Exploring Leadership Styles and Dynamics

This assignment delves into the multifaceted world of leadership, examining diverse leadership styles and their influence on organizational dynamics. Students are tasked with critically evaluating various leadership theories and concepts, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses, and providing real-world examples to illustrate their application. The assignment emphasizes the dynamic nature of leadership and its impact on team performance, individual growth, and overall organizational success.

THE DYNAMICS OF
LEADERSHIP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 ..................................................................................................................................1
a). Differentiate between leaders and managers........................................................................1
b). Explain how leaders can develop themselves through experience and education.................2
c). Evaluate the methods and techniques used to measure the success of leaders......................2
d). Explain the different types of followership and the role of followers ..................................2
e). The relationship between leaders, followers and the environment in which they work........3
f). Analyse the contribution of leaders as individuals................................................................3
TASK 2 ......................................................................................................................................4
a). Evaluate the concept of values...............................................................................................4
b). Analyse the impact of values on leadership ..........................................................................4
c). Explore the implications of cultural difference on leadership...............................................5
d). Analyse the relationship between personality and leadership...............................................5
e). Analyse how different forms of intelligence influence the behaviour of leaders..................6
f). Distinguish between power and influence..............................................................................6
g). Examine different sources of power .....................................................................................6
h). Critically assess leaders’ motivation to influence and lead others........................................7
TASK 3 ........................................................................................................................................7
A). Differentiate between groups and teams and identify stages of building highly successful
groups and teams.........................................................................................................................7
b). Evaluate leadership as a group and team function.................................................................8
c). Explain how to lead virtual teams .........................................................................................8
d). Assess how leaders influence follower motivation ...............................................................8
e). Assess how leaders influence follower satisfaction ..............................................................9
f). Evaluate the dynamic relationship between motivation, satisfaction and performance.........9
TASK 4 ..........................................................................................................................................9
a).How task interdependence, task structure, job characteristics and changes to these influence
on leaders and followers .............................................................................................................9
b). How organisational factors such as structure, design and culture influence leadership........9

c). The influence of legal, political and economic environment on leadership ......................10
TASK 5 .........................................................................................................................................10
a). Critically analysing the rational approach to organisational change...................................10
b). Critically analysing and evaluating the emotional approach to organisational change.......10
CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Leadership is very important concept in every organisation. Leadership is having
different meaning for different person. Leadership refers to handling the groups of people in an
organisation (Van Wart, 2014). There are certain qualities which leaders are having. The role of
leaders are very dynamic as they face different kind situation in their life time. Leadership create
innovative ideas by which problems can be solved in more easy manner. Leaders motivate other
workers and followers to work in dedication manner so that target can be achieved in effective
manner.
The company which is taken for this particular project is Tesco. It is one of the biggest
grocery retailer in UK. The company is having large market share. The main motive of firm is to
provide quality of products in reasonable prices. Tesco is having their business in world wide.
In this report the concept of leadership as been given. Various power which leadership is
having are also describe in this project. The difference between mangers and leaders are discuss
in this assignment (Nohria and Khurana, 2010). Leadership develop themselves by their
education, experiences and other opportunities which they get through out their life. Methods
and tools to measure the leader success has been given.
TASK 1
a). Differentiate between leaders and managers
Leaders and mangers are used interchangeable. But these both are very much different
from each other. Mangers order employees what they need to do. Whether leader encourage
followers to do work in effective manner. The main responsibility of manger is to mange the
task. But leaders see how the task should lead to future success.
Mangers monitor the performance of employees. While leader encourage the team work
and contribute their skills and knowledge to complete work. Leader monitor that person is ready
for new roles and responsibility so they promote them. Manger give the right direction to
employees so that desire goals can be achieved. Manger is bothered about numbers. They ensure
that number of task to be completed in one day. While leader over look whether workers have
nay problem. If they have leader try to solve so that issues do not become big.
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For example, when any task is given to employees the leader try that the task should be
completed in effective manner. But on the other hand manager wants to complete task on time
without considering the quality.
