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A Comparative Study of Leadership Styles in Human Resource Management

   

Added on  2020-10-22

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTIONThis assessment is based on the critical analysis of the ten articles in the area of Humanresource management and focusing on the theme of Leadership. Present study will include the onthe leadership. It includes literature review different theories of leadership and leadership styles.Different articles include the different leadership styles I.e in article one behavioural andtransformational leadership, in the second article contingency and participative leadership style,in the third article servant and autocratic leadership style is being included.This study is basedon the leadership and different leadership theory, and literature review that argues on leadershipwhether it is effective or not in the organisation to achievement of the organisational target. Thepurpose of writing this literature review is that it provide the broad themes, issues, debates,theories about a topic area from different perspectives and contexts. For this assignment, thereview will include articles from 2014 to 2019 from selected recommended 3 and 4 starmanagement journals.. The full references of the articles to be reviewed are presented inappendix A.Theme one: leadership as a means of creativity and innovationAs per the view of the Jyoti and Dev (2015) there is relationship of the creativity and theshifting of the leadership style from one stage to the another stage. This shifting is being done asaccording to changing and situation. As according to the different situation in the company,leadership change their leadership styles and shift this style to the another which is best suitedand required according to the time. When examining the literature, one of five themes or debates that comes to light is therelationship between leadership and organizational innovation and creativity. Most authors3

suggest that Leaders develops communication with employees and take suggestion from them.This is helpful in bringing innovation and creativity in business unit. By this way people also feelvalued and they like to work in organisation for longer duration. Leadership is the art, thatmotivate the group of people to work together to achieve a common goal. In an organisationleadership mean to direct workers and colleagues to meet the organisation's need. Leadership canbe inspiration of the action that makes other people or employees to follow their directions.Effective leadership is based on the ideas whether it is original or borrowed, but work won'thappen until and unless it communicated to others or employees in the organisation in a way thatit involve them to work together s the leader direct them to act to achieve the target. According to Bottomley and et.al., (2016) there is significant relationship betweentransformational leadership and behaviour of employees. Transformational leaders alwayssupport in motivating people in the firm. Public service motivation always support in meeting thegoal of business unit. Leadership is the ability and capacity to transform the visions into realityand leaders are those who empower others to work effectively. Leadership is the social influencethat increase e efforts of people towards the achievement of targets is not authority or power.Leadership is the ability to adapt the settings that others feel empowered to give their best tosolving problems. That means leader has the ability to do anything with their talent and skill,where talent is natural ability and skill is gained by training and experience. According the authorleader is adaptive that means leader make adjustment and bring changes in the work place, whofails to make adjustment also fails to achieve the target and lose their position. It is these aspectsof leadership that lead to innovation and creativity. Although this is reported in three of the 10articles (refs) , another article (ref) highlights the issue of context and culture. This means that it4

is not just leaders but also the context in which leadership takes place can also play a role indeveloping creativity and innovation rather than just leadership skills.Closely related to the influence of context is the style and approach that leaders adopt.Fiaz, Su and Saqib, (2017) stated that there are many kinds of leadership such as democratic,democratic, laissez- faire styles etc. Motivation level of workers depends upon the leadershipstyle adopted by leaders of organizations. . Autocratic leaders behave like a dominant personthus, they fail to develop healthy relationship with employees. This could have an effect oncreativity and innovation. Democratic leadership style impacts positively on employeemotivation. The consequence of this style could be that it leads to a more open working ethicwhereby employees feel empowered to develop creative solutions and approaches. This is helpfulin developing healthy relationship with employees. Considering that leadership is the ability toset and achieve challenging target of the company, it can be argued that a s more collective anddemocratic leadership skill helps individual to feel happy to work in the organisation.Democratic leaders focus on development of staff that encourage people and make them satisfiedtowards their job.Leadership is a way that is being showed to the employees and provide direction,employees also need to know the clear direction to reach the determined target. If this direction isprovided within a friendly atmosphere, that includes clear communication, respect and collegiatemanner, the company is more likely to achieve its target. Rawat, (2015) defined the 10 elements of the leadership that is vision, motivation,serving, empathy, creativity, thoroughness, managing, team building, taking risk and improving.All of these attributes lead to innovation and creativity. That means leadership is the combinationof all these elements. Leader who lead a group of people have a vision and motivate others to do5

well. Leaders always support their team and understand their problems by put themselves in theplace of their employees. Leaders always respect the creativity of the others and they set the barhigh for their employees to reach the goals and make best of their teams. Clearly, the literatureshows that there is a relationship between collective and democratic leadership approaches andhigher levels of creativity and innovation. However, this depends on the context in whichleadership takes places. Therefore, although to a large extend one could agree that goodleadership can enable creativity, this cannot be generalised. Theories of leadershipA second theme that resulted from the review of the articles is theories of leadership.Various studies have been conducted and much research has been done to find out about theeffective leadership style. Various theories have been posted that influence the effectiveness ofthe leaders. This was equally the case when reviewing the 10 selected articles. For instance,Terglav, Ruzzier and Kaše, (2016)stated thatTrait leadership theory is focused onidentifying and analysing the mental, physical and social characteristics of a leader. According totrait theory, people are born or is been make with certain qualities that make them excellentleader. These qualities include intelligence, sense of responsibility and creativity and other valueslike confidence, charisma, knowledge that help in making anyone a good and effective leader andhelps in motivating the employees to achieve the stated goal of the company.ARTICLE 1Theme:-Leaders are born not made In this high customer service is being provided to the employees. It is an important part ofservice quality. This study helps in exploring the brand specific leadership. As it is the branding6

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