Jeff Bezos' Leadership: Style, Impact on Amazon's Success, and Ethics

This essay examines Jeff Bezos' leadership style and its impact on Amazon's business ethics and organizational success. It discusses the importance of ethical leadership, customer focus, and employee empowerment in achieving long-term growth. The essay analyzes different leadership styles, including autocratic, participative, delegative, transactional, and transformational, and identifies Jeff Bezos as a transformational leader who has significantly influenced Amazon's culture and performance. It also highlights the role of business ethics in building customer trust and ensuring sustainable success. The study concludes that ethical leadership and a focus on customer needs are crucial for organizational growth and that Amazon's success is a testament to these principles. Desklib provides access to this essay and other resources for students.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
ESSAY.............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
The organisations have employees that help them in increasing the performance. The
business ethics is the most important factors for the success of the organisation (Walker and
Aritz, 2015). They should focus on the needs of customers and they should have leaders that are
ethical to give quality products. The organisation should work according to the customers and
they are helping in improving the performance. The report is on Amazon and the leadership and
business ethics of the organisation.
ESSAY
The organisations have to give quality products to customers and they should focus on
improving the performance. The world is moving towards the customers services where Amazon
is one of the largest e commerce retailers giving good products. In the bubble era of Internet,
Amazon is the largest organisation who is focusing on the services to the customers. The long
term success of the organisation is because of the charismatic leader of the Amazon, Jeff Bezos
who is the one who have made the plans to grow in to the largest retailers of the world. The
success of Amazon is defining the leadership of Jeff Bezos and he is one of the Best according to
the Fortune Magazine. He understands the importance of leadership in the culture of the
organisation and he wants to improve the quality. The organisation is focusing on the needs of
the employees and he makes them feel that they are the part of the organisation and they are
helping them in improving the performance (Stewart-Banks and et.al., 2015).
The organisation should have the employees that are helping them in giving quality
products. Jeff Bezos is the engineer, retailer, founder and CEO of Amazon.com and his skills has
made the organisation one of the largest retail store in the world (Famakin and Abisuga, 2016).
The organisation was a book store and started the business by selling online. They have
diversified in products and services. The CEO of Amazon is one of the richest and the
organisation is growing with many people working for improving the performance (.Kang,
Solomon and Choi, 2015). He is having many leadership traits and it is made the organisation
increasing the performance. The leadership qualities and skills of Jeff Bezos is focusing to the
needs of customers and giving them good products. The organisation is making 500 plans and
80% are focusing on the needs of customers. He thinks that the most important factor for the
success of the organisation is the how we are giving good services to customers. He is little crazy
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in taking decision and they are focusing on the intensity of improving the performance of the
organisation. He is having two pizza rule in the organisation which means that if the teams is
having more than two boxes of pizza then there are more people and it is reducing the quality of
the work. He is focusing n the needs of customers and making the plan to increase the quality of
the products. The organisation is focusing on the culture which is the factor that should be
helping them in attracting employees who will improve the performance (Kim and Cruz, 2016)
The organisation should help the employees in improving the quality. The leaders should
have he qualities that will make him attracting the employees. The larder is the one who
influencing the behaviour of the employees in the organisation. The leaders should focus on the
long term of the organisation and monitor the performance for improving the quality. Amazon is
focusing on taking the risk because the CEO knows that the economic profits of the
organisations are directly affected by the risk taken and they will help them in improving the
performance. The organisation is focusing on the needs of customers. The leadership of Amazon
is making the customers getting good services. The traits and behaviour of the leaders is that they
should be future oriented and make the plans for the long term. Amazon has made internet the
most important factor for the success of the retail in 1994 and they have made the plans for the
long term. The organisations has expanded from 619 employees to 230000 employees and they
are helping them to take the decisions. They have made the plans for Amazon which are in three
factors which are customers, invention and patience. The organisation should be focusing on the
factors that will help them in improving performance. The organization should help the
employees in giving good products. There are many types of leadership in the organisation like
autocratic, participative, delegative, transactional and transformational.