Difference between leaders and managers:
Basis Managers Leaders
Functions
Manager do not take risk and
carry out their work by
following the daily routine.
They forcefully get the work
done by their subordinates.
Managers have subordinates.
They are the one who take the
risk with a view of reaching at
next level. Leaders influence
the work force to perform well.
They have followers.
Skills
To manage the entire
workplace and overall
functions of business,
managers are required to
should possess effective
managerial and leadership
skills.
Leaders require to possess
good leadership qualities in
order to influence people
towards goals of business.
Working
They formulate policies and
strategies in order to increase
performance of business
Leaders implement policies by
convincing workforce to work
accordingly.
Role They are reactive in nature They are proactive in nature.
b). Explain how leaders can develop themselves through experience and education
Leaders have certain skills and qualities which make them different from other people.
This qualities and traits can be developing throughout their life experience. Leaders need to
develop themselves which the time. Development refers to terms of change and without that
leader cannot solve any problems. Has leader get previous experiences from their job and other
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initiates activities which he/she took. This gives them lot of exposure of how situations can be
handle.
Leader is also having qualification which gives them concept knowledge which they can
apply on particular problem to get solution. As they are having good knowledge it help them to
attract more followers (Beck and Cowan, 2014). When leader is applying their experiences and
education knowledge it generates confident in their team members by which work can be
completed in effective manner. For example, leader need to make certain plan and policies for
their team in this their experiences and education can be used to form that strategies and
implement them in adequate manner.
Manger need to get some leadership training so that they can understand the emotions of
their employees. Leader also take their whole team with him and complete work by supporting
them. So manager should also have this quality instead of handling workers by order he should
give support to them. There are some of course which are design for leaders such as working in
pairs, using mini leadership projects of less than five minutes, linking leadership with transfer of
learning. These are some of the opportunities which leader can explore. In order to referred as an
effective leader, it is important that same has the required level of skills. The most important
among which is the power of motivating the work force. To get the work done in the most
appropriate manner it is crucial that the leader has the capacity to create a common vision in
enterprise so that everyone work accordingly and does full capacity utilisation of the resources
provided. By working with diverse culture of people, leaders can learn how to bring
collaboration among them. When employees of a company have different background then it
creates difficulties in front of managers and leaders to develop relationship among them. Under
this condition, they adopt different kind of leadership styles and managerial skills to reduce skill
gap and reduce conflicts among them. Thus, it shows the way managers or leaders learn
leadership qualities by own experience.
c). Evaluate the methods and techniques used to measure the success of leaders
Every enterprise wants to motivate their employees in a manner so that their productivity
can be increased. It is very difficult to measure effectiveness of leaders directly. So there are
some of the formal process by which effectiveness can be be measure. Some are the following by
which leader’s efficiency can be measures.
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 External audit: Company can hire some outside consulting firm to evaluate their
leadership style and process. This consultancy meets employees and supervisor and
communicate with them so that they can gave valuable feedback.
 Business results: By the business results the effectiveness of leader can be measure. If
firm is earning good profits the leaders are doing their job in good manner. If not then
firm need to make changes (Bryman, 2011).
 Customer assessment: Some time company use customer feedback to measure
effectiveness of leaders. By this leader’s ability to create positive environment can be
identifying.
For example, if firm sales are going down and their employee’s productivity is also
decreasing. In this situation enterprise decide to look after the efficiency of their leader. For this
business unit appoint external experts. Who can evaluate the effectiveness of leader?
In general, success of leaders can be determined by feedback of employees. During
appraisal period, managers can ask workers about problems they have faced while working in
company and how leaders help them in completing their assigned duties. In this regard, the
system to get genuine feedback on leadership, an organisation can use 360 degree feedback
system.
d). Explain the different types of followership and the role of followers
Followership refers to a certain role which an individual, group, team play in an
organisation. The study of followership gives better understanding of leadership. There are
certain qualities which followership is having such as commitment, courage, competence and
self-management. This concept states that in order to become good leader, a person needs to be a
follower first. Through this process, they can identify the need of colleagues and customers, their
nature and more. This would help them in adopting effective leadership style as per nature of
followers. Following are the types of followership.
