Report: Leadership Styles and Business Organization Strategies

This report provides an in-depth analysis of leadership styles within business organizations, with a particular focus on servant leadership and its application in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) environment. It examines various leadership theories and their practical implications for improving organizational performance and employee engagement. The report includes a case study on Kevin Johnson's leadership at Starbucks, evaluating his approach and its effectiveness in navigating the challenges of the modern business landscape. It explores the importance of stakeholder involvement, motivational theories, and strategic leadership in achieving organizational goals. The report concludes by highlighting the significance of adapting leadership styles to meet the demands of the 21st-century business environment.

Leading Business Organizations
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Contents
Part A...............................................................................................................................................3
Part B.............................................................................................................................................12
Introduction...............................................................................................................................12
Management Report......................................................................................................................12
Kevin Johnson’s leadership style (using the appreciative inquiry technique)...........................14
Conclusion expressing Johnson is an effective role model for aspiring leaders...........................22
References.....................................................................................................................................23
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Part A
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You are for living or living here. It was at the essence of what drives you to lead.
 "Am I looking for the right intention to do it good? “Explain different aspects
ofleadership?
There are different question which is required by leader to ask them that helps in increasing
performance as well as profitability of subordinate?
There are various questions which is going to be mentioned below
Explain that information required for improving appropriate policies as well as statistics for
business organization?
Define different kind of skill and knowledge that is needed to encourage or influence
subordinate of business organization?
Simplicity: The issues they track are minimized as members become open. Superior
leader adopt simplicity that assists in transform people across them. Micro-executives are not
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transparent leaders. We applaud and take responsibility for disappointment as success happens
(BELL, 2016).
Discover from failure: failure of experiences have capacity to form leaders. This is
considered as good tool for the sustainability, regeneration and creativity of the government. The
leaders should be able to take tremendous chances, and refuse to do so; otherwise, rich returns
are unlikely.
There are different aspects related to leadership which is going to be mentioned below:
It is significant for leader to manage appropriate relationship with its staff member in
order to retain them for a longer period of time within business organization. There are different
situation or condition occurs with an organization during leading team.
Leaders were people who control others in completing teams or corporate goals. It is the
basis of organizational philosophy of organization. Great Man Theory, Trait Theory, Conduct as
well as Situation Theory and also Great Man Theory are the main theories of leadership
(Friedman 2016).
Herein, there are different methods by which the leader can focuses on leading team
within business organization. The style of leadership focuses on behavior and attitude of leader
that helps them in achieving growth as well as success of business organization during particular
period of time.
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The VUCA is a symbol, which in the 1990s could be represented in the military. It is
important for management, as these conditions represent the atmosphere in which the business is
managed on a daily basis. Two different styles of leadership transformation and transactional
leadership are ideal for VUCA survival.
Pacesetting: in this kind of style of leadership and leader focuses on providing guidance
to group of individual. In assistance of this, leader makes expectation from its subordinate to
maintain management within an organization. It is considered that such kind of style of
leadership is appropriate to attain favorable outcomes and also motivate them in better way.
Coaching it is considered as an innovative leadership style. Herein, the leader focuses on
leading it subordinate to achieve a favorable outcome in future period of time. It is a source that
on the basis of this style it is considered as a dynamic connection between employee as well as
leader.
Aspiring, motivated executives look ahead to their goals with an optimistic leadership
approach and successful leadership principles. For this reason, aspiring leaders need appropriate
understanding of different style of leadership. It is important for hopeful leaders, including the
best situation, to recognize and understand the different management style. However, by merely
imitating these people it is not possible to become successful leader within organization.
(friedman, 2016)
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Many skills distinguish successful policymakers from poor leader. This is the opportunity
to inspire staff member to strive together to create stronger organization. The association can be
persuaded by a successful strategic leader to high ambitions by employees. The purpose &
objective of the business merge to offer a clear view of the purpose of the group. The statement
of the project provides the reason for the presence of the organization and the goals of
representing the major activities (Junker and van Dick, 2014). Individual person plays a very
important role in accomplishing objective of business organization. Individual assists in
providing support to perform their functions in a better way.
Organizations understand their weaknesses and strengths of the company, also
acknowledge the impact or lack of performance, and realize first-hand the task and goal.
It is significant for leader to emphasize on contribution which is made by stakeholder in
order to gain favorable outcomes. They focus on making appropriate contribution which is made
by staff member for analyzing performance of individual person during particular phase of time
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period. Depend upon this, there are there is rewards and recognition which is given to it
subordinate that help them in performing their work in better way. Then subordinate get
motivated to execute their work in better way for accomplishing productivity and profitability of
organization. Stakeholders are considered as individual groups of person that assists in managing
viability of product.
High rates of involvement of stakeholders in project and vision systems also contribute to
improved outcomes and greater control. A broad approach of engagement and contribution to
projects and mission is utilized by several organizations. Targeted recommendation boxes allow
details regarding action strategies to be entered at meetings by surveys of workplace
communications.
