Dissertation: Leadership, Management Style & Employee Performance

This dissertation examines the role of contingent leadership and management styles on employee performance, focusing on the Virgin Group as a case study. The research aims to analyze the significance of leadership and management, evaluate theoretical perspectives on contingent leadership and management styles, assess their impact on employee performance, and recommend ways to enhance performance. Key findings reveal that employees generally rate Virgin Atlantic's organizational structure positively, with management and leadership playing a crucial role in enhancing employee performance. The company adapts its leadership decisions based on situational needs, though resistance to change poses a challenge. Effective communication is vital for implementing contingent leadership styles, which ultimately contribute to developing employee performance capabilities. The study concludes that effective management and contingent leadership have helped Virgin Atlantic establish a strong market position, recommending training, development, and well-defined communication strategies for continued growth. Desklib provides access to similar dissertations and study tools for students.

Dissertation:
To examine the role of contingent leadership
and management style on the performance of
employees: A case study on Virgin group

Synopsis of Overall research

Research aim
The aim of the present study is “to examine
the role of contingent leadership and
management style on the performance of
employees: A case study on Virgin group”.

RESEACH OBJECTIVES
Research objectives for the present study are discussed
henceforth.
 To analyse the significance of leadership and
management in the business unit.
 To critically evaluate theoretical perceptive of contingent
leadership and management styles
 To assess the impact of contingent leadership and
management styles on the performance of employees.
 To recommend the ways of enhancing performance of
employees.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS
In order to attain the research objectives following research
questions has been developed:
 What are the significance of leadership and management in
Virgin group?
 What is the different type of contingent leadership and
management styles?
 How the performance of Virgin group employees is impacted
through different contingent leadership and management
styles?
 What are the other ways of enhancing performance of Virgin
group employees?

Significance of the research
 Leadership play a vital role in managing the changes
and attaining successful business results.
 Leadership and management has a direct impact on
employees performance thus organizational results are
affected widely with the same.
 The present study will shed the light on the role of
contingent leadership and management style on the
performance of Virgin group employees.

Why the topic
 The current topic of the research is a common but most
crucial contributor in the success and growth of the business.
 The critical examination of theoretical aspects of the research
will help the students and research aspirants in developing an
in-depth understanding about the topic.
 It will also help in assessing the impact of leadership and
management styles on overall performance of the employees.
 The given study has its importance for the different
businesses.

VIVA Specific questions

What motivated you to carry out the
research?
My keen interest in leadership and management
aspects in the corporate scenario and the chance of
my personal growth by undertaking an extensive
research on the topic helped me choosing the topic
and carrying out with the research
Major motivators:
 Interest in the topic
 Opportunity of personal development
 Aspiration to be associated with virgin group

What aspects did you find
interesting
The concept which dragged my attention were::
 Meaning of leadership and management
 Role of leadership and management in aviation
industry
 Types of leadership and management styles
 Impact of leadership and management on
employee performance

How did your thinking about this topic
develop as you went through this
research process?
The research helped me in enhancing my
knowledge and understanding widely. I
developed my thinking as follows:
 I developed the topic and objectives
 Analysed the themes for theoretical analysis
 Examined the application of theories in actual
business context

Conti...
 Reviewed the business performance
 Drafted questionnaire
 Ethical consideration for the research
 Collected data for primary research
 Analysed data and and interpreted findings
 Analysed objectives and findings to examine
research gap