Analysis of Leadership Skills and Styles: Amazon Case Study Report

This report examines the importance of effective leadership skills and their impact on business success, using Amazon as a primary case study. It explores the characteristics of effective leadership, highlighting their significance for business managers in motivating employees and enhancing organizational performance. The report analyzes the role of leadership in Amazon's overall success, emphasizing the company's approach to employee empowerment and decision-making. Furthermore, it delves into the leadership style and skills of Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, specifically focusing on his transformational leadership approach and its influence on the company's e-commerce dominance and customer-centric focus. The report concludes by emphasizing the critical role of leadership in achieving organizational goals and objectives.

Personal and Professional Development
(Task 1)

Cover Content
• Introduction
• Effective leadership skills & characteristics importance for business manager
• Role that leadership plays in achieving the overall success of Amazon
• Leadership style/skills of Jeff Bezos the CEO of Amazon Inc.
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• In 21st century, the organization focuses on adopting proper leadership skills and style for achieving
goals as well as objective in stipulated period of time. In assistance of this, it is significant for business
organization to have an appropriate leader who provide guidance to its subordinate for conducting their
work in an appropriate way. It is important for manager to have effective leadership skill in order to
bring positive attitude of subordinate and increasing performance level of business organization. The
presentation focuses on cover different kind of style of leadership based on CEO of Amazon.

Effective leadership skills & characteristics importance for
business manager
• Leadership is considered as a process that help in motivating individual person for achieving
goal as well as objective in pre-decided period of time. The appropriate leadership skill is very
important for organization to motivate other individual person for achieving objective. The
characteristic or skill is significant for manager of business organization that help in increasing
productivity level to attain goal as well as objective in targeted time period.

Cont..
In addition to this, it has been analyzed that appropriate leadership skills is important for
organization that influence worker for a longer period of time. In assistance of this, these kind of
skill helps manager to provide guidance to its subordinate in order to carry out task that must be
aligned with the goal of organization. It helps the manager to increase the performance of
employees which imposes positive influence on profitability of organization.

Role that leadership plays in achieving the overall success of
Amazon
 Amazon is considered as the leading market that helps in conducting different activities or
operation of organization in an appropriate manner. The company focuses on motivating its
employees in order to achieve success as well as growth at Marketplace. Therefore, for
handling behavior of employees toward higher performance, leadership is very important that
help in achieving success as well as growth in future period of time.

Cont..
It has been analyzed that the organization provides the power to its subordinate to take appropriate
decisions which is important for business organization. In addition to this, Amazon also provide
allowance to its subordinate to provide suggestion for taking appropriate decisions. It also helps in
bring creativity that help in achieving competitive edge over rivalries at Marketplace. In assistance
of this, the manager focuses on clarifying role as well as responsibility of subordinate that is must
link to the vision. It also help me in systematically execute different activities which imposes
positive influence on profitability of business organization.

Leadership style and skills of Jeff Bezos the CEO of Amazon Inc.
The CEO of Amazon Jeff bezos provide direction to a subordinate of the company as a
transformational leader. By using transformational leadership style Jeff bezos focuses on increasing
success and achieve leading position in e-commerce industry

Cont...
It has been assessed that by using such kind of leadership skill, the CEO maintaining good
relationship with its subordinate. It has been analyzed that Jeff bezos focuses on motivating its
subordinates by using appropriate leadership style. It has also been analyzed that Amazon is
considered as a customer-centric companies that provide Quality Services to its customers for
satisfying than. By using transformational leadership style, Jeff bezos focuses on providing
guidance to its employees so that they perform their work in an appropriate way.

Conclusion
• On the basis of above discussion, it has been analyzed that leadership is very important for
achieving goals as well as objective of business organization. By using appropriate leadership
style, Jeff Bezos focuses on motivating its subordinate that helps company in increasing
performance of organization

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