A Report on Leadership Approaches for the Millennial Workforce

This report evaluates leadership styles for effectively managing the millennial generation. It defines the characteristics of millennials and the importance of adapting leadership approaches to suit their preferences, such as flexible working environments and career-oriented goals. The report contrasts democratic leadership, which emphasizes collaboration and employee input, with autocratic leadership, highlighting the former's suitability for this generation. It also discusses the significance of aligning individual and organizational goals, and the need for leaders to embrace flexibility. The report concludes that democratic and flexible leadership styles are crucial for fostering employee satisfaction and reducing turnover within the millennial workforce, emphasizing the importance of understanding their values and aspirations.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................5
Books and journals.................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Leadership can be defined as that particular aspect which is related to leading the
different individuals in a particular direction for achieving a common objective (Stoller,
2020). The current report consults discussion about evaluation on how the leadership will be
adopted to manage the millennial generation. This will helps in undressing aspects of
leadership in and role of it in this generation.
MAIN BODY
Millennial generation can be defined as that generation people who are born between
the 1986 and 1990 according to the Merriam Webster dictionary for staff and also include
some people who are born from earlier 2000. this generation is also known as generation y
because they come after the generation x (Berkovich, 2016). The basic character of this
millennial generation can be characterized as the different ways. One of the negative side of
this generation is that it describe the lazy stick and prone to jump from the job to job people.
In context to this providing an appropriate leadership and using an exact style of leadership is
essential and order to influence the decision making ability of this generation. Leadership is
that aspect of the current time which is directly related to providing the opportunities to
different individuals and guidance in accordance with the target to reach a particular level of
satisfaction. In context of this generation it is essential to provide an appropriate leadership so
that they can take decisions effectively and can strengthen their development as well as
achieve better opportunities.
As per the view point of Khan (2017) Menial generation is directly oriented towards
their career but they always focus on shifting job as well as identifying better opportunities.
This states that it require an leadership style which provide them flexible working
environment as well as opportunities to develop within the organisation so that their shifting
can be stopped. They’re also stated that leadership is a vast concept which involves a number
of activities which have to be performed by the leader in order to response the particular
situation. Leadership involve different kind of leadership styles which has to be adjusted and
implemented according to the need of a particular person on the person whom leader is
leading. This clearly state that in order to lead individual from this generation, leaders have to
be more flexible. It is clear that millions always prefer a teamwork approach in comparison to

authority’s style of management and leadership. Authoritative leadership style always based
on fix structure where it follow a disciplined environment in order to manage the different
individuals within the organisation.
As per the view point of Lord, (2018) It is also evaluated that flexibility in leadership
styles with only with come with following of democratic leadership style. By the use of
democratic leadership style leader can easily guide the millennial generation. Democratic
leadership style can be defined as that style which is based on getting the opinion of other and
then taking an action and leading the people by the opinion of others. This leadership style is
directly based on understanding the needs of other individuals as well as their opinion to
work on a particular situation. For instance, a leader has to take a decision related to
complexity within a particular task then it will invite all the individual members within the
team and ask them their opinion and after it will take an appropriate decision according to the
analysis of each and every members of opinion.
Leadership and the wider concept which is directly related to leading the people in a
direction where organisation can achieve its objective as well as different individuals can also
achieve their personal objectives. On the other side, this generation is also focused on
achieving their own objectives by doing different jobs as well as rotating jobs with time to
time (Grint, 2020). In order to provide them flexible working environment and achieving
their personal goal by linking them with organisation goal a leader can only follow a flexible
leadership 5. In context to this, the flexible leadership style is democratic leadership style.
One of the major aspects of millennial generation is related to the family values and
individual goal. It is identified that a millionaire leader has to combine their family values
and individual goal of the generation individuals working within the organisation (Sterret,
Parker and Mitzner, 2018). And this family values and individual goal the key aspect of the
millennial leadership style as millionaire leader embarrasses their employees work from
home. They provide the opportunity to do this in order to provide them time with their family
as well as meeting their needs of personal life and workplace.
Some of the left side authors stated that if this generation will be lead by autocratic
leadership then it will be more suitable for the organisation. This is because authoritative
leadership is based on providing an appropriate discipline structure where it plays an
employee with a rigid hierarchy (Green, 2017). This is it here it will help in developing the

habit of discipline within the employees from this generation and will guide them toward the
goals and objectives of the organisation in a disciplined manner. But this is not a valid
statement as this leadership is that complex which only leads to dissatisfaction among the
employees from this generation and also leads a higher employee turnover within the
organisation. As, it is previously stated within the acid that by following appropriate flexible
leadership such as democratic leadership will help the organisation in developing the
employee opportunities for this generation where they can work within the flexible
environment without any hesitation of working limits time hour benefits. This directly states
that if the organisation implement a disciplined environment for this type of generation then it
will suffer a higher turnover because these kinds of individuals cannot be adjust it in such a
discipline and rigid structure.
It is clear from the above discussion that it is impossible to implement at strict and
rigid structure and disciplined leadership with this kind of generation. This generation needed
to be set free so that their innovative thinking will work for the organisation and help in
guiding and achieving the goals by following an appropriate path (Lakomski, Eacott and
Evers, 2016). This also lead in managing the functions within the organisation in better way
where organisation can achieve its goals and objective appropriately. The democratic
leadership style will help in improving the working with this type of generation and also
unlink the personal goal of this generation with the organisation one to achieve better results.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above mentioned report that there are various factors
which contribute to adoption of appropriate leadership style in the millennial generation.
These are related to providing flexible working environment contribution to leadership and
various other which have to be considered while managing an appropriate leadership slide
and adopting it to lead the people of this generation. The organisation needed to use
appropriate sources and functions which are helpful in meeting the needs and gaining results
in short period by adopting the leadership style such as democratic leadership style.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Stoller, J.K., 2020. Reflections on leadership in the time of COVID-19. BMJ Leader.
Berkovich, I., 2016. School leaders and transformational leadership theory: time to part
ways?. Journal of Educational Administration.
Khan, N., 2017. Adaptive or transactional leadership in current higher education: A brief
comparison. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed
Learning, 18(3), pp.178-183.
Lord, R.G., 2018. Leadership and the medium of time. What’s wrong with leadership.
Grint, K., 2020. Leadership, management and command in the time of the
Coronavirus. Leadership, 16(3), pp.314-319.
Sterret, W.L., Parker, M.A. and Mitzner, K., 2018. Maximizing Teacher Time: The
Collaborative Leadership Role of the Principal. Journal of Organizational and
Educational Leadership, 3(2), p.1.
Green, R.L., 2017. Practicing the art of leadership: A problem-based approach to
implementing the professional standards for educational leaders. Pearson. One Lake
Street, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458.
Lakomski, G., Eacott, S. and Evers, C.W. eds., 2016. Questioning leadership: New directions
for educational organisations. Taylor & Francis.