A leading ambitious leader communicates the mission, plan and dream of his
organization with his colleagues. Think and talk in accurate but hopeful ways. Ensure that both
team leaders recognize their position in the mission. Stakeholders are considered as the aspect in
every organization that has effect in functioning or activity of business organization in current
and future time. It assists in understanding subordinate by vision as well as mission that helps in
implementing strategy in future period of time.
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Leadership strategy is a map that aligns leadership investment with business strategy,
objectives, and expectations. The key strategic users and their effect on governance should be
identifiable by senior leaders (Eacott 2011).
CL is also the opportunity to have an effect on others through the dream, personal
activism, inspiration, and capacity to create strong progress structures. The secret to meaningful
transition is leadership (Fifolt and Lander, 2013).In assistance of this, change leadership is
considered as a ability to influence or motivate other in an appropriate manner.
The organization’s method of organizing is essential: it can have the opportunity for high
efficiency by the coordination of job arrangements, processes and practices, as well as the
encouragement and enthusiasm of workers.
That is the sense in which a certain word is used. It may be a single partnership, the
bigger company and a certain initiative
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Complexity is far ranging among future market executives. In the market setting,
performance relies less on organizational traits, but rather on economic pressures, history and
other changing capabilities. If ambitious organizational executives hold only a small range of
effective management abilities, it is "a decoder belt" to figure out the best strategies (Eacott,
2011).
The philosophy of motivation is to recognize factors that encourage participants to strive
for goals and aims. Some motivating theories differentiate between intrinsic and external
elements: previously, the desire to take part in an exercise is linked to individual desires.
Theory indicates that two reward mechanisms currently exist: internal rewards and good
job of providing, which are fundamental sources of encouragement: the efficiency, obligation
and inspiration for ability through the real success of tasks or through the innate value in
research.
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Current motivational and justice principle theories are focused around the equal treatment
of persons in contrast to their peers. Justice or equity is what fairness means. Fairness within
business organization signifies fairness of staff member for task and its incentives.
Appreciative investigative technique is the method for managing changes to find what
tasks well, to analyze why it tasks as well as perform work in good manner. The AI's basic
philosophy is to extend the relationship into the organization's focus (Reed, 2010).In assistance
of this, it helps organization to bring positive environment within business organization and it
also influence its staff member to perform works with full efforts that help in achieving goals as
well as objective in timely manner.
In particular organization, hopeful leaders will be talented to considerably assess
different motivational theory. Factors of inspiration shape and bring in order the ambitions of
future leaders.It has been analyzed that for business management, it is important to assess
different motivational theory that help in understanding importance or significance of theory for
its staff member.
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Part B
Introduction
Starbucks is considered as coffee company is planning to enhance the existing 26,000
outlets to 26,000 over the next five years, including the high-quality roastery. Kelvin Johnson
became a shareholder of Starbucks of 2009 and a remarkable period of change and success
worked on the management. In April 2017, he was appointed President and CEO and that is why
Howard Schultz established the Starbucks World Company. Kevin Johnson is Starbucks
Chairman&Chief Executive Officer. This is a report on management based on an overview of
Johnson’s current style of leadership and his existing business environment. This report gives
brief knowledge about style of 'servant' management & challenges or issues associated with
servant leadership in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous 21st-century environment.
Management Report
Overview of "servant" leadership and the problems relevant to its exercise in the 21st-
century VUCA climate
Servant leadership is leadership used in management and by leaders who find it
incredibly helpful in promoting agile teams & operational agility in general. Servant leadership
makes a servant leader establish a sense of community within the work team and involve team
member’s in appropriate decisions. To this end, trust is enhanced, there are higher engagements,
and there is the establishment of stronger ties or relationships with the stakeholders and other
members of the team. Moreover, servant leadership also leads to improved innovation practices
in an organization. Considerably, servant leadership is not just a mere leadership approach or
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technique. Instead, it's a method of behavior that leaders adopt gradually or in the long-term. As
a result, servant leadership becomes a complement for the democratic leadership style and is
almost similar to transformation leadership. It is a leadership philosophy that does not pay close
attention to managers' processes and tactics that is what you're doing, when you think and act as
servant leadership. A great example is taken for the Marriott International Company. This is
considered as a well reputed or famous hotel chain across globe. If founder of this hotel was Bill
Marriott and he adopts servant leadership in order to handle operation of organization of Hotel
chain.
In relevance of servant leadership style, it states that VUCA climate is being always an
interlinked with servant leadership as because leaders changes their style with components of
climates. Thus, it is essential to use it with proper considerations so that decisions are made
accordingly.
This leadership is mainly concerned with individual showing the traits of empathy
listening commitment to personal growth towards other. In 21st century, this type of leadership
is needed at priority level because it moves management and employing interaction away from
control activities and shift them to synergistic leadership between the parties. A leader who uses
this leadership style focuses on actual needs and requirements which are being taken as priority
level.
In VUCA climate characteristic of the 21st century, there are few obstacles. Organizational
decision-makers ought to be willing to explain their decision-making.
The decision to perform servant leadership in a smooth manner upsets the company's
culture. To many other decision-makers, this poses a huge challenge, particularly for large
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