Analysis of Leadership Styles and People Management for Goals

This report delves into the crucial aspects of managing people within an organizational context, focusing on the significance of ethical and value-based leadership. It explores the concept of ethical leadership, emphasizing its importance in fostering a positive work environment and building stronger relationships at individual, team, and organizational levels. The report compares various leadership styles, including autocratic and democratic approaches, highlighting their characteristics, decision-making processes, and impact on employee behavior and development. It further discusses the skills and qualities of an effective leader, such as integrity and empathy, essential for navigating the challenges of a diverse workforce. The report concludes by emphasizing the role of leaders in achieving organizational goals through effective people management and the implementation of ethical practices.

Managing People

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Concept and Importance of Ethical and Value-based
approach of Leadership
 Concept and Comparison of different Leadership Style
 Skills and Qualities of effective leader
 Achieving the organisational goal
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
The leaders and managers are the frontline workers of
organisation who directly deal with employees. The
productivity and motivation level of workforce is directly
correlated with the leader’s way of managing people. The
defined ethical and value based culture of organisation increase
the satisfaction of individual and sets an alignment between
their personal and organisational values.

Meaning of Ethical and Value-based approaches
A value-based and ethical based organisation is the structure and
system of organisation which is commonly shared by all
employees of organisation. The Ethical leadership is the way to
manage and direct by following the respect and setting the
common ethical belief and values ground to maintain and
respect others principle.

Importance of Value-based approach to
Leadership
The value based leadership is the approach that the leaders
follow while leading their followers to direct and motivate. The
belief behind following this approach is that people are
motivated by following the common values and beliefs. It is
commonly believed that by following the certain principle it
becomes easy to set the common vision and it makes the leaders
and followers to connect well which makes them more likely to
act in a certain acceptable way.

Contd..
When an organisation follows the value-based leadership they achieve increased
performance by;
 Setting common direction
 Creating the proactive company culture
 Providing the motivation and increased opportunities for individuals.
Benefits of Value-based Leadership
 Improved communication
 Increased productivity
 Flexibility in decision making
 Stronger relationships

Importance of Ethical Leadership
The ethical leaders nurtures the positive environment with
stronger relationships being shared over three level-
individual, overall team working and organization as whole.
The impact of setting the ethical culture of organisation results
in following;
Positive work climate of organisation
Increased well-being of individual
Increased collaboration and integrity among team members

The 4V Model of ethical leadership
This model helps to align the internal values and beliefs
with the external action of an individual which results in
achievement of goals with increased efficiency.

Leadership Style
The Leadership is an act of motivating and directing the
group of individuals to achieve the common goals. It
means managing the followers with the strategy to meet
the organisation needs. The Leadership Style is a way and
method of leader's characteristic and behaviour while
directing, motivating, implementing plans, guiding the
followers.

 Autocratic Leadership
This leadership style is based on the leader's decision
without taking input from followers. It is the control and
command approach, based on the decisions and judgement
of the leaders without consulting from the team members.

 Democratic Style
The democratic leadership style is also known as
Participative leadership style. It is a leadership style in
which the members of the team takes an active role in
decision making. In this style the ideas are freely
exchanged and active discussions is encouraged. The idea
behind this style is to have free flow of exchange of ideas,
to initiate the members creativity and leaders are there to
support and provide the guidance to followers.

Comparison of Different Leadership
Style
Basis of
Comparison
Autocratic Style Democratic Style
Decision-making The decision making power
lies with leaders. The
centralised decision making
approach is being followed.
The final authority of decision
making lies with the leader
The decentralised decision-
making approach is followed.
The followers also participate in
the decision making process.
The authority of decision
making is being partly delegated
to subordinate final take
remains with leaders.
Behaviour orientation The Task oriented behaviour is
followed. The focus is to get
the things done.
The guiding principle is the
relationship oriented
behaviour. The focus is to
accomplish goals but by
terminating motivation and
satisfaction of employees.