Leadership Styles and Global Strategy in Lu Thai Textile Co. Ltd.

This report explores the positioning of global strategy and business leadership, focusing on effective planning and management within organizations. Using Lu Thai Textile Co. Ltd. as a case study, the report details two effective leadership styles and evaluates their impact on strategy, ethics, and values. It discusses the role of effective and ineffective leadership, highlighting advantages and disadvantages. Furthermore, the report examines how learning content on strategy contributes to personal development and how global business strategies and leadership theories can be merged and applied in practice, emphasizing the importance of adapting strategies to different global business environments to enhance organizational performance and profitability. Desklib provides access to this and other solved assignments to aid student learning.

Positioning global
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
A detailed description of two leadership style and critical evaluation of their impact on
strategy, ethics and values............................................................................................................1
Ineffective leadership:......................................................................................................................3
Learning content on Strategy.......................................................................................................4
A discussion of how these global business strategy and leadership theories, concepts or models
merge and can be applied in practise ..........................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Positioning global strategy is the effective planning which can be uses by management
and leaders in order to operate the all functions and activities as it can help to operate the
business effectively. If organization is having effective plans and strategies then it will be
opportunity for business industry to bring the changes and manage the all functions as it develop
the business performance and profitability (Lomotey, 2019). There is requirement of effective
plans and activities for running a business and managing the all actions by formulating plans as
well as strategies. This report is based on Lu Thai Textile Co Ltd that is garment factory of
China. This is located in Sichuan Dist, ZIBO and is the manufacturer, importer, retailer and
online dealer of textile products in China. The organization is specialised in high quality dyed
yarn and dyed fabric along with Blended yarn, Combed cotton, Fibre, chemical, shirt, silk,
stretched pants and digitally printed clothes. The management of such organization formulate the
effective planning and uses good leadership approaches to complete the task and maintain higher
profitability. The report covers description of two effective leadership style that has impacts on
strategy, ethics and values. Moreover, it involves how learning content on strategy contribute to
personal development, and hoe global strategies and leadership theories, concepts and models
applied in practice.
MAIN BODY
A detailed description of two leadership style and critical evaluation of their impact on strategy,
ethics and values
A leadership is the continuous process of motivating and inspiring the employees who are
working at workplace and helps to complete the task. In every organization it is important to
have good and understandable leadership theory which can be follow to manage the all workings
and developing the business performance (Putra and Cho, 2019). It has been seen that of
organization is adopting suitable leadership style then it can get the work done accurately,
systematically and properly. The leader is a person who have ability, capacity and competencies
to manage the all employees at workplace and getting the work done that helps to attain the
business goals. In relation to Lu Thai Textile Co., leaders are important person who analysis the
functions and activities by assigning the work between employees who are working at workplace
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and manage the all functions which can help to operate the business and increase the
organizational profitability. Discussion of different leadership styles are as explained:
Effective leadership -
It refers to the primary growth and the development of the business. It helps in leading
the group or the organisation for the overall growth of the business. Effective leadership helps in
setting the vision of the company and help in accomplishing the task in an suitable manner. It
helps in the proper functioning of the society and help in knowing how the customers are
engaged with the different activities of the organisation. Lu Thai Textile co. of the china has the
effective leadership by which there is smooth working in the organisation with the proper
coordination (Kaluza, Boer, Buengeler and van Dick, 2020).
This leadership impacts on strategy and ethics as if there is any changes occurred in
organizational process then leaders are responsible for implementation of new strategies which
can help to develop the all plans and maintain good performance. This also impacts positively on
performance of garment factory as marketing managers conduct the market research get
information about needs and wants then share with producing department, where roles and
responsibilities of employees are distributed among people which can help to operate the
business continuously and attain the higher profitability by getting competitive advantages.
Advantages:
 Effective leadership helps in improving the productivity of the workforce so that the task
can be done in an easy way and help in improving the skills. Lu Thai Textile Co. helps in
increasing the productivity of the employees for their welfare and the outputs.
 The marketing managers conduct the market research and analysis all functions by
introducing changes which can help to operate the business and complete the task within
time period.
 Leadership helps in improving the communication and the listening skills of the
employees so that employees can share their views effectively with their seniors. Lu Thai
Textile co. helps in increasing the communication with the staff so that they can share the
issues (Kodama, 2019).
 The strategies which are formulated by effective leaders could be implemented by
managed that provides high outcome and manage the all activities.
Disadvantages:
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 Leadership helps in taking the time to perform the task as the trainings are provided to the
employees for their effective work. Lu Thai Textile Co. provides a proper trainings to
their staff which consume more time.
 If work is not allocated between employees then it will be challenging situation to
manage the all workings by managing all works (Coman and Grigore, 2019).