The autocratic leader is the one who is taking the decisions in the organisation. It is a
centralised leadership where the decisions are taken by the leaders and the employees have to
improve the performance (Politis and Politis, 2016). The autocratic leadership is in the
organisation where there are less employees and they do not want to take the suggestions. The
advantage of the leadership is that the plans are made easily and they are involving less cost. The
problems in the organisation are reduced and they are helping the organisation in improving the
performance. They are making the employees reducing the quality of the work. The leadership
of Jeff Bezos is autocratic because he monitors the performance of the organisation. He is
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making the plans of the organisation and helping the employees in achieving success. The
employees of the organisation are working for increasing the performance.
The participative leadership is the democratic leadership in which the employees are
given the power to take the decisions. The employees are the important factor for the success of
the organisation (Wirawan, Tamar and Bellani, 2019). The organisation is including the
employees in the plans and they are focused top give the suggestions to increase the
performance. The decision is made by leader but they will take the help of the employees. The
advantage of participative leadership is that they are increasing the performance of the
employees. They are helping them in maintaining the quality. The employees communication
skills have an impact in the performance of the organisation. Amazon is the large organisation
and they are having many employees. The CEO is taking the help of the top level employees and
they will work to achieve success (Srivastava, 2016
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The delegative leadership is focusing in delegating the work to the employees. The
employees have the power to take the decision and they are helping the organisation in
improving the performance. They are helping the employees in focusing on the work and
improving the performance. It is helping the employees in giving good products to customers.
The advantage of delegative leadership style is that they are increasing the skills of the
employees. The employees who are skilled are getting the help in improving the performance. It
is a leadership which is helping the employees to attract customers. Amazon has a performance
analysis in which they are improving the performance of the employees. The CEO is focusing on
the employees because they will help the organisation in attracting customers.
The transactional leadership is helping the employees because the leaders will give the
benefits to them when they are performing well in the organisation. The leaders will help the
employees and increases the quality of the work. Amazon will increase the salary of the
employees who are improving the performance. Jeff Bezos is making the employees perform in
the organisation.
The transformational leadership is the one who is influencing the behaviour of employees
in the organisation. Jeff Bezos is the transformational leader and he is influencing the employees.
The organisation is helping the employees in increasing the skills that will help them in
improving the performance. Amazon is attracting customer ad improving the performance. The
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organisation is focusing on the skills of the employees because they are important for
communicating with customers. They are communicating the plans of the organisation to the
employees who are helping them in giving good products.
The contingency theory of leadership is the factor that is helping the organisation in
improving the performance in the specific factors that are impacting the organisation. The
situational leadership is increasing the performance of the employees according to the skills that
will help them in increasing the quality of the work. Amazon is having the employees that will
help them in improving the needs of customers. The employees of the organisation is working
according to the specific factors that are helping them in increasing the quality.
The business ethics is the factors that is making the employees work according to the
needs of the employees. The organisation is having many factors that will affect the performance
(Drzewiecka and Roczniewska, 2018). The business should be ethical because they are
increasing the needs of customers. The leaders should be ethical because they will help the
organisation for the long term success. Amazon is the organisation having ethics as the most
important factor. The leaders of the organisation are focusing on the needs of customers and they
are giving quality products. The organisation is helping the employees in improving the
performance. Jeff Bezos is the ethical leader who is having transformational skills and help the
employees to improving the performance. He is monitoring the performance and maintains the
transparency in the organisation. The organisations are helping the employees in giving good
products and they are having the methods that are attracting customers. They are making
products according to the needs of customers and improving the performance of the organisation.
The organisation should focus on the needs of customers. Amazon is one of the largest
organisation who is giving good products to customers. They are giving services to customers
focusing on improving performance. The organisation is focusing on the needs of customers and
they are giving good products. The employees are helping the organisation in attracting
customers. There are many strengths and weaknesses of the leaders of Amazon and they are
focusing on improving the quality of the organisation.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that the organisation are successful because they
have employees who are helping them in improving the performance. The employees are the
important factor that helps the organisation in giving quality products. The leaders of the
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organisation are making the plans and helping them in giving good products. The business ethics
are making the organisation increase the quality. The organisation should be focusing on the
needs of customers. They should analyse the performance of the employees and helps them in
giving products according to the needs of the customers. The employees should help the
organisation in giving good products to customers and helps in analysing the needs for
improving the performance. The organisation are helping the employees in giving good quality
and they are increasing the skills of the employees. The customers are important for improving
the performance of the organisation. The organisation should focus on increasing the
performance.
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