 The sheep: These individual required external motivation by leader. They are passive
in nature. This followership required regular supervision because they lack of
commitment (Ortmeier and Meese, 2010).
 The yes people: These individual never question the decision made by their leaders.
They are very much committed which their leaders.
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 The pragmatics: They do not stand behind for any controversial and unique ideas.
These individual always remain as background of the groups.
 The aliened: According to Ortmeier and Meese, (2010) these are the individual those
who spread negativity and always question the decision made by leader.
 The star followers: These individual are having positive attitude. They can get
success in their future without presence of leaders. Kark and Shamir, (2013) says that
these type of followers are good for an enterprise as they are loyal towards the
organisation for which it is working and also does full capacity utilisation of the
resources provided to them.
Follower ship is having important roles in terms of leadership. Without followers there is
no role of leadership. By the work of followers leaders success can be determine. So it is very
important for leader to have good followers.
For example, when followers are doing good job the credit goes to their leader but if the
followers are not doing good job it is very difficult for leader to achieve its determine goals.
e). The relationship between leaders, followers and the environment in which they work
As leader and follower are different concept. But they both are depended on each other.
When leader encourage employees it can increase their productivity which tends to give them
success. When followers are doing their job properly it can give success to their leader. The
relationship between leader and followers are like teacher and student.
 The leader has the knowledge and followers need to gain that knowledge therefore it is
important that both of them are present and work in the same environment.
 If there are no followers, there is no existence of leader. In order to lead it is crucial that
there is an availability of followers too who also operate in the same surroundings as only
than the objectives of leaders can be fulfilled.
 Leader earn by giving knowledge, encourage and give training to their followers.
There is different environment in which leaders and followers work. This nature of
business also determines the relation of leader and followers. According to business operation
leader guide their employees and trained them so that they can achieve organisation goals
effectively (Ocker and et. al, 2011). The surroundings for leaders and its followers are all most
same as both work for the same motive and the goals are achieved by linking the followers need
with the goal of the leaders. Along with this, environment in which leaders and followers work
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also affect relationship among them. If there is a positive atmosphere at workplace and managers
made policies by concerning on benefits of workers, then it will aid to gain cooperation of them
for business success. Under such condition, employees can give high support to managers and
leaders in completing the tasks.
f). Analyse the contribution of leaders as individuals
According to view points of Bolden (2011), it has evaluated that leaders on individual
basis give high contribution in influencing workers towards objectives business objectives.
Following are the ways in which leader contribute as an individual.
 Connector: Leader gives many profits to organisation. Leader focus on their employees,
superiors and clients. Leaders serve their clients and understand their needs. Leader treat
people which respect.
 Implementer: In this leader concentrate on focus on the work. They work and deal with
those people those who work and do things for an organisation. Leaders make sure the
strategy which are made by top management should be properly aligned according to
business goals and targets (Kark and Shamir, 2013.).
 Resolute: this is another contribution which leader make to its company. They focus on
main things and avoid other disruptions. Leaders are facing over burden in their daily
routine. But their skills, ability, confidence help them to solve these problems and give
them particular direction (Collinson, 2011).
 Visionary: This people are having skills of creating new idea and do innovation. Which
help enterprise to bring new solution of every problem. This innovation brings new
opportunities in business.
For example when there is conflicts between employees and because of that productivity
is affected. In that there is large contribution of leader is there. He can understand their problem
and bring solution so that problem can be solved and this can improve relation between
employees.
TASK 2
a). Evaluate the concept of values
Values refer to the importance of something. Value have different meaning for different
people according to various situation. It determine as belief, ethics and ideals share by the people
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in their cultural. By this they can perceived what is good or bad or them. This concept have
major influence on person attitude and behaviour. Sometimes it may serve the guild lines to the
person to handle certain situation. Every person is having their own values and according to that
they handle and react in particular situation. Values deal with right conduct and good life living.
