwear. If Angela Ahrendts have adopted this style than employee would not haveparticipated with an open heart. Instead they would have resist for this change. 3
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Democratic Leadership Styles: Decisions are taken jointly in this case because this is aparticipative leadership style. A leader always encourages their employees to take part inthe decision making process (Dion, 2012). This style helps in motivating the employeesat fullest because staff members are empowered up to some extent. Further, in Burberry,Angela Ahrendts have adopted this style while implementing change for the re-inclusionof iconic outerwear. This motivated the employees a lot and this way they did not resistfor the change. And due to which change were brought in an organization in effectivemanner (Styles of Leadership, 2008).Laissez-Faire Leadership Styles: This kind of style include zero supervision. In this allthe team members are allowed to to take decision by their own. They are neither directednor supervised. This leads to the reduction of motivation among the employees becauselack of direction demotivates the workforce and this way they cannot take effectivedecision for the organization (Edgar, 2007). If Angela Ahrendts have allowed theiremployees to take decision by their own without any proper guidance, than the companycould have built its goodwill again. Further, the employee turnover rate would haveincreased. Thus, it has been inferred from above findings that Democratic style helps in buildinghigh motivation among the employees at time of change occurring in the organization.(b) Comparing different motivational theoriesThere are several types of motivational theory which the organization adopts in order tomotivate their employees on that basis. Some of the theories and its comparison have beendescribed below:Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: This theory have been propounded by Malsow and hedescribes that every individual have several kinds of needs. He has bifurcated the needsas per their priority and made the hierarchical pyramid for that (Mills, Bratton andForshaw, 2006). Their are in total five kinds of needs starting from basic needs, securityneeds, belongingness needs, esteem needs and self-actualization needs. For example, inBritish Gas, this theory have been employed and managers uses this theory to motivatetheir employees. The company helps in achieving the basic needs and when it getssatisfied then step by step firm assist to achieve all the needs of employees. Thus it4
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