Leadership Implications in Tesco: An Analysis of Contemporary Issues

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................. 2
Theoretical analysis.................................................................................................... 3
Models of leadership............................................................................................... 3
Theories of leadership.............................................................................................5
Case selection and analysis........................................................................................8
Conclusion................................................................................................................ 11
References................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
Leadership is well thought-out to be the main enabler of organisational
performance and competitive advantage by the companies in the recent years.
Therefore, the leader’s duty is to guide the team or the colleagues towards
achievement of the organisational goals. The concept leaders and followers are not
recent but have evolved many years ago (Bryman 2013). However, previously the
leaders and non-leaders where distinguished by recognizing their traits. Then there
were times when their behaviour becomes the centre of attention and now leaders
are identified with the importance of their situational factors and therefore it can be
said that contingency approach is born which is more theoretical and completely
denies the notion of traits and behaviours of leaders. However, in modern day’s
leadership approaches the word charisma has became the major underlying
concept. Charisma is being used as an important concept and has various
meanings, which overlaps (Alvesson and Spicer 2012). However, with time the
knowledge regarding practice and leadership has changes drastically and keeping
that in mind researches have mentioned about the transformation of leaders. From
the earlier point of view of the businesses they use to try hard so that they can keep
with their rivals in the market but today’s businesses aim to wipe out their
competitors from the market and for this leadership needs to be strong.
The aim of this report is to analyze a contemporary issue that has been
underlying in the chosen organisation of United Kingdom named Tesco and
discussion regarding their leadership implications. To evaluate the case study
various models and concepts will also be discussed to understand the theoretical
aspects of leadership in today’s contemporary organisations. Thus, in contemporary

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organisation’s leadership is important because it is the new model of management,
which can guarantee the survival of the organisation in provisions of changes.
Therefore, it can be said that the style or behavioural pattern of the leaders in
contemporary organisations depend upon situations and the interest of the group of
people that they are leading.
The issue that is going to be discussed in the assignment is related to the
problem that the company is facing due to unequal pay grade in between the male-
dominated section of the organisation and the female store staff (Cox 2018). Job
satisfaction drives the performance of the employee directly it is the role of a leader
to ensure that the people are motivated and their issues and grievances are heard
and are dealt with. In a reputed organisation like Tesco this kind of claim not only
brings about a bad reputation but also develops non-committed employees.
Theoretical analysis
To analyze the concept of leadership in the contemporary organisations the
leadership models needs to be thoroughly studied as they can guide which
leadership behaviours are to be applied in which exact environment or situations
(Dinh et al. 2014).
Models of leadership
Leadership of managerial grid
This model of leadership mainly centres on a leader’s apprehension for task as
well as for people to envisage leadership outcomes. However, as per the
researchers there are two types of leadership behaviour, which are important
concepts in today’s leadership skills in contemporary organisations (Badshah 2012).