Effective Leadership: A Case Study of Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani

This presentation analyzes the leadership of Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, focusing on his contributions to organizational success. The presentation addresses three key questions: the key factors that contribute to his success, methods to measure his effectiveness, and how his leadership has influenced the company's achievements. The analysis incorporates various leadership theories, including Strategic Focus, Inspiring Others, Decision-Making Capabilities, Great Man Theory, Trait Theory, Behavioral Theory, Contingency Theory, Path-Goal Theory, and Alderfer’s ERG Theory and McClelland’s Theory, to provide a comprehensive understanding of his leadership style. The presentation highlights Ambani's strategic focus, his ability to inspire others, his decision-making capabilities, and his impact on Reliance Industries' market position and financial performance. It also discusses the application of various management theories to understand his leadership style and effectiveness.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................2
Discussion:.......................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................5
References:......................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction:
This paper focuses on the leadership performance of Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani and his
contribution to organizational success. The study aims to measure the effectiveness of a Mukesh
Dhirubhai Ambani’s success story. He is an Indian businessman and presently Chairman of
Reliance Industries Limited. He also holds the highest amount of shares in Reliance Industries
Limited. People from different fields prefer him because of his down to earth nature.
Discussion:
Answer 1.
Strategic Focus: Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani work with others to solve the issues and use the
value and ethics every day to express his commitment and strengthen the profit for Reliance
Industries. Such as when oil minister of Saudi- Khalid al-Falih visits second time in India to
attend Akash Ambani’s grand wedding, it was predictable that a Reliance-Saudi Aramco alliance
was going to happen soon. On February 20, chief executive of Saudi Aramco-Amin Al-Nasser
jointly invests with Reliance in refining and petrochemicals (Forrest and Wiek 2015).
Inspire Others: Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani encourages innovation and collaboration throughout
the Reliance Industries. He explained the responsibilities so that the workers understand their
value in this organization and if something goes incorrect, immediately he changed so it would
not repeat. This enthusiastic participation helps the employee of Reliance group for their
continuous improvement.
Decision making capabilities in marketing: Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani defined his target
market, market trends, and competitor’s move in which he can sustain his advantage, and he

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follows the customer's needs, ethics, and satisfaction. Reliance Group’s unique brand image is
established a sustainable market advantage. In India, RIL has been the most demanding deal
maker of purchasing and selling stakes. In the past two years it has bought or invested almost 27
businesses, half of the companies in the telecom and media industry.
Answer 2.
Shopping Experience: Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani defined his plan to stakeholders in July,
saying the energy will involve the organization’s unpublished businesses in Reliance Retail
Limited and Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited. He has already paid about $36 billion on Jio, which
has to turn out a countrywide 4G network and fibre broadband organization.
Radisys Corporation will support Reliance in improving its existence in the Internet of
Things and 5G in a proposal to promote its broader e-commerce business, while Vakt Holdings
will establish digital environment leveraging block-chain technology.
Digital Ecosystem: The bigger fight is already taking form in India when Mukesh Dhirubhai
Ambani puts together the construction blocks to take on Walmart and Amazon. In a move
broadly made as spreading a helping hand to domestic business, the government of India
imposed late previous year boundaries on the international giants, demanding them to cut cash-
back payments and discounts systems that have been blamed by smaller retailers who have
accused an organization of low pricing. With total liabilities of $45.1 billion, Reliance wants to
determine fiscal management, mainly when it wants ammunition for the expensive upcoming
retail battle such as Amazon, Alibaba and Walmart.
The pace of Decision Making: Jio has been at the heart of intense thought because it is a
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani project. No Reliance Industry Limited executive will discuss Jio on

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record for its confidential disclosure agreements. He decided for dramatic events in the
governance model for building a strong partnership between the government and the private
sector in providing extra value to each other, and the world.
Answer: 3
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani directed the world's biggest grassroots petroleum refinery
at Jamnagar, India. On 18 June 2014, Mukesh Ambani, talking about the 40th AGM of Reliance
Industries Limited and will invest Rs 1.8 trillion through businesses in the next three years and
launch 4G broadband services in the year 2015. In February 2016, Mukesh Ambani launched its
4G smartphone called LYF. Throughout the 40th annual general meeting of Reliance Industries
Limited, he declared bonus bonds in the ratio of 1:1 which is the nation’s biggest bonus issue in
India, and announced the Jio phone price 0 (Holla 2017)
Answer: 4
Great Man Theory: Leaders are born, not made.
According to this theory, Mukesh Ambani guides for positive qualities such as
personality, commanding, courage, aggressiveness, charm, persuasiveness, and intelligence
(Storey 2016).
Trait Theory: According to this theory it considers Mukesh Ambani’s leadership traits like
ambition, initiative, energy, honesty, intelligence, integrity, business-related knowledge,
supervising ability, self-confidence, fairness, and objectivity.
Behavioural Theory: This theory deals that Mukesh Ambani’s behaviours differentiate him
with other leaders.

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Contingency Theory: This theory deals with the additional aspect of Mukesh Ambani’s
leadership effectiveness.
Path-Goal Theory: The theory deals the Mukesh Ambani’s job as a leader to assist groups in
achieving their goals and provide the appropriate directions to ensure that their goals are well-
matched with the overall objectives of the organization.
Answer: 5
Alderfer’s ERG Theory: This theory associated with the existence and physiological safety of
Mukesh Ambani. These needs emphasised the importance of social and personal relationship for
its growth and improvement (Tampu 2015).
McClelland’s Theory: This theory is related to the need for achievement, power, and affiliation
of a great leader like Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani.
Conclusion:
It can be concluded that the uniqueness of Reliance Industry Limited has made its brand
felt. Mukesh Ambani and Reliance group both are succeeded for the hard work and sincere. As a
leader, Mukesh Ambani knows the value of money and invests in the future’s guaranteed return.

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Storey, J., 2016. Changing theories of leadership and leadership development. In Leadership in
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Tampu, D., 2015. Impact of human motivation on employees performance. Internal Auditing &
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