ORGB60389 Authentic Leadership: Contemporary Issues and Styles

This presentation provides an overview of authentic leadership and its role in contemporary organizations, examining various leadership styles such as democratic, laissez-faire, autocratic, and transformational leadership. It identifies challenges associated with each style, including lack of accountability in democratic leadership, reduced cohesiveness in laissez-faire leadership, and decreased employee morale in autocratic leadership. The presentation emphasizes the importance of authentic leadership in building strong relationships and determining effective workplace practices. Recommendations are offered for organizations to improve performance, such as dividing groups by age and applying appropriate leadership styles accordingly. The presentation concludes that leadership style plays a crucial role in achieving organizational goals and objectives.

Authentic Leadership Poster presentation
Democratic leadership
One of the major issue that is being
faced in this style of leadership is
that there is no accountability. That
is because of the freedom, at times
of failure it becomes difficult to
held anyone liable as no one is
responsible for the failure.
Authentic leadership:
It can be evaluated that here are
several challenges that are faced by
the authentic leaders of the
organisation
Laissez faire:
That is one of the biggest challenge
in this type of leadership is that it
reduces the cohesiveness of the
employees of the organisation that
is this leadership is often viewed as
the style which is used by leaders
who are uninterested are withdrawn
from their perspective and the
organisational goal.
Autocratic leadership
That is one of the major issue is that it
does not offer a sense of professional
ownership which in turn results in
sinking the morale of the employees.
Contemporary issues that is faced in different leadership styles
REFERENCES
Solomon, A. and Steyn, R., 2017. Leadership style and leadership effectiveness: Does cultural intelligence moderate the relationship?. Acta Commercii. 17(1). pp.1-13
Bako, M., 2018. Different leadership style choices, different generations. Prizren Social Science Journal. 2(2). pp.127-143.
INTRODUCTION
Authentic leadership refers to type of management
style which is used by leaders to build strong
relationships. This leadership style helps in
determining which practice should be applied at
the workplace. The report examines, role of
leadership in contemporary organisations,
leadership style in an organisation within different
age groups. Critical evaluation of concepts and
practices to leadership and its development.
Further, recommendations are given which can be
applied by an organisation to improve their
performance.
Transformational leadership:
As pert this leadership the focus would be lied towards
the inspiration and motivation of the followers. This
means that the leader would always inspire and motivate
its followers that would lead them to enhance their
contribution towards the work.
RECOMMENDATIONS
There are some recommendations which can be applied
by an organisation so that goals and objectives can be
accomplished. Managers should divide groups as per
age group so that leadership style can be applied
properly and it helps in achieving goals and objectives.
For middle age group, autocratic leadership style
should be applied because people are not listening to
what others are saying and not focusing on achieving
targets. Authentic leadership should be applied to
young generation people so that better ideas can be
implemented and it helps in achieving targets.
Managers should make plans after analysing market
situation so that goals and objectives can be achieved.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it can be concluded that,
leadership style plays a crucial role in achieving
goal and objectives of organisation. Different types
of leadership style such as, autocratic, democratic,
authentic, transformational and laissez faire
leadership has been described. Further, concept of
authentic leadership has been discussed. Different
leadership style is applied in organisation for
different age groups has been discussed. There are
some contemporary issues which is faced by
members in an organisation has been discussed.