If the person is having low value for something they considered it as bad. If an individual is
having high values for particular thing they treat as good.
An individual having the values they treat people with respect and dignity. There are
different kind values which a person perceived.
For example, employees are having certain believe and values about their work. If some
changes are required, their values not allow to do particular method and it can bring constraints
for organisation.
b). Analyse the impact of values on leadership
There are different kind of values which leader perceived at their workplace. These
values are integrity, helping, peace of mind, financial stability. Leader develop their core values
throughout their life. This core values set standard for the leader by which they guide their
employees and take actions. These values play a very important role. These values help to set the
directions. By this leader can identify the cultural and according to that mission, vision can be
achieved. This values influence the decision of leaders. If leaders are having positive values they
can take good decision (Bolden, 2011). While values also have negative impact on decision.
Values are also having relation with organisation strategy. Strategy are placed in a
manner so that mission can be achieved. Values may affect the behaviour of leader. According to
this only leader motivate their followers, trained them, encourage team work. If the values of
leader are in negative way they cannot handle the task and their team.
Different values tend to influence the leader while adopting particular theories and styles
of leadership. If there are any conflicts take place while solving that issues according to leader
values he can take decision. There are range of leadership styles which can be adopted by the
different individual like choosing the participative or autocratic leadership. If the leader believes
in giving equal importance to the work force it is found that the leaders believes in giving equal
platform to the employees to grow and hence helps them to develop. On the other hand, having
different values in which self-growth is more important influence a leader to be autocratic as in
this all the powers are confined in single hands.
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c). Explore the implications of cultural difference on leadership
Cultural have great influence on leadership. As there are different employees from
different cultural background. The leadership need to develop the strategy and leadership style
according so that they can monitor and control their team in effective manner. As the followers
from different cultural have various norms, belief sometime they cannot bale to adopt the
organisational cultural in that sense leader need to motivate and guide them.
As with different cultural even situation may occur can be also different so it is challenge
for leader to face these challenge and find solution which can bring success in an enterprise.
There are different languages used by various people so leader need to communicate with their
employees in a way so that they have clear understanding about task and their roles.
As the organisation culture is changing it can impact on leadership. The process in which
they used to control and encourage their team member can be change. In this way leader need to
make changes in their techniques and methods. In an organisation diversified work force carry
out their operations together which makes it difficult for the leaders to plan common mode of
leading them. Everyone has their own culture which makes their beliefs different and hence it
raises the pressure of understanding the desires of each employee.
d). Analyse the relationship between personality and leadership
Personality refers to the combination of skills and qualities which an individual is having.
Personality influence leadership (Brooks and Normore, 2010). It tells about how leader should
see himself and how they see their team members. This personality gave two side of leader.
When leader is performing good. They show their good side. And another on how they react
when they get some negative comments. The leader shows their behaviour in dark side gives the
idea of their personality. In this darker situation leader relation can be affected with their
employees.
The personality reflects on leadership. An individual develops their personality along
with their ages. There are certain skills and knowledge required for leadership success.
According to person personality they take certain decision and handle the situation. Personality
reflects on leader performance.
For example, a leader is honest about their work and he/she is very punctual about work
deadlines. By this their leadership also can be affected. The trained and motivate their followers
in a way so that task can be completed on time. Leadership is affected by person personality. A
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person who is confident and has a good representation power is considered as a better leader.
Employees find it easy to trust them and hence considers themselves safe under his leadership.
e). Analyse how different forms of intelligence influence the behaviour of leaders
There is different form of intelligence which influence of behaviour of leaders. There are
main three type intelligence which take into consideration such as higher IQ, emotional
intelligence, social intelligence. Higher IQ reflects that the person is smart enough to take proper
decision (Schein, 2010). This may influence the behaviour high IQ people tends to have positive
attitude towards their work and there are prepared for the challenges which they can face in
future. Emotional intelligence refers knowledge which person have within himself. If leader have
quality to build good relation with other employees in this manner they act in positive manner
and if they are emotional stable leader can communicate with their followers in proper manner.