 Trust between the leaders and the group is also an disadvantage as sometime excessive
work pressure is given on the employees. Lu Thai Textile Co. sometime create a chaos
between the leaders and the group.
Ineffective leadership:
Ineffective leadership refers to the people who thinks that all of their work in completed.
These are the people who do not take the efforts to update or to do the improvements. They have
the lack courage to solve the problem or to tackle the problem in an easy way. Ineffective
leadership not have the proper communication with their subordinates are are not able to
complete the work on time because of its ineffective communication. Lu Thai Textile Co.
sometimes may have ineffective leadership which delay in taking the decision and would not be
able to perform the task on time (González-Cruz, Botella-Carrubi and Martínez-Fuentes, 2019).
This leadership has impact on strategy of organization as management and employees
does not works properly who never thinks to bring the changes as they fear from challenges and
new activities. Thus, it decrease the value and ethics of business organization as team does not
ready to work collectively and leaders do not takes any responsibility of their functions and task
that needs to complete.
Advantages:
 leaders can take the decision quickly without asking their subordinates which help in
saving the time and can do the work quickly. Lu Thai Textile Co. sometimes the leader
take the decision in the quickly manner which helps in saving the time.
 Ineffective leaders help in boosting up the morale of the employees as they increase the
competition because of that morale is increased. Lu Thai Textile Co. Helps in boosting
the morale of the employees so that competition can be increased.
Disadvantages:
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 Leaders required more time in building up the confidence of the employees which
consume more time and delay in decision. Lu Thai Textile Co. leaders build the
confidence in employees which consume time (Zigan, Héliot and Le Grys, 2019).
 Sometime building the team of high performance required more time because of the
ineffective leadership. Lu Thai Textile Co. sometime takes time in building up of the
team because leaders do not perform well.
Thus, from the above discussed leadership style as a manager of selected garment factory
and other organization I used the Effective leadership style that can help to manage the all
functions. This has impacted positively on strategies which are formulated by me and I handled
all task which is required to be complete on time. I brought the changes along with team
members who participated in all activities and performed it well that have improved the
organizational performance (Quach, and et.al., 2019).
Learning content on Strategy
As a Garment Factory Manager of Lu Thai Textile Co Ltd. I had to frame the different
types of strategies in order to ensure that I am able to ensure their proper execution. Thus in this
way this can be highly helpful in ensuring that the attainment of the different types of goals and
objectives in the future can be done. The Learning Content on Strategy i.e. Crafting and
Execution has contributed to my personal development in the following manner-
 Identification of strategies of the future- Managing a Garment Factory requires making
the use of different types of strategies because by using them the operations can be
managed in the right manner (Wirtz and et.al., 2016). Thus the Learning Content on
Strategy made sure that I identified my different types of strategies which I can use in the
future to manage the operations properly. This has ensured that I learn to identify the
strategies properly according to the given situation.
 Assessment of the situation- In managing a Garment Factory a manager may face
different types of situations. Therefore it becomes quite important that the assessment of
the situation is made properly before taking an action for the future. I have made sure that
the assessment of the situation in the factory was made by me clearly so that action was
taken accordingly. This helped min my personal development as I learnt that the
strategies are required to be applied according to the requirements of a particular
situation.
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 Identification of the actions to be taken- Running a Garment Factory has different
types of problems. These problems can be faced in the day-to-day operations as well as
other areas. Thus it is quite essential that the solution of these problems can be identified
and thus the decisions can be taken accordingly. Thus While running this factory I was
able to ensure that the solution to the problems were identified in an effective manner
which in turn contributed to my personal development as I learnt problem-solving skills
and their application.
 Application of my own skills- While Running a Garment Factory I am able to ensure
that I am able to apply my different types of skills in the right manner. Thus in this way I
can ensure that I can apply these skills effectively and efficiently without facing problems
and issues. This has helped me in the Learning Content on Strategy because I learnt the
way the own skills can be applied in a proper way so that the strategy can be executed
appropriately.
 Understanding skills- The learning content on strategy helped me a lot in developing my
Understanding skills as I effectively understood the way I can learn these particular
strategies and their application (Zerfass, Vercic and Wiesenberg, 2016). Thus in this way
I was able to make sure that the application of these skills helped me in my personal
development because these skills were helpful for me in effectively understanding the
situation and ensuring that the right strategy can be applied for the situation.
 Development of competencies- Use of The learning content on Strategy helped me a lot
in ensuring the development of my competencies in the right manner. Thus in this way I
was helped by the material which was available so that I identified the way use of
strategies is done to deal with different sorts of situations. It helped me a lot in Running a
Garment Factory because acquiring of competencies helps a person in understanding the
way different things are managed within an organization and its different processes.
