Leadership Analysis: Facebook, Leadership Styles, and Recommendations

This presentation analyzes the leadership styles employed at Facebook, focusing on the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg. It explores various leadership models, including democratic, autocratic, laissez-faire, transformational, and transactional leadership, with a particular emphasis on how these styles are applied within the company. The analysis delves into Zuckerberg's approach, highlighting his use of transformational leadership and his ability to integrate different styles to foster innovation and employee engagement. The presentation offers a detailed breakdown of each leadership style, providing examples of their application within Facebook's organizational structure and culture. Furthermore, the presentation offers recommendations for effective leadership practices based on the analysis, and it concludes by emphasizing the importance of adapting leadership styles to achieve organizational goals and objectives. The presentation cites relevant sources to support its analysis, including academic research and industry publications.

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Table of Content
Introduction
Leadership theories/ models
An Analysis
Recommendations
Conclusion
References

Introduction
Leadership is a process by using which an executive can guide, direct and influence
behavior and workings of others towards accomplishment of specific kinds of goals in
specific situation. Leadership is the ability of a manager or an individual to induce
subordinates to give one of their best efforts confidentially and enthusiastically.
Respective PPT is based on Facebook which is an American social media and
technology company based in California.

Introduction
Leadership is a process by using which an executive can guide, direct and influence
behavior and workings of others towards accomplishment of specific kinds of goals in
specific situation. Leadership is the ability of a manager or an individual to induce
subordinates to give one of their best efforts confidentially and enthusiastically.
Respective PPT is based on Facebook which is an American social media and
technology company based in California.

Leadership theories/ models
Leadership is one of most important kind of management function which enables to
maximise the efficiency in achieving organisational goals and objectives. Leadership
is the process to influence the behaviour of others to gain desirable outcomes.
Here are the various kinds of leadership style that chosen by leaders as per different
organisational issues or circumstances that are:
 Democratic leadership
 Autocratic leadership
 Laissez faire leadership
 Transformational leadership
 Transactional leadership

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Democratic leadership
Democratic leadership is exactly same as it sounds such as leader takes decisions which
are based on the collecting inputs from the team members. This leadership is mostly
used when leaders are responsible for the decisions on basis of final call, therefore, it
considers as one of most effective kind of leadership styles, that allows every tier of
employee while exercise authority. It could be a open kind of discussion about each
and every thought, in which leader might take the board's thought and feedbacks into
consideration.

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Autocratic leadership:
Autocratic leadership style is inverse from the democratic leadership, in which leader
makes the final decisions without taking any kind of inputs from anyone who reports
to them. In this type of leadership, employees are neither consulted nor provided any
prior information about changes taken by management to conduct a task. Therefore,
they are forced to adopt changes or instruction given by leaders for achievement of
certain goals.

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Laissez faire leadership:
In respective kind of leadership style which literally translates to “Let them do” and the
leaders who embrace it provide all authority to their employees. Respective kind of
leadership style based on trust as people enjoy wide range of latitude. Respective
kind of leadership style provides the freedom to make decisions but on other hand in
it lack of role awareness existed that hinders self interest.

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Transformational leadership:
Transformational leadership style is always focus on transformation by improving the
companies conventions. In respective kind of leadership style employees have some
basic set of tasks and duties for achieving organisational goals and objectives. For an
example in context of Mark Zuckerberg by using respective leadership style they can
be able to bring innovation in ideas and involve all people in the decision making
process to remain competitive.

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Transactional leadership:
Transactional leadership style of leading is fairly common in today's scenario as they
focus on giving rewards to employees for the work done by them. Team of
marketing that gains the time bound bonuses helps in achieving certain no. of leads
at the end of quarter is the example of transactional leadership style.

AN ANALYSIS
Mark Zuckerberg is the co founder, chairman and chief executive officer of the well
known social media company Facebook. Today respective organisation has over 1.7
billion active kind of users and the net worth of Zuckerberg estimated as an US$55.3
billion. They well known in between the business tycoons about his leading style of
people that is foremost reason behind their success factor.

Cont..
Mark illustrates the transformation leadership style in action as he describes as most
encouraging and aggressive personality. He avails all the three kinds of leadership style
in which includes the autocratic, democratic and laissez faire. He also command and
coordinate their employees to pursued the assigned work and duties but always
constantly asks for taking feedbacks from each and every individual. He believes in
treating people in equal manner which helps in enhancement of their motivation level to
give one of their best efforts.