The last factor is social intelligence. In this leader need to understand social situations and
relations. These three can influence behaviour. Leader need to build strong relation with other
staff members and for that they need to talk with them understand their needs and try to build
relation with them.
As the IQ level of leader is they can understand the upcoming situation and get the clue
that particular situation can take place. In this leader can get prepared for future consequences.
f). Distinguish between power and influence
Power refers to control resources and influence decision. By power the person can gives
the authority. By power person can command to do work in proper manner otherwise do not do
that. When person is applying power to someone they have no choice to change it or deny it.
Power may not generate the respect because in this order has been given to an individual. Power
can be imposed by the high authorities like boss.
While influence refers to ability by which person perception can be alter. In this an
individual create an impact on person so that their mind can be change accordingly. By this an
individual can make the other person wants to do work accordingly. In influence respect the
person and wants do work because they admire them or follow them. In influence person do not
need to hold high authority (Raelin, 2011).
For example leader is having both power as well as influences. As the power is assign to
leader by the organisation he can control the followers and their actions. By the power of leader
he can influence his power in way he wants to work them.
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Power Influence
 It relies mainly on forcing colleagues
and team members to do a specific task
without consulting them.
 Power always remains in hands of a
group or a person and they have right to
take decisions.
 Little transparency has occurred.
 It leads to take voluntary approaches
for completing a work. For this process,
team members have given chance to
choose task as per choice and complete
in own manner.
 Under this process, a person gives
values to each members and take their
suggestions for making a proper
decision.
 Includes an interdependent approach to
get teamwork.
g). Examine different sources of power
Power can be defined as possession of rights, authorities and specific skills to rule over
others. In context with organisations, it allows them to carve a niche as well as take business
over its competitors. In this regard, leaders have power to lead workers whereas managers have
power to implement policies in business. Their are different sources by which power can be get.
Following are the sources as follows.
 Legitimate power: It derive from the position. When a person is holding any position this
power they acquire. Like manger has power to ask their subordinates to do particular
task.
 Expert power: This power is acquired when a person is having the knowledge for the
particular area or field. Such people are having higher capacity to solve problems.
 Referent power: This power is take place when one person like other person. It desire
from interpersonal relation. This can take place when one person is having relation with
other by this power can be possess.
 Coercive power: Coercive power is take place when person influence other by the way of
threats and punishments (Barnett and McCormick, 2012.). In this one person is ability to
terminate another person. By this person can control the behaviour in an organisation.
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 Reward power: It arise when a person is having ability to allocate the incentives. These
incentives monetary and non-monetary. The person who tend to have this power can
influence on other employees.
For example, leader is having the expert power by which they can solve the problems of
workforce and understand their needs and wants.
h). Critically assess leaders’ motivation to influence and lead others
According to Raelin, (2011) leader motivate their workers and followers to increase their
productivity. Motivation reefers to giving a reason to a person to act and perform in particular
manner. There are different kind of leadership styles by which leader handle different situations.
Leader take various motivation strategies by which employees efficiency can be improve. Leader
give power to employees to take their own decision which boost their confidence and they come
up with new idea and method to solve and complete particular task.
Thereafter in words of way Anderson and Anderson, (2010) there are certain qualities
which leader have. Leading people is one of them. Leader create trust in the eyes of followers
and ensure them the work is completed is most proper way. By this leader can easily lead people
and control them so that standard performance can be match with actual ones.
For example, as the leader is having is having the quality to motivate its staff. They have
the power to lead every one. Leader motivate their employees so that he can get work done from
them. There are many tough task that are done by workforces by motivation task can be collected
in effective manner says Anderson and Anderson, (2010).
TASK 3
A). Differentiate between groups and teams and identify stages of building highly successful
groups and teams
A group refer to the combination of people those who are giving their individual efforts
to complete particular task. While team refers to group those who share common purpose and by
their proper coordination they finish task (Ayman and Korabik, 2010). There are 4 stage by
which team can be formulated. These stage includes forming, storming, norming and performing.