A discussion of how these global business strategy and leadership theories, concepts or models
merge and can be applied in practise
Global business strategy is defined as business terms and laws which are formulated by
management of organization to operate their business in global business environment that can
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help to increase the performance. To run a business from domestic to globally different strategies
should be followed as:
Exporter: This is effective strategy which can be use by organization to expand their
business in to global environment by selling their products and services in other country that can
help to increase the sales and profitability in changing environment and maintain the good
performance (Lovelace and et.al., 2019).
Multinational: This can be explained as way of becoming the largest company by setting
the business in other country. The selected garment factory can use this strategy to expand their
business in global market which helps to increase the sales and profitability in competitive
environment.
Franchiser: This is based on marketing concept which can be adopted by company to go
internationally which develop the business performance. This means an individual and company
that sells or grant a franchise for the purpose of selling the good and services. The selected
garment factory Lu Thai Textile Co. can use this strategy for increasing sales of their products in
relation to different design of clothes which can help to increase the organizational performance
and profitability (Akter and et.al., 2019).
Concept and models of leadership
Leadership is the good concept and model that uses to manage the all functions and
activities in relation to completion of work in certain time and increase the business
performance. Leaders promote compliance and regulation which are related to business
organization that can help to develop the business performance. This is a wider concept in
relation to organization that mainly uses to solve the complexities and managing all functions to
attain the business goals (Adler and Laasch, 2020).
Leadership theories
This theory can be explained as school of thought brought forward to explain how and
why individuals become leaders. The leadership theory mainly emphasis on traits and behaviour
of individuals that can adopt to boost their leadership skills and abilities. The management of
organization is playing important role as they analysis the functions and allocate the work among
employees which can help to operate the activities accurately and develop the performance. The
traits of leaders are optimistic, visionary, inspiration, passionate, good communicator,
coordinator, strategic thinker, and ideal person who decides the organizational goals and manage
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the all task by providing right suggestions to employees which can help to increase
organizational productivity and profitability. In relation to Lu Thai Textile Co., different
leadership theory are as explained:
Great man theory – This theory states leaders are born with just the right traits and skills
for leading that can help to manage the all workings and complete the task in decided time. If
leaders are good and able to handle the all difficulties then it will be good chance to bring the
change and increase sale of organization by managing all activities. The leaders of chosen
garment industry is having charisma, intellect, communication skills, social, and confidence
which supports to manage all functions effectively (Gupta, Chauhan and Jaiswal, 2019).
Situational leadership theory – This theory is similar to contingency theory as it
proposes that there is no one leadership style that guides others. According to this, leadership
depends on the situation by accessing different variables like task, nature of followers and others
that should be solve in fixed period and maintain all performance effectively. In relation to Lu
Thai Textile Co., leaders can adopt such situational leadership theory by analysing situation and
bring the new planning which can help to get effective solution and maintain good performance.
Transactional leadership – The another leadership style is transactional that mainly
emphasis on results, conforms to the existing structure of organization. In this, transactional
leaders have formal authority and responsibilities on particular activities which can help to
complete the task and manage the all activities accurately. The leaders sets the criteria for
workers as per previously defined requirements who performs their jobs and increase the
performance. In relation to Lu Thai Textile Co., leaders are responsible for maintaining routine
by managing individual performance and increase the working activities which helps to maintain
higher productivity by increasing sale of products.
Transformational leadership – This theory of leadership consider teams and individuals
by identifying the change, creating vision to guide and inspiring the employees who works
collectively by managing task and performing their all actions. Whenever organization has
decided to bring change then this leadership style supports to manage the all functions and
activities by introducing change and allocating the work between them that increases business
performance. In relation to Lu Thai Textile Co., leaders are transformational who introduces the
changes for expanding their business in another market and launching new products as well as
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services which can help to increase organizational sales and profitability (Nave and Ferreira,
2019).
It has been defined that all leadership model, concept and theories are applied by
organization for the purpose of completing the project of expansion of business and getting
higher profitability. Lu Thai Textile Co. is adopting the transformational leadership theory which
is more effective as whenever leaders has decided to bring changes in their functions and
products this theory supports in acceptance of changes properly. This helps to increase the
organizational performance and profitability.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that leadership styles such as effective and
ineffective are being applied by companies by evaluating the scope, size and performance that
needs to perform. If leaders have good qualities, abilities and activities then it effective
leadership is adopted by leaders which helps to increase the organizational performance and
profitability. Different leadership theories as great man, situational, transformation, and
transactional uses by management which supports to operate the all functions and activities that
can help to bring new ideas and develop the higher performance.
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