In Forming team member have good understanding about the work they need to do. In Storming
the conflicts take place between members. Norming take place when people start resolving their
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conflicts and start appreciating strength and giving respect to the authorities which leaders gets.
In performing stage team is doing hard work to reach their final goals. In order to better
understand the difference between group and team a tabular representation is done below:
Group Team
 Effective collection of individual with
having a focused leader.
 Single person is answerable for the
work done by an individual.
 A group has only one leader.
 All members in group independent
from each other.
 Focus mainly on accomplish individual
goals.
 Roles of leadership is shared among
different individuals.
 Accountability is shared among the
individuals.
 In a team as per nature of tasks and
number of members, there can be more
than one leader.
 All members are interdependent while
working in a team.
 Concerns on achievement of team
goals.
For example, leader need to design new product features in this leader motivate its team
and team member took ideas from each other by the contribution of all of them the design can be
prepared. Stages of developing a team involves:
 Forming
 Storming
 Norming
 Performing
 Adjourning
b). Evaluate leadership as a group and team function
Leadership is having great role in groups and team. Leader try to build team and groups.
They encourage them to work in coordinate manner. Leader by their leadership skills try to build
strong relation with team members. So that mutual understanding can be generated. Leader
encourage members to work in team so that common values, skills, knowledge can be shared
between members by this the conflicts can be reducing. For proper function of team and group
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leader need solve misunderstanding between them and conduct activities by which they get
chance to know each other in better way (Anderson and Anderson, 2010).
c). Explain how to lead virtual teams
Virtual team refers to team which are operating from different geographical areas. It is
difficult to manage this kind of teams because they are working at different location and there is
no personal interaction took place. The virtual team can be lead in following ways.
 Schedule meeting regularly: There should be regular meeting arrange in which they get
chance to meet each other and discuss problems face to face.
 To ensure that member work hours’ overlap: It should be ensuring that employees 4-5
hours should be overlap. So that they come online at same time and solve problem
together.
 By creating professional work environment: By creating professional environment these
teams can be lead.
For example, if there is any new product launch is there and different team virtue teams
are taking place. Leader need to evaluate the results and control them proper so that it is ensure
that communication is taking at its right place and the decision which team are making should be
according to objectives.
d). Assess how leaders influence follower motivation
By leader’s different styles they can influence employee’s motivation. For example, there
is transformational theory by which firm can influence the motivation of workers. In leader with
subordinate try to evaluate the needs of needs of making changes. Prepare vision and guidelines
so that changes can be take place (DeChurch and et. al., 2010.). The another style is
transactional in which leader try to motivate their employees by punishment and rewards. This is
also called managerial leadership.
For example, if an employee is doing the work in wrong manner and he is motivated to
do that task in that particular way. Leader need to communicate with them and rectify their
mistakes. By this motivation can influence. There are different theories also by which motivation
can be influence.
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e). Assess how leaders influence follower satisfaction
There are certain leadership styles by which follower’s satisfaction can be influence. As
leader try to solve follower’s problem and build strong relation with them. It helps them satisfy
them because workers feel free to share their issues which their leaders. Leader give authority to
take decision by which workers can handle situation in effective manner by their creative ideas
and methods (Nagy, Biro and Vicsek, 2010). As leader try to understand workers needs and
wants the plans and strategy of appraisal can be design so that workforce get satisfied by their
assign task and job.
Through leadership styles the satisfaction can be influences. As leader is understanding
problems of followers and build informal relation with employees by this satisfaction can be
improved and influence.
f). Evaluate the dynamic relationship between motivation, satisfaction and performance
When leader motivates their employees. They work in proper manner and effective
manner which increase their productivity. These three aspects are interrelated with each other.
As motivation increases the performance get better and with that company give more incentives
to the person by which they get satisfaction. If one of the factors is missing it can impact on
other two also. Leader give training to their followers by which their confidence increases and
their work quality also improves which give them growth in their specific field.
For example, when employees are motivating by leader their productivity can be
increases and they get goods results. This good results can help to win rewards which take them
satisfied. When employees well satisfied the productivity increases and they interact with
customer in proper manner.
TASK 4
a). How task interdependence, task structure, job characteristics and changes to these influence
on leaders and followers
If there any changes in job structure, job feature this may influence the behaviour and
performance of leaders and followers. As leader need to understand the nature of business and its
complexity their performance gets effected from it. Some time it happens that employees are not
able adjust with new environment in that situation they are not able to perform well. This can
tend to increase the job dissatisfaction. By which company operations can be affected. If
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followers are interring depend on leader. The poor performance of leader also reflects on their
followers (Diddams and Chang, 2012).
b). How organisational factors such as structure, design and culture influence leadership
As there is positive as well negative impact on leadership by changing in structure,
design, culture. Leader need to develop their skills and knowledge in a manner so that they
become more flexible to handle every kind of situation. According to different organisational
structure leader need to make policies, plans and strategies. Culture influence leadership as very
person is having their different norms and values. So leaders need to understand each and every
person needs by that strong relation can be made. In addition to this, it has ascertained that any
changes in structure and system of business, affect whole working environment. It requires
workers, leaders and managers to develop their skills too so that they can become able to work as
per requirement. Since in general, under such situations employees resist to adopt changes.
Therefore, to reduce their resistivity and convince them to work in required manner, it is
necessary for leaders and managers to change their leadership style too. By effective leadership
qualities they can also turn negative environment into positive one.
As culture and structure is changing the style of leadership is affected new challenges
need to face by leader. As new employees are recruited in an organisation and they are from
different culture leader need to communicate with them according to their understanding.
c). The influence of legal, political and economic environment on leadership
These factors have large influence on leadership. As if there are any changes in legal
factor the leadership get restriction to apply their skills and knowledge. They need formulate the
strategy which includes all these legal laws. As government execute any policy leadership need
make urgent changes in an organisation so that work can go in smoother manner. In environment
leaders make sure that they use all resources in proper manner and allocate them at right place
without wasting them.
As there any change take place in political factor which profits margin company is
decreasing in this situation. The leader need to motivate and trained their employees so that
wastage should be reduced and profit margins can be improved.
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TASK 5
a). Critically analysing the rational approach to organisational change
Rational approach follows the certain steps by which firm choose best alternatives for
their business (Adhikari, 2010). As the structure and culture of an organisation is changing.
Company need to prepare process by which they select the best alternative and take decision.
Firm can go for collecting data and analyse that through mathematical model so that long tern
decision can be made.
For example, as firm plan to launch their products in market in this they need to promote
that particular channel. So in this context they can use rational approach and find the best
alternatives by which they can advertise their products in market.
b). Critically analysing and evaluating the emotional approach to organisational change
As per perception and research of Diddams and Chang (2012), it has evaluated that in
order to gain cooperation of workers for business growth, it becomes necessary to create some
changes as per need of them. By this process, a company can gain retention of workers and their
high contribution for success of busienss. In this approach leader try to understand the needs and
wants of employees and if they facing any problem that should be address in proper time. It is
very difficult to make changes in an organisation. Before bringing any change the emotions of
members should be considered. So that staff of company feel committed with enterprise.
Changes influence employee’s behaviour. So to make can changes worker need to be informed
about the particular alteration.
CONCLUSION
Leadership is having very important role in an enterprise. They are involved in every
aspect of firm and activities which take place. Leadership generate growth and success in firm.
There are different styles followed by leadership to face different situation. Leader enhance their
skills through their experiences and education which they get. This can help them to apply the
concept on different phrases and come over from their problems. Leader have responsibility to
encourage their team members, understand their wants, needs and try to solve issues which they
are facing. Leader need to increase the team spirit by motivating them to work in group. The
behaviour of employees and leader can be influence by the different changes which take place in
